Julie Michelle Bullard 23 Missing/Abducted 1/1/06, NC
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Woman Allegedly Kidnapped In Lee County Home Invasion
POSTED: 5:34 pm EST January 2, 2006
UPDATED: 8:19 pm EST January 2, 2006
LEE COUNTY, N.C. -- Authorities are looking for a woman who may have been kidnapped during a home invasion late Sunday evening.
Authorities searched a pond and a four-mile area near the home Monday afternoon where 23-year-old Julie Michelle Bullard was last seen. They said that the search was carried out as a precaution, and was considered to be a search-and-rescue operation.
Authorities say that at a masked man burst into a gathering of friends and demanded money from the people inside the home. The suspect then allegedly took Bullard and disappeared.
Bullard is 5-foot-2 and weighs 125 pounds. She also has brown Hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about her whereabouts should call local authorities immediately.
http://www.wral.com/news/5800837/detail.html
LEE COUNTY, N.C. -- Authorities are looking for a woman who may have been kidnapped during a home invasion late Sunday evening.
Authorities searched a pond and a four-mile area near the home Monday afternoon where 23-year-old Julie Michelle Bullard was last seen. They said that the search was carried out as a precaution, and was considered to be a search-and-rescue operation.
Authorities say that at a masked man burst into a gathering of friends and demanded money from the people inside the home. The suspect then allegedly took Bullard and disappeared.
Bullard is 5-foot-2 and weighs 125 pounds. She also has brown Hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about her whereabouts should call local authorities immediately.
http://www.wral.com/news/5800837/detail.html
The place above is tucked back into the woods, not visible from the road. There are many places such as this all around Broadway. This particular spot is near David Wilson's home.
These are the type of places that need to be checked out. EVERYWHERE!!! Property owners need to walk their property. If you know of a place such as the one above, check it out. If you see something suspicious, DON'T TOUCH IT!!!! CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY AND WAIT.
If you hunt or fish offer your boat, your ATV to aid in the search.
Noting much has developed since Michelle was abducted.
What we know is that Michelle Bullard is still missing. We know law enforcement has suspended the ground search. We know a dead man can't talk. But the dead man, David Wilson, 49 did talk just before he died. Among other things, Wilson told his brother that he had driven 400-500 miles the night and day Michelle disappeared. We know he told his brother that he spent the night in a parking lot of a grocery store in Spring Lake. We know that people on 2 week long crack binges do not just pull into a grocery store and fall asleep.
What we don't know is why he said he was in Spring Lake. Was it to cover himself in case someone saw him town? Has he recently done work on a vacant rental house down there and had access to it? Could he have taken Michelle there with a pocket full of cash to purchase drugs and to party? Someone down there has seen him. Someone may have seen Michelle.
WRAL
The news media has made a mistake posing suspicion in the public's mind about a possible link between Bullard and Wilson because the two were spotted in the same convenience store. How many convenience stores are in Broadway? One. Wilson's wife had sent her husband to the store to get something for her. He left home and minutes later he is seen on the store's surveillance tapes purchasing that item. Michele was also in the store. Absolutely no relationship. No prearranged meeting, just chance.
You will not be able to find a soul that will say that Michelle knew David Wilson. But you will be able find people that know that Wilson is capable of murder. The witnesses that were in the Sundown Lounge the night Wilson shot a man after he was thrown out, said he was coming back to kill Corney, came back and shot Corney just like he said he would. Wilson plead down from First Degree murder and that convicted Wilson in 1975 for killing Thomas Corney in cold blood. You might have been able to find another 12 people in Michigan for the vehicular manslaughter of his fellow escapee in 1980 when Wilson was on the run after he escaped from prison and was attempting to flee from police (just as he did the evening he shot himself) and crashed his car in a high speed chase killing the passenger.
As I mentioned in a previous posting, had that chase and death happened in North Carolina, Wilson could have been charged with First Degree Murder for the death of his partner in crime. If a person, while in commission of a Felony causes the death of someone, that person can be tried for First Degree Murder. So in my book this dead piece of crap is a two time murderer. And if he is capable of one home invasion, one that I might add is extremely brazen and seems to have been triggered on the spur of the moment, then who says he hasn't done this 20 times before? What other unsolved home invasions are there in a 100 mile radius? What robberies, burglaries or rapes have been committed in the past couple of years since he has been off parole?And by the way, if you are wondering how a man like Wilson, sentenced to 40-60 years in prison, 13 infractions while in prison including escape, how a man like that could be out in half the time is beyond me. That is a question for one of the liberal public servants you've elected to make those decisions not me.
Hopefully the $10,000 reward being offered will get a few tips for law enforcement to follow.
Speaking of law enforcement, I know we have been critical at times, and I know we don't know a third of what they know about this case but both my brother and I were raised by two athletes. Our father was an All Star when played football for Duke, and our mother competed around the country showing horses. She rode one of the Champion Show Horses of all time, named DDT. They always said "You can do better." Neither of them knew the word quit. Encouragement to succeed came more from a disciplined theory of repetition "Do it over until you get it right." Sort of like an old-school coach like Vince Lombardi or my man Coach K, drills and exercises, repetition over and over, everything can be improved, never quit.
Speaking of Coach K, I am such a big Duke fan, I am the type that yells at the television during a ballgame. Screaming at refs and players, just like most obnoxious Duke fan that i am. I've been known, on many occasions to even cuss my favorite players when I know they can do better. It doesn't mean I don't like them or I think someone else could have done better, it just means I am a fan, and as a fan sometimes I forget I am not on the bench. But cheers and jeers from the fans do motivate, think K'ville and the Cameron Crazies and how it creates a ten point advantage when they are at home.
The Blue Line is all about being a fan of good police work, we cheer louder than anyone. But to be close enough to hear our cheers, you will also hear our jeers. Thanks to all those men and women in law enforcement that, with their dedication and determination, have served the community of Broadway proudly by working so hard to bring Michelle home. God bless each of you.
We know you won't give up on Michelle or any other victim. If you didn't have the heart to do what you do, surely you would be doing something else, making more money, spending more time with your family and definitely not taking any more potshots from people in the peanut gallery.
Thanks a lot, and be safe!
Julie Michelle Bullard, 23, has been missing since Jan. 2. //David Earl Wilson, 49, committed suicide in his truck Jan. 2.
BROADWAY — The man whose suicide Jan. 2 has drawn him into the mystery of a missing woman crossed paths with her at a convenience store hours before she vanished.
Diane Walston, the manager of the Pantry store on Main Street, said a surveillance tape shows the two did not interact. She said David Earl Wilson, a regular customer at the store, came in a little after 10 p.m. Jan. 1 and bought paper towels. Julie Michelle Bullard, the missing woman, paid at the counter after he did, Walston said. The two did not come in together and they left separately, she said.
“There was nothing suspicious going on in the parking lot,” she said.
Authorities have said there is no connection between Bullard’s disappearance and Wilson’s suicide other than the timing and location of his death. He shot himself about six miles from the place she was last seen.
Around the time she was at the Pantry, Bullard, 23, made her last call from her cell phone. She left a message on her friend Tara Gillum’s voicemail: “Oh my God, I’ve got some (expletive) to tell you.”
Later that night, Bullard went to her boyfriend’s home outside Broadway. The three people she was with, including her boyfriend, told authorities that a masked man with a gun broke into the home about 1 a.m., bound them with tape, robbed them and put them in separate rooms. They told investigators that when they got free, Bullard was gone. Authorities have scoured the area around the home, using divers in a nearby pond and search dogs on the ground, and have not found her.
Wilson’s family does not know where he was the night of Jan. 1. His wife reported him missing the next morning. About 5:40 p.m. Jan. 2, he called his brother, William Wilson, who met him on the side of a road in Harnett County. The two talked, and William Wilson said his brother seemed depressed.
Around 7 p.m., as David Wilson followed his brother home, a sheriff’s deputy recognized his pickup from his missing person’s report. The deputy pulled behind him. David Wilson, 49, stopped on the side of the road and shot himself.
His family says he was burdened by persistent medical and financial problems. His sister Diane Myatt said she believes the gun was in his truck because he was contemplating suicide. Wilson had served 23 years in prison for a 1975 murder and, as a convicted felon, was not permitted to carry a weapon. Myatt thinks one reason he shot himself when the deputy pulled behind him was because he did not want to go back to prison.
She has said her brother had turned his life around since he was released in 1998. His discipline record while he was incarcerated is better than the average prisoner, a spokesman for the N.C. Department of Correction said Wednesday. During his last three years in prison, Wilson had no infractions, according to his record.
Myatt also said that her brother said the shooting for which he was convicted was in self-defense, and the family had once considered asking for his case to be retried.
Family members of the man Wilson shot in 1975, a Fayetteville bar owner named Thomas C. Corney, said hearing about the murder again after 30 years has been difficult. Corney’s son, Tom Corney Jr., who lives in Hope Mills, was 9 years old when his father was killed.
“It brings back some very bad memories,” he said.
He said his family is particularly troubled by the way Myatt characterized the shooting as self-defense. According to newspaper accounts from 1975, witnesses said David Wilson had been causing problems at the bar and was thrown out. He threatened to kill Corney, left, then came back with a gun, witnesses said. He shot Corney in the chest.
Bobby Corney, an older brother of the bar owner, said he hoped David Wilson did turn his life around. But he believes Wilson’s family is unfairly characterizing his crime.
“I’m sorry for Wilson’s family. I’m not sorry that he’s dead. I have to forgive him for what he did,” Bobby Corney said.
“I want the record to be straight.”
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