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Grandmother has cleaned kidnap car, say FBI

0 Comments | Birmingham Post (England), The, April 27, 2000

FBI agents searching for kidnapped Birmingham computer expert Mr Paul Gale yesterday revealed that the car in which he was driven away had been cleaned before being examined by police.

Mr Gale, who was born in Erdington, has not been seen since he was taken from his hotel room in Florence, Kentucky, ten days ago ago by jealous love rival Greg Marcinski.

Marcinski drove 800 miles from his home in New Jersey in his grandmother’s car to confront Mr Gale after discovering he was seeing his former fiancee, Miss Darla Guidie.

Now FBI agents have revealed that floor mats in the car Marcinski used in the kidnapping had been washed of mud by his grandmother after he returned home. A carpet which lined the boot was also missing.

An officer said: ‘You have to ask what he may have used it for.’

Detectives searching for Mr Gale fear that Marcinski may have killed him and dumped his body. Now they have switched their search to a small town in Ohio after tracing a mobile phone call made on the night.

The call was made on Mr Gale’s mobile to Miss Guidie just hours after he was kidnapped.

It was made at 3am on April 17, was not answered and it is not known whether it was Marcinski or Mr Gale who made the call.

However, police were able to pinpoint the location of the call and are now concentrating their search on Brownsville, 300 miles from where Mr Gale was taken.

Meanwhile Mr Gale’s twin brother, Peter, brother Mark and sister Rita, also from Erdington, have flown out to America.

Rita, aged 38, said: ‘Going there makes us feel like we are doing something, not just sitting waiting for the phone to ring.’