Overview
- The recording, obtained Friday by the Law&Crime Network, captures Susan Wilkerson telling a dispatcher she believed her husband intended not to be found.
- McCasland, last seen February 27 near his Albuquerque home, left his phone and prescription glasses at the house and likely walked out with hiking boots and a .38-caliber revolver.
- His wife said he had been seeing a doctor for anxiety, short-term memory loss, and sleeplessness, and she recalled him worrying about health decline.
- The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said they have no indication he was disoriented or confused, and authorities with the FBI have been searching since late February under a Silver Alert.
- Interest in the case has grown because McCasland once led the Air Force Research Laboratory and is linked in reports to advanced aerospace and UFO research, which has fueled public speculation.