Former Owner of Pinewood Rd Property Had Theories on Nicole Hoar Case
By 250 News
Sunday, August 30, 2009 04:50 PM
Prince George, B.C. - The investigation into the disappearance of Nicole Hoar picked up steam last week as police descended on a five acre parcel of land in the Isle Pierre region west of Prince George.
The mobile home and surrounding property that was front and center in the investigation, was formerly owned by Leland (Chuggie) Switzer who is serving a life sentence for the shooting death of his brother just two days after Nicole Hoar went missing.
On August 31st, 2004 police questioned Switzer at the old Baldy Hughes site. During that interview, Switzer told investigators he believed that a neighbour near the property Switzer occupied with his wife and family, should be a prime suspect in Hoar's disappearance.
He also suggested to the investigators at the time that he believed the Jack family had been held captive by another man in the area.
The yellow pick up that police examined at the unauthorized dump (near the 5 acre property that was the subject of the four day search) may have been similar to one that had been owned by Switzer. He was, as a matter of fact, driving a similar vehicle at the time he gave the interview to police in 2004, about one year before he was charged and later sentenced to life for the killing of his brother at his parents’ home.
Switzer said in that August 2004 interview that a neighbour had asked him to “shoot him for what he had done”, after Switzer says he suggested the man and one of the man's friends may have been involved in the disappearance of “the Cunningham girl” 1997. Opinion 250 has not been able to find any “Cunningham” on the highway of tears list of missing people.
The neighbour who was 40 to 45 years old in 2004 would now be 50ish. According to Switzer, “he was like a brother to me”.
Whether the police have been doing part of their dig at the property formerly occupied by the neighbour is not known. Police at the time were told of his identity. Opinion 250 has withheld that information because it is only an accusation.
Switzer says his wife and his daughter heard what they thought were screams and a gun going off at the neighbour’s home the night that Nicole Hoar disappeared. Switzer told investigators his wife told him the screams and shot came from the “sugar shack” on a nearby property.
Switzer told police earlier that while they may find his DNA near where Nicole Hoar was last seen, it would be as a result of him stopping to get out of his vehicle near the Mohawk at the western edge of the city to relieve himself.
Switzer told investigators in that 2004 interview, that during the time that Hoar went missing he was attending a party on the Blackwater Road.
The police have over the years centered a great deal of their investigation on the trailers located at the end of Pinewood Rd past Isle Pierre Mill.
Switzer is serving his sentence in the lower mainland of BC. It is not known what prompted this recent upsurge in the investigation of Nicole Hoar’s disappearance. It is known however that Switzer has been the subject of numerous visits.
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Posted by: twinbell91 on August 30 2009 8:50 PM