GUILTY NC - Sallie Rohrbach, 44, Angier, 15 May 2008

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How did he think he was going to get away with it?
 
I know looking around on the net there was some trouble with an agent w/his name and middle inital A back in 1994 where he voluntarily surrendered his ins. license. There's another agent w/a middle initial of B, same name otherwise out there. So I'm wondering if he got a new license with a different middle initial. It could be a totally different person, but if this person has something big enough to hide that he'd KILL a complete stranger...his problem had to have been big, IMO.

How horrible that she died possibly because of just doing her job. :mad:
 
No one said criminals were smart! He probably believed that since people go missing all the time, no one would trace it back to him. Obviously, he had motive not to want her to investigate him, but he didn't think it through enough to realize that motive alone made him a key suspect.

They will get him now on the murder and the charges that would have initially come to light in his business. They are going to rip him a new one from ten directions and he deserves it.

Not only does Sally's family deserve our sympathies, but so does his family. I am sure they did not know anything of what this man has done for so long. Now they will be probably left with nothing in the end. When a house of cards crashes, it wipes out the family with it.
 
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/16404455/detail.html

A police search warrant says blood was found inside a Charlotte insurance agency that belongs to a man charged in the death of a state insurance investigator.

The warrant released Tuesday said 40-year-old Michael Howell of Indian Trail initially allowed Charlotte-Mecklenburg police to search his Dilworth Insurance Agency. But after they discovered blood in two spots on the carpet and a computer cord, Howell stopped them and said they'd have to come back with a warrant. (more at link)
 
They listed "pornographic material" as seized on the search warrant. It's not very specific, but it had to have been child *advertiser censored* on the pc if LE was interested, don't you think? Either that or *advertiser censored* was laying around the office and has some kind of murder evidence on it. I still think it's going to be child *advertiser censored*.
 
That is interesting that pornographic material was seized. Could she have seen that while she was in his office?
 
That's what I'm wondering, too, SewingDeb. Has anyone heard what the initial complaint about his agency was? I thought that would be released by now.

Gosh, you can't be a female real estate agent or an insurance auditor and feel safe anymore!
 
Taximom said:
That's what I'm wondering, too, SewingDeb. Has anyone heard what the initial complaint about his agency was? I thought that would be released by now.

Gosh, you can't be a female real estate agent or an insurance auditor and feel safe anymore!
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I saw several videos last week that interviewed clients whose auto insurance had been cancelled for non-payment. They had paid him, but payment had not been paid to the company. none of them had filed a formal complaint, but had talked to him and he had said "he would take care of it". The Dept of Insurance said that a complaint like that would have instigated a review of the agency.

I'll see if I can find a link to a video.

ETA: check here: http://www.wsoctv.com/news/16404455/detail.html under videos, there's one interviewing some of his clients
 
That would explain it, barb! Thanks for the info. Soooo, what was he spending their money on? *advertiser censored*? Gambling? Good times?

I haven't seen mention of a wife or family and I did some google searching.

I still think something else is up with him being an agent as Michael B and Michael A. Unless there are two guys with the same name and career in NC. I guess anything is possible.
 
I think that any kind of *advertiser censored* would be relevant to the investigation. I am sure that having *advertiser censored* of any kind at the office would be against the company policies, and anything that could have gotten him in trouble would be a possible motive for her murder.

Even so, I don't think that this was an impulsive rage or panic crime. I think he decided before she ever entered his office that he was going to kill her. I'm betting the dude has more serious problems than simple greed, dishonesty, and the desire not to get caught milking the company's bank accounts.

Susan
 
You may be right, Susan.

I personally think that he thought he could cover up whatever he was hiding from her, she found it and was questioning him or letting him know what she planned to do. I think it was on impulse.

We just need more details!
 
I haven't seen where they have shown the initial complaint or if it was just a routine audit of the company.

It really isn't safe for women to be alone anywhere these days. Sad but true.
 
Barb, I should have read further. : ) Thanks for the info.
 
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/16425369/detail.html

A south Charlotte insurance agency owner was struggling to stay in business when Sallie Rohrbach, the woman he’s accused of killing, showed up at his office to begin her investigation, according to a search warrant obtained by Eyewitness News on Thursday.

On Tuesday, authorities seized files and records from Dilworth Insurance Agency on South Boulevard. Rohrbach, who worked for the state Department of Insurance, was investigating the business and its owner and only employee, Michael Howell, when she disappeared two weeks ago.

Howell is charged with murder in her death.

The Department of Insurance has released little information about why Dilworth Insurance Agency was under investigation, but e-mails in the warrant show there were money issues at the business.

In an e-mail to her supervisor dated Monday, May 12, Rohrbach said Howell was evasive at first when she asked about problems with GMAC, a huge insurance carrier who'd notified Howell in March that they were cutting him off, in their words, because he hadn't sent them premiums in a timely manner.

Rohrbach told her office she was reviewing bank records that might show where that money went.

"There were issues," she wrote on May 13."He is floating money." (more at link)
 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,385761,00.html

An insurance agency owner charged with killing a state Department of Insurance employee investigating his business won't face the death penalty, prosecutors said Thursday.
Prosecutors didn't explain the decision that was revealed during a court hearing for Michael Howell, 40, who is charged with murder in the May slaying of Sallie Rohrbach, 44.
But the victim's husband, Tim Rohrbach, said prosecutors told him they believe Howell probably snapped and they would have trouble proving "the murder was premeditated." (more at link)
 
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