Thanks for your kind comments, Spellbound! I try to take every opportunity given to speak about Eric. I have been asked to do another interview this summer in Memphis and hope to be able to do that.
I have followed up on two tips this week. One was from a woman in GA who saw someone who looked so much like Eric that she said she got chills and had to let me know, which I appreciated so much even though I did not believe it would be Eric. She was nice enough to send a flier to the restaurant where she saw this man. She sent the info to me to call them and I did. The woman I talked to checked her records and called me back. She said it was not Eric , but that the man who worked there did indeed resemble Eric. We compared notes and it was not Eric.
Then, a woman who works for a PI sent a picture of a clay image of what a skull found might have looked like in life. She sent a side by side of the clay image and Eric. I did not see a resemblance, except a little of the last selfie Eric took in MI. He was sort of frowning and the clay image was created with a frown. Normally, Eric did not have a frown on his face. The features were just not Eric. I sent the info to Det/Sgt Sarah Krebs since she works with NamUs. The skull found has DNA done on it and has a NamUs #. I knew I would have been notified if the skull's DNA matched Eric's, but still I have to be sure. Some of the families of missing at the MIM event shared how their loved one was actually found and was lying in a morgue for a while before the family was notified. I mean a good while, not just days. They were advising families to go check out the morgues themselves and not wait on anyone else to notify us. I believe Eric was murdered in MI and his body was left in MI, but I will check out every lead that I can.
I think it is interesting that I got a call back from the detective that I called in CO about the body found a couple of weeks ago. I was assured by the detective that it was not Eric. I knew most of the description of the body did not fit my child's description, but I had to call because of some similarities. The detective took time to talk to me, ask questions, and said he had to return my call so I would not be left hanging. Then the lady at the restaurant in GA called me back taking time to talk to me and discuss Eric's case. Then my sister, Deb, called FL recently about something to do with a possible scam and her call also was returned quickly. I just find that interesting since it has been about two months as we wait on the lead detective in Eric's case to get back with our family spokesperson in answer to her email. We are not going away! We will keep on doing whatever we can to find Eric !
