Then, he kinda clammed up after that,” said Det. “The only thing we got out of that time was that he said that she went camping, but she didn't come home with them. “I didn’t want to talk to you on this long, I mean this many minutes. I always keep things as secrets,” Charlie said in the interview. In 2010, about a year after investigators first spoke to Charlie on the day after his mother’s disappearance, they sat down with the 5-year-old again and asked him about what he remembers from that night. Maxwell said that the Salt Lake County district attorney refused to file charges without a body until a year had passed.ĪBC News reached out to the district attorney at the time, but they declined to respond to this claim and refused to comment on this case. “Is there enough there to arrest him and book him into jail and hold him accountable? Absolutely, there is. “There's a pile of circumstantial evidence,” said Maxwell. However, the toddler also made comments that were clearly false, including taking an airplane to go camping. Many people interpreted Charlie’s statement to mean that his mother was dead. My mom stayed where the crystals are,” Charlie had also said. “My mom stayed at Dinosaur National Park. “The children said, ‘Mommy was in the van but didn't come back with us,’ a pretty significant thing for a 4-year-old to tell a detective,” said Rebecca Morris, who authored a book about the case titled “If I Can’t Have You.” Investigators also questioned then 4-year-old Charlie the day after his mother disappeared.Ĭharlie confirmed to investigators that he went “camping” the night his mother vanished, saying “my dad and my mom and my little brother” were also there.
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