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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Valley&State Backpage O&E Sports Archives Classifieds Faith&Beliefs Obituaries Revels June 28, 2004 Missing coach, girl kept low profile in Tenn. PORTLAND (AP) - She was Shelley Smith, she said, a 20-something student looking for an inexpensive place to stay. She said he was her cousin. In fact, she was Michelle "Mimi" Smith, just 16, of Beaverton, and he was her 38-year-old softball coach, known in Oregon as Andrew Garver. They kept a profile low enough so that the elderly couple who rented to them didn't know their tenants were on the run. Despite a flood of news stories and television segments, nobody in the working-class neighborhood near Knoxville, Tenn., had a clue about their identity. They held jobs, paid their rent on time to their landlords, Jerry and Joyce Phillips, and didn't raise a fuss. "Good Morning America" and "Inside Edition" interviewed family members. Local police and federal investigators sent out wanted posters. Bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman - breezed in from Hawaii and left empty-handed. It was a minor auto accident last week that blew the cover. Both turned themselves in. Smith returned to Oregon on Sunday with her mother, according to news reports on several Portland television stations. She faces no charges. Garver is jailed in Knoxville and says he won't fight extradition back to Washington County where he faces charges of custodial interference and a bad check charge. Smith worked three days a week as a manager at the Ladies Choice Fitness Center. She was known there by the name Crystal Materi. Garver, who was carrying Tennessee identification with the name Mark Allen Chubback, worked the front counter at the Weigel's Farm Store. Smith quickly moved into positions of responsibility, co-worker Jillian Bozeman said. "She did so well in commissions, that's how she got the management-training position," said Bozeman, 20. Crystal Brisebois, a fitness center manager, said Smith was well-liked. Garver, now 39, impressed his bosses at the convenience store. He was an assistant manager, covering day shifts and making about $7 an hour, a store employee said. Bozeman said she got to know Smith well. They talked about relationships and became confidantes - but only to a point. Brisebois said Garver never came around. When television covered his arrest, she recognized Garver as the Weigel's store clerk. Smith introduced Garver to the Phillipses as her cousin Mark, but as they gained the trust of their landlords, they became bolder in displays of affection. "They were obviously a couple," said the Phillipses' son, Ron. DailyTidings.com Home Page Valley&State | Backpage | O&E | Sports | Archives | Weather | Classifieds Columnists | Faith&Beliefs | Obituaries | Revels | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2004 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Click Here Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams