Betsy Shepard

Rathbun asked the sheriff's department to explain that one.

They said, well, we think he might have sat on the edge of one of those mines and blown himself into the mine.

Okay, we are really stretching now for an explanation as to why we can't find him.

I didn't accept it.

Just common sense told me, you probably ought to see whether there's any evidence of self-infliction.

I took that person outside and I said, what in the hell did you say that for?

How could you possibly know that at this point?

How could you possibly discourage them to search for somebody that worked for you?

I kept contacting Homicide and saying, something's wrong.

I'm telling you, there's a problem.

Nobody was in charge of it, and nobody wanted any of it once they saw how stinky it was getting.

Randy Meggardly represents the other end of the spectrum.

So we ask him what he thinks about the possibility of foul play.

I refer to myself as a mushroom.

They just feed me a little bit of poop every once in a while.

I wasn't in the know on that whole thing.

I've never heard the mushroom poop metaphor before.

Yeah, you know, you feed you a little bit of poop and you grow a little bit.

At first, the mushroom poop analogy went way over my head.

It sounded like a Southern expression my mom just forgot to teach me.