On Monday, November 18, 2002, Pearl Monroe and Harry Lear of PHI notified Detectives Armstrong and Murphy that they had uncovered information that indicated the victim, Wenzel Hitzig, accompanied by Arlene Melton, had visited the Ole Miss Museum on Sunday, November 3, 2002. Following receipt of that information, Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's investigators questioned employees at the Ole Miss Museum on Friday, November 22, 2002, about anything they witnessed involving Wenzel Hitzig. The interview descriptions below, provided in summary and not verbatim, are those relevant to the investigation and are representative of all interviews conducted.

• Kathy Sanders, 201 Sorority Row, UM student and part-time museum employee
  Sanders said she recalled talking to Wenzel Hitzig on Sunday, November 3, 2002. Sanders said Hitzig took some time examining artifacts, particularly from the Robinson Collection, and asked her several questions about where they had originally come from. Sanders said she told Hitzig they were from an archaeological expedition Robinson headed in Chalcidic between 1928 and 1938. Sanders said she also remembered Hitzig asking if all the items on display were from the Chalcidic campaign or whether some were from Professor Lehmann's expeditions also in Greece. Sanders said she told Hitzig that all items on display were from the Robinson Collection at this moment. Sanders added that Hitzig said he had travelled to Greece and met someone who knew members of the Robinson excavation party and that he was hoping to get in touch with a woman who used to work for the museum and for Professor Robinson. Hitzig said the woman would be very old by now, but her name was Mrs. Donahue. Sanders said she told Hitzig she wasn't familiar with the name, and Hitzig inquired whether there was anyone she could ask who might know of Mrs. Donahue. Sanders said she then went to see another museum employee, Carol Flynn, who might remember Mrs. Donahue. Sanders said Flynn then came and talked to Hitzig. Sanders did not recall talking to Arlene Melton at all and barely remembered her.

• Carol Flynn, 4167 Cherokee Drive, full time museum employee, Education Director
  Flynn confirmed that Kathy Sanders came to her office to ask her about a Mrs. Donahue. Flynn said she expressed surprise that anyone should be asking about "old Dora" after all these years. Sanders said she then left her office and went to talk to Wenzel Hitzig, who told her his tale of traveling through Greece and meeting people who remembered the Robinson excavation team. Flynn said Hitzig told her that he understood Dora Donahue had come to work for Robinson after the archaeological dig finished in Chalcidic. Flynn said Hitzig told her he had a letter he wanted to deliver to Mrs. Donahue, as a favor to someone who she had once performed an act of great kindness for. Flynn said that Hitzig was very pleasant, calm and friendly as he inquired, and that she passed on Mrs. Donahue's address to him but warned Hitzig that she hadn't seen or heard anything from Mrs. Donahue for a number of years. Flynn said Hitzig thanked her, and said it would allow him to perform his duty and that he was very grateful. Flynn said she did recall seeing Hitzig talking to the person she believed to be Arlene Melton, after her own conversation with Hitzig, and said she only noticed because they made "an incongruous couple."

• Luke Matthews, address, part-time museum employee and UM student
  Matthews said he talked to both Wenzel Hitzig and Arlene Melton briefly about some of the artifacts in the collection before Sanders came to help. Matthews said Hitzig and Melton seemed interested in what items were of value and anything from the era of 100 B.C.E (BC) to 100 C.E. (A.D)