Post by LadyBlue on Jul 18, 2005 18:32:26 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]July 18, 2005[/glow]
As the questions mount in the Liana White case, so do the suspicions.
A husband pleads for his wife's return - and then he happens to be in the search crew that finds her body. The body is found on the city's outskirts - like that of several others killed by someone apparently stalking Edmonton women -but police don't want to talk about it.
Michael White is barred from his home while police comb it for clues, but investigators continue to insist that there is no evidence of a crime.
A police source told The Canadian Press on Monday that White, a 28-year-old heavy-duty mechanic, was brought in for questioning Sunday night - the same a day he issued a heartfelt denial of any involvement in his wife's disappearance. It was news that city residents both dreaded and expected ever since Liana White was reported missing last Tuesday.
Her Ford Explorer was abandoned just blocks from her home, with her purse, shoes and cellphone scattered nearby. Nothing appeared to have been taken, said police, nor were there any signs of a struggle.
Michael, a former soldier, and Liana, a medical records clerk, lived an apparently happy life with their two-year-old daughter in the north Edmonton neighbourhood of Castle Downs. Down the street from their home Monday, Noreen Day's eyes filled with tears as she switched off her lawnmower to talk about the missing woman.
"I'm hoping it's not her body," Day said. "There's a little girl who will be without a mom now, which is pretty sad."
Day said she's been tense and nervous all week and watched closely as search teams looked behind her home Sunday afternoon.
"Even when it has rained, I've thought about her out in the rain - and it's really bothered me," she said.
Day and her husband have watched as a steady stream of vehicles drove up and down their street, trying to get a look at the home in the centre of the tragedy. The neighbours are abuzz about the case, she said.
"It doesn't make sense for how her stuff was spread out," she said.
"Her cellphone, everything is there. No skid marks. It doesn't make sense."
On Sunday, before he and a crew of volunteer searchers came across the body near a farmer's field, Michael White said his nights over the last week have alternated between nightmares and sleeplessness.
"If they're thinking it was the husband, forget the husband. Let's find my wife," he told the Edmonton Sun.
Police have always said White is not a suspect but they began combing through the couple's single-storey home Saturday and the house remained off-limits to all but police on Monday. They have not said what, if anything, was found and did not return media calls on Monday.
The fact that Liana White is four months pregnant has prompted chilling comparisons to Scott Peterson, a California man convicted of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn child. But White told the Sun that unlike Peterson, he was thrilled to discover Liana was pregnant again and both were looking forward to having a sibling for their two-year-old daugher.
As the questions mount in the Liana White case, so do the suspicions.
A husband pleads for his wife's return - and then he happens to be in the search crew that finds her body. The body is found on the city's outskirts - like that of several others killed by someone apparently stalking Edmonton women -but police don't want to talk about it.
Michael White is barred from his home while police comb it for clues, but investigators continue to insist that there is no evidence of a crime.
A police source told The Canadian Press on Monday that White, a 28-year-old heavy-duty mechanic, was brought in for questioning Sunday night - the same a day he issued a heartfelt denial of any involvement in his wife's disappearance. It was news that city residents both dreaded and expected ever since Liana White was reported missing last Tuesday.
Her Ford Explorer was abandoned just blocks from her home, with her purse, shoes and cellphone scattered nearby. Nothing appeared to have been taken, said police, nor were there any signs of a struggle.
Michael, a former soldier, and Liana, a medical records clerk, lived an apparently happy life with their two-year-old daughter in the north Edmonton neighbourhood of Castle Downs. Down the street from their home Monday, Noreen Day's eyes filled with tears as she switched off her lawnmower to talk about the missing woman.
"I'm hoping it's not her body," Day said. "There's a little girl who will be without a mom now, which is pretty sad."
Day said she's been tense and nervous all week and watched closely as search teams looked behind her home Sunday afternoon.
"Even when it has rained, I've thought about her out in the rain - and it's really bothered me," she said.
Day and her husband have watched as a steady stream of vehicles drove up and down their street, trying to get a look at the home in the centre of the tragedy. The neighbours are abuzz about the case, she said.
"It doesn't make sense for how her stuff was spread out," she said.
"Her cellphone, everything is there. No skid marks. It doesn't make sense."
On Sunday, before he and a crew of volunteer searchers came across the body near a farmer's field, Michael White said his nights over the last week have alternated between nightmares and sleeplessness.
"If they're thinking it was the husband, forget the husband. Let's find my wife," he told the Edmonton Sun.
Police have always said White is not a suspect but they began combing through the couple's single-storey home Saturday and the house remained off-limits to all but police on Monday. They have not said what, if anything, was found and did not return media calls on Monday.
The fact that Liana White is four months pregnant has prompted chilling comparisons to Scott Peterson, a California man convicted of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn child. But White told the Sun that unlike Peterson, he was thrilled to discover Liana was pregnant again and both were looking forward to having a sibling for their two-year-old daugher.