Man's murder, wife's death feed into local legend of "cursed" mansion

When Mike Harding, a California transplant, spotted a majestic mansion in Celina, Tennessee, he thought he The lake country straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border has a quiet, majestic beauty. But in September 2022, that vast landscape seemed to have swallowed up Mike Harding, a California transplant who disappeared without a trace. JULIE HARDING (phone call): Hi Captain, this is Julie Harding with the California Highway Patrol … Mike's wife Julie Harding, a captain with the California Highway Patrol, began to place urgent phone calls to the Kentucky State Police from her home in Sacramento. JULIE HARDING (phone call): I can't get any information. And I just, I need your help with this … My concern right now … is where he is.

Is he OK? … and what's the status of this investigation? The calls led her to a sheriff she knew — Brandon Boone of Clay County, Tennessee, whose office was spearheading the missing person's case. But the answers were few and far between and Boone says Julie Harding grew frustrated. Sheriff Brandon Boone: She got very angry with a couple of — of my people, uh, because we wouldn't disclose certain information to her … Within days, Julie was there in person on Sheriff Boone's doorstep. In a moment recorded on a body camera, she immediately apologized for being