Reg's Car Discovered
At approximately 2:20 pm, Sunday May 28, I picked up the phone and Marc Potvin said, “Jim, we have found Reggie’s car”. The first thing that I said was “where”. He said, “I can’t tell you”.
I shot back, “After all these months, you can’t say what?” He then told me a field of the Bull Creek Road and they had police dogs working out there and they did not want people out there. He told us to come out but to keep our distance.
I called Art and he came right down and Helen and I went out with him. I don’t remember much about the trip on the way out, I just kept thinking about what state of decomposition his body was in after six months, never thinking that he was not in the car. There were a police around and we talked to Marc then went back to Souris to let people know that the car had been found. Art and I went back out and we met the dog handlers leaving, they said they were sure Reggie was there some place. They had found his drivers ID and some credit cards in a pocket of a pair of denim jeans, which was all shredded. They also said it was a very tough search area with a lot of water. They would have a ground search party out here tomorrow.
The searching party started about 8:30 am Monday morning and the RCMP had set up a command trailer out in the field near where the car was found, the car had been taken to Souris detachment.
When Victoria’s birthday came and passed May 26 without any contact our hopes of him still alive were greatly diminished. But finding the car with the window down, drivers side, food in it (2 pks of Pop Tarts, full case of Bud beer in the trunk, 2 jackets, cell phone, etc and nothing damaged, keys, gas, 1 flat tire, with full air tank in trunk and not damaged by animals, squirrels, raccoons, etc and lastly in full view from the air, it seemed like Reggie or some one had planted it there. Down deep it really seemed possible that Reggie had staged it all.
On Monday, May 27th when Art came in from fishing we went out to participate in the search but they preferred not to have untrained people searing.. Shortly after 2 pm, the searchers found the first two pieces of bones that they believed were from a human. Helen and I left shortly after; we had an appointment with the psychic in Charlottetown at 5:15 pm, that afternoon.