My sister is a teacher and when she didn't show up to work one day they called all of her emergency contacts within an hour. There was no reason for them to think anything was wrong, it's just policy. She ended up having just overslept.

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Anonymous wrote:My best friend’s dad didn’t show up to his law firm one morning and wasn’t answering the phone. Wife was out of town. His legal secretary of 20 years went to his house, car in the driveway, nobody answering the door. She called the police, they entered and he was dead from a heart attack. It is not unusual for coworkers to be concerned when something happens that is very out of character.

Did the secretary in your story quickly drive over two hours round trip or was the boss's house just down the street? It's very odd for anyone to drive that far basically immediately because someone didn't show up for work. People regularly get into car accidents and cell phones can die... but these colleagues IMMEDIATELY bee-lined to the house. It's weird.

I don't think you understand Ohio or Ohioans - at least 9/10 people would do this.

Ohioan here. Yes, this. The DMV is just so used to everyone being mean to each other, but in the midwest, people are kind and caring. Now that I'm older, I don't know what I was thinking when I was like "I need to get the hell out of this place." Everyone there seems have a great life, active social life, and doing really well for themselves. Everyone in NOVA is miserable.

Amen from a Michigander who lived in the Northeast for a decade.

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Anonymous wrote:My best friend’s dad didn’t show up to his law firm one morning and wasn’t answering the phone. Wife was out of town. His legal secretary of 20 years went to his house, car in the driveway, nobody answering the door. She called the police, they entered and he was dead from a heart attack. It is not unusual for coworkers to be concerned when something happens that is very out of character.

Did the secretary in your story quickly drive over two hours round trip or was the boss's house just down the street? It's very odd for anyone to drive that far basically immediately because someone didn't show up for work. People regularly get into car accidents and cell phones can die... but these colleagues IMMEDIATELY bee-lined to the house. It's weird.

I don't think you understand Ohio or Ohioans - at least 9/10 people would do this.

Ohioan here. Yes, this. The DMV is just so used to everyone being mean to each other, but in the midwest, people are kind and caring. Now that I'm older, I don't know what I was thinking when I was like "I need to get the hell out of this place." Everyone there seems have a great life, active social life, and doing really well for themselves. Everyone in NOVA is miserable.

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Anonymous wrote:The Chief of Police has stated that the officer who was sent to do the welfare check went to the wrong address. Therefore there was no welfare check done.

Inner-city cops are worthless and inept. They do not care.

We don't know if the coworker who called gave the wrong address or if the cop had the right address but went to the wrong house.

Cops can’t just break down the door on a check the welfare.

When the murders happened in Potomac Maryland, (Gulf murder) the cop showed up three times because there were 911 hang ups.

I don't know how your comment relates to the case. They went to the wrong house.

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Anonymous wrote:It feels like someone knew something was already off given how quickly they were concerned. He didn’t show up for work and by 10:00 they had police there. I feel like the coworkers knew there were some issues going on. Maybe he had told them about weird messages or a stalker or someone who had threatened them or something.

In most places even if you had a very reliable employee, you wouldn’t be at their house with police almost immediately after they didn’t show up for work.

I tend to agree with this.

How many times does the way medical offices work need to be explained to you?

I've worked in many medical offices and no a boss wouldn't call the police while from vacation because an employee was late.
The police would be the first call. Probably not even the second or third.
How many times does that need to be explained to you?

Huh? Wouldn’t call the police but the police would be the first call?

Why would a boss who was on vacation call the police?


Maybe an office manager actually at the office. Maybe . Even then it seems like it would be more reasonable for a coworker to drive by and check before calling the police.

Bottom line some of you don't want to consider the coworker as a suspect because you are biased he's a dentist same social class as you and you don't believe people in your class in your circles commit murder.

The staff was dealing with a waiting room full of patients & no dentist. Of course they called their boss and asked how to proceed. The boss (owner of this business from what I can tell) likely took over decision making from there. It sounds like various efforts to reach the missing guy or his wife were made before resorting to calling the police and/or sending someone to the house.

Where did you read this? He was literally the only dentist scheduled to work the office that day? There are only two dentists total in the office, he and the dentist who was vacationing in Florida? How would a waiting room already be "full" for 1 dentist when they opened at 8:00 when the first coworker left to drive the 60+ minutes to his house? At most there'd be a couple of patients. Big whoop.

Sounds like you're trying to paint a fake frantic situation to blunt the weirdness of immediately driving 2+ hours round trip to someone's house because they were late for work.

At a normal dental office his patients would just be rescheduled or another dentist would try to pick up the slack. If people were just in for routine cleanings, the techs could begin their jobs without a dentist in the building...

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Anonymous wrote:The Chief of Police has stated that the officer who was sent to do the welfare check went to the wrong address. Therefore there was no welfare check done.

Inner-city cops are worthless and inept. They do not care.

We don't know if the coworker who called gave the wrong address or if the cop had the right address but went to the wrong house.

Cops can’t just break down the door on a check the welfare.

When the murders happened in Potomac Maryland, (Gulf murder) the cop showed up three times because there were 911 hang ups.

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Anonymous wrote:The Chief of Police has stated that the officer who was sent to do the welfare check went to the wrong address. Therefore there was no welfare check done.

Inner-city cops are worthless and inept. They do not care.

We don't know if the coworker who called gave the wrong address or if the cop had the right address but went to the wrong house.

It's bizarre this wasn't solved quickly with all the technology available. Cops in Detroit let a neurosurgeon's homeless killer walk around free for a year while they compiled evidence. The killer randomly killed at least one more random person during this time out of jail.

Anonymous wrote:The Chief of Police has stated that the officer who was sent to do the welfare check went to the wrong address. Therefore there was no welfare check done.

Inner-city cops are worthless and inept. They do not care.

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Anonymous wrote:My best friend’s dad didn’t show up to his law firm one morning and wasn’t answering the phone. Wife was out of town. His legal secretary of 20 years went to his house, car in the driveway, nobody answering the door. She called the police, they entered and he was dead from a heart attack. It is not unusual for coworkers to be concerned when something happens that is very out of character.

Did the secretary in your story quickly drive over two hours round trip or was the boss's house just down the street? It's very odd for anyone to drive that far basically immediately because someone didn't show up for work. People regularly get into car accidents and cell phones can die... but these colleagues IMMEDIATELY bee-lined to the house. It's weird.

I don't think you understand Ohio or Ohioans - at least 9/10 people would do this.

Bullsh**.

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Anonymous wrote:My best friend’s dad didn’t show up to his law firm one morning and wasn’t answering the phone. Wife was out of town. His legal secretary of 20 years went to his house, car in the driveway, nobody answering the door. She called the police, they entered and he was dead from a heart attack. It is not unusual for coworkers to be concerned when something happens that is very out of character.

Did the secretary in your story quickly drive over two hours round trip or was the boss's house just down the street? It's very odd for anyone to drive that far basically immediately because someone didn't show up for work. People regularly get into car accidents and cell phones can die... but these colleagues IMMEDIATELY bee-lined to the house. It's weird.

I am from Ohio and I think it is really weird that they immediately did that.

The Chief of Police has stated that the officer who was sent to do the welfare check went to the wrong address. Therefore there was no welfare check done.

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Anonymous wrote:Very sad. The kids were 1 and 4.

Very traumatic for the 4 year old.

Yes. And for the folks that went to check on them - it sounds like the dentist who Spencer worked for called 911 while other co-workers went to the house. They called 911 twice - once to say they heard the kids and then once to say there was a body. Just awful.

The sad thing is that the cop who went for the initial welfare check, rang the doorbell and walked away. He should have heard the children, he should have peeked in the windows. Thank goodness for those co-workers but how traumatizing. The lazy officer should have done his job.

City cops are all lazy and don’t give af. Same thing happened in Detroit a couple years ago. Surgeon murdered, cops do a half-a$$ welfare check and the doctor was in his historic mansion dead. But cops didn’t go back and find his body for 24+ hours. Jeopardizing evidence, scene tampering, etc.

Bull. If the cops were more aggressive, you would call them fascist storm troopers who wouldn’t leave a law-abiding person alone.

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Anonymous wrote:My best friend’s dad didn’t show up to his law firm one morning and wasn’t answering the phone. Wife was out of town. His legal secretary of 20 years went to his house, car in the driveway, nobody answering the door. She called the police, they entered and he was dead from a heart attack. It is not unusual for coworkers to be concerned when something happens that is very out of character.

Did the secretary in your story quickly drive over two hours round trip or was the boss's house just down the street? It's very odd for anyone to drive that far basically immediately because someone didn't show up for work. People regularly get into car accidents and cell phones can die... but these colleagues IMMEDIATELY bee-lined to the house. It's weird.

I don't think you understand Ohio or Ohioans - at least 9/10 people would do this.

The one time I traveled through Ohio I was struck by the kindness and consideration of the people. For real.