If you haven’t been up on the Erin Corwin case, here’s some backstory. She’s from Oak Ridge, TN — as is her husband, who’s in the Marines — and currently, they’re living in Twentynine Palms, CA. She went missing last week en route to Joshua Tree National Forest, apparently to scout out a location for her and her mother to visit when her mother came for her birthday in a couple of weeks. Her car has been found, but she hasn’t. There’s this, from her sister-in-law:
Heavilin told WBIR-TV in Tennessee last week the family hopes Corwin simply lost her way in the park. “She’s just really timid and she has a terrible sense of direction,” Heavilin said. “We were all scared for her to travel home on her own because she had to go through airports by herself and it can be kind of overwhelming if you don’t have a good sense of direction.”
Erin Corwin is fairly small — 5-foot-2, 120 pounds — and clearly hasn’t been away from home that much, so there are concerns there.
Because homicide detectives are now involved, all the public focus — and the social media focus — is going to her husband, the marine Jonathan Corwin. There’s an article on that aspect of the investigation here. I think that, without a doubt, Corwin (husband) should be the first person fully investigated; that’s only logical and seems like good law enforcement work. However, please remember the case of Whitney Heichel; when she first disappeared, most of the online web-sleuthing / true crime world thought it was the husband there. It wasn’t; it was a neighbor.
In sum: oftentimes it’s the spouse, yes … but I believe the number for “someone the victim knew” is even higher, at around 88 percent of most homicide cases. In the Erin Corwin situation, it could be someone else associated with Twentynine Palms. Hell, Erin Corwin’s own mom doesn’t suspect the husband.
Why did it took 24 hrs for the husband to report her missing?? A very young couple, with no family close by, usually are very glued together…if she wasnt home by night fall,, why he wasnt concerned his young pregnant wife was out somewhere alone?
Erin’s mom stated in an interview with CNN that the husband told her he didn’t report Erin missing on the first day because he thought maybe Erin spent the night at a “ranch”. The CNN interview was on the internet about 3 days ago and can be replayed for verification of this report.
I guarantee you heard this first here. Just googled the name Jonathan Corwin (husband of missing lady) to find some info on this case. Came up with the fact that “Jonathan Corwin” was the name of a judge famous for participating in the Salem witch trials. Maybe there is a link here. Who knows? A satanist or satanist cult with a revenge motive or something like that. Or maybe I have been watching too much Criminal Minds. (shades of Terminator). i.e. prevention of another Jonathan Corwin being born. .
Its not her husband I can almost bet money on that. If you are following the case it has been published by 29 Palms local radio she was having affair with a married marine and child possibly his.unfortunately the info that keeps coming out ( today reports of two residences on base served with search warrants), this doesn’t look good. They also had a support GRP type meeting other day for corwins battalion ONLY…kind of makes you think the suspect is def a marine on base. Also, I live in the area and for those not familiar with 29 Palms I suggest you look at it on Google earth or any map. Its so vast and desolate (oh and HOT) and its also not the “best” place to live their is a good meth culture. Its so sad it doesn’t look like this will have a good outcome.
Its not her husband I can almost bet money on that. If you are following the case it has been published by 29 Palms local radio she was having affair with a married marine and child possibly his.unfortunately the info that keeps coming out ( today reports of two residences on base served with search warrants), this doesn’t look good. They also had a support GRP type meeting other day for corwins battalion ONLY…kind of makes you think the suspect is def a marine on base. Also, I live in the area and for those not familiar with 29 Palms I suggest you look at it on Google earth or any map. Its so vast and desolate (oh and HOT) and its also not the “best” place to live there is a good meth culture. Its so sad it doesn’t look like this will have a good outcome.
Also, for those who may say not to believe everything you read and family and LE has not confirmed affair…neither have they denied it. In addition when comparing this to other missing persons there’s so much secrecy and info being held obviously cause its not being handled in typical fashion. There are no flyers, no asking for search volunteers etc. If they had no idea who took Erin they would be warning public of possible predator on the loose. Lastly, this is the worst place to go missing. Two highwys one to Vegas one to Barstow and just nothing and I mean nothing on these roads, desert that looks untouched…dotted with abandoned homesteads…finding someone out there would be next to impossible. What they need to do is let the public volunteer so many locals know the terrain and have atv’s, but law enforcement is not letting this happen. At least the FBI and border patrol is on the case, but I say the more searchers the better.
Brenda,
Erin was having an affair with a neighbor, a fellow Marine. Her husband was aware of this and forgave her, she continued to see the guy and sometimes stayed at the horse ranch together, maybe Jonathan thought this was again happening, he was on duty and working all day.
He is the primary suspect with issues, and seems he is the primary suspect, maybe the owner of the Jeep and red sedan, I hope this turns out well, but with her absence of 3 weeks, I don’t think this situation will have a good ending, unfortunately, like many of these cases in the USA!
Dave