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Elise McGinley was desperately anxious about her brother, Andre Daigle. He had gone out for dinner with his best friend, Nick Shelly, and on the way home, the two men had stopped at Mitchell’s Lounge, a local bar, to shoot some pool. After three or four games, as they were leaving, a woman came up to Andre and asked if he could give her a ride. She explained that her friends had left her and she had no way to get home. Telling Nick to go on, Andre agreed to help her out.
That was four days ago and Andre had not been seen since. The police weren’t interested: A single young man meets a woman in a bar and leaves with her; to their minds there was little reason to suspect foul play. The family felt differently. Bar pickups were not Andre’s style, and he had never missed work without checking in. Most telling of all: He was house-sitting for his brother Christian and had made no arrangements to feed the cat. Elise talked with her family several times a day as they organized the search the police would not undertake, but there was little else she could do. They were in Louisiana, and she was in Southern California. Still, as the time stretched on and Andre remained missing, she felt she had to do something. Read More…
Publication history: Intuition Magazine, December 1998, pp. 26-31; and, Kindred Spirits, vol. 47, June-August 1999, pp. 25-28.
