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Our source did make sure that this information got reported to police in 2015. And it seems like police looked
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into it because they said publicly that there were updates in the case that year. And former Sheriff Alier confirms
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that Deanna came forward to police a few times with information they investigated, although he said he
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couldn't elaborate on what exactly, but she always ended up ghosting or backtracking. And when we asked if that
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information was consistent with the suspicion that Steven was involved in John and Shel's disappearance, Sheriff
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Altier said yes. Okay, but then where are they? That is the question police are constantly chasing. It's like when one
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lead fizzles, another one will pop up. Like in 2006, they get another tip that sends them to a rental property that
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belongs to one of John's sisters and her husband. And the husband, who would have
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been John's brother-in-law, he told us that a neighbor saw him like digging there around at the time that John and
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Shel went missing. And so she told her friend who worked as a dispatch at the sheriff's department. So then police
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came and like dug around their septic tank, but they didn't find anything. But they dug around the septic tank. Did
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they look inside the septic tank? No, they didn't actually look inside the septic tank. I don't know why, but it
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stood out to other people because recently in 2024, police went back to that property with the sister and the
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husband's permission to do just that. Again, didn't find anything. And when we asked former Sheriff Alier if said
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brother-in-law was ever a suspect, he told us that some names came up that police worked to eliminate, but that was