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i didn t know how he planned to get tim up there. a few months later, as jeff paridon and gene maxwell from compressed air technologies were beginning to ask questions of embezzlement of the business, she says gaede called wicks to finalize the phony music gig, telling him to come to north dakota so they could drive to canada together. during wicks first day at their house, fruge said he painted their staircase, plays with her son joshua, and seemed excited about the upcoming job. it was during the evening of his second day that everything changed. about 8:00 or 9:00 i gave joshy a bath and took him upstairs, and dennis and tim were like drinking and partying and stuff downstairs, and me and josh went to bed. and are they hitting it off like old friends? oh, yeah, drinking, smoking pot. what s the next thing you remember? dennis waking me up in a panic.
we just bought like $200 worth of groceries. all of a sudden i see a squad car. i said, dennis, i think we re going down. she was right. police throughout the midwest had been on the lookout for a very large balding man driving a camper and using tim wicks credit cards. a warrant was out for gaede s arrest at this time for embezzlement. police also wanted to question him on the disappearance of timothy wicks. the phone rings. police on the phone. what do they tell you? he let me know that we got dennis, we ve got diane and we ve got joshua, her son. they got them in custody and no one was hurt that. was very good news. coming up three years after tim wicks goes missing, diane fruge breaks her silence. he told me that he gets tim up to canada, that no one will ever miss him. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self? c mon, michael! get in the game!
on the run with her new husband, dennis gaede. she arranged to leave her teenage daughter with her ex-husband, the daughter s biological father, and take 3-year-old joshua, who had a different dad, with her to fargo. she is not supposed to leave the state with her little boy without working things out with joshua s father ahead of time, but for a while there, she was bringing him back for his visitation from north dakota, without anybody knowing they were in north dakota. but dennis gaede went to even greater lengths to cover his tracks. using his old m.o., gaede took the information he d gotten from timothy wicks while doing his taxes and simply became timothy wicks. somehow he found out his mother s maiden name and all of the answers to those security questions that they use to make sure it s you. and so he went to motor vehicles in north dakota, got his driver s license with his picture on it and tim wicks name on it. living as timothy wicks, gaede bought this house outside
came forward to give heyitness happened on december 28, 2001. did you ask him why he did it? because we were going to lose everything, he was afraid they were going to track him. she also told police dennis gaede shot timothy wicks in the head suffocated him, and dismembers him in the back of a u-haul while she and her young son sat in the front seat. together, they dumped the body off the side of the road near the border of michigan and wisconsin. so you dumped it out by yourself? no. no. it was heavy. i just helped him lift the box and push him, that s it. i went and jumped back in the truck. gaede later disposed of wicks head and hands alone. when fruge came forward, gaede was serving out of a four-year sentence for embezzling from