As he drove through the small hours of the Californian night, Gary Devore insisted to his wife Wendy: Im pumping pure adrenaline.
This was not a normal phone call
I felt he was warning me, Wendy later recalled. I love you, she had said, expectantly.
See you later, Gary mumbled. It was the last time Wendy Oates-Devore would ever speak to her husband, the 55-year-old Hollywood screenwriter whod worked on major projects with stars such as Kurt Russell, Christopher Walken and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He had vanished. Swallowed, it seemed, by the desert highway.
Gary had been returning from actress friend Marsha Masons New Mexico residence where he had just finished a screenplay hed told his wife would be the hardest-hitting piece of film Hollywood had ever seen. A year later, in the summer of 1998, his car was located by a police dive team in a shallow aqueduct following a tip-off from an amateur sleuth. Inside the vehicle, belted into the front seat and dressed in Garys cowboy clothing, sat a skeletal corpse.
The Californian Highway Patrol wrote a 158-page report declaring it an accident: case closed. And that was that
except for the fact that many of those who knew Gary Devore remain convinced that the official investigation was a whitewash, that Gary was murdered, and that the US government itself has been trying to wipe clean its fingerprints from the case.
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Creepy as hell!
