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Monday, December 8, 1997 Guest: Detective Jay Green, Shelbyville, Tennessee   Opening Remarks:   Good evening everyone. My name is Detective Green and I'm here to describe to you what we found on a tip. As, I'm sure you are all aware, we published a search warrant we issued on the Crime Scene site about a farmhouse in Shelbyville. I accompanied Agent Hillman to search the farmhouse on a sighting of Macy Lamar.   But there is information about our search there. Unfortunately, all I can disclose is the information that I know. All the tip information was with the FBI, all I really know is that the FBI received several calls about possible sightings in Shelbyville and narrowed it down to this farmhouse. All the tip information you'd have to get through Agent Hillman. However, I can tell you what we did find. We did lift a set of prints that positively identified Macy Lamar as having been in the farmhouse. We went in and found the farmhouse had been lived in. We also found another button of a Liz Claiborne make. We looked around the farmhouse and found a few items in the cupboards a box of cereal, a half empty bottle of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice. We also found another set of unidentifiable prints in the farm house.   Can I take any questions?   Question and Answer session:   Q: Are you going to search databases to try to ID the fingerprints? A: Yes, I believe that the FBI is handling that. We did a search already, but came up with no identifiable match. The FBI is running another search from what I understand.   Q: How was the search narrowed down to the farmhouse, of all places? A: The FBI received several calls on sightings in the Shelbyville area. Some very good tips came into them, which will be listed on the site this week. The local Tip Line took several calls on this, too.   Q: Did the farmhouse look like a place for gambling? A: What I can tell you is that we had an officer check out the area and noticed some odd things around that farmhouse. He mentioned seeing a big black car outside the farmhouse and lights going on and off at odd times. As for the farmhouse being a gambling area? No, not that we are aware of. It is just a farmhouse, it's in a fairly secluded area.   Q: Where did you pick up Macy's fingerprints in the farmhouse? A: We lifted the prints from a small endtable by the sofa in the farmhouse. Very near to where we found the button.   Q: Could you tell how long the house had been vacated? A: We believe they vacated the house within a day or two of our search. There was food that was left in the fridge that seemed rather recently bought.   Q: Are there any landfills or laboratory setups found in or near the farmhouse? A: No, it's a very secluded area, nothing around it for at least two or three miles. And the house was rather clean...no laboratory setups in it either.   Q: Do you know if Mr. Birne was surprised when served with the search warrant, or did he seem to expect it? A: Mr. Birne was rather surprised, but he had seen the surveillance. I think he may have realized that was the reason why. Although, to be honest, I think he knows more than he's saying. The house was pretty clean when we got there, and the way it had been cleaned, it was like they knew we were coming.   Q: Does Mr. Birne work for Reed Chambeau? A: I don't really know. I don't think he does, but they might know each other. I don't really keep up with that sort of stuff.   Q: How could the tipster see lights going on and off if house was secluded? Maybe he wanted you to go there while they were up to something else or moving Macy elsewhere. A: I'm not really sure, maybe they were driving by. Locals around here notice things like that. But I didn't take any of the calls, and I don't exactly know what the sighting tips said. That's all FBI and Mississippi information.   Q: Is it possible that there is an insider on the police force that has been keeping Chambeau's people informed? A: Not from our force out here, but I can't really speak on behalf of the Oxford Department. I can only speak for the Bedford County Sheriff's Office.   Q: What do you believe to be the significance of the button - did it have Macy's prints on it? A: Personally, I think that maybe the girl is leaving a trail. I think she wants us to find her, and that she might be trying to help us find her. I'm not really sure, but I think that they found a similar button at the last place they searched?   Q: How large is the farm and does it use pesticide, or is it abandoned? A: It's not a working farm. It's a rental house, but it's been unoccupied for months.   Q: What was on the button again? A: It was a unique gold button traced to the Liz Claiborne line of better women's suits manufactured in 1997. The FBI have it now for analysis.