[Tommy]

A story in the news got me thinking. It seems that everyone including the police immediately look at the spouse as the prime suspect when someone goes mysteriously missing. So given the following hypothetical circumstances, what would you do?

You come home from work to find your spouse, who is usually home by this time, absent. As the evening passes, you try to contact him/her via cell phone, coworkers, friends and family without success. Overnight you wonder why he/she might be gone and cannot conceive of a likely reason. Your relationship with your spouse has seemed fine up until now. Mid morning you call the police and they advise you to call back when your spouse has been missing for 24 hours. You call back at the 24 hour point and formally report him/her missing. The next morning police arrive to get information about the missing person. They ask no questions that would lead you to believe they are suspicious of any wrong doing. Two days later police find your spouse's car abandoned on a seldom traveled road. The police then ask if you would come to their office to provide more information about your spouse's life. Would you go and answer all questions without reservations? Would you go but decline to answer questions about yourself? Would you take a lawyer with you? Would you decline to talk to the police? ... Knowing you are innocent of any wrongdoing, but that police may be starting to think of you as a suspect, what would you do?