When I heard the news today that human remains were discovered in Selma, NC I wondered how long that family has been awaiting news of their daughter's whereabouts. I wondered who told them what about why their daughter was missing.

I heard the name of the girl that they assume was found scattered about the Pollard property. Monica Caison with the CUE Center for Missing Persons sent me an email about Robin Clark, the 17 year old girl that never came back home to Raleigh on August 4, 1997. The email was titled, "They said she was a runaway for years- Hmmm"

Hmmm indeed!

Authorities will soon discover the true identities of the dismembered remains found on the ramshackle farmhouse property at 1294 Lizzie Mill Road in Selma, NC just off of I-95 north of Smithfield. The house belongs to Robert "Bobby" Pollard, 34 and his wife Cecilla Louise Pollard, also 34.

It is highly suspected that the remains belong to Robin Clark and her boyfriend Ceasar Ruvalcava Ortiz.
Cecilla Pollard is kin to Robin Clark and it was known that both Robin and her boyfriend would visit the Pollards from time to time back in 1997.

The Pollard's were known to have kept to themselves after their two young daughters, ages 9 months and 2 years old, were killed in a mobile home fire in 1993.

Robin Clark was believed to have runaway with Ortiz, or at least that is what her family and everyone else was told.

Hummm.

I have been told that Michelle Bullard ran away. Michelle Bullard's mother told me that someone came up to her and said, " I've felt like running away myself a few times, don't worry your daughter will be back soon." There are others being told that Michelle ran away. And some of the people saying it would be serving this community better if they found another job.

To those that would suggest that Michelle Bullard ran away from her modest home in Broadway, NC, leaving her friends at her workplace, leaving over a hundred dollars in cash in her bedroom, leaving behind her family, her identification, her credit cards, her car, her clothes, her brand new playful kitten named Gizmo, all should know what I know.

Say what you want, but immediately after Michelle's abduction I was allowed into the confidence of the Bullard family and it took me all of maybe 20 minutes to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Michelle could not go a day without talking to someone in her family. I know this because they all knew so much about Michelle's life.

Michelle had no secrets, none she didn't share. She was used to being surrounded with friends and family and was extremely open with details so intimate because she had little fear of being rejected or unloved because of the common mistakes many of us commit as we grow up and learn life's lessons.

What took me 20 minutes to understand about Michelle has taken others much too long to comprehend. Julie Michelle Bullard did not run away from anything, much less her family.

For nearly 9 years the family of Robin Clark were led to believe that their 17 year old daughter left everything behind to seek life somewhere else. Never contacting anyone to say she got married, had a baby, needed money, or just to say hello. She never sent a Christmas card, or an apology for causing so much concern. She never phoned just to hear the voice of someone she loved.

No one told law enforcement that they witnessed Robin Clark face a man with a gun just before she disappeared. Yet three people said that they saw someone with a gun take Michelle Bullard against her will out into the cold dark night without her shoes during the late night hour just before or on January 2, 2006.

And yet some think Michelle ran away. From what? Why? With who?

David Wilson, a previously convicted cold blooded murderer, shot and killed himself as a deputy approached his pickup truck around 7PM the evening of the 2nd. His family said he never came home that night. His cell phone never answered after 11PM just about the same time that Michelle's phone stopped being answered.

The gun Wilson used to shoot himself matched the description given by the three eye witnesses to Michelle's armed abduction.

Michelle's belongings were found less than 2 miles from David Wilson's brother's junk yard, 3 miles from his sister's house and 60 miles from the abduction site.

People have said that Wilson would not have discarded evidence so close to someplace like his brother's house and business. But as I have said before, criminals do not think like you and I do. In many abduction cases the victim is taken some place familiar. Sadly in the case of Robin Clark, she may have been found under the floorboards and in a freezer of the house of the man that killed her and her boyfriend, 9 years earlier. Isn't it always the last place you look?

Where have they looked for Michelle Bullard? They looked in the house she was taken from, they kicked in the door and looked in her home, they looked in the ditches along the roadways in Broadway and in Cedar Creek. They have looked at her workplace, in her doctor's office, in her bank account. We know that they looked in David Wilson's truck because that is still being held as evidence, but did they look in his house, at his workplace, or at his brother's? Did they talk with his crack dealer, did they hear anything from his methmouthed friends about where they thought Michelle might be? Has any of Wilson's family members been given a polygraph test much less the third degree?

I wish Michelle ran away, I wish she ran far away from David Wilson after he dragged her out of her friend's house that night.

But unfortunately Michelle Bullard did not run away, she couldn't have, she had a gun pointed at her head.