JUL 17, 2019
Husband of Woman Who Vanished During Mojave Desert Hike: 'I Just Want Her Back'
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Robert says they had taken a short trip in their camper when they decided to pull up and go for a 2-mile walk to explore rock formations.
They took a pack, beer and a gallon of water...
They were on their way back to the camper when Bob said his wife started pulling ahead.
He told her he wanted to take a picture of a rock formation and as he put his camera away, he saw her rounding a corner.
"That’s the last I
ever saw of her," he said.
When he reached the corner and didn’t see her,
he assumed he’d find her sitting outside their camper, he said. But when he got to the vehicle, the door was locked.
"I hollered her name and I waved my arms, and I looked around the area and I saw that she wasn’t anywhere around. She didn't respond. I got really panicky," he said.
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I feel like someone did pick her up because she was wearing a bikini, she had a beer in her hand and she was ahead of me and she had to cross that road," he said.
Thomas said the police consider him the prime suspect "because it was just the two of us."
He went for a polygraph test and authorities told him he was being deceptive, but Thomas said he had not had any sleep when he took the test.
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JUL 18, 2019
Husband of missing bikini-clad hiker says cops view him as prime suspect
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'Yes, I took a polygraph test, they told me I was being deceptive," he said. "I know that polygraphs aren't 100 percent and I hadn't had any sleep."
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