Garvey - Why don't you start with Thursday morning and tell me what has transpired, Walk me through it and tell me what has happened.
McCrady - Thursday morning I was in bed and I heard her take a shower as usual to go to work. I am a dead sleeper and I went back to sleep. And on Thursday, she usually has to be at work by 7:45 a.m. I don't know what time it was, I heard the shower, and went back to sleep. My oldest little boy got me up about 8:00 a.m., went through the whole normal routine -- watched cartoons; fixed breakfast.
 I have a 15 month old -- got him up, got him ready for day care. On Tuesday and Thursday I take my 4 year old to St. Marks for preschool.
Garvey - OK
McCrady - My 15 month old goes to Ms. Peggy's house -- do you know where that is?
Garvey - I just heard about that today.
McCrady - My basic daily things, I went on the radio at about noon -- of course I was still sitting in the driveway.
Garvey - You have the oldest one at St. Marks by 9:00 a.m. is that what time school starts?
McCrady - He goes to school from 9:00 till 11:30.
Garvey - What did you do with the little one, did you take the little one; did you then take the little one to Miss Peggy's?
McCrady - I took the little one to Miss Peggy's first, then took the oldest one.
Garvey - Your oldest one is who?
McCrady - Bradley. He has to be there by 9:00 a.m.
Garvey - Between 9:00 and noon what did you do?
McCrady - Washed my car -- it was my first day back out on the road. I had a stroke over the summer and Wednesday was my first night back, but I had to go to Cambridge to qualify for my weapon.
So, from 9:00 til about a little after 11:00 I cleaned up the patrol car and took a shower and was running late, so I ran outside in my underwear and signed on the radio; went back inside and got my uniform on and took off for work.
I worked with Jeff Holbert. He is my partner on the drug team and it was about 1:30 when Cheryl --- a friend of Jenifer's that works at the plant....
Garvey - Cheryl W***?
McCrady - Yes, W***. They live - up Main Street, turn *** at X****, and it's the last house on the right - a gray house with a carport.
Garvey - OK, yea.
McCrady - Their number is 1547; she calls and asks me if Jenifer had stayed home. She thought maybe I was sick again. I told her no, as far as I knew, she went to work. Another thing -- my little boy -- the oldest one, Bradley, was upset because Mommy didn't kiss him goodbye. She always gives him a kiss because he gets up at the crack of dawn to watch cartoons. I asked him if he heard her leave... didn't you ------ . So, I asked Cheryl, I had called Jenifer before I left.... It was about 11:00 .... to see if she wanted me to leave early and eat lunch. She usually eats lunch about noon. I got her voice mail; call in. She never returned the call, so I went to work at noon and at 1:30 Cheryl called and says "where is Jenifer?" I said, "I suppose at work." She advised that she didn't show up. She advised she was supposed to be at a meeting at the Lafayette which I didn't know about .... she said she {Jenifer} didn't show up.
Garvey - Was that through work?
McCrady - Yes, it had to do with work. There was people from work there and they didn't see her. She {Cheryl} could tell you more about the people. That's when I called you guys to go by the house. I tried to call the house. There was no answer. I think {Officer} King went by the house. So, me and Jeff {Holbert} came down, and I went into the house. The first thing I noticed, I had an empty two liter of Pepsi on the kitchen counter. I had drank it that morning; and her wedding rings were laying there -- they still are. I didn't touch them. I didn't even move them.
Garvey - Two of them ... one ... or what?
McCrady - She has a band like this and then she also has a solitaire with a nugget. I started looking around. Her Guicchi bag was missing. It was blue and gray. She has so many clothes but I did notice that all her blue-jeans were gone and her favorite dress, which is a brown and white checkered dress ... is gone. Her Reebok tennis shoes were gone and her watch. I went into the bathroom -- her make-up; clothes; dryer, and some kind of a moisturizer that she put on at night was gone. Her shampoo and conditioner was gone.
Garvey - Would all these items fit inside the Guicchi bag?
McCrady - No, there was another bag missing too. I went upstairs -- we had just went to California and we bought new luggage at JC Penney's Outlet in Columbus. One of those -- the biggest one is missing -- along with the Guicchi bag.
I have looked - searched the house all over to see what else is missing. Nothing of the kids' is missing, and I don't see anything of mine missing.
Garvey - How about photographs?
McCrady - Photographs we took in California are missing.
Garvey - Where are they missing from?
McCrady - They were on the table.
Garvey - Like a coffee table?
McCrady - Well, we have the kitchen table and, my wife is a Longer burger Basket nut, and she has a big Longer burger basket on the table that she puts papers and pictures in. I talked to her friend in California -- Mary, who we visited in California... Her last name is C****. I have been keeping in contact with her every night.
Garvey - How do you spell her name?
McCrady - C****. She also asked me if any pictures were missing and I started to look around, and I noticed the pictures we took in California were missing.
Garvey - What did you take pictures of?
McCrady - The desert. We went to Sea World and to the San Diego Zoo ... why she would take them, I don't know.
Garvey - Scenery type pictures?
McCrady - Yes, I went through the photo albums and I don't see any pictures missing.
Garvey - Any of the kids?
McCrady - No ... of course she had umteen pictures in her purse.
Garvey - Typical mom?
McCrady - Yes. That's about all I see missing. It was about 2:00 in the morning ... I called the Lt. and Sgt. and they came down. I was worried because the car was gone, so we drove around. Sgt. Johnson called me that night about 2:00. I have not slept for about 4 days. He told me to call Belpre {Police Dept} because they found the blazer.
I called the Belpre Police and they said they found it, and I asked them if I could leave it set there tonight, as I don't have any keys. There was only 2. She had one and keeps the other one in her purse.
So, I went down the next day and had Jerry come down. Jerry's Auto ... he unlocked it. I looked through it -- under the seats. Her nurse uniform -- which consists of like burgundy pants and a scrub top, and work shoes were in the back seat. The suitcases were gone; no receipt, the car is all messed up because I went through it. I had Jerry tow it to his place because I couldn't call McClinton's to get the key code. Somehow, Jerry got the key code to it and made keys. Charged me ..... for that ... to make 4 keys.
I have called everyone that she is close to. Another thing that bothers me -- she has a phone book thing -- black that she has all her friends addresses and phone numbers in ----
Garvey - List for me three of her best friends.
McCrady - Mary C****. She is her best friend.
Garvey - Talk to Mary a lot?
McCrady - Yes.
Garvey - Talk to her monthly?
McCrady - Yes.
Garvey - Who is her next best friend?
McCrady - That would be Cheryl W***.
Garvey - And number three?
McCrady - That would be -- well, most of her best friends have moved away. Those two are her best friends.
Garvey - When the day care center is closed, and you want to go out in the evening, who watches the children?
McCrady - Mr. and Mrs. Barrett.
Garvey - How about if they are not available -- your parents?
McCrady - Her and my mother don't get along. We had problems -- what was it - about 2 years ago -- that's where that started from.
We were doing great. That's why this is such a shock. We went to the Yankee Festival with Cheryl W*** and her husband D. She had been wanting a fireplace set with the hooks and all. I paid $300.00 for the damn thing.
There is someone else -- a friend. She got married and moved away. And she saw her in the grocery store. Her name is M******.
Garvey - Was that her first name?
McCrady - Yes, but I don't know her last name.
Garvey - Was she from around here?
McCrady - She used to live -- if you go down Walnut Street, there is a street -- if you turn down it to the left, it dead-ends.
Garvey - 4th street dead-ends -- but it turns.
McCrady - Turns to the right?
Garvey - Yes.
McCrady - That's it then. It was her mother's house, there at the end. She is married so she may not live there now .... She used to live in the apartment up above. I remember she {Jenifer} said that she saw M****** because M****** has a baby that has Down Syndrome.
Garvey - One of the officers relayed about a phone call that she may have received from Pennsylvania?
McCrady - It was -- she had cake decorating class on Tuesday with Cheryl -- so it was either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Garvey - Of last week?
McCrady - Yes, I think it was Wednesday.
Garvey - Was it after her class?
McCrady - Well, her class was on Tuesday from 7 till 9 at J.C. Penney's.
Garvey - So, you think it might have been Wednesday?
McCrady - Had to have been Wednesday -- she was home.
Garvey - Did the call --- {question stopped by Jack}
McCrady - We have Caller-ID. It's in the kitchen. I walked by and saw 412. I don't remember the other numbers. They asked for Jenifer McCrady, so I gave her the phone. She went back to the bedroom and closed the door.
Garvey - Was it a female on the phone?
McCrady - Female. It was a female on the phone.
Garvey - Did they ask for her by first and last name?
McCrady - Yes, which leads me to believe that it was a catalog or someone trying to sell her something.
Garvey - How long was she on the phone?
McCrady - 20 minutes or so.
Garvey - Is that common for her -- when she answers the phone, is it common for her to go in the bedroom?
McCrady - No.
Garvey - Would she talk right out in front of you?
McCrady - Yes.
She did that last week with a phone call. The past week she has been really depressed, not real depressed, but quite. She doesn't like to play Nintendo, but she and my 4 year old play it all the time and I don't remember when it was she sat in there and played it for 5 hours straight.
Another thing that I brought up to -- I think Kapple -- was that I go to counseling. It was Thursday before last -- what it is for, is to help me get through where I had this stroke .... she goes with me. Before that it had been brought up -- see Jenifer has a twin brother. They are both adopted, and then she has an older brother who is adopted .... S***.
Jenifer told me -- October 14th would be our 7th year anniversary -- so we were married about 5 years when she told me that S*** had molested her till she was age 14.
Garvey - How old is S***, do you have any idea?
McCrady - S*** is around -- let's see -- Jenny will be 31 so S*** would be about 32 or 33.
Garvey - Where does he live?
McCrady - L********. I told Jeff about it. I didn't know Jeff knew about it.
Garvey - Who is Jeff?
McCrady - Jeff is her other brother.
Garvey - Where is he?
McCrady - He lives in T****, but he is here.
Garvey - OK, is he older or younger?
McCrady - He is a twin. They don't look alike, but he's her twin. He's a lot bigger.
Garvey - You told that to Jeff?
McCrady - I told that to Jeff --- I told him when we left her. I told him I was sorry that I had to tell him but she made me promise not to tell. The only person she ever told was Mary. He said he suspected it and told S*** if he ever touched her again that he would kill him.
Garvey - -----------
McCrady - No, her parents do not know that.
Garvey - How did this come about? Is this something you just found out about yourself in the past month or two, or what?
McCrady - About what?
Garvey - About her being molested.
McCrady - No, I found out about 2 years ago.
Garvey - Have you guys been talking about it in the last 30 days, or 60 days?
McCrady - Yea, when we went to our last counseling meeting Thursday before last, my counselor more or less focused on her and brought a lot of that out. She broke down in tears, and I thin that was a lot of her being quiet, and being depressed. She said, when she got home that night, that there were other things that S*** did, but right now I can't tell you what he did. I left it at that. I didn't push it.
Garvey - Does she have a relationship with S***?
McCrady - They talk. But, I told her myself, that you don't ever leave my children alone with him. That's what kind of stuns me ..... when she told me, they still have a relationship. They exchange gifts at Christmas.
Garvey - Would be hard to be in the same room with him.
McCrady - Oh, I can't stand the man. When he touches one of my boys, it takes all I've got to hold back, but it's not worth losing my job over.
Garvey - I understand that. One of the officers told me about a conversation that she may have had with someone down by the Redwood Restaurant named P****.
McCrady - Yes, Jenifer used to live in those apartments --- in the far end one when I met her.
Garvey - OK.
McCrady - P***'s husband W*** I believe, they still live in the **** one.
Last night -- me and Jeff, her brother Jeff -- took photo's of Jenifer and went down to the park because of the walkers down there -- to see if they saw the blazer down there or to see if they saw her. Kapple said we probably were not going to see the right ----
Garvey - Yeah, you need to be down there at 7:30 in the morning.
McCrady - P*** had called her.... I think it was Wednesday.
Garvey - Wednesday before she disappeared?
McCrady - I think it was Wednesday. They talked for a long time.... at least an hour. So I went to see W****, P***'s ex-husband. She up and left him and got married. She lives over --- well, I've got her phone number at the house if you want it. It's somewhere over in Washington because it's a 863 number.
Garvey - Was that a casual conversation? Was she sitting in the living room talking?
McCrady - No, she went to the bedroom .... and it's very rare that P*** calls her. They used to work together at a store in the mall. I went to W***'s house yesterday. He got P*** on the phone and I talked to her ..... I said, "P***, I know you talked to her {Jenifer} the other night. Did she say anything to you? Is there something that I am doing wrong?" She said no, that "all we talked about was you having the stroke." And that she {Jenifer} was worried about me. She said that was basically all they talked about.
P*** called me last night, asked if I found her passport, because when Jenifer graduated from nursing school, her parents sent her to Europe for her graduation present. That was in June of -----. I have searched the house -- I haven't seen it, but that doesn't mean it's not there. It's hard to tell where it was. She told me that Jenifer really wanted to go to Greece. She {Jenifer} has told me that she would love to take me to Greece. I would not know where to begin to look for it {the passport.}
I have called all the people that I can think of. I even called Rich Oil -- that is where she buys her cigarettes. I checked there to see if she had been in to buy any cigarettes.
Garvey - Did she take any medicine?
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