Lisa Stebic /// Part 1 /// 271 | Forensic Files

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missing mom Michele Fiori with WBBM news radio 780 what happened well the latest
information I have for you Nancy is that I did speak with Plainfield police this
afternoon and they tell me that tips are now coming into their department and that is significant because over the
weekend when I first met with the deputy police chief he told me they had nothing
at that point they were desperate for leads and now they are finally coming into the station iding says any lead
even saying one that may seem insignificant to people can be just the tip that they're looking for and that
can help bring Lisa stem back home to her family Jim what would the circumstances of her disappearance well
it was April 30th was the last time that she was seen and she works at a school cafeteria so she reported for work that
day they saw her her husband is the last one that says he saw her late in the afternoon on April 30th ed said that she
normally would leave in the evening to go to exercise she come back 10:30 or 11:00 she was never seen again her
children though there are two children have the same story that the father has but the last time they saw their mother
was late in that afternoon so to you Michele Fiori with 780 WBBM Newsradio both children who are allegedly out
buying some candy the father says he was working in the yard when she went jogging or to work out they back up the
dads claimed he saw her at 6:00 p.m. we have not spoken with the children at this point I'm sorry I couldn't hear you
repeat we have not spoken with the children at this point what do it what can you tell me about the husband
refusing a polygraph Michele Fiori you know what Craig stomach declined to take a polygraph test that was offered to him
by the Plainfield Police Department it was on the advice of his attorney who is also his divorce attorney in the
proceedings that he filed against Lisa Stevic in this past January police tell us that
besides Craig other family members and acquaintances of Lisa also been offered a polygraph test they
would not tell me exactly how many have taken it or if any have taken it at this
point joining us tonight is a very special guest it is Melanie Greenberg this is the missing mom Lea systemics
cousin Melanie thank you for being with us Thank You Nancy for this opportunity to get Lisa's picture out there to a
national audience we're hoping someone will see her and have some new tip or lead to give to the Plainfield police
they need something new to go on even if it seems like an inconsequential fact please call the pillion field police and
bring Lisa home safely to her children and her family tonight with us Melanie Greenberg this is Lisa's cousin I wish
you peace I was did she find her alive I can't even imagine going through what you're fit not not knowing if she's dead
or alive or possibly alive somewhere needing medical attention or needing help tell me the last time you saw her
well as cousins and a large family our last big family gathering was in December at a holiday gathering her
sisters are extremely close to Lisa and they last spoke with her on the Thursday
before the Monday that she was missing they had a lengthy conversation Lisa was in very good spirits and you know it
just it's a total mystery to us Nancy we just can't understand because there's no
way that she would leave her children [Music] Plainfield Illinois is a comfortable
town close enough to commute to Chicago for work but far enough away to have a small-town feel with the population
growing rapidly in the last 25 years open spaces and farms mingle with newer subdivisions the old sections stand in
contrast to the new developments but the neighbors are friendly regardless if you
live in one of the new golf course communities or in one of the older sections this is a community where you
can live safely and raise your family in the comfort the Plainfield encourages now the newer houses are not just from
the economic boom that has allowed families to leave the familiar suburbs and venture further out down I 55 to
Plainfield but some are replacement houses for the ones destroyed by the August 28th 1990 tornado this tornado
killed 29 people and injured 350 people more than 1,000 homes were damaged or destroyed the tornado made it across
more than 16 miles in only eight minutes this tornado destroyed the only Plainfield High School at the time that
is now called Plainfield Central High School Lisa Michele ruinberg was born on May 19
1969 in Park Ridge Illinois she went on to attend Libertyville High School where
she competed on the swim team and was involved in dancing Lisa graduated in 1987 then attended at Southern Illinois
University before going to Kendall College Lisa earned a degree in hotel and restaurant management and she worked
in hotels in Lincolnshire and Northbrook Lisa met Craig Stevic at a party they dated and later got married on April 6
1993 this was in Jamaica as the two eloped two years later the couple celebrated the birth of their daughter
Alexis and their son Zachary followed about a year later the couple lived in Waukegan
but Craig Stevic he was a pipe fitter so he traveled to the Plainfield area a lot
for work so they eventually moved there léa systemic was 37 almost 38 years old when she went missing on April 30th 2007
Lisa was married for 14 years to Kraig Stevic and there are two kids were 10 and 12 years old when she suddenly
vanished but before we get to the day in question April 30th let's look a little
deeper into what was going on in Lisa's life leading up to her having gone missing in March of 2006 so just a
little more than a year before the day in question Lisa started working as a custodian for the Plainfield School
District she was already working in the cafeteria at Lincoln Elementary so the fillin custodian position
required her to work nights after her children were in bed in addition to her daytime lunch duties about a year later
she stopped the custodial work at the time of her disappearance she was only working at the Lincoln Elementary School
cafeteria sloppy joe sloppy joe meatloaf sandwich she was employed by Sodexo foodservice she prepared lunches for the
school students and earned less than $10,000 a year now as a part of her routine she would work out about three
to four nights a week starting around 6:00 until the gym closed which was at 8:30 p.m.
she used the gym at the local high school she was easily remembered at the gym for her energy and how happy she was
when she was there before she vanished she recently lost about 30 or so pounds good for her
Lisa posted a profile on aerobic friends calm she was seeking female friends to workout with on the websites profile she
said she wanted to include her children in her exercise routine she also posted to health dot exercise friends comm
asking how she could find running or walking partners in the area again she was hoping to find quote female friends
only end quote to join her and exercise right but mmm I'm just going to put this
out there she might only be looking for female friends but I'm sure that anybody could
browse the different people looking for friends oh yeah you know I mean so there could
be some Jim creeps out there you know scouring the internet for four women looking for workout partners nothing
like a good old-fashioned gym creep no no that give you the creep eye but it's also the stink eye
well Lisa listed her workout goals to include increased cardio tone up and simply get out more meet new people and
just have fun she stated I am a parent and I would like to include my children in my health activities she wrote in one
of her postings she was looking for partners to get out and enjoy nature well first of all Lisa is a saint
because any lunch lady is the same because I I would not have made it this far in my life because I want to eat
most of the time if it wasn't for the kind of lunch lady's second she's trying to improve her life not only physically
but also hey you know I've been married for a while I have some kids I want to I
want to meet some new positive people and so this seems like she's on the right path of doing so and she's a hard
worker she's working two jobs at one point well and this is always a good thing too because you know some people
and I've been there I've been on both sides of this some people work out because they feel like they have to you
know to maintain a healthy lifestyle right and then you have others that are able to make it a hobby where they
actually enjoy doing it and spending time working out and being healthy and that's what it seems like to me that
this was her way of getting out of the house and doing something for herself she probably needed a little bit of
alone time yeah the only thing I disagree with her on is the cardio thing because cardio is the devil well the the
stem experiment in January of 2007 they filed for a divorce FY most publications report this was
filed in January however I did find a couple that stated December of 2006 regardless we're talking about a small
window you know difference of time there yeah but again we have this individual that
is trying to improve herself and maybe it's I'm going to get a divorce and I want to look good and try to find
somebody but at this current time it doesn't look like she's looking for you know the next
man no she's obviously concerned and involved with her children's lives so that seems to be the focus there at the
time now during the process of this divorce Lisa and Craig lived together with their children in the family's
house Lisa would sleep on the couch while Craig used the master bedroom Lisa told
friends that she slept with her phone and her purse next to her because she was afraid that Craig would take them
you know take the phone and or purse and possibly destroy them right during the divorce Lisa befriended a co-worker
named Ruby and would often spend her evenings at the gym with Ruby and then often afterwards going to Ruby's house
for a glass of wine and some chitchat often Lisa would bring her children with her when she would visit Ruby's home
Lisa went out on a couple of dates with a recently divorced man a short time before her disappearance I do not know
this individuals name could not find his name but what I could find was that he was 45 years old or so this would be
about 7 to 8 years older than Lisa at the time well yeah but most women like older man or or older captain what I
gather from this information what little information we have on this dating situation yeah I don't feel like I don't
gather that this was a serious thing right I think we have somebody that's going through a divorce and someone
recently divorced likely they were probably hooked up let's say or you know somebody playing matchmaker probably put
them together something right so now is her husband seeing anybody at the time no there's no indication that he was
seeing anybody at the time there's also not 100% evidence that he was aware that
she was dating someone right again I don't think this was a serious thing I think it was very casual I don't even
know how many times they actually went out on a date together I don't think it was much one sometimes if you're going
you know especially when I went through my situation I'd meet women that were going through a divorce
and we'd go out to lunch or hang out go shopping that I mean somebody on the outside could go oh well that's a date
there weren't dates there were almost therapy sessions I was gonna say the same thing anybody that's been through a
tough breakup you find yourself sitting across from someone having a cup of coffee or sharing a a drink and it's
really just you need somebody to vent wait somebody to talk to somebody that's kind of going through the same thing
there might not even be an attraction there really at all well let's face it - I mean women they can kind of get their
stuff together and start moving a lot quicker than most men most men especially married for 14 years he's
probably looking a little schlubby he probably has to get his stuff together well let's go through the day of the
disappearance according to all reports Lee systemic was last seen by her husband on April 30th 2007 but it's not
just that simple right so let's go through this Lisa had spent most of the day going about her typical
routine she worked at Lincoln Elementary School the lunch shifts were typically somewhat of shorter shifts so Lisa left
the school around 2:30 p.m. she picked up a sandwich from Jimmy John's on route 59 and ran some errands before returning
home her routine was to pick up her ten-year-old son Zach from Walker's Grove elementary school at around 3:30
p.m. though no one could say with certainty that Lisa picked up Zach that Monday friends say listen they don't
know who picked him up well I mean he came home at the normal time so everyone just assumes that the typical routine
was for her to pick him up right at 3:30 p.m. so we're gonna assume that she picked him up yes we just don't have
anybody that says I specifically saw Lisa pick up Zach that day well won't he know that's one of the tricky things
with this case and we'll get into that in a little bit so friends say that Lisa almost always made sure that she was
home with Zach her twelve-year-old daughter until Craig returned from work in the evening time
at 5:40 p.m. Craig comes home from work and gives the kids money to go get some candy now later Lisa's friends stated to
media that Lisa strictly forbid the kids from eating candy or any type of processed sugar so they question this
activity 5:45 p.m. the children leave on a bike ride to go to Walgreens to get their candy
between 5:45 and 6 p.m. Craig starts working in the back yard we should point out here that Craig and this is
mentioned by all the neighbors he was one of those guys that was often seen out working in the yard this was very
typical behavior for him yeah at approximately 6:00 p.m. Craig says that he re-entered the home and Lisa had
already left he assumed that she went to work out as per her regular routine now
some reports say that he thinks that he heard her leave but says he didn't see her right regardless Lisa fails to show
up to work out at the high school which was her regular routine and that me at what time at 6 o'clock is when Craig
believes that she left the home right but what time does she know I'm gonna work out this would be shortly
afterwards she would often arrive in the 6 o'clock hour and stay to about 8:30 p.m. you're given us ly information so I
just want to clear this up so her son gets picked up from school 10 years old mm-hmm we know that he gets home yes we
can assume that it's her you have nobody saying that they saw her but assume it's
her then the husband gives the kids money to get candy which she wouldn't be down with but we're also assuming that
she's at home at this point mm-hmm and then he states that she leaves the house roughly around 6 o'clock yeah and you
know what her friends Lisa's friends and family have made a lot of this thing of
her husband Craig sending the kids out to get candy right because it's against what Lisa would typically allow I under
stand why you question that because if something were to go down in that home in you know the two witnesses would be
the children right right so I understand questioning that but at the same time it
could be something as simple as we're going through a divorce we don't even talk to each other we don't get along
right this is dad's rules not mom's rules here's some here's some money let me be the let me be the star of the
night and go get some candy yeah but it also seems a little hush money you know I mean could be yeah it feels that way a
little bit but again I'm all for Lisa I'm all for the working out I'm all for cardio but
kids with no candy come on well here's one thing that I think is very key to this case and it is
you know Craig's word that we have to go off of here we do know Lisa left her car
at the family's home but according to Craig she took her purse and cellphone with her
I've seen some statements that say that she took her car keys as well right but that seems to be more in question than
fact so let's just point it out there at this point over sometime around 6:00 p.m. according to Craig's story his wife
Lisa has left the home and her purse is gone and her cell phones gone but her car is at the house right but you would
assume if she's taking her purse she probably has a house key that she's taking her car keys with her right well
between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. the kids returned from Walgreens and they go directly to Target with their father to
purchase a birthday gift for someone some unnamed person with their father right right now between 10:00 and 11:00
this is when Craig said would be the usual time that Lisa would return home after going to the gym or going out she
does not return that night the next day Tuesday May 1st and 8:50 a.m. Lisa's co-workers received a phone message from
Craig asking if his wife had reported to work at 10:00 to 10:15 a.m. Craig called the
next door neighbor to inquire about Lisa the neighbor reported her missing to police a little after 10 a.m. this is
shortly after this phone call right Craig and the kids went about their typical day after he called the neighbor
he drove the kids to school and then he went on to work now before we get too far along captain here is a description
of Lisa at the time of her disappearance right she is 5 feet 2 inches tall 120 pounds Caucasian with brown hair and
brown eyes now to celebrate her new start in life I'm guessing this is you know once there
the divorce was working its way through Lisa got a butterfly tattoo on her lower
back with her children's names on each side yes this is a very bad decision she already had a small rose tattoo on her
ankle this had her daughter's name on it yeah that's not so bad it's just uh the
butterfly on the lower back and and she had also told friends that she would wanted a tattoo somewhere else that
would have her son's name on it there is a reward for information in this case and anyone with information no matter
how little you should you should get in touch with the Plainfield Illinois Police Department right and that goes
for everyone everywhere not just in Illinois because there has been some speculation tied to the state of
Michigan in the state of Wisconsin and as you and I know very well captain we have seen good very good information
come from further away than just a state or two when discussing these cases yeah
so what's interesting here is that we have a situation where they're going through a divorce wewe don't it doesn't
sound like it's that messy as far as she's sleeping on the couch he's sleeping in the bed yeah I mean she
holds her phone tight and our purse tight but you don't know why that is I mean who's she talking to maybe she just
wants to keep that stuff private now because they're going to be divorced so she doesn't have any reason for sharing
that information so it's kind of strange and they're not you know logically you got this guy that
goes well she normally comes home pretty late but she didn't but you don't know he he might have some he might be
speculating a little bit that she's on a date mm-hmm and then it's like then he's
probably thinking well it's not my place to call her and ask her where she's at or text her because you know we're
getting a divorce like this is what's gonna be happening a month from now anyways two months from now anyways you
sure I mean well well the the big thing that you have to question here regarding
the situation of her not coming home whether it be 10:00 11:00 or you know whatever time her not coming home at all
is there was some turmoil going on in this divorce and there there was some bitterness I think in what what we will
see here going forward is the reports about that do seem to be one-sided it seems to be Lisa telling some people
that some things are going on but it also seems like they were if if there was a lot going on if there was a lot of
hostility inside that home it was kept fairly quiet and I think too that you have to call in a question is what kind
of situation on craig's end are we talking about are we talking about a jealous husband that that is wondering
where his soon-to-be ex-wife is you know pacing the floors at their house are we
talking about a guy that's already moved on and he doesn't really care you know he just he doesn't become alarmed until
she doesn't show up to work the next day that's why I'm saying two very different
situations you know I totally agree and I think just on the surface right now it
seems like because there's no call it at night mm-hmm you'd think that if he was like a real
jealous dude hmm that he'd be texting one of her friends or calling somebody there'd be some kind of effort made at
night cuz he'd be thinking she's with some guys who stay in the night oh my god right mm-hm
but since that doesn't happen and he waits until the morning that now he's going and he got it remember their
they've been together 14 years they had two kids together I'm sure there is some
kind of love there you know even going through a divorce we still care about the person for the most part or you
should and so now you have this individual that's going hey wait a second okay she didn't show up last night
that's one thing but now this is I'm getting a little worried mm-hmm well let's take a quick beer break and
when we get back we'll talk more about Craig stabbing and we'll also take a deeper dive into what was going on with
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Cheers captain let's take a closer look at Lisa's husband Craig Stevic Craig was
a former private investigator who was working as a pipe fitter at the diol corporation based in Montgomery Illinois
Craig stetic earned more than $80,000 annually at his Union job he was working there for at least five years that I
could tell and it was not unusual for him to have several weeks in between jobs he does have one prior arrest when
he was arrested with his father on October 8th 1995 I believe this was looked at as a possible like illegal
hunting type situation according to the police report fresh blood was discovered
inside somewhere on the truck on Craig's truck but no animals were found police believe the two hid them in one of
hundreds of mining pits that can be found in iron County Michigan Craig Stevic was charged with two felony
counts of unlawful use of a weapon after police stopped his vehicle about a thousand feet from a school at 9:00 in
the morning police found a 10 gauge double-barrel shotgun a 44 Magnum pistol a Ruger and an ak-47 semi-automatic
assault rifle in his Toyota pickup we-we-we red flags going off hmm I think that's what a lot of people are probably
thinking that's a lot of guns right but like we're talking about earlier maybe not so much there's a lot of people in
this country that hunt all the time regardless if it's hunting season or not correct and one thing we should point
out here is that Craig's family I believe it might be his father someone in his family owns a good deal of
property up in Michigan that they use often for hunting purposes and you know just to get away and what what you and I
do know from you know several friends and things like that certain parts of this country people just hunt when they
feel like hunting especially if they have a good deal of land now Craig was also charged with four
misdemeanor counts of unlawful use of a weapon operating an unsafe motor vehicle
and driving while his license was revoked so like you said most people thinking a good deal of red flags the
only real red flags here are the obvious this man owns several guns if he was hunting illegally well we do know he was
operating his vehicle illegally this is a guy that is going to kind of do what he wants when he feels like doing it so
let's take a look at this divorce shall we this was a mutual thing and this was actually the second time around with the
divorce proceedings for the statics the first time the divorce was called off by
Lisa after the birth of their daughter then Craig Stevic filed for divorce after 14 years of marriage in January of
2007 so just three or four months before Lisa disappeared Craig says he filed for
divorce when his wife declared quote she didn't want to be married to me anymore
and quote he said the couple rarely spoke in six months living separate lives under the same roof his divorce
petition cited irreconcilable differences both parents sought joint custody of their children with Lisa
Stevic as the residential custodial parent child support and division of their marital properties so that doesn't
seem to be anything crazy going on there right it all seems kind of very mutual we're gonna split up our properties
we're gonna have shared custody you're gonna have the kids most of the time all pretty regular stuff in my opinion well
to me it sounds like this guy's gonna hey look you don't want me you don't want to be married to me okay but he's
taken the steps he's not doing one of these maneuvers where the guys go oh you don't want you don't want me you don't
want to be married to me you're gonna have to divorce me he filed the paperwork so he uh on some level it
looks like he's going okay well let's get this process going and let's get this over with and we both can move
forward with our lives as an outsider looking in it appears to me captain that these two were probably
staying together or trying to make it work for some time probably just for their children yeah so Lisa's complaints
against Craig were somewhat different she states that he's unnecessarily relentless he's cruel and considerate
domineering and verbally abusive now in the divorce proceedings there's a claim made by Lee systemic that Craig her
husband is an unfit parent and she cites one instance where she claims that one of the children was allowed to handle
one of his loaded guns she also says that he was very very lackluster in the way that he cared for these guns meaning
the way that he just kind of kept them around the house right according to Nancy Grace and CNN on the day Lisa
disappeared she mailed a petition to her attorney seeking to have Craig removed from the home Craig Stevic says he knew
nothing about these papers yeah but this is kind of weird too because it seems like they're both filing for joint
custody and so she's saying that you're verbally abusive you're not a fit parent but I'm
gonna give you custody half the time mm-hmm that's just contradicts itself yeah it's
it's weird but what I think that this filing filing this petition to have him removed or a evicted you know we should
say from this home may point out a situation where the proceedings weren't moving along fast enough for Lisa at
some point I mean they're living together that's got to be incredibly uncomfortable we've talked about other
cases where this stuff happens where people decide we're just gonna we're gonna share the same roof we're gonna
get through this somehow and then one day we'll be separated that's not a comfortable thing for either person I
have to guess it's the worst thing you can imagine however bad you think it is it's worse than that mm-hmm I once was
doing the dishes and had my ex come up and and she was laughing with anger for no reason I
haven't talked to her in weeks she was laughing with anger and said I can't wait til you're happy yeah it's like
what did I do I haven't talked to you for three weeks yeah my parents used to tell me the same thing
the only prior police action regarding the step exhale Plainfield police were called to the
home at red star Drive for a report of a non-violent that's very keyword non violent verbal fight between the couple
in an interview this took place on May 10th 2007 craig said he called the police when his
wife showed up intoxicated after being out all night so Craig called the police now later a friend of Lisa's said that
Lisa told her Craig locked her out of the house so regardless Craig was the one that made
the the phone call you know something happened that police showed up that well look during that whole time yes it's not
your wife anymore or it's not gonna be your wife they're still your wife I think there's a lot of people that are
separated quote-unquote separated and they just start acting immature and I could see it going both ways oh yeah
she's gonna go out for a little bit just goes and has some drinks maybe she forgot her house key somebody picked her
up and I'm gonna lock you out yeah or it's so late that you just think oh you just expect me to stay at home and take
care of the kids while you go do whatever you want to do lock the door well and again though I think the key
word in there is nonviolent that is not Craig's words that's not Lisa's words that is the words of the responding
officer to the call yeah now after she went missing after Lisa disappeared of course the search and investigation
began immediately first of all the husband no matter what we need to look into oh yeah but the fact that they're
going through a divorce it's like double checked that box please yeah we have shirts true-crime garage shirts that say
the husband did it for good reason why we used to have I think they're sold out we still had that that in his own way is
funny yeah in that same interview that I just mentioned this was with Fox News Craig said that he thinks someone picked
up Lisa for her exercise class the night that she went missing now on Thursday May 3rd just two days
after Lisa is reported missing there is quite a bit of searching going on specifically searching the area behind
the Stebbings house Plainfield emergency management agency personnel searched the
park across the street from the Stebbings house because Lisa reportedly walked and jogged they're often paid to
cut you off but I think the idea is that we have this story coming from her husband and he was working in the
backyard all night mm-hmm so then it starts becoming well.we nobody has really seen her once the boy is picked
up from school right so who knows if he did something to her during that time period and was he burying her in the
backyard well in and you know what this is a good time to kind of lay out the property a little bit for the listeners
so their home it was a pretty nice house and it was in a pretty nice neighborhood
for what I could tell look there's a park across the street from their home their backyard was surrounded by a
privacy fence because they had a in ground swimming pool right so this looks to me from the pictures I saw to be
probably a six foot tall fence so someone that was working in the backyard I mean if you needed to conceal
something this would be the place for searchers to be looking in in my opinion right now police also searched Stevic
skom puter files for a lead Plainfield deputy police chief mark edding told foxnews.com that craig stabbed 'ok
voluntarily handed over the family computer to the police of course we did but now remember he was a private
investigator a website WWF I le systemic comm is started and missing Flyers were
distributed again this is the Thursday after she went missing right the next day on May 4th
Lee systemics cousin Naperville resident mark Greenberg and his wife Melanie held
a press conference in front of Lisa's house on Sunday May 6th Plainfield police told reporters that
they have no reason to suspect foul play so far in the stem experence they have investigated craig Stebbings computer
records spoken to his friends and associates and interviewed static himself several times police also told
reporters Lisa's cell phone and credit cards have not been used since her disappearance on
April 30th yeah but is it tell me if it's just me it was a private investigator for a while mm-hmm does it
make you a little more suspicious doesn't make you a little like you wouldn't know what to do
yeah this guy he's playing with a little information mmm right so great that you
turned over the computer records but what what does that mean you know right is there another computer that we're not
aware of yeah and here's the thing too that everybody needs to completely understand it's not so much like it's
not like Craig shows up to the police department and goes here's my computer thought you might want to take a look
it's more of a hey Craig we want to take your computer and look at it and he goes
well okay you know it's it's so when they say voluntary that's the situation yeah we're gonna see the time okay but
it shift quite a bit here though it was creepier if he shows up with this computer right right I get my computer
for ya it's still in the box from Best Buy hey listen a true-crime garage they study computer here's a shift in the
tides Oh captain because now we have friends of Lee systemic who are telling the media that Lisa was frightened by
Craig and she was attending counseling at the guardian angel this is an agency that provides services to battered women
friends also say Lisa suffered verbal abuse from her husband and after divorce proceedings began would sleep on the
living room sofa where she kept her personal belongings constantly by her side on Monday May 7th a 20,000 dollar reward
for information is announced women are natural snoopers right ok it's true put down your cell phone for a while
and just see if they pick it up they're gonna pick it up they're gonna look through it their natural snoopers
they're a little nosy that's ok but you wonder is this guy I mean what was his motivation to be a private investigator
anyways I just wonder if he's a natural Snooper too and that's one of the reasons that she's keeping all these
things beside her when she's goes to sleep because he's a natural Snooper even if he's not like jealous even if
he's just like yeah we're getting divorced whatever but he might go well it's kind of funny she didn't come home
that day ah she's at the bar pretty long that night and he just wants to know maybe he's not even jealous about it
well you know there might be some truth or a lot of truth to him being controlling because one thing we do know
regarding her cell phone this was a phone that he kind of supplied to her right and it looks like he was pretty
much in charge of this cell phone everything I could find suggests and points to that it was a prepaid cell
phone and that he was kind of in charge of the the minutes that were applied to this cell phone and he would keep the
minutes quite low that's nice yeah well on Tuesday May 8th Craig Stevic refuses a polygraph test at Plainfield
police station and is refusing to go into the police station for further interviews and he asked that law
enforcement not interview his children as well now this other bit is less fact and more speculation but there are
stories out there that on the same day Craig stetic supposedly does not answer the door when FBI agents show up on his
doorstep yeah that's odd but back to the polygraph test are you what do you take
1 no I mean we've pointed that we pointed that out a bunch of times on on the show yeah but yeah because it
to that but the idea for me would be there's what's the wind I mean even if you pass it nobody believes it anyways
right yeah it's a it's a you can't win situation right now on Wednesday May 9th Craig Stevic was seeking temporary full
custody of the couple's children his lawyer Dion Davi said he filed the custody petition in will County
Courthouse in order to protect his client from the possibility that Leigh systemic could return and then disappear
again possibly taking the children with her on Thursday May 10th firefighters and boats searched Lake Renwick in
Plainfield forwardly systemic note the lake is about five miles from the step ik home of course they didn't find
anything and also authorities in Crystal Falls this is in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
searched a cabin there this belonging to someone in Craig's family actually I believe it was his father as we
discussed this earlier but nothing came of this search as well Saturday May 12th
officials from the Plainfield Emergency Management Agency continued to focus on large water areas retention ponds bike
and jogging trails parks and natural areas within the village of Plainfield volunteers distribute hundreds of
carnations to businesses throughout the Plainfield area attached to each flower is a photo of Allie systemic and contact
information to report tips on her whereabouts so volunteers gathered at a gazebo around the corner from the stetic
residence this was to pin Stebbings photo to the carnations to be handed out on Mother's Day in hopes of someone
identifying her alongside the gazebo was a makeshift memorial with flowers stuffed animals and a sign that read
Lincoln isn't the same without you Lee systemics husband Craig did not participate in any of the weekend events
this according to Suburban Chicago news.com but is this another situation where it's a no-win situation if you
helped out and you do something odd the event or you say something wrong or some a.m. you say something and they
they think that you implied something else like is does that become headline news
well by I see what you're saying and it's a tough situation okay so let's say that he is grieving or wants to protect
his children from the media right but what ultimately is going to happen and we've seen this with the Scott Peterson
case in other cases along the way what's implied here is that you from the general public is that you don't care
that your your efforts aren't being focused on finding this missing person and why is so many other people focused
on finding her do you know something we don't know so that's what I believe is implied here whether whether that's
correct or not remains to be seen now on Monday May 14th Plainfield police and FBI evidence response team and special
operations unit from the Joliet Police Department conducted a midnight search of the step exhale and vehicles they
raided the statics home taking pillows blankets and towels they also confiscated the family's two vehicles a
2002 Chevy s10 pickup truck and a 2004 Ford or Saturn Ion both vehicles were registered to Craig stomach but the
Saturn was used by Lisa some little confused they raid the guy's house but when they asked him for things he gives
it to him other than that polygraph yes well but I mean you're gonna count on finding things that you wouldn't find in
a voluntary search if you just show up in the middle of the night maybe he's unprepared and you can find the evidence
that you're looking for it's clear that at this point even though they're they're not vocal about it the local
police department believed Craig had something to do with his wife going missing possibly or they just don't have
any other leads or have anywhere else to go so they just keep circling back around and guess who's going to be the
first person you circle back around to right well on Saturday May 19th Lee systemics family and friends celebrate
her 38th birthday with a candlelight vigil a and Craig Stevic was absent from the
vigil as was the couple's two children please well I know I don't know if I could agree with the kid thing but all
of her friends were going through a divorce and now there's bad thing look it's just weird that it doesn't seem
like there was so many bad things said about this guy until she went missing on Sunday May 20th the Naperville Sun
exclusively reported that blood found on a tarp in Craig Stevic struck matched the DNA of his wife Lisa
Craig Stevic speaking through the door of his home on Sunday told NBC 5 that the blood may be from a deer adding that
he had been deer hunting in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recently a DNA test though determined that the blood on
the tarp was in fact Lisa's and authorities used that information to convince a judge to issue a search
warrant that was executed at the statics Plainfield home so take that all into factor there what we're finding out
later this seems like news on Sunday May 20th however what we learn on that day is remember back when we took these took
their vehicles we found this information and this is what allowed us to gain access basically to their home and
property whenever we want because we have a judge saying so all right so hold up hey this tarp they test the tarp that
they find in his truck right and it's definitely her blood they determined through DNA testing yes her blood no and
then look there's there could be some logical explanations for that but that seems very very suspicious extremely
suspicious we should point out though usually when you have a situation like this this indicates that they probably
found a very small amount of blood the reason why I say that is we have seen cases where they find a situation with a
large amount of blood right and they determine that hey we need to make an arrest because we probably have a murder
investigation going on not a missing-persons case right so the situation here appears to
be a very small amount of blood because they do not arrest craig Stevic but this
I mean the the police essentially at this point are sharks circling this dude and they're gonna be circling closer and
closer and closer right on Tuesday May 22nd Craig Stevic goes to court for the child custody hearing now the judge
denies Craig the motion for full custody as his wife is missing at this point right and then on Thursday May 24th NBC
5's Amy Jacobson reported that the FBI seized high-powered assault rifles and handguns from the Stebbings home no
surprise to us captain we know that this is a guy that has a lot of guns you know
on Friday June 8th police announced that they would interview people as far away
as Iowa and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan looking for clues and Plainfield police chief Donald Bennett
confirmed that cadaver dogs were used during the search for static quote we did have cadaver dogs in the residence
and quote I can't give any specifics about what the dogs did or didn't do while in the residence he said now on
one of those prior searches cadaver dogs were brought in and made a positive hit
this is according to an unnamed source that they made a positive hit on an article in the home it was not
immediately clear whether the dog zeroed in on an article of clothing a piece of
furniture appliance or some type of other item in the home yeah on Sunday June 10th police searched ditches along
a construction site in Montgomery and around Silver Spring State Park they said that they were looking for
Stebbings older model cellphone and her small black purse decorated with rhinestones now this type of cell phone
are we gonna get a cell phone pinging off of it they were looking for pings regarding shortly after the time that
she was last seen at the home yeah this phone didn't ping anyway not only was it it appeared to have not
been used and again they openly stated that her credit cards that would have been in her purse were never used after
the time that she was last seen right but hypothetically if she is killed in her house they turn off all the
electronics at when it pinged now there is a scandal that goes along with this story we already mentioned WM AQ NBC 5
reporter Amy Jacobson who was covering stem extort well on Friday July 6th she was caught
on tape by the pool in a bikini at Craig Stebbings home this was she was caught by the rival channel channel 2 now this
led to her exit from the TV network so Amy Jacobson left her job that's what they they say left her job
after a video surfaced showing her in a swimsuit at the home of a man whose wife
disappeared two months ago a story she had been assigned to cover Jacobson told her bosses that she was on her way with
her son's to go swimming at a local club when Craig Stebbings sister asked her to
go to his house to talk about the case the video posted on the rival stations website shows veteran reporter Amy
Jacobson wearing a halter bikini top and towel near the pool at Craig Stevic suburban Plainfield home Jacobson's two
young children were there as well and a shirtless Craig Stevic are also shown in
the video the station decided to air the video once it quote was clear Jacobson's
own conduct was in question by the people she worked for end quote so she was let go from her job because
basically she's at a pool party with this guy who many consider to be a suspect in the disappearance of his wife
[Music] all right so much more to get to tomorrow and part two for everything true crime check out true crime garage
com we will see you all back here in the garage tomorrow until then be good be kind and don't
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Lisa Stebic /// Part 1 /// 271 Part 1 of 2 www.TrueCrimeGarage.com Lisa Stebic lived a rather quiet life. She was a working mother with two children and a failing marriage. She had her routine, a day at work, then home to her family and then out to the gym for a workout. On April 30th, 2007 the routine ended. Her husband says she was last seen leaving their home on this day. He has since been named a “person of interest” in this baffling disappearance. Where is Lisa and does her husband hold the answer? Beer of the Week - Sleepy Bear by Werk Force Brewing Garage Grade - 4 and a half bottle caps out of 5! Check out TCG’s awesome sponsors and save some ca$h www.Stamps.com - click on the microphone and type in GARAGE for a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale www.LightStream.com/Garage - for a great rate on your credit card consolidation loan www.BrookLinen.com - use code GARAGE & get $20 off and FREE shipping

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Brief Summary

The episode covers Lisa Stevic's disappearance, her husband's suspicious behavior, and the ongoing investigation into her case.

Key points

The Mystery of Michele Fiori. A deep dive into the case of Michele Fiori's disappearance, with police updates.
Community Background. Understanding the small-town feel of Plainfield, Illinois, and its history.
Lisa's Life Before Disappearance. A look into Lisa's life, her family, and her struggles leading up to her disappearance.
The Divorce and Its Impact. How Lisa's divorce affected her life and relationships before she went missing.
Lisa's Last Day. Exploring the events leading up to Lisa's disappearance on April 30, 2007.
Lisa's Disappearance Timeline. Lisa goes missing after a night out, leading to growing concern from her husband.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Please call the police and bring Lisa home safely to her children.

Melanie Greenberg urges listeners to help find Lisa.

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