Former Child Actor Joe Pichler Missing for One Week
Former child actor Joe Pichler has been missing for one week. Pichler appeared in two of the “Beethoven” comedies. He appears according to police to have left what police have characterized as a suicide note.
Former child actor Joe Pichler, who appeared in two of the “Beethoven” comedies, has been missing for a week after leaving what police have characterized as a suicide note.
But family members, including Pichler’s mother and oldest sister, say they don’t believe the two pages of poetry and other musings the 18-year-old left in his car was a suicide note.
Police have not been optimistic that Joe Pichler will be found alive.
In a telephone interview Monday from her home in Bremerton, Pichler’s mother, Kathy Pichler, told The Associated Press that police leveled with her early on in the investigation.
She said a detective told her, “I don’t know how to say this to you without sounding really bad, but basically I think your son’s dead and it could take months for him to show up in the water.
(San Francisco Gate)
Update 2: Former Child Actor Pichler Missing
Kathy Pichler said police released the car to the family without fully processing it for evidence: “They haven’t fingerprinted his car. They sifted through it. They were in his apartment for about three minutes. They’ve done nothing.”
Davis said he believed the car had been dusted for fingerprints, but couldn’t say for sure because he was alone in the office and the investigators’ report was not available Monday.
“We have done just about all we can do,” the detective said.
(Forbes)