that the last time she saw Mary was in 1981 when she ran away. She admitted that she and William should have taken steps to locate Mary after her initial disappearance. She went on to claim that William had filed a runaway report with the Salinas police department, but there was no record of anyone reporting her missing prior to 1994. It was assumed that Charlotte and William chose to not report Mary missing because they were cashing her Social Security benefits at the time of her disappearance. However, investigators and Mary's siblings thought they had been hiding something sinister about Mary's disappearance, enforced by Charlotte saying in her interview, "If [Mary’s] dead, she’s dead." When police questioned William, he initially claimed that on the night of Mary’s disappearance he had been checking each bedroom and noticed Mary was not in hers. He said he and Charlotte panicked and contacted police, but there was no record of such a phone call and William would later admit to beating Mary on the night she was last seen. He explained that he was extremely angry over his dog’s illness and, blaming her, viciously beat her. He said that Mary attempted to leave the house and that he used a martial arts technique to try and subdue her, specifically a chokehold. The morning after Mary went missing, Charlotte told William she saw "Satan" in his eyes the night before and likened it to him being “possessed by a demon.” When asked if he could have killed Mary, he denied it. He was then asked if the demon inside of him could have killed her and he responded in the affirmative. Kathy told investigators that shortly after Mary went missing, William told the children to not go in a specific corner of the home’s backyard. Investigators brought her back to the old home in 2003 and she directed them to the corner. Cadaver dogs were brought in and they detected the scent of human remains in the area. When police dug there, they uncovered a small child's shoe. The shoe appeared to be a tennis shoe, and Kathy said they often wore that type of footwear as children. Investigators believed they had enough evidence to build a credible homicide case and began to compile one against Charlotte and William Houle. Reappearance On November 25, 2003, a pickup truck was pulled over as a routine