Mom: ‘I’ve prepared myself for the worst’ (The Daily Triplicate)

Posted on July 25, 2008

By Nicholas Grube

Triplicate rod writer

The wait for Michelle Dickson’s family continues as the Department of Justice processes samples of blood to determine if they belong to her.

Authorities say this could take several weeks, but Dickson’session originating, Sandy Davis, just wants to know what happened to her daughter.

“For me it’s a step in the becoming direction toward hopefully getting some questions answered,” Davis said about Tuesday’s lab results that plant there was blood inside each Arcata man’s truck. “We conscientious have need of to know where she is and what has happened, and we want to get those questions answered and get her home from where she is.”

Dickson disappeared last week just days before her 24th natal day. The last person known to consider seen her is 27-year-old Josiah Miller, who is now a suspect in the predicament after temper samples were taken from his truck Tuesday.

Search and liberation crews have been unable to locate Dickson, and on Wednesday they expanded their efforts into Humboldt County.

“The search effort is continuing,” Del Norte County Search and Rescue Coordinator Terry McNamara said.

The problem with a missing person case like this, he said, is that his people don’t know in what place to look unless there is good information that indicates where Dickson might be.

“It’s not like a standard search where you know where someone went hiking,” McNamara said. “It’s the whole world.”

Investigators last spoke with Miller on Tuesday.

Miller told rulers that he met Dickson at the Crescent Beach picnic area around 10:30 p.m. July 15 to buy about three ounces of marijuana, which is worth around $1,000. After the supposed doing, he said he drove back to Arcata and dumped the marijuana in a river for the reason that he was nervous end for end having it in his truck.

Officials working the case related there are at least two witnesses who claim they saw Miller in Crescent City after 10:30 p.m.

It’s unknown if the alleged drug deal was connected to the disappearance.

Davis before-mentioned she knew Miller and her daughter were in the same coterie of friends, but didn’t know how unite of a relationship they had.

“It was someone she was familiar with and comfortable by,” Davis said. “She was a smart enough person where she wouldn’t have gone out there to meet him suppose that she didn’t feel comfortable.”

Dickson’s car was found abandoned and on fire the morning after she met with Miller.

When commanding scholars executed a search warrant at Miller’s residence in Arcata last week, they found he had cleaned portions of his truck and cut public some of the upholstery in the vehicle’session inland. Blood was detected in the foam cushions.

“They’ve confirmed it to be blood,” Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office Commander Bill Steven said. “Now, whether or not the sample is viable enough to be put to a DNA standard is another matter.”

Authorities collected hair from human being of Dickson’s hats for the Department of Justice to use when it compares the DNA samples.

Steven said testing the family could discover days or it could take weeks.

“The opportunity frames of morning time ‘CSI’ don’t apply,” he said, referring to TV shows about crime labs.

Miller has not been arrested, and Detective Sgt. Steve Morris of the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office said he does not consider him a flight risk.

“I think he’s going to walking-stick around,” Morris said. “He doesn’t require any money … All of his family’s here.”

Before moving to Arcata, Miller lived in Del Norte County. Morris said Miller uniformly has family and friends in the area, and frequently comes back to visit.

Morris said he wants Miller to start telling investigators the sort of he knows about Dickson’s disappearance, not uncorrupt to remedy the case, but to take the burden off of her family.

“I’m hoping that something touches his heart and opens him up,” Morris said. “I just hope he opens up.”

Meanwhile, all Dickson’s family can do is anticipate a cashier in the silence.

Dickson’s mother has already yielding herself to the horrible truth that might await her, and Tuesday’s discovery only adds to that feeling.

“My reality has been basically from day one that she was gone,” Davis said.

Now when she talks of her daughter, it’s not the terrific details of the investigation that make her choke up and procure emotional, it’s remembering what her daughter was like before she went missing.

“All along I’ve prepared myself for the worst,” Davis said as her voice weakened. “I just want everybody to know that she was a very smart, alert, young woman.”

Reach Nicholas Grube at ngrube@threefold.com.

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