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"I had to hire people to run the store," he said. "I couldn't hold down my job and run it. Then the road construction started. I was so far in the hole, I couldn't dig out." He couldn't pay the rent, so. he ended up giving the store to the landlord, Robert said.

Mother told of nest egg Robert's financial problems cast doubt on the homicide theory, Babich said. If Pamela were dead, he said, Robert would have had the $60,000 and would have been able to keep the store going until he could sell it for a profit. Babich said he learned that Pamela had told her mother she had a large sum of money in a safe. No matter what they think happened to Pamela, however! family members and investigators agree that it is unusual for someone to drop so completely out of sight for so long. "You usually find someone by staying in contact with the family or a close friend," Babich said.

However, he said, if Pamela had a nest egg, it's possible she may have started a new life. Although they officially have classified it as a missing-person case, Peoria police are treating Pamela's disappearance as a homicide, according to Babich and Robert. Sgt. Jim Flonacher, a spokesman for the Peoria Police; refused to comment on the case, saying he didn't want to hamper the investigation. Search-warrant records from the case were sealed by a Superior Court judge at the request of police and the County Attorney's Office.

Robert said police searched his home, vehicle, boat and video store last October looking for possible leads. He also was called to police headquarters, where officers told him they had found Pamela's body, he said. However, when he denied killing her and demanded to see the body, they refused to produce it, Robert said. Instead, he said, an investigator told him that police knew he had killed Pamela in self-defense. Police finally admitted they had not found a body, Robert said.

mm mm mm By Pamela Manton The Arizona Republic Almost 14 months ago, Pamela Page disappeared from her Peoria home. Pamela, who would be 33 now, reportedly took her pet dachshund and a few suitcases full of clothes, shoes, cosmetics and mementos. She left behind her husband, her car and a video-rental 6usiness in Glendale. Her parents, brothers and sisters think she may have been killed. They have reported their fears to police, who apparently are handling the disappearance as a homicide case, and Pamela's father has offered a $1,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of his daughter or her remains.

However, her husband, Robert, 35, who since has divorced her, said he believes Pamela simply walked away from her life in Peoria, taking $60,000 in family savings. Robert, who ac- knowledges that police consider him a suspect in the disappearance but denies that he killed her, has hired a private investigator to track her down. The two sides also give very different portraits of Pamela just before she disappeared from her home in the 6700 block of West Shangri-La Road on July 22, 1989. Her sister, Jimmie Rice, speaking on behalf of her family, said everything seemed to be going well for Pamela, who was in Fort Smith, for part of that month to visit her parents, Rice and other family. Couple met, wed in 1977 Although Pamela had had some rocky times in her marriage, she didn't indicate that there were any problems then, Rice said.

"She said Rob looked better to her than he had in the 12 years they were married," Rice said. The two were introduced in Fort Smith in 1977 after Robert got out of the Navy and were married a month later. Robert's sister is married to a brother of Rice and Pamela. Rice also said Pamela seemed happy running her Glendale video store and called from Fort Smith almost every day to make sure the business, Fast Forward Video, was running smoothly. "She never missed work," Rice said.

"She opened and closed every day." Less than a week after she returned to Peoria, however, Pamela disappeared. Also missing was one of the couple's two dogs, a dachshund named Rerun. Rice said her sister is close to her family, which consists of two brothers, six sisters and their parents. However, none has heard from her since her 1989 visit. Her sister "absolutely would not" drop out of sight deliberately, Rice said.

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Robert, who is a supervisor at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, would keep the couple's house and boat under the agreement. When they were unable to find anyone who would pay cash for the business, the talk about divorce Stopped for awhile, Robert said. Before she disappeared, they began considering it again, he said. After Pamela returned from Arkansas, Robert said, he found a letter in the couple's home computer in which she talked about leaving him. He printed it out and handed it to her, he said.

The next day, she left, Robert said. On July 27, he reported to Peoria police that she had disappeared between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. July 22. Robert said he later discovered that the cash Pamela kept in a vault at their video store also was gone.

He estimated that the vault contained about $60,000 in cash, which included profits from the store and money from an income-tax refund; Pamela, who distrusted banks, was obsessive about saving money, he said. i Secretive about friend Ronald Babich, the private invests gator looking for Pamela, said his investigation indicates she was a woman who worked long hours and seemed to have no friends. Robert said his ex-wife never had more than one friend at a time. "It was one friend," he said. "It was always singular." Pamela was secretive about her latest friend, Robert said, telling him only that her name was Sara and tht Sara had left her husband in California.

Robert said Pamela often spent the night with Sara and once said the two had plenty of money between them. He said there are few recent photographs of Pamela because she hated to have her picture taken. Pamela is described as having a light-complexion, auburn hair and hazel eyes. She is 5 foot 8 inches tall and weighed 200 pounds at the time of her disappearance. She has a small scar on the bottom of her chin.

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