By Chuck Hustmyre
January 24, 2007
PAHRUMP, Nev. (Crime Library) —
According to Paul Fields he last saw his wife on the morning of Feb. 15, the day after Valentine's Day.
They had what he described as a "spat" that morning, moments before she left for work. For the previous three months, Maureen, 41, had worked as a teller at the Pahrump Valley branch of Wells Fargo Bank.
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| Maureen Fields |
She didn't make it to work.
Two days later, police found her 2004 Hyundai abandoned in the desert just across the state line in Inyo County, California.
Despite an extensive air and ground search, police have found no sign of Maureen Fields.
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| Nye County, Nev. Sheriff's Patch |
According to officials with the Nye County, Nev. Sheriff's Office, Maureen's husband, Paul Fields, has stopped cooperating with investigators.
Maureen's father, Jim Fitzgerald, a retired Newark, N.J. police detective, has traveled to Pahrump several times. Fitzgerald told Crime Library he thinks his son-in-law may have killed Maureen and disposed of her body.
"The marriage was going badly," Fitzgerald said.
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