then i walk over to shappell who s still sitting in the passenger s seat and he has a dead stare straight ahead. there was something inside the truck that the detective thought was peculiar. the back seat was full of clothes. i could see a laundry basket, bags and backpacks. he said, oh, morgan is going to do laundry across the street. i said, well, morgan has a washer and dryer in her apartment. i saw it yesterday. things just aren t adding up. i said, would you mind coming back to the police station, i do have a couple more questions for you. and in that moment as the detective turned his back on steve, something unexpected happened, something chris mengel, still filming, caught on video. yo, yo, yo. steve jumped in the driver s seat, pulled out of the lot and sped away. that s him, the dude with the red hat. that s steve. morgan walks over and sits down on a step, puts her hands in her head and says oh my, maybe he did do something to kevin.
you nightmare that something had happened to kevin and that kevin was hurt, and i woke up crying hysterically in my bed. michelle hopkins, kevin mengel s younger sister, was now in a waking nightmare. her brother kevin had been missing for a week, and the young man who appeared to be having an affair with her sister-in-law had just fled from police. why did he just steal her pickup truck and flee when i asked him to come back to the police station? the situation suddenly looked much worse than detective david maurer had thought. he brought morgan to the station and called his partner and long-time friend, darryn sedlack. he said, can you get in here, something is going on. i m not sure what but shappell just stole morgan s truck and fled and we can t find him. we had no idea it was going to turn out the way that it did. their first priority was to find steve shappell, who was now on the lam. they tried tracking his cell which was in the truck, but it was turned off. but mor
and called his partner and long-time friend, darryn sedlack. he said, can you get in here, something is going on. i m not sure what but shappell just stole morgan s truck and fled and we can t find him. we had no idea it was going to turn out the way that it did. their first priority was to find steve shappell, who was now on the lam. they tried tracking his cell which was in the truck, but it was turned off. but morgan s phone was in there and it was turned on. she gave detectives permission to track it. so we focused all of our efforts on morgan s telephone. meanwhile, morgan was downstairs in the interview room as detectives tried to find out what steve was running from. do you think maybe steve hurt kevin? i don t know, but by his reaction today he takes your truck without your permission and in my terms flees the scene. absolutely. although morgan had previously denied the affair with steve, the much-younger
passenger s side and walks directly by me. then i walk over to shappell who is still sitting in the passenger s seat and he has a dead stare straight ahead. there was something inside the truck that the detective thought was peculiar. the back seat was full of clothes. i could see a laundry basket, bags and backpacks. he said, oh, morgan is going to do laundry across the street. i said, well, morgan has a washer and dryer in her apartment. i saw it yesterday. things just aren t adding up. i said, would you mind coming back to the police station, i do have a couple more questions for you. and in that moment as the detective turned his back on steve, something unexpected happened, something chris mengel, still filming, caught on video. yo, yo, yo. steve jumped in the driver s seat, pulled out of the lot and sped away. that s him, the dude with the red hat. that s steve. morgan walks over and sits down on a step, puts her head in her hand and says, oh, my, maybe