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Missing man, woman seen together at store

Music shop owner recognized Xenia mom Tiffany Tehan in Beetle’s back seat.

Contributed photo/Tre B. Hutcherson

Xenia police say this 1999 Volkswagen Beetle, Ohio license plate EVQ9018, is the car driven by Tre B. Hutcherson, a man identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of Tiffany Tehan. Contributed photo

Contributed photo/Car of Tre Hutcherson VW Beetle Xenia police say this 1999 Volkswagen Beetle, Ohio license plate EVQ9018, is the car driven by Tre B. Hutcherson, a man identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of Tiffany Tehan. Contributed photo

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By Lou Grieco, Mark Gokavi and Dave Larsen, Staff Writers Updated 10:40 AM Friday, April 23, 2010

DAYTON — Caroline Brandenburg recognized Tre B. Hutcherson immediately after he was identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of Tiffany Tehan.

“He’s a guitar player,” said Brandenburg, former owner of Michael’s Music, 723 Watervliet Ave. “A very friendly, outgoing person.”

Brandenburg also knows Tehan, who works at a nearby insurance business. Brandenburg said Wednesday, April 21, that she saw the two together last week at the store, which she sold to her son. She said Hutcherson pulled up in front in a small car. A dog was in the front passenger seat and Tehan was in the back, she said.

Hutcherson entered the store, and Brandenburg commented on the dog sitting in the front. Hutcherson responded that the dog tended to take over the car.

When Brandenburg looked out the window “I smiled at the girl in the back seat and she slid back to where I could not see her immediately,” she said. “It was definitely her. It was Tiffany.”

Brandenburg said she purchases Nationwide insurance from Tehan’s employer, Murphy & Associates Agency Inc.

“I recognized Tiffany and that’s why I was so surprised she didn’t wave or say anything when I walked to the window to wave to her,” Brandenburg said.

Little is known about Hutcherson’s background, except that he and his wife, Kelly, moved from California a few years ago. Their house, at 1334 Creighton Ave. in Dayton’s Walnut Hills neighborhood, was purchased in 2006 by a Richard N. Hutcherson.

A woman at the house declined to comment Wednesday. On Tuesday, a woman there told reporters she was Hutcherson’s wife and that Hutcherson had taken $2,000 from their bank account before he disappeared. She also said he “wouldn’t hurt Tiffany.”

Tre Hutcherson attended Sinclair Community College from 2007 to 2009 but did not graduate, said Natasha Baker, the college’s spokeswoman.

Hutcherson, who drives a red 1999 Volkswagen Beetle, was involved in a hit-and-run accident April 7 in the city’s Belmont neighborhood, according to an incident report.

Police responded to the 2400 block of Smithville, where a woman told them that a man hit her car on Highridge Avenue as he tried to back out of an alley while turning around.

Tehan’s workplace is near the Smithville-Highridge intersection.

The woman told police that he fled in his Volkswagen Beetle then came back and said he had to take his dog home because it did not do well in the car. He then said he did not have time to stay and wait for police, but gave her his insurance information.

No charges were filed in the incident as of Wednesday.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2057 or lgrieco@Dayton DailyNews.com.