marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can only imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s. there is an old saying, that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. we never talked about
executive. but as your career was on the rise. her marriage was on the rocks. sydney i still wanted this marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can t imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s.
he would be explicit as to what each had done to each other. so there really wasn t any question? there was no question. no. none. it was january 11th 2002. allen says i like some nights before mike walker for the nightly screaming match. this one was around two or three in the morning. allen, who had never directly confronted mic about anything, now told him she knew all about the affair michaels having with dave symonds. the man from phoenix will have those explicit voice messages on myself phone. there was, allen says, a heated argument. then mike left the next morning. at the jeep dealership for mike worked, colleagues knew only that he had been out sick for a while. we didn t know if it was cancer or he had come back or not come back. we had no idea. this is like losing the star player? pretty much, yes.
and what a shock that was. one message in particular from a man she never heard mike mention, someone named dave simmons. a man allen believed was the reason mike was spending so much time in phoenix. he would talk about how satisfied he was with their sexual contact. there would be they would be explicit to what each had done to each other. so there really wasn t any question? there was no question. it was january 11th, 2002, ellen says that like so many nights before, mike woke her for their nightly screaming match. this one was around two or three in the morning. ellen, who had never directly confronted mic about anything, not told him she knew all about the affair mike was having with dave simmons, the man from phoenix, who left those
nightly screaming match. this one was at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. ellen, who never directly confronted mike about anything, now told him she knew all about the aware that mike was having with dave simmons, the man from phoenix who left the explicit voice messages on mike s cell foechbl there was with, ellen says, a heated argument and mike left the next morning. at the jeep dealership where mike worked colleagues only knew he had been out is sick for a while. we didn t know if it was cancer or he d come back or not come back. we had no idea. this was like moving the star player. pretty much, yes. in but mike s tool box was still at work, worth around $40,000 so everyone assumed he d return. that is until ellen broke the news about mike leaving town. i d ask ellen, how s mike doing? and she said mike moved to phoenix, or a arizona and living