miss cheryl, as she became known, was a one-woman campaign. she wrote letters to the governor every day for years, 2,600 in all. she paid for billboards and stood outside churches with posters. the ministers would get mad because i was outside their church. miss williams, why don t you leave? cheryl didn t. you were getting a reputation around town as this kind of batty lady with the pigtails, out there with her signs and the billboards everybody and the letters to the editor, and you became famous. everybody called me crazy. but not everybody. police began to take cheryl seriously after years of her struggling to draw attention to mike s case. miss cheryl is a straight-shooter and she tells it like it is. will mickler is an agent with the fdle, the florida department of law enforcement. a top cops agency with statewide jurisdiction. four years after mike went missing, they agreed to take the case.
with her signs and the billboards everybody and the letters to the editor, and you became famous. everybody called me crazy. but not everybody. police began to take cheryl seriously after years of her struggling to draw attention to mike s case. miss cheryl is a straight-shooter and she tells it like it is. will mickler is an agent with the fdle, the florida department of law enforcement. a top cops agency with statewide jurisdiction. four years after mike went missing, they agreed to take the case. if it wasn t for miss cheryl, this case would have never gotten into the hands of criminal investigators. but mike s widow, denise, didn t appreciate what cheryl was doing. she s upset because she and her daddy said it was an invasion of their privacy. denise s friend, becky mass, in her defense, said denise told cheryl to stop all the noise because it was confusing her daughter. mrs. williams had very
was in fact murdered. and his body wasn t in lake seminole after all. it was 50 miles away. back in tallahassee, off a dead-end road by another swampy lake. i said, he can t be dead. he can t be. and they said, it s mike. i said, you know that? and they said, yes. we ve done all the dna. fdle agent will mickler broke the news to denise. i saw her tear up when the death notification was provided to her that mike williams remains had been identified and located. now you d think with the recovery of the body, murder charges would be filed forthwith, but that didn t happen. detectives continued to investigate. they had another suspect in their sights. and what a sensation that turned out to be. five months after mike s body was recovered, a perp walk to remember.
the human remains are those of mike williams. after all those, it was over. police were mum on how they d found mike s body. but speculation was that brian had led them to it. further forensic analysis concluded that mike williams was in fact murdered. and his body wasn t in lake seminole after all. it was 50 miles away. back in tallahassee, off a dead-end road by another swampy lake. i said, he can t be dead. he can t be. and they said, it s mike. i said, you know that? and they said, yes. we ve done all the dna. fdle agent will mickler broke the news to denise. i saw her tear up when the death notification was provided to her that mike williams remains had been identified and located. now you d think with the recovery of the body, murder charges would be filed forthwith, but that didn t happen. detectives continued to investigate. they had another
with the pigtails, out there with her signs and the billboards everybody and the letters to the editor, and you became famous. everybody called me crazy. but not everybody. police began to take cheryl seriously after years of her struggling to draw attention to mike s case. miss cheryl is a straight-shooter and she tells it like it is. will mickler is an agent with the fdle, the florida department of law enforcement. a top cops agency with statewide jurisdiction. four years after mike went missing, they agreed to take the case. if it wasn t for miss cheryl, this case would have never gotten into the hands of criminal investigators. but mike s widow, denise, didn t appreciate what cheryl was doing. she s upset because she and her daddy said it was an invasion of their privacy. denise s friend, becky mass,