Word: bigamous
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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Searches of the park and adjacent waters produced not a hint of Wiley's fate. Further, he had not bought a swimsuit. That was no surprise to some. "Mel didn't like to swim," said Medina County Police Detective James Bigam, who came to know Wiley when they worked in the Medina sheriff's office in the 1970s. He suspected the answer to the disappearance lay in Wiley's ways...
...Wiley was not a run-of-the-beat lawman. He aspired to be a poet (writing lines like "my love is a silver shadow") and had long worked on a mystery novel called Harvest Madness. Bigam knew that the chief had been moody lately, and a bit bored with the department he joined in 1978 and had run since 1982. Still, Bigam did not suspect suicide. Wiley's normally disheveled uniforms had been left at the dry cleaner. His apartment was spotless, and his manuscript for Harvest Madness was missing...
...chief's literary ambition that prompted Bigam to examine the ribbon in Wiley's electric typewriter. And thereon lay a tale. Wiley had written someone a most revealing letter. "Where I've gone," he typed, "is of no critical importance and it's very doubtful that I'll ever return . . ." Just 16 days after the disappearance, Bigam issued the sort of announcement that might have been found in a whodunit by Agatha Christie (herself famous for a never explained ten-day absence in 1926). Wiley, said Bigam, had apparently "acted out the last chapter of his book . . . and rode...
...where or when Wiley would surface, and many Hinckley folk now sense he is beyond their guesswork. Said Mary Placke, who saw him daily when he picked up Kent regulars and a newspaper at the Open Pantry Food Mart: "I thought we knew Mel. Guess we didn't." Detective Bigam feels sure of one thing: "He knew I'd be working on the case. He's got to be gloating...
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