Sheriff Marcus Hudson convened a department briefing to coordinate efforts on the missing persons cases of Stacy Howard and Carissa Brooks. He reviewed limited evidence to date: Carissa’s ransacked salon with pending blood analysis, two abandoned vehicles (one with a phone), and Bob Miller’s business card. Hudson stated that Bob Miller was a person of interest in both cases as the last known contact for each, but there was insufficient evidence to charge him despite a recent interview where Bob, with counsel present, offered little and preemptively explained why his blood would be at the salon.

When asked for more on Carissa, Chief Deputy Pam Olson summarized a background check: Carissa had a permanent protective order against her ex, George Carrigan, who assaulted her and was imprisoned for battery. He was released early three weeks prior for good behavior; the extended PPO expires next month, and no motion to extend was found. Olson could not confirm recent direct contact from George.

Detective Nagel arrived with news that, anticipating George as a person of interest, he had already coordinated with George’s parole officer; George was waiting in Interrogation Room One. Before moving to the interview, Hudson noted the team’s heavy caseload, including Ryan Stevens’s murder investigation and the reopened Summers case, and encouraged the exhausted staff to keep pushing while BCI assists.

In the interrogation, Olson led while Hudson observed. George acknowledged the protective order and initially stonewalled. Pressed about recent contact, George admitted that Carissa texted him a few weeks earlier asking if he had been released; he replied that he was out, apologized, and professed love. He claimed she never responded. Olson challenged his temper, and George briefly lost control, slamming the table before apologizing.

Hudson and Olson asked for George’s whereabouts on Sunday between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m.; George said he was home alone with pizza and beer, providing no corroborating alibi. When told Carissa was missing and her salon had been broken into, George grew agitated, demanded to know why he was being questioned, and denied harming her. When informed he was not being detained or charged, he requested a lawyer or to leave. Hudson and Olson ended the interview and allowed him to go.

After George departed, Hudson and Olson agreed he remained unpleasant and potentially volatile, but they had no clear determination of his involvement. The department continued to balance thin resources across the missing persons, homicide, and cold case investigations.