By  Chuck Hustmyre

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At about 8:50 a.m., someone from the bank called and asked if Maureen was coming to work. Fields told the caller his wife had left for work nearly an hour before.

Later that day, Fields contacted the Nye County Sheriff's Office and reported his wife missing. He says he cruised the streets of Pahrump looking for her car. He passed out copies of Maureen's picture all over town.

Not long after he made the report, Fields says, he became the focus of the Sheriff's Office's investigation. Detectives interviewed him at least 10 times, he says. They also visited his house about the same number of times.

"I'm a suspect now," he tells Crime Library. "I'll be a suspect until they find her."

Fields says detectives asked him to submit to a voice stress analysis, similar to a polygraph examination, but he refused to take the test because the examiner wanted him to sign a waiver that would allow the results to be used in court.

When he refused, a detective asked him, "What do you have to hide?"

Fields, who is from New Jersey and moved to Pahrump in April, 2005, claims the Sheriff's Office botched the investigation into the disappearance of his wife.

"These are cowboy cops out here," he says. "They've got a badge and a gun. They're not cops."

Although the Sheriff's Office investigation into Maureen's disappearance seems focused on foul play and possibly homicide, Paul Fields has his own ideas about what may have happened to his wife.

He says he thinks she ran away.

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