Suspect anything. Even though you are hopeful, you knew as soon as you picked up the phone, you knew. How does anybody look at Somebody Drowning and not help them . How do you do that . A perfect husband. A perfect father. A perfect mystery. They found the bow and mike was in and i. We thought he had an accident. This was hiding more than gators. Mike was the only hunter who had gone overboard who had never been found. Something done ahead of. There been so many wild stories. Two lovers share a secret. He had this desire to have her. There was an affair for years. They can choose each other. You are waiting for that crack. Obviously, she knew what happened to him. Or choose the truth. Finally, we will find out what happened. Maybe justice will be served. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Mike williams doted on his wife denise and their baby girl. The perfect husband. He had a successful career, cooked, and cleaned. Friends joke they would love to have a Mike Williams of the room. Suddenly, mike disappeared. Was it a tragic accident . One of the people believed something more sinister was a play and would stop at nothing to uncover the truth. Here is Dennis Murphy with secrets of Lake Seminole. Lake seminole, one hour outside of the Florida State capitol is deep south. Fishing and Hunting Fishing and hunting country. The duck hunters are up before dawn. It was in the year 2000 on a december morning, and experienced outdoorsmen named Mike Williams went duck hunting. It was his sixth Wedding Anniversary, and there would be a stay at a romantic b b that evening. The Morning Hours were his 200. That was his outlet. Thats what he enjoyed. The thing is he never came back. Seem to simply vanish. His wife called around the family. It was Late Afternoon when his brother at the worrying news. There was going to be search, already starting at Lake Seminole. We called a friend of ours and we went together. Makes coworker kristy. Mike is very skilled. A skilled hunter and we thought maybe he had an accident. Is a cold front moved in, a formal search began on the 30,000 acre lake. One member of the search party arrived early and stayed late. It was mikes best friend going back to school days. Brian winchester. He and his dad using a spotlight made the first big discovery. Brian winchester had found the boat. Mike was not in it. His decoys were all in the boat which, of course, thank he never got started hunting. What picture came together for you . I was like everybody else. Worried he mightve fallen out. Mikes buzz. Brian stood with me and anytime they would come up with a potential hit, brian wilkes and dont want to be here when they find mike. Manmade Lake Seminole can be treacherous for boaters. It was a onetime peach orchard. At night, theyre hard to see. A fish and Wildlife Officer was at the scene. You hit a stump and you could be thrown out easily. They did not have a body but there was an early theory among hunters about what mightve happened. Mike in the predawn hour hit the stump and thrown into the weed filled lake. Like most duck hunters he was known to use chest high waders and they can turn deadly. They are bulky and like putting two buckets on your legs. You have problems with them filling with water and taking you down. What was down there everybody knew were alligators. Hard to think of an awful end to a hardworking has been a father like Mike Williams. The gators got them . Your hard decision your stomach. The sheer awfulness of it. There was a problem with the gator theory. With unusually cold temperatures, fish and Wildlife Officers knew the alligators were not stirring much. Their metabolism is down so low, they dont want to each. They go into hibernation. The officer found a hat floating on the water. Brian, the best friend, thought it looked familiar. He comes to the tent and shows a photograph with mike with that had done. Surely the hat was is good evidence that mike had an accident and drowned in Lake Seminole. His coworkers less and kristy felt hopeless. When did you both realize this was it . I think we all knew that something had happened. After a few weeks passed, we knew that mike was not coming back. Months went by with no sign of mike, and then in june, something of mike mac did the waders. Waders did not have slime that Lake Seminole would produce if you put stuff their threeyear four days, they would be slimy. They showed no sign of a gator attack. We found no indication of bite marks on the waders or any Human Remains whatsoever. Traces of mike but nobody. How unusual that was for a leg not to give up its dead. Mike at that point was the only hunter, fisherman that had gone overboard and that leg that had never been found. Fish and Wildlife Officers were confounded. Eventually, the case of the missing boater was handed off to sheriffs detectives to investigate. I remember telling some of the investigators, you might want to look into this deeper because something do add up. One year after mike goes missing, his wife visits the lake for a final goodbye. She had a flower with her and she read mike a note. There is growing suspicion it was not an accident. No. Something is wrong here. [ ] looking for a moisturizer that does more than just moisturize . Try Olay Regenerist for 10 benefits in every jar. Olay visibly firms, lifts, and smooths wrinkles, by penetrating the skin, to boost regeneration at the surface cellular level. Try olay. [sneezes] can a can of lysol take care of my snotty sofa . Cando Mildewy Tiles . Cando these . Yup, its the cando can. Nothing kills more germs on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. My name is oluseyi noth and some of mygerms favorite moments throughout my life are watching sports with my dad. Now, i work at comcast as part of the team that created our ai highlights technology, which uses ai to detect the major plays in a sports game. Giving millions of fans, like my dad and me, new ways of catching up on their favorite sport. Dennis murphy duck hunter Mike Williams had disappeared on Lake Seminole, and his wife Denise Duck HunterMike Williams had disappeared on Lake Seminole and his wife denise was alone with a young daughter to raise. Their story began as High School Sweethearts. He the Football Star and Student Council president and she the cheerleader and homecoming queen. Patty, the wife of mikes boss got to know them both. Impressions of her . This nice, delightful. Absolutely delightful. After attending a private christian high school, they graduated from Florida State university and got married. Their baby girl was born on mothers day. Denise was a cpa. Mike had become an ace Real Estate Appraiser in his hometown tallahassee. His boss clay was amazed despite the 15 hour days mike put in, he always made time to take care of the home front. He made sure dinner was ready. Laundry got going. He is mr. Mom. He was mr. Mom. We all said we wanted to be married to Mike Williams. His coworkers took mischievous delight wondering what denise had in store for him when she called him in the office. Im across the street. Get my gas. I guess denise needs gas. Now, with mike gone, denise would be the sole provider for their young daughter. Fortunately, mike had hefty Insurance Policies. You have a small child and a way to take care of, sure. You need to get insurance. Brians and Insurance Broker helped denise navigate the claims process. For as long as most could remember, denise and mike and brian and his wife had been couples together. They all attended the private christian high school. Married their High School Sweethearts and had children about the same time. Then came Lake Seminole. After a year had gone by since mike disappeared, denise asked patty to take her to the lake. She told me how she had been going to a christian counselor and he encouraged her to do this. She had a flower with her and written mike a note. I guess, probably 30 or 40 minutes later, she came back and she had been crying. The flower in the letter . Those were left at the lake. Gone but not forgotten according to becky, denises friend and coworker. She loved him the way you would love a partner or soulmate. The official the certificate said mike drowned while duck hunting. For mikes family and friends, doubt started creeping and spurred on by Little Things that did not had a. The waders found six months after he disappeared. They looked almost pristine. No. Something is wrong. Stage . I thought stage because anything left in a Lakewood Have Lg on it. Speculation gave way to suspicion. Could mikes disappearance be the result of foul play . Enter the squeaky list of squeaky wheels. Mike Williams Brother who was not buying the official store that mike had experienced an accident on the lake. Mike is not in Lake Seminole. He did not drown. He did not get eaten by alligators. Some called Cheryl Williams with their pigtails eccentric, even crazy. She demanded answers appealing to the media and when she didnt get results, she opened her purse and spent money she really could not afford. I take out an ad in the tallahassee democrat, and i asked the public to help me find my son. Earnings from the Day Care Center she operated out of her home. You have to change a lot of diapers to pay for and add that expensive. It got publicity. Some of the day cantor kids now grown remember making a missing person poster. I was only six years old when mike went missing. I remember somebody would draw out mikes name and missing and we would fill in with a black sharpie. Ms. Cheryl was a onewoman campaign. She wrote letters to the governor every day for years. 2600 and all and she paid for billboards and stood outside churches with posters. The ministers would get mad because i was outside their church. Why dont you leave . Cheryl did not. You were getting a reputation as this pate lady with the pigtails out there with her signs. The billboards and letters to the editor. Everybody called me crazy. Not everybody. Police began to take her seriously after years of her struggling to draw attention to mikes case. She is a straight shooter. She tells it like it is. Will is an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. A top cop agency was statewide jurisdiction. Four years after mike went missing, they agreed to take the case. If it was not for miss cheryl, this case would never have gotten into the hands of criminal investigators. Mikes widow denise did not appreciate what cheryl was doing. She is upset because she and her daddy said it was an invasion of their privacy. Denises friend becky said she told cheryl to stop the noise because it was confusing her daughter. Mrs. Williams had strong feelings that mike was still alive. She was telling that to the little girl. When, by all accounts, he was not. Nick and i never told anslee that her daddy was alive. Then denise upped the ante, laying down a demand to her motherinlaw, stop raising a ruckus or cheryl would never see her granddaughter anslee again. She followed through with their promise. And your granddaughter is gone. Totally gone out of my life. But i could not stop. I had to find out what happened to mike. That stalemate between cheryl and denise held fast as years went by. In time, Denise Williams began dating and thinking of marriage with one of her suitors. Soon, the rumor mill would be abuzz with a more sensational take of denises love life. Coming up. We find out shes dating Brian Winchester. Shocking to some and suspicious to others. It is so creepy. 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A young widow raising her young daughter. She started dating and one day there was a new man in her life. Someone with a familiar name. All of a sudden we find out shes dating Brian Winchester. Brian his best friend and fishing buddy. Since her days in high school and beyond, brian and his wife kathy had gotten a divorce. Friend becky said brian was not to release his first relationship after mike. Denise dated other people. She did not fly into his arms. She had reservations and he had to prove himself. This was a juicy tidbit. Mikes best friend hooking up with a widow with a man who disappeared. It didnt take the court of Public Opinion to do the math. Could brian have had anything to do with mikes disappearance . And what did denise know . Coffeeshop conspiracies took wing when five years after mikes disappearance, brian mary denise. Mikes old boss and his wife were invited to the wedding. They had heard the rumors too. The minister said there is nothing that i do not know between the two of them and patty and i punched each other in the ribs and said, well, there might be one little piece of information he is not aware of. Brian moved into the same as mike and denise lived in together and began raising mikes daughter. What bothered me the most was they stayed in mikes house. Raising the child. Raising that child and that role of takes over his life. It so creepy. Percheron a cooperated long running suspicions that she worked she kept a detailed notebook about mikes disappearance and Brian Anthonys are filling more and more pages in it. She alerted an investigator about her suspicions and shared a 27 page summary of her notes. She was a good source of information and she was a bulldog in this. Like this id. She noted. Remember the Insurance Policies mike bought . They were worth 1. 75 million and it was brian who Access Old Mike a large part of them. Those waders that surfaced were used by denises lawyer as evidence to declare mike did in seven months so she could collect her money. Its better than icing on the cake if one of your goals is to get the woman, you also get the money. That was all i needed to know. But the authorities needed more than gossip. An investigator for the Prosecutors Office worked the case for 10 long years. Are suspicions getting grounded in the relationship between denise and brian are the money trail . It was all of it. You start looking at the odd fact the body never floated. The waders popping up. The money. The investigators kept their eyes on the married couple, Brian Anthonys invited their time. If either one was harboring a secret involving foul play, eventually might have a corrosive effect on the relationship. They are not going to turn on each other while they are married, but you wait for things to flare up. Seven years into their marriage, they did flare up. B