Rachel Shannon
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He said that she left his house at around 11 p.m.
that night and then started walking on foot, but she didn't mention to him where she was going.
He said this was the last time that he had seen her and he hasn't heard from her since.
Then police asked him why he pled guilty to those two charges of assault right after she went missing.
And he explained that he just wanted to get over the whole thing.
He said that he wanted to move past what he did and he wanted to work towards being friends with Erin.
He then mentioned that he was worried about her because he had actually seen her doing cocaine with some pretty sketchy characters in the days before she went missing.
Michael said that maybe she really did just run off because she liked attention and she just wanted to get back at her parents.
But right away, police noticed that during this entire interview, he seemed very calm and collected and put together and
Everything that he was saying, it sounded very rehearsed.
He also made the mistake of talking about her in the past tense.
So just based on how he was talking and his body language, police really did think that he was lying.
But all of their evidence was purely circumstantial, so there was nothing that they could actually do at that point.
So they had to release him and as soon as they did, he did get a lawyer.
After this, police started searching Erin's bedroom to see if they could find anything there that could point them in the right direction.
Now, first, they did find a note that talked about that she wanted to die, but we know that she's had these mental health issues for a very long time and we don't know exactly when this note was written.
We don't know if it was right before she went missing or if it was
in the months or years beforehand but then they did find a journal where she wrote about how michael had this evil side to him but at the same time nobody was able to love her the way michael did she wrote that she felt bad for reporting him for assault
but she knew that he tried to kill her at that time she knew that he wanted to hurt her she was in pain and she knew that it was what was best for her not to see him but at the same time she said that deep inside she really did miss him and she wished things were different then police also found a letter in her journal that she addressed directly to michael
she once again addressed michael and said that she didn't want to report him but it was the right thing to do she wrote that she wanted to be with him but he ruined it by hurting her she said that she knows that she shouldn't love him but she still does but no matter how she feels she will never let him treat her that way ever again so of course this really does show the emotional and mental state that aaron was in