[This is my father’s account] – At approximately 2:20 pm, Sunday May 28, I picked up the phone and Marc Potvin [the RCMP officer] said, “Jim, we have found Reggie’s car”. The first thing that I said was “where”.  He said, “I can’t tell you”. 

I shot back, “After all these months, you can’t say where?” He then told me a field of the Bull Creek Road, and they had police dogs working out there and they did not want people out there.  He told us to come out but to keep our distance.

I called Art and he came right down and Helen and I went out with him.  I don’t remember much about the trip on the way out, I just kept thinking about what state of decomposition his body was in after six months, never thinking that he was not in the car.  There were police around and we talked to Marc then went back to Souris to let people know that the car had been found.  Art and I went back out and we met the dog handlers leaving, they said they were sure Reggie was there some place.  They had found his drivers ID and some credit cards in a pocket of a pair of denim jeans, which was all shredded.  They also said it was a very tough search area with a lot of water.  They would have a ground search party out here tomorrow.

The searching party started about 8:30 am Monday morning and the RCMP had set up a command trailer out in the field near where the car was found, the car had been taken to [the] Souris detachment.

When Victoria’s birthday came and passed May 26 without any contact our hopes of him still alive were greatly diminished.  But finding the car with the window down, drivers side, food in it (2 pks of Pop Tarts, full case of Bud beer in the trunk, 2 jackets, cell phone, etc. and nothing damaged, keys, gas, 1 flat tire, with full air tank in trunk and not damaged by animals, squirrels, raccoons, etc. and lastly in full view from the air, it seemed like Reggie or someone had planted it there.  Down deep it really seemed possible that Reggie had staged it all.

On Monday, May 27^th when Art came in from fishing we went out to participate in the search, but they preferred not to have untrained people searching. Shortly after 2 pm, the searchers found the first two pieces of bones that they believed were from a human.  Helen and I left shortly after; we had an appointment with the  psychic in Charlottetown at 5:15 pm, that afternoon.

The Marijuana Found in Reggie’s Car

Editor’s note: The following was not part of my father’s account. This is something our family discovered after Reggie’s car was recovered.

There was another surprise involving Reggie’s car. Unknown to us, there was a shopping bag containing marijuana in the trunk.

The RCMP did not discover it. My sister-in-law and her husband were examining the car after it had been returned. When they opened the trunk, she noticed a plastic bag containing something she didn’t recognize and asked, “What is this?”

My understanding is that the bag may have contained somewhere in the range of one to two pounds of marijuana, although I have never been able to confirm the exact quantity.