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Nomish County Major Crimes Detective Dave Fontineau walks into his office in Everett, Washington on April 13th,
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[music] 2016 with plans to drop his stuff and go home and rest. He and the rest of the homicide squad had just
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wrapped up about 40 hours of work at a murder scene, and they were beyond tired. But before he can walk out the
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door, a notice lands in his hands from the patrol unit about a missing couple up in the OSO area. That's about 45
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minutes northeast. [music] The notice says it's a missing husband and wife who were last seen the day before. [music]
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Their cars are missing. No one can get a hold of them and there is no activity on
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their socials. >> Is this report just coming in or is this just like the official handoff to major
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crimes here? >> That's the latter. So the report actually came in the day before. So day
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one of this case started April 12th. That's [music] when the first call about the missing couple came into Snowomish
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County 911 Dispatch. And that actually came from the couple's neighbor friends, Mike and his wife, Suzanne. Basically,
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the reason he called, the four of them were supposed to go to an Iron Maiden concert on the night of the 11th, but
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Patrick and Mon'nique were a no-show. Red flag number one. >> Now, Mike had gone to their house to see
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what was up. Sees their beloved dog, Cairo, running loose. Red flag number two. Which is what prompted Mike to call
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Patrick's [music] work on the 12th. And they told him that Patrick was a no-show
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at the office. >> Another red flag. >> Yeah, that's when he calls police. So, patrol deputies had gone up there to do
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a welfare check. They get Mike's official statement and they see that the couple's cars are still missing, which
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I'm sure to a lot of people would give the impression that everything's fine. They'd be like, "Oh, they just like went
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somewhere. [music] >> They're just not here." >> Yeah. But Mike can just like feel
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whatever this is in his bone. So much so that he told the deputy he actually grabbed the SD card out of Patrick's
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trail camera and he was going to check it himself to see like when they were last on