Annie Elise

They needed to alert them of the news, not only to see if they had maybe heard from her or seen her, but to let them know that both of them, Linda and her son, were truly missing and that it was not looking good.

Now, Linda's next of kin was her sister Valerie, and the investigators probably thought that the call with Valerie would be a very difficult one.

You would expect that if you're delivering that kind of news to a loved one, it's going to be challenging, right?

They'd have to explain that Linda and Nathan were missing, that they were doing everything they could do to find them, all of that.

And all of that did happen during the call.

But what they didn't expect was that Valerie truly did not act shocked at all.

Instead, she dropped a huge bomb on them.

When the investigator spoke with Valerie, she was, of course, distraught.

She was upset.

But more than that, she was angry.

She immediately told the detectives that she just knew that her nephew Nathan had done something to Linda.

And she felt absolutely no sadness in her heart about Nathan also being missing.

Truly, she didn't.

Basically, she thought that the whole thing was a load of bull.

That he might, yes, be missing.

But Valerie was confident that he would end up showing up.

He would turn up one way or another.

And she was also confident that Linda would not.

Now, obviously, the investigators were kind of like, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up.

Like, you think Nathan is the reason they're missing?