WRCB Video:
Alabama Police Join Search Part One
Video Transcription (some is paraphrased, most is quoted verbatim)
Callie Starnes reporting: For the first time her story made local headlines in Wetumpka.
Arlene Durham, friend, says every store in Wetumpka has her picture now.
Sherriff Bill Franklin, Elmore County AL: "Anywhere between Tennessee and here where she stayed . . . along that route there's probably going to be BOLOs that are put out."
Arlene Durham: "This is her territory too, where she might feel comfortable if she did leave. She could be anywhere!"
Starnes: Signal Mt. and Hamilton County police are now looking to the Lake House for answers. Thursday, they searched the home. They won't say what or if clues were found, but Alabama authorities have been asked to keep an eye on the property.
Sherriff Franklin: "Anything odd. Anything unique. Anything that's changed."
Starnes: Officers have been advised to be on the lookout for Gail Palmgren, but Franklin says Tenn. authorities are staying tight-lipped about their investigation.
Sherriff Franklin: I'm sure they're going to hold close to the vest as far as what they're working on and what they're going to share with us."
Arlene Durham: I have to face reality, and the reality is the more she's gone and the more we don't find her vehicle, she's not alive. And that bothers me.
Callie Starnes: Investigators in both TN and AL say they are still treating this as a missing persons case. We have learned though from multiple sources that a helicopter crew and dive team will be combing parts of Hamilton County this week.
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Part Two Hightlights:
Callie Starnes: The weekend she went missing, the morning of April 30th, Gail abruptly packed up and returned to Tennessee, not calling to cancel plans with Durham.
Arlene Durham: "And I said, okay, and you could tell something was bothering her."
Starnes: Durham says she was helping Gail begin the divorce process and each week Gail would send her documents to hold on to. (Showing Arlene Durham holding documents).
Arlene Durham: "She knew if I had it, it was safe."
Starnes: Durham received a letter from Gail's husband, Matthew Palmgren, demanding that all items belonging to the family be returned and banning her from the Palmgren's lakefront property. She says she has also been asked not to "complicate" the search for Gail.
Letter from Matt Palmgren to Arlene Durham:
May 17 (date fuzzy on video) , 2011
RE: Return of Property
Via: Hand Delivery
Arlene: It is my understanding that you are in possession of a Security System DVR that you picked up from Best Buy in Pratville, AL, on May 2, 2011. This is my property. Please give this DVR Mike Mathis, who is the private investigator whom I have hired on my behalf. I have asked Mr. Mathis to deliver this letter to you.
Further, if you should have any other property that belongs to me or to Gail, please give the same to Mike Mathis as well.
Sincerely, Matthew Palmgren
Arlene Durham: "If anybody's missing, it doesn't matter who they are, the more people out there looking for her right away, the better chance you have of finding her."
Starnes: Police search efforts have now expanded into Alabama. Durham says she will continue looking for her friend but fears the worst.