Thanks for investigation assistance

To the editor:The Bollinger County Sheriff's Department and the Bollinger County prosecuting attorney would like to take this opportunity to express our thanks to the Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad along with the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department, Cape Girardeau Police Department, Jackson Police Department, Southeast Missouri State University Department of Public Safety, Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney's office, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Missouri State Water Patrol, the Bollinger County coroner and the officers of the sheriff's reserve unit for their long hours and hard work in the Michael Strong homicide investigation.

We would also like to thank the members of the United Methodist Church and the Trowel Masonic Lodge for allowing our investigative teams to meet and work from their facilities. And last, but not least, we would like to thank the public for its support to our department and the Strong family in this trying time.

If anyone has further information to share, please feel free to call us at (573) 238-2633.

TERRY WISEMAN, Bollinger County Sheriff, Marble Hill, Mo.