Don at Albertson’s 11 Days After Disappearance

Letter faxed to Detectives Lingo and Fernandez:

 

I was eating breakfast at Denny’s (corner of Hillsborough and Memorial Hwy. in Town N Country) and the waitress, Lisa Stoll (884-9359) told me she saw my husband on August 29, 1997 which would have been eleven days after his disappearance.  She said she was sure of the date because she had moved to her new home then.  She claims to have seen him at the Albertson’s across from this same Denny’s and that he was picking up photographs he had developed there and was showing her pictures of his cats.  He gave her a brochure and told her to come visit him there.  She said she recognized him at Albertson’s because she had been his waitress at Denny’s but Don and I ate there together frequently and it seems a little weird that although I still eat there all the time, she just now has recognized me as his wife. 

 

I had given Don several of the little disposable cameras to use in Costa Rica, but never knew him to develop his own photos.  He would always bring the camera to me and I would take it to K Mart.  He was showing Lisa the pictures and they were cats (not prostitutes) so I don’t know why he might be hiding these particular photos from me. 

 

The brochure that Don would’ve given her to Easy Street had a map to here and our phone number.  If Don knew who he was while he was speaking to her and had a map to his house, and was coherent enough to be developing photos, he should have been able to find his way home. If he was hiding it would have been pretty stupid to tell someone his name, give them directions to his house and invite them over.  Lisa said she lost the brochure and that she did not know who she should tell about her encounter.  It seems a little flawed but it is the only “positive” siting of which I have been told. 

 

Goodness knows I’ve nearly wrecked the car countless times because I thought I saw Don somewhere and was trying to get a better look.  I am sure that she would be happy to tell you all about her encounter.  I wish she had called you or recognized me last August.  P.S. She said the photos were cats out in the wild.  No cages.  - Carole Lewis

 

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