Cold case mystery: Where is George Fisher?
Choking back tears, Faye Hoig sits in her living room and reflects on what life has been like since her brother’s disappearance.
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Faye Hoig has hope that her brother, George Fisher's 2003 disappearance from his property outside of Gaylord wasn't the result of foul play. That for some unknown reason he did just decide to leave town without telling anyone and that for the past 16 years he has been living his life with no contact to his past.
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Faye isn’t the only one searching for answers in George’s disappearance. Detective Sargent Richard Rule with the Michigan State Police has been working the case as well. "There are 2 sides of this, he left of his own free will and killed himself or has died naturally or accidentally or something bad happened," explained Rule.
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Back in her living room, Faye remembers the brother who she grew up with. “He was soft-spoken, sometimes well mannered. People used to think he was a motorcycle guy because of the bald head, a rough guy, but he really wasn't. He was nice, down to earth kid," explains Faye. She remembers him as a gentle giant, but even she admits he had his moments.
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Flip through the hundreds of pages that make up the state police investigation into his disappearance, through the interviews with Fisher's sons, ex-wife and former friends, you’ll read that he could be a difficult man to love, accusations that he was anti-social and borderline abusive. Maybe that's why when he seemingly disappeared from his home back in 2003, no one went to the police to report it. In interviews, his family says, that George, without telling anyone, just left it all behind.
“Didn't take his wallet, didn't take his license, didn't take his ID, didn't take his social security number, nothing," explained Faye. The only thing gone from his 18-acre land was him, and the only people who seemed to know it was his family.
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"I would say that there are some things that are atypical. In most, the thing that sticks out the most is when you have a missing person, someone in that family calls, but if you look at the case from 2003 to 2006 no one was beating the door down to the State Police saying “Hey are you looking? What have you done the last six months?”George Fisher vanished in 2003 but police weren't even notified of it until 2006. Three years for George Fisher's possible trail to grow cold. That apparent lack of concern by some family members raised the questions for investigators.
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Did someone in the family want him dead? Was there an accident and a cover-up? They focused some of their efforts on the property where George lived. Rule said, "At this point, we have done everything that we can do we believe in regard to the property. We brought in equipment, we brought in K9s, we brought in about 20 other individuals to help with a coordinated systematic search of the property."
Those efforts turned up nothing.
Cold case mystery: Where is George Fisher?
George Fisher is a Strange Michigan Missing Persons Case That Needs Your Attention
George Fisher is a Strange Michigan Missing Persons Case That Needs Your Attention
