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Originally Posted by truthbtold
So Suzanne, Bill, and Bob are all alive, well, and free?!?! How have they not been questioned extensively or even hooked up to a lie detector. Surely, investigators must be able to find more information from them if we know exactly where they are. Is this case still open or did law enforcement just throw up their hands and give up?
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I have no idea whether Suzanne Russell is alive or not. When Bob Doescher and John Russell were captured both denied any further knowledge of the whereabouts of the missing women.
The details of the case remain sketchy but the fact that the authorities were unable to charge Doescher and Russell with anything except insurance fraud tells me that they probably lacked any evidence to charge them with the myriad of other crimes that they were suspected of committing that were brought up during the UM segment.
As for the whereabouts of Suzanne Russell and Kristin Tomlin? Your guess about as good as mine. There is always the possibility that the couple interviewed back in 1988 that alleged that The Russells and Doescher stole their boat were mistaken. However personally I'm of the opinion that with all three people being identified by the same couple, that probably isn't likely. Either way, although UM noted back in 1988 that the couple had won a judgment in their favor against The Russells and Doescher for the theft of their boat, nothing further was ever mentioned of this judgment once John Russell and Bob Doescher were captured. So that is a bit of an open ended question in enough of itself.
As for Kristin Tomlin, it's my personal belief she is dead. Tomlin's family was interviewed for the original segment (this was also deleted from the syndications) and both her mother and brother expressed bewilderment as to why Kristin had not contacted them if indeed she was still alive. That was over twenty years ago now and then some if we are speaking of the actual date of her disappearance. So that leaves two possibilities: Either Suzanne Russell and Kristin Tomlin are still in hiding somewhere all these years later due to some incident that occurred aboard "The Freedom 2" or one or both of them are deceased.
The bottom line is that for whatever reason there is probably not enough evidence to charge anyone in the disappearance of either of the two women and add to that there is some credible evidence (at least in my mind) that Suzanne Russell was still alive after the casualty to the boat.