JM: What was your relationship before Gail went missing as far as Arlene Durham?
MP: Arlene’s not Gail’s best friend. (shakes head no) She is not. I mean, they printed that over and over again. Uh, media outlets have had communication from both sides of the family explaining that she’s not a spokesperson for us, for Gail’s side of the family, or my side of the family. Uh, we have asked them not to print stuff that’s not true. If you go back and take all the radio interviews and stuff, now that we know the outcome of the event, they’re lies. They’re lies to stir up stuff and to hurt me. Which ended up not just hurting me, but my kids.
So the relationship’s never been good. She’s been a caretaker of our houses. She’s done odd jobs for us. But beyond that, yeah, we’d go down and visit her little farm with the kids. But beyond that . . . (shakes head no). She’s not . . . we know who Gail’s best friends are. We contacted them early. One lives in California and one lives in Ohio, and a couple live in Buffalo, New York. And those are Gail’s true best friends.
BBM this comment annoys me, just because the report said accident doesn’t mean that what AD was saying is a lie. The report doesn’t say he didn’t abuse Gail, it doesn’t say he didn’t cheat on Gail, it doesn’t say anything about AD lying about the things Gail had shared with her. It doesn’t say Gail wasn’t preparing for a divorce.
AD was suspicious of MP’s involvement in Gail’s disappearance and she said so, the report doesn’t make AD’s suspicions a lie, it might go some way to making her wrong about that….as for the rest of what she said were is the proof she lied?
The stir stuff up comment, he has said he spent the 8 months working on the idea that Gail was off with friends de stressing and having a psychotic moment, AD was saying, hey look Gail wouldn’t do that and this is what I know was going on in her life that makes me suspicious that something BAD has happened to her…AD was very right on that count.
AD was putting out there the reasons she felt something was wrong with Gail’s disappearance and it wasn’t just a case of a woman walking away from her life. What did MP put out there, Gail was paranoid, having psychotic episodes and was on medication so she has just gone away to de-stress and sort herself out!!!!!!
What motive would AD (as just a caretaker of their homes) have to hurt him or make up lies about him, doesn’t make sense if she wasn’t close to Gail. Why would she have even cared enough to find out where Gail was on that weekend or be worried enough about her to contact her sister. You don’t do that sort of follow up over just someone you did their yard work etc for nor would Gail have intrusted AD with the DVD or paperwork if she was just someone who was a caretaker of houses. AD knew enough to be very worried something had happened to Gail, again guess what AD was RIGHT……… As we all know divorce has been know to be a motive for murder, so we can see the reasoning behind AD's thinking.
It is true there are always two sides to a marriage break down, there will be those that will back/support one party and others who will back/support the other party and those who knew both parties that will be shocked to even find out there was any problems at all. So MP has the right to say AD lied, just as AD has the right to have been suspicious about Gail’s disappearance and say why she felt that way. It comes down to each person to decide who they chose to believe regarding Gail’s life just before the accident.
I find it very sad that MP seems to have now come out and trashed Gail in this interview by trying to make her sound mentally unstable and trying to make one of the people who fought so hard to get people to believe Gail hadn’t just walked away out to be a liar.
I respect the right of those who are of the opinion MP is a great person as much as I respect AD’s right to say hey he isn’t, because at this stage nobody has proved to me that AD lied about her friendship with Gail and what Gail had told her. Nor do I see any proof either way regarding Gail’s mental instability so why should I believe MP over those family members, LEO and friends who said she wasn’t mentally unstable.
Thank you ThoughtFox's for the transcription, also Analyze This for some great post on explaining the report amd also thank you to all those who have answered my questions and others over the last 9 months.
Ok it is now time for me to stop rambling on here, as always the above is just my thoughts on things I have reads.
RIP Gail
At the moment I am a little emotional for several reason (Gail's story is just one) so I want to apologies for spelling mistake, grammar mistake etc in this post. I could go back and fix them but figured you can work out what I am trying to say (I hope)
