Chapter 8...Part 8

After the guest left there was much discussion. It came out that Dave had never seen the RV or met James or Tanya. He said that one time when they stopped there was an RV that drove by on the freeway and they could only see the top of it. The guest had told Dave that was them.

When Dave drove around the Flying J parking lot where James supposedly parked the RV for the night, he didn’t see any RV’s at all. When the girl was waiting for the guest to return with money for the phones, it turned out that he had called Dave and asked him for the money for the phones. Then he told her girl that the money came from his dad, James. When Dave asked where the girl was then he told Dave that the girl was with James and Tanya clothes shopping.

When the girl was coming home from work and she saw the guest and Dave leaving they were gone putting money on the guest’s netspend card. He had told Dave that he needed money on his card for the trip to California.

The more they talked the more they all learned. They had been keeping secrets from one another because the guest had talked them into it. The girl found out that when the guest went to California a couple of weeks before that he had borrowed the money from Dave, not from a friend.

So much came out of that discussion and they learned so much about the guest. Of course there was so much they never did find out about.

The next week was complete hell. The girl tracked a lot of the guest’s journey by his netspend card. It ended in Reno. The guest claimed he was in Bakersfield but there were no charges at all after Reno. There were 2 rooms rented on the way and money was taken off the card in Wendover and in Reno. The guest kept calling and telling them he needed more money. He had plenty of money when he left to make it to the airport in Fresno and his dad was supposed to get him on a plane in Fresno.

The guest claimed he got to the airport but that his dad would not buy him a ticket or help him out because the girl had not gone with him.

The guest ended up keeping them all hanging for a week. He would say that he was going to turn the car in and then never did. One time he even claimed that he turned it in. Everyone in the airport went looking for that car and it never was found. He kept trying to blackmail them into sending him more money. He told them he would return the car if they sent him money.

It was a horrible week. Everyone was stressed. Dave and the girl even went to the South Ogden and Ogden police trying to report the car as stolen. Unfortunately since Dave had put him on the rental agreement then he was legal to drive it. They spent several days working with the car rental company trying to get them to report it stolen because they were the only ones who could do that. It was a complete and total nightmare.