June 28, 7 a.m.: Jonathan Corwin says this is when he last saw Erin, who told him she was headed to Joshua Tree National Park to scout places to visit with her mother who would soon be visiting from Tennessee. Corwin told her husband she would be home that evening.
Afternoon: Jonathan Corwin says he telephoned Erin but could not reach her.
June 29: Jonathan Corwin calls the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department to report his
wife missing. He says he waited 24 hours because he thought that was the amount of time needed to initiate a missing persons case.
June 30: Erin Corwin's car, a 2013 blue Toyota Corolla, is found outside a rear entrance – called the "Condor Gate" – at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, where the Corwins lived. A single set of footprints leads away from Corwin's car and to another set of vehicle tire tracks. The tracks are "consistent" with the tracks of Christopher Brandon Lee's Jeep.
July 1: Four search warrants are issued authorizing police to search
twoapartments in Twentynine Palms, the Corwins' and an apartment occupied by Christopher Brandon Lee and his wife Nichole, and two cars:
Corwin's Toyota and a
dark-colored Jeep with Alaska license plates belonging to Christopher Lee. They find 10 .40-caliber fired cartridge casings in the Jeep.
Detectives talk to Christopher Lee and his wife, Nichole. Christopher Lee said he didn't see Erin Corwin on June 28 or June 29, despite reports from a close friend of Erin's that Lee had told her he was taking her "somewhere special" to hunt and celebrate Corwin's pregnancy.
July 3: Christopher Lee and his wife and young daughter move in with Isabel Megli, owner and operator of the White Rock Horse Rescue in Yucca Valley. She says the family is preparing to move to Alaska as soon as Lee is discharged from the Marine Corps.
July 4: Police execute another search warrant, this time at Megli's home in Yucca Valley and two vehicles believed have been in Lee's possession: a white Ford truck and a green Honda Civic. Police find a potato launcher belonging to Lee and book him on suspicion of possessing a "destructive device."
July 6: Christopher Lee released on bail.
July 7: Christopher Lee receives an honorable discharge from the Marines.
July 15: Erin Corwin's 20th birthday.
July 16: The Desert Sun obtains and publishes the
search warrants for the two apartments on the base and the two vehicles.
July 21: Police issue press release on
arrest of Christopher Lee on suspicion of possessing a "destructive device." Included in the documents obtained by the Desert Sun along with a search warrant related to the "destructive device" charge is a "Statement of Probable Cause" that suggests Corwin was having an affair with Lee and that Lee and his wife may have hidden something from police.
July 22: A police press release
suggests that new information has led them to new sites where they are now actively searching for a "crime scene" and evidence of "foul play."
July 29: Erin Corwin has been missing for a month.
Aug. 18: Christopher Lee arrested in Alaska. San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department to hold a Noon press conference where they will release "new details" in the case.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news...corwin-missing-marine-wife-timeline/13008419/
raying: for answers!
