She wouldn't have done it so quickly on her own. Stephanie remained in occasional contact with David, but was having trouble keeping her affair private. And I asked her who it was and she said, it was Ginger," David recalls. Besides hearing the male voice, David also found another man's hat in the trunk of Stephanie's car. For five weeks, Stephanie lived a double life, with a secret lover in a shared apartment and a husband left alone to worry about what was really going on.
On Jan. Barbara's premonition was right — Stephanie had vanished. The missing persons case was assigned to lead detective Jeff Terrell, who first focused his attention on David Sims. He considered a jealous husband situation as a possible motive in the disappearance. Before Stephanie disappeared, Ginger says, she was struggling with her secret life and says not a lot of people knew of the affair. Stephanie's mother, Barbara, knew only that her daughter had a new friend and says she didn't think it was anything more than a friendship.
Then, on the morning Stephanie failed to show up at Louisiana Tech to teach her class, the Peppers went to their daughter's new apartment looking for her. Minutes later, the phone rang. It was Wayne.
Where's Stephanie? That's what we'd like to know. Have you seen her? As the days went by, with no sign of Stephanie, her parents became desperate. Hundreds of people were now searching for the year-old college professor. Terrell first questioned David. He didn't know where she could be," Terrell remembers. The detective says he believed David, who had passed a polygraph test.
Terrell then conducted a series of interviews with Guidry, the last person to see Stephanie alive. The detective says Guidry's rambling answers raised red flags. Guidry was changing his story. During the police interviews, there were a lot of inconsistencies. She just doesn't spend money like that, and it just didn't make sense," Terrell points out. Then Wayne left town, heading home to Luling, La.
He went straight to see his lifelong friend, Erik Dufrene. Erik and Wayne grew up playing Little League together. As adults, they became hunting and golfing buddies. Very competitive, just like me," says Erik. He wanted it be his livelihood. Erik says Wayne came knocking on the door and told him Stephanie had gone missing.
Erik says he thought Wayne was in love with her. And he'd mentioned maybe somewhere with some friends in Tennessee or just that she needed a break," Erik recalls. But the worried look quickly wore off, Erik says.
I'd be more concerned. I'd be more involved," he says. In fact, Erik was about to become involved. Investigators approached him, hoping he might provide clues to prove their developing theory that Wayne had killed Stephanie. So I just showed them areas on the map where we hunted. Investigators knew Wayne liked the outdoors and sometimes took Stephanie into the woods to make love.
Erik had a vague memory of a place in the woods that fascinated Wayne: a hole in the ground, somewhere in the preserve. I just saw it as a hole in the ground," Erik says. Guidry was concerned about Stephanie being missing," Terrell remembers.
So, you know, Mr. Guidry was thinking. And there was a pause. Then he said, 'You know, Wayne did mention this hole that he found out in the middle of the woods like a year ago. He told us what road it was off of, a little logging road. Investigators had long suspected that Stephanie was somewhere in this vast wildlife refuge. Now, with a hand-drawn map from Wayne's father, they could finally focus their search.
About people hiked through the woods, side by side, until they found the hole, the one that had so fascinated Wayne Guidry Jr. At the bottom of this old, abandoned well, hidden beneath some brush, was the decaying body of Stephanie Pepper Sims.
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But, two years into their marriage, David says he and Stephanie were growing apart and were sleeping in separate beds.
David admits to being controlling and had always insisted the couple have separate bank accounts. Stephanie had told her husband she felt "lonely. He told the women he was a professional golfer and was spending some time in the area hunting during the off season. Ginger said Guidry swept Stephanie off her feet.
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