Months before she was found dead, Kathleen McLean had told police her husband, Dr. Ingolf Tuerk, had strangled her, thrown her to the ground and threatened her with scissors.
However, some of Stephanie Mayorga and Paige Escalera's loved ones are critical of police's handling of the case, asking why they didn't locate the missing couple sooner.
“The thing is I’m a huge fan of true crime—I listen to four or five podcasts a week—I’m constantly watching that sort of thing,” Lindsay McMichael, the sister of suspect Travis McMichael said of posting the image. “It was more of a, ‘Holy s--t, I can’t believe this happened.”
Shad Gaspard was in the water off the coast of Venice Beach with a young boy believed to be his son when the pair got caught in a rip tide, authorities say. Lifeguards were able to rescue the young boy but a wave crashed over Gaspard's head and he was swept away.
“It appears that Gregory McMichael had been informally ‘deputized’ by the Glynn County Police Department," a lawyer for property owner Larry English said after finding the text message from a Glynn County officer, which other law enforcement experts find troubling.