Murchinson v. State

On May 16, 2006, claimant’s long-time girlfriend, Amy Islas, received a telephone call informing her that her father, “Hawk,” was missing from her parents’ home on State Route 374 in the Town of Dannemora, Clinton County. Hawk had entered the woods earlier in the day to check on his minnow traps in a local stream and, after several hours passed without his safe return, was feared lost. Islas proceeded to her parents’ residence and, after stopping to pick up his son at a local gym, claimant arrived there as well and parked his Chevrolet pickup truck in the driveway.

Various employees of the…