“It damn near destroyed me,” Wolfenbarger had previously said on the loss of his wife. “I thought she had changed her identity and departed for greener pastures when I was younger.
She would return at some point. From time to time, I would get a fleeting sight of her while passing. But she was never the one.
He went on to say, “That’s the reason I didn’t report her missing,” restating his assumption that she had changed his identity and run away.
Both her parents and this environment made her want to go away. As a result, she had to assume a new identity. It was my assumption that she would return once things calmed down.
As Melissa’s sister Tina Patton put it at a Wednesday news appearance, “from day one, we knew it was Christopher.” We always knew exactly who was behind this.
