Steve Koecher missing since 12/13/09! The family is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the resolution of the case.

Was he behind on bills? The article says the electricity bill was late, but the mom says that was the landlord's (your) responsibility.

Here's [websleuths.com] a thread for him where his cousin is answering questions.

Yes he was behind on bills, he was a few months behind on rent but he was working with DH on a plan to catch it up.

The house is a three bedroom two bath house. We rented the two smaller rooms out and kept the master bedroom/bath for us to use since we travel so much & are down there often visiting our family and friends.

The masterbedroom has it's own private entrance so even when we were staying there we didn't go into the rest of the house. (DH would walk through just to make sure no holes were put in walls and the place wasn't being trashed)

With two single guys living there, there was usually a sink of nasty dishes and the house while not messy was pretty dirty. Like not vacuumed or mopped so the floors were pretty dusty & sticky. Not something you want your baby crawling around on.

The house was our pit stop for the night and we were never there much during the day. Once Steve started having trouble paying rent I did venture into the house just to glance into his room and see if he had packed up and bailed on us but his stuff was still always there and it looked like he was still living there.

We did keep the utility bills in our names and split them with the tennants. We were having the utility bills mailed to us and then letting the tennants know their share.

The other renter did bail, he moved in the night and left his room locked. Steve called DH the next morning asking if we had been there because stuff was missing and he wasn't sure if the house had been broken into or not. Jordan took some of our stuff, but mostly just his stuff I guess, like the toaster, trashcan, coffee maker, pans some other stuff. Steve never mentioned if Jordan stole anything from him. That was about a month and a half or so before Steve went missing.

When we were finally able to get into Jordans room there was evidence of pot in there. He didn't vacuum before he left so there was obvious stems and flakes of weed plus some on a shelf like he had just made a blunt before he left. The cops have seen it all and I know they have questioned Jordan a few times.

I just hope they can find Steve soon. I feel so sad for his family and I can't imagine Steve leaving on purpose knowing how devastated his family would be. They are a really close family.

The cousin posted videos on the link I posted. (The news videos I assume.) How odd is it that the second vehicle follows the missing man's car, turns around when the missing man parks and stops near where the missing man is walking?
Have the cops checked him out?

DH said "what kind of toys did he buy...cause that missing lady had 2 kids ya know"

DH is reading over my shoulder and he said something about Susan Powell going missing. She had 2 kids, he had 2 toys. Thats about as deep as my DH can think

It was for his niece and nephew, wasn't it?

It was for his niece and nephew, wasn't it?

DH is reading over my shoulder and he said something about Susan Powell going missing. She had 2 kids, he had 2 toys. Thats about as deep as my DH can think

BTW, websleuths is amazing. I post there too.

It is I'm getting addicted to it.

It's crazy that they're referencing your post about retrieving the cell phone messages. The whole story makes less sense the more I read. I can't imagine what his family is going through with so few clues.