Ash Kelley

And just, like, what?

What?

It turned out that rumors had already started circulating among the Spring Breakers and South Padre that Mark had been found dead.

Moments later, one of the producers angrily escorted the woman out of the area and made sure she didn't come back, but it got everybody thinking.

Now, this segment was rushed to completion, and it aired on the show a few nights later, along with a 20-second PSA recorded both in Spanish and in English, telling viewers how they could help.

The episode did result in more than 150 tips called in by viewers.

Claiming everything from Mark was dead to Mark was seen working in a convenience store in California.

Not true.

None of the tips really led to anything, but according to Jim Schutz, it allowed investigators to see into the Mexican side by tracking what the Mexicans were doing with tips from the show.

So they didn't have jurisdiction there, but now that community is able to kind of talk to them a little bit.

So it's giving them something.

Yeah, for sure.

They really hadn't made any more progress on the case than the American counterparts.

But detectives in Texas could see that the Mexican investigators were taking Mark's disappearance very seriously.

And they also were running all these tips down.

So that was nice.

Yeah.

So things are in motion.

They are.

But by the end of the month, investigators on both sides of the border weren't much closer to finding Mark Kilroy than they had on the day he went missing.