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Whittlesey v. State5/13/1992
not returned by 4:30 p.m. His parents were concerned. "Jamie has never been this late without calling and letting us know." Mr. Griffin asked his wife to call the police. He went to Dulaney School to find his son.
Michael Whittlesey came into the picture early on. He was Jamie's friend and "spent a lot of weekends" at the Griffin home. Jamie was not at the school, but Mr. Griffin received information indicating that his son and Whittlesey were seen together in the Griffin automobile and planned to go to the Joppatowne Shopping Center. Mr. Griffin went to Joppatowne but did not find either Jamie or Whittlesey.
About 2:45 p.m. on 2 April 1982, Whittlesey's girl friend saw him and Jamie at the Joppatowne Shopping Center. According to her, they told her that they were going to Washington, D.C. and would return about 10:00 p.m. She saw them enter a car, Jamie driving and Whittlesey in the rear seat. In reply to her question why Whittlesey was sitting in the back, he replied that his legs were too long. Due to Jamie's stature, he could only drive the car with the front seat as far forward as it would go, "all the way up to the steering wheel," and even then had to have a thick pad at his back.
Mr. Griffin did not get home from his search for Jamie until about 10:00 a.m. the next day. When he arrived home he went to the Cockeysville Police Station in response to a call that Whittlesey was there. He met Whittlesey outside the station. Whittlesey told Mr. Griffin that he and Jamie had gone to Washington in the car, accompanied by two friends in a van. He and Jamie spent the night in Washington in the car and the two friends slept in the van. When Whittlesey awoke the next morning, Jamie was gone. He left a note that he and the other two persons had gone to get something to eat and directed Whittlesey to drive the car to Golden Ring Mall. Whittlesey went to the mall and
found the van but not Jamie or his other friends. He went into the mall to look for them but did not find them, and when he came out the van and the car were gone. When Mr. Griffin questioned this story, Whittlesey assured him that "there's nothing wrong with Jamie. Jamie is fine."
Whittlesey contacted the police on his own initiative and, it appeared that, at first, he gave them the same accounting of his activities with Jamie as he gave Mr. Griffin. He also volunteered a similar story to several other persons but, at times, with significant variations. When his girl friend talked to him on the phone two days after she saw him at the shopping center, he told her that Jamie "had dropped him off" the day before at Golden Ring Mall. He was interviewed several more times by the police, and there were discrepancies in his statements as to what took place in Washington and how he came back to Maryland. In any event, there soon appeared good reason to believe that the alleged trip to Washington was no more than a figment of Whittlesey's imagination. Whittlesey had arranged to visit his father, who lived in Reisterstown, Maryland, on the night of 2 April 1982. About 7:00 p.m. the father accepted a collect call from his son, which, at the time, the father understood from Whittlesey, was being made from Washington, D.C. The father's telephone bill, however, established that, in fact, the call emanated in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
On 21 May 1982 an officer of the Atlantic City Police Department saw an automobile with a Maryland license parked on South Texas Avenue in Atlantic City near the Playboy Club, which Whittlesey had frequented in the past. The car was in the vicinity of the phone booth from which the call to Whittlesey's father had been made. The vehicle was towed to the police tow l
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