Mike Bauer

So I agree.

I participated in that search until my feet were bloody, as did several of my peers.

But day six, they said, well, shut it down.

What do you mean, shut it down?

Who said that?

Who gave that order?

Who shut this thing down?

What are you talking about?

Day six.

You want to trust the department that they're doing the right thing, but no one asked us if we should shut it down.

If I'm the search and rescue guy, and my partners are search and rescue guys, and the helicopter pilots have been on hundreds of searches, why are we asking them what they think and their input?

So at six days, you cancel a search for somebody who can run 50 or 100 miles in the wilderness, really knows the wilderness as good or better than anybody in ESD.

Shut it down.

Why are you shutting it down?

Well they say that they decided he committed suicide.

Internal LASD reports claim that Ajay was distraught over his failing marriage and took his own life in the punch bowl.

That gunshot the area resident heard, that could have been the sound of Ajay just putting an end to it all.

But the Sheriff's Department makes that determination without a body.

They don't find any remains, blood, bullets, or a suicide note.

Nothing.