07-04-2015, 08:23 AM
VICTIMS' FAMILY PUBLIC STATEMENT
We have heard comments and statements made by the news and people online about the number of people who live in the house. Allow me to clarify this subject for you to see how close the family members and friends are. The Dugan's built the home everyone believes was Michael's more than 10 years ago, the truth is Mike purchase the property next to the Dugan's and they were building their home since last year. They were staying with their children at the Dugan's while construction was on progress. They started by building the garage, so they could store all their personal belongings. Unfortunately "someone" burned it.
While it is true that on father's day they had a gathering of friends and family, it is not true that the people who attended were aware of anyone doing drugs. All who know these families can attest of that. Yesterday, after many hours of speaking about this, we came to the conclusion of what may have happened that night, according to what we know and witnessed.
Jose came to celebrate father's day as a guest, this man was doing work for the family and the family out of kindness invited him over to come with his child to celebrate father's day. The people who were there that night said that Jose looked drunk and that they over heard him talking with Michael about knowing who burned their property. Michael and Tina had years of memories which were torched on that property, therefore Michael was insisting on getting the name of who did it. Jose would not say who "she or he" was. At one point every body said good night, every body went to sleep and no one saw them leaving or being taken.
We believe that Michael may have gone to ask Jose about the person who burned their property and that may have been what triggered Jose to do what he did. Why is he lying? we do not know. He also lied about not knowing where they were. We are waiting for the toxicology reports; however, even if they came positive, we will never buy the story of them coming to him for Methamphetamine.
We would like to add that Michael and Tina were both amazing human beings, loyal friends, excellent parents and you can tell by their five children. Luke is a very strong young man with kindness in his heart and strength that has helped him overcome all this. Blayke just graduated from cosmetology school, doing what she loves, always supported by her mom and Mike. We wont bring the names of the other three children at this point but they are also great kids. Mike and Tina were the kind of people who will take you as one of them and will do anything for you. The reason why we were able to pull out such huge amount of resources was because people know who they were, and were worried about their disappearance. The plane, the helicopters, drones, all was time donated by close friends, people who have known them since high school and some since elementary school.
You wonder why there are so many people missing and this particular couple caught the attention of the whole nation. Well I can tell you that they have friends in many states that were praying and using any skills and resources they have to find them.
Attached you will find photos of the couple, you can see for yourself that they do not fit the description of a Methamphetamine user, it seems to us that what has been said about their involvement with drugs is due to the psychotic behavior of Jose who was under the influence of this drug. As sick and twisted as this man has shown to be, we could see him not only shooting them but also trying to inculpate them by premeditating everything he did.
Once again we thank you for all your support, we will be attending the memorial tonight, we would like to ask for your patience as to getting any statements tonight, this has been a very exhausting two weeks, we need your help to let people know Mike and Tina for who they truly are, and we need to have their children live with the real perspective of who they were.
We have heard comments and statements made by the news and people online about the number of people who live in the house. Allow me to clarify this subject for you to see how close the family members and friends are. The Dugan's built the home everyone believes was Michael's more than 10 years ago, the truth is Mike purchase the property next to the Dugan's and they were building their home since last year. They were staying with their children at the Dugan's while construction was on progress. They started by building the garage, so they could store all their personal belongings. Unfortunately "someone" burned it.
While it is true that on father's day they had a gathering of friends and family, it is not true that the people who attended were aware of anyone doing drugs. All who know these families can attest of that. Yesterday, after many hours of speaking about this, we came to the conclusion of what may have happened that night, according to what we know and witnessed.
Jose came to celebrate father's day as a guest, this man was doing work for the family and the family out of kindness invited him over to come with his child to celebrate father's day. The people who were there that night said that Jose looked drunk and that they over heard him talking with Michael about knowing who burned their property. Michael and Tina had years of memories which were torched on that property, therefore Michael was insisting on getting the name of who did it. Jose would not say who "she or he" was. At one point every body said good night, every body went to sleep and no one saw them leaving or being taken.
We believe that Michael may have gone to ask Jose about the person who burned their property and that may have been what triggered Jose to do what he did. Why is he lying? we do not know. He also lied about not knowing where they were. We are waiting for the toxicology reports; however, even if they came positive, we will never buy the story of them coming to him for Methamphetamine.
We would like to add that Michael and Tina were both amazing human beings, loyal friends, excellent parents and you can tell by their five children. Luke is a very strong young man with kindness in his heart and strength that has helped him overcome all this. Blayke just graduated from cosmetology school, doing what she loves, always supported by her mom and Mike. We wont bring the names of the other three children at this point but they are also great kids. Mike and Tina were the kind of people who will take you as one of them and will do anything for you. The reason why we were able to pull out such huge amount of resources was because people know who they were, and were worried about their disappearance. The plane, the helicopters, drones, all was time donated by close friends, people who have known them since high school and some since elementary school.
You wonder why there are so many people missing and this particular couple caught the attention of the whole nation. Well I can tell you that they have friends in many states that were praying and using any skills and resources they have to find them.
Attached you will find photos of the couple, you can see for yourself that they do not fit the description of a Methamphetamine user, it seems to us that what has been said about their involvement with drugs is due to the psychotic behavior of Jose who was under the influence of this drug. As sick and twisted as this man has shown to be, we could see him not only shooting them but also trying to inculpate them by premeditating everything he did.
Once again we thank you for all your support, we will be attending the memorial tonight, we would like to ask for your patience as to getting any statements tonight, this has been a very exhausting two weeks, we need your help to let people know Mike and Tina for who they truly are, and we need to have their children live with the real perspective of who they were.