Sara telephoned Crossroads and spoke to a few counselors there, who told her that Marcy was supposed to have lunch with one of them, but that she failed to show up. The counselors were "quite concerned" when they had not heard from Marcy.
Sara averred that she also went into Marcy's apartment. According to Sara, the apartment was very neat, Marcy's bed was made, a paperback book was open and overturned on the night stand and Marcy's reading glasses were on top of the paperback. It appeared to Sara that Marcy had started separating her clothes for the move to Paducah, because there was "a pile of discards, she had a pile of washing, and a pile of ironing," and the ironing board was set up. On the deskSara found a few bills in envelopes, with dates written on them indicating on which date they were supposed to be mailed. On the desk, Sara also found some gold chains and jewelry. Sara also observed a request for transcripts to be sent to Kentucky and a savings passbook for Irving Federal Savings. Sara testified that from what she observed in the apartment she could not determine if anything was missing or if it appeared that Marcy was going to come back. Sara averred that she could not find Marcy's purse, but that she took the contents of the wastebasket, Marcy's old telephone books and letters, Christmas cards, and "anything that was there that had anything written on it."
In the following days, Sara spoke to Marcy's friends, Dori