Katharina Buczek
Afterward, Rob apparently told Pam’s family that he was unable to file a missing person report with the police because his wife had just left him.
“But when we drove to Arizona and arrived at the police station, they had never heard of him,” Pam’s sister, Jimmie Rice, said.
This pushed investigators to start their investigation by questioning Rob– who told authorities that he had visited various auto parts stores on the day of Pam’s disappearance.
He also claimed that while at one auto parts store, his truck wouldn’t start. So, Rob reportedly tried to call home but got no answer. Afterward, he called a taxi and claimed that once he arrived home, he never went inside the house.
Instead, Rob alleged that he just went into the garage, grabbed a part for his truck, and rode his bike to travel back to the auto parts store.
Then, once Rob was able to get his truck to start, he claimed to have driven home and subsequently gone inside the house. It was at that point Rob said he discovered the letter from Pam.
Within the letter, Pam wrote that she had taken $60,000 in cash– all of their money– from the safe at their video store, Fast Forward Video. After reading this, Rob reportedly went to the store to check the safe and confirmed that the money was gone.
The letter also detailed how Pam left her and Rob’s Corvette parked outside a local doughnut shop. And the next day, Rob said he found the vehicle.
Not long after Rob spoke with police, though, investigators began to question his side of the story. No employees from the final auto parts store Rob allegedly visited remembered seeing Rob– or anyone else– inquiring about an ignition switch.
Rob also told investigators that his car– which was a distinctive blue with Fast Forward Video advertisements on it– had been parked outside of the store for almost four hours on the afternoon of Pam’s disappearance.
However, no employees recalled seeing the vehicle parked outside the store, and no one remembered seeing anyone working on the truck.
