Jurors heard Tuesday morning from McLean’s mother, Carol Nielson, 53, of Green Bay, who wept as she recalled placing hundreds and hundreds of leaflets in Green Bay and Abrams in the nine years following her son’s death. When she learned from her childhood friend, a co-worker of McLean’s, that McLean hadn’t shown up for work for several days following Feb. 22, 1998, Nielson contacted Green Bay and spent days calling McLean’s friends to see where he was, she said.

Retired Green Bay Det. Don Chic testified that Nielson’s research led her to Hanson, and Chic called Hanson, who seemed evasive “and didn’t want to answer questions,” Chic said. Chic said Hanson claimed that night that he had dropped McLean off at the Abrams convenience store, that he never mentioned Mlados and stressed heavily that McLean had argued with his friend at his friend’s uncle’s house.

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