By Philip Rosenbaum
NEW YORK (CNN) — Off a desert highway, about 15 miles from her home in the southern tip of Nevada, the mystery of Maureen Fields’ disappearance began with the discovery of her abandoned car.
Investigators found the 41-year-old woman’s 2004 green Hyundai just across the California border on February 16, 2006. It was one day after her husband, Paul Fields, said he last saw her.
Investigators say they discovered Fields’ purse and wallet, the keys in the ignition and a fully reclined driver’s seat.
There were slippers and eyeglasses beneath the gas pedal, religious pamphlets, a knotted pair of pantyhose as well as three bottles of prescription tranquilizers and pain killers.
PHILIP ROSENBAUM 