Police find missing car crash driver’s body
Roughly 10 years ago, Michael T. Luebbers vanished from his North Carolina home, leaving behind his daughter who was 9 years old, and several things for whom the case seemed like a mystery. A missing woman who was staying in a hotel across the street told police a man had been following her around with a stick for days. A police dog trained on the man alerted authorities to the scent, and within five mi바카라사이트nutes the dog captured Luebbers’s vehicle and alerted police.
“I had to run,” says Luebbers, 57. “I didn’t think, ‘Wow. The cops are here.'”
The first clue: The truck used to search the Luebbers home is black with dark yellow paint. When police pulled Luebbers’s car over at the motel where he stayed, he didn’t seem to recognize the truck. It was his wife’s truck. He had taken it to the mechanic’s so he could get the paint to stay longer. It would be too late.
Then there’s the body. The coroner says she’ll have to dissect the woman’s remains to find out whether foul play is involved.
After a decade, authoritie바카라사이트s still haven’t found Michael. It turns out his murder charge has been stayed after his wife provided DNA evidence.
“To me it was like nothing else has gone to this point in the case,” says neighbor Robert Givens, 44, of Custer. “You never know how bad things might get or how bad they’ll get.”
Police are hoping to have that evidence handed over Thursday at the Coroner’s Office in Pembroke Pines and let the family know there are no more people they’re looking for.
“I think it’s an important step forward for justice for his family to know where he’s at now,” says Pembroke Pines police chief John Tompkins. “I don’t think this would be possible if Michael had been arrested or there were any arrests.”
The arrest was the result of a series of tips about the suspect from Pembroke Pines residents. One person called police and reported that another motorist looked similar to Luebbers when approaching a local motel. The man told police they looked alike because Luebbers had made the same mistakes in his previous car, so police s바카라ent officers to that vehicle.
Investigators had some trouble getting Luebbers to turn over the truc