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I end up with a huge stack of paperwork from all the auctions that happened in scottsdale in 2005. found the car, pulled the information. i didn't recognize the name. but as soon as i read the address it was the biggest, most exciting moment of the investigation. oh, my god. i decoded the treasure map. because the address was the partial from the treasure map. perfect absolute match for the sketch that he had left behind in the truck. i'm thinking it might be my one shot to break this thing open and get this guy in custody. what we found was a retired guy living by himself in this house. >> th...
Divorce. i invited rick to stay in the spare bedroom. i didn't know he had a different side. i only feel badly that i helped perpetuate his freedom. >> it's really sad how these guys work society. how they are able to exist amongst us and constantly count on the charity and good will of people. >> we used the map to identify the exact spot on the side of the house where mclean indicated on the treasure map something was buried. we called in a special forensics team. unfortunately when they dug it up there was nothing there. but there was an indentation in the ground that showed that a containe...
>> when this young girl confronted him and outed him for the monster that he is, very shortly thereafter he disappeared. one morning his father-in-law wakes up. he had dumped his truck in the father-in-law's driveway. wallet, cell phone, letters for the family are sitting in the truck. we also found a treasure map. there was a schematic on it. there was instructions about where to find this buried container. mclean wrote this cryptic note to his family. he said, if something happens to me, someone will contact you and tell you where to find the house where this treasure is buried. so on the ma...
And i kind of believe he had a plan for a long time. he, some level, knew this day was going to come. at one point, rick mclean called his wife and asked her and the kids to meet him off a particular off-ramp in southwest riverside county. they went out there and they met. and he said something along the lines of, i can't go to prison, so the easiest thing for me to do is get out of everybody's life. so i'm going to disappear, you're never going to see me again. >> they are the vampires of our children that live amongst us. >> we found a treasure map.