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🗓️ 28 August 2023
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Mike’s wife Denise begins to move on with her life, but a friend from her past makes an unexpected appearance.
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0:17.0 | It was summer of 2002, a year and a half after Mike had gone missing. |
0:23.0 | A middle-aged guy named Chuck Bunker sat at his desk at Florida State Board of Administration. |
0:30.0 | He looked up as a blonde woman in her early 30s approached him. |
0:35.0 | She came up and asked me if there was any job openings at that time. |
0:38.0 | Chuck had seen the woman around the office before. |
0:41.0 | They chatted for a while and kind of hit it off. |
0:44.0 | She used to drop by and visit me and talk to me for a few minutes every day. |
0:49.0 | Chuck and Denise Williams got to know each other. |
0:52.0 | They were both single parents, both looking for companionship, and they started to date. |
1:00.0 | They took it slow. Chuck didn't have much of a choice in that. |
1:04.0 | Denise made it clear she had strict boundaries. |
1:07.0 | It was probably four or five months before I even had her phone number where I could actually call her in the evening and say, |
1:13.0 | hey, Denise, do you want to go out on Monday or Friday or whatever. |
1:18.0 | Even after she gave me her phone number, she always told me never to call and leave her a message. |
1:23.0 | That wasn't a big red flag for Chuck. At his age, everyone had quirks and baggage. |
1:28.0 | He just thought Denise was being protective of her daughter. |
1:32.0 | But then one day she told him what was actually going on. |
1:37.0 | She came over to my house one day and said that she had been involved with a past friend of hers. |
1:42.0 | You know, they dated and whatever and that he was still sort of around. |
1:46.0 | But that past friend was more than just around. |
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