Phoebe Judge

successful duck hunter and he enjoyed it very much, some people said that he did actually take risks, that he stood up in the boat to take risky shots and so forth.

So people became worried when he hadn't returned home.

And people became more and more worried when Mike hadn't returned, specifically because he, like I said, he was kind of known to be rather a risky sportsman, but also because this terrible storm front was coming in.

So Denise sent her father and a friend of Mike's out to the lake to look for him.

Very quickly they found his car, but no sign of Mike.

Pretty soon a search party was organized with the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Representatives from the Sheriff's Department were there.

It was a huge search, but they couldn't continue searching that night because there was this very unusual for Florida, terrible winter storm.

So the search was delayed until the following morning, much to people's anxiety because at this time people were really panicking.

Denise refused to come out of her room.

She was terribly upset.

And they actually came across Mike's boat after a few hours.

And Brian even found Mike's cap in the water.

So people were incredibly frightened about what had happened.

And, you know, helicopters were brought in, cadaver dogs brought in.

Denise was terribly, terribly upset by this.

She cut herself off from all her friends.

She was suffering horribly.

And they told him that it was very unusual for a body to disappear with no sign of it emerging from the water.

But when the water warmed up, the body would surface in the spring.