How we met fugitives, Eunice Rosenberg and Delbert Lyle Snook

This picture is from a Facebook post of Delbert Lyle Snook's daughter. Starting in August and lasting through Thanksgiving, two people started staying at our resort. They told us their names were Blossom and Quincy Eagleman. After they left without paying us for 2-week's stay, we started investigating. What we found out was nothing less than extraordinary. The people we knew as Blossom and Quincy were defrauding resorts and businesses in multiple states, giving false identities and telling lies every day. Here is the story of our experience. First I must state that this story is our account of what happened, falls under the freedom of speech laws, and is solely our opinion. This is our side of the story of the events and is not meant to implicate anyone of any illegal activity and everyone is innocent until proven guilty. August 2016. A couple arrives at our resort, Pine Forest Lodge, and rents a cabin. The week happens to be our Disabled Kayak week, as we called it. The week is held annually at our resort where we offer sports and recreation for people with disabilities. It is a discounted week to people with disabilities only, and we offer free guided kayak trips, adaptive equipment and more. The couple, who told us they were Blossom and Quincy Eagleman, seemed friendly and we had some fun conversations. During that week, Quincy helped people with disabilities transfer from their vehicles to chairs, to kayaks and more. He even constructed a transfer bench out of wood for our resort for people with disabilities. During that week we had pot lucks at which Blossom would add a dish or two and we had a lot of fun evenings in the lodge. We talked, laughed, watched and discussed politics, and then she proceeded to spin the web of lies of their lives. Some of the lies she told us, off and on through September, October and early November, when they came and went from our resort. (Note: they always paid us in cash. We never saw any identification other than their vehicle's license plate from Wyoming, which we never had the need to call in to check.) 1. Their names were false. 2. His birthday of Oct. 10 is false. 3. She said Quincy was selling his ranch of 5,000 acres, some of which is Bureau of Land Management land. Truth: Lyle owned a home with less than 1 acre of land. 4. She said she was selling her home she owned in Ft. Collins, Colorado. She showed me a picture of a Spanish architecture home of a large size. Found it later on a realty website. Truth: she did not have any home. 5. She said they were looking for a new home in the area and wanted to discuss buying a cabin from our resort. After we agreed that we would think about this, and we did, I told her that until they are sure where they want to be, buying a cabin from us would not be a good idea. We wanted them to be sure so there wouldn't be any hurt feelings in the future. (Was this a 'womens intuition'?) So we told them we were taking that option out of the discussion at this time. Truth: they had no intention of buying a cabin. They were using aliases, and did not have the money to do so anyway. 6. She said they had to go visit her daughter, who worked at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Hayward. So they left for Hayward supposedly several times off and on during those months. 7. She said they had to go visit her son, Al, off and on during those months. She said her son, Al, lived in Watersmeet, MI. Truth: Her son, Al, who wants nothing to do with her, lives in the State of Washington and has never lived east of the State of Idaho. 8. She said she had a grand daughter named Katie, who was a rodeo rider, who trained dogs, was 19, and was closer to Quincy than her real grandfather (Blossom's ex husband). Truth: According to Lyle's daughter, Katie does not exist and this had been investigated to be sure. 9. Blossom told a friend of ours that she was going to give them a border collie from her grand daughter's dog training school. Those friends ended up waiting at their home for this dog's delivery by Katie for weeks. They waited by their phone, re-arranged their schedules when Blossom would tell them Katie was coming, etc. Truth: Katie does not exist so neither does the dog. Later our friend found the dog's picture that had been shown them by Blossom on a border collie website. This lie was especially cruel since our friends had just had their old border collie die of old age. 10. Blossom told us all that Quincy had a buyer for his ranch and what a coincidence that a doctor wanted to buy her house in Ft. Collins too. She said she and Quincy were going to go look for their own house that they can now own together, rather than have separate homes they owned previously. Truth: neither sold any house or had a house to sell since Quincy's house is going up for auction because of bills and taxes not being paid. 11. They went looking for a home to buy and told us upon their return that they were buying a home in Lansing, Iowa. She posted pictures of the home. Truth: we found those pictures later on Pinterest.com, Zillow.com and other sites. They were not owned by Blossom at all. 12. Blossom told us her daughter, who was a lawyer at the BIA, was taking 2 weeks vacation to go to Fort Collins, pack up Blossom's house and storage, and move them all to Lansing, IA. I had a lot of doubt about this story and questioned her a lot about this. She faked a couple telephone calls from her daughter about certain furniture questions during the move. This was probably to try to convince me. Truth: no daughter at BIA, no moving, no home in Lansing, IA. 13. After repeated questioning of her daughter's name, location, her daughter's life, etc., she came up with a story. She said her lawyer daughter volunteers for the Tourism Bureau of Hawaii and in return for pay, gets free trips to Hawaii. She asked us if we wanted to go there with them. She said they didn't have friends who could take off 3 weeks in the spring like we could. So would we want to go? It would only be $500 per couple per week. Truth: no trip, no daughter, no money exchanged thankfully. 14. Quincy told us he had had a heart attack years ago and had diabetes. Truth: he did and was on medication according to his daughter. His daughter is worried to this day that Blossom doesn't let him take this medication. 15. Quincy helped us almost every day he was at the resort. He fixed broken lawn furniture, helped put up a pole and lighting, made railing repairs, stacked wood, hauled gravel, moved and organized piles of trash/items to go into trash, cut trees with chainsaws, etc. He was amazing. He kept busy and was offering help to everyone and anyone at the resort. He spent time with my husband during the day. Sometimes Blossom would come into the shop/town with me and spend time there or at the library. At home Quincy would help and hang out with John. Truth: This is the truth. He became a good friend of my husband and John now misses that friendship. Note: sometime during their stay in the Maple cabin, when we were gone for 3 days, they came into our house and took some of our groceries out of our refrigerator. One of the items was a smoked ham valued at $45 from Nueske's. I had told her if she needed anything out of my pantry, while we were gone, that she could go in and help herself. So when we got back I noticed a pizza, potatoes and more small items were also gone. She later told me that she took the ham and left money in the refrigerator to pay for it. The money was there, minus a few dollars. I was very surprised that she would be so bold. I also didn't like this at all and started looking up their names on the internet. I could not find one item with the names they gave us. I told John I suspected they were using aliases. 16. We started suspecting her of lies with regard to the trip, her home purchase, her family, etc. I found her home pictures on Pinterest.com. She probably saw that I had "liked" those same pictures or something like that. Soon she was running again. The next thing we know, she's telling us her daughter-in-law, Courtney was suffering from stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She would have to leave her home in Lansing that they had just been moved into and come back to stay at our resort. I said a lot of prayers for help for them. I pray a lot for guidance too. Truth: they were staying at another resort in our town. They did not have a Courtney who had cancer. The picture she posted of her Courtney is of a model on the internet. 17. Blossom told us her grandson, of Courtney's, had appendicitis and wasn't this hard to take with everything else going on? She went into detail how he had thrown up all over the place at night and how they had to take him to the emergency room. I said a bunch of new prayers. Truth: Blossom had been throwing up as evidenced by the vomit on a shirt she left in the cabin. My guess is this was from stress on having to leave our resort and our friendship was ending as I was becoming suspicious. Also they were having money troubles. 18. We got a call from another resort in Mercer that Blossom and Quincy were seen in town at the grocery store. He said he heard they were staying at our resort. Blossom and Quincy owed him/his resort $450 and had left Quincy's camera there as collateral. Truth: They were staying at both our resorts during Thanksgiving week. They did owe that resort that money. They owned us $600 at this time. But we felt bad if what she said was true about the grandson having to have an appendectomy. Then when we got the call from the other resort, we knew we had been lied to for sure. 19. For 5 days their items were left in the cabin and they had never shown. She texted me over and over about the appendectomy and all her stress and I didn't answer. Truth: they were on the run. No grandchild. No appendectomy. No payment. So finally she called me at my quilt shop. I had 4 women in shopping so I couldn't talk for long. I asked her if she was okay and when was she going to come to pick up her items, pay us, etc. She said Thursday. Thursday came. No show from them of course and at 8:30 p.m., I started searching the internet more thoroughly. I cleaned out their cabin. It was a mess with food items lying around and I didn't want mice to have fun. Plus they hadn't paid for this stay. So I started cleaning the cabin. We put all their items in our house. That night is when I found out the truth. I looked in a pocket of the duffel bag they left behind. I wanted to find some identification. A name. Anything that would help me to find out their real name. A name was found. I looked up that name on Facebook. It was a woman who had a site set up, "Missing Parent Lyle Snook" and there was Quincy's picture. His name was Delbert Lyle Snook. He was a missing person. His family was concerned for his safety. Blossom's name was Eunice Rosenberg (her former married name she kept). I don't know what her maiden name was. They had defrauded people/businesses in Wyoming according to Lyle's daughter. They had defrauded our resort of $600 and another of $450. We called the police. After entering the group "Missing Parent Lyle Snook" and posting a picture there we had taken of Lyle and Eunice on our pontoon, I realized my mistake. At 11:30 p.m. that night, Eunice noticed my post. She was on to us. If she hadn't been on the run before, she was now. She knew the police were going to be on her trail. The police contacted the Wyoming Sheriff's dept. They said that Lyle's family had been in contact with him in October, that he wanted to be left alone, and so they had dropped the case. The family was furious. The family told me some history, that Eunice had come to Wyoming with a man who died shortly after. Was his death from natural causes? Did I know if Lyle was healthy and okay? Was she taking care of him? Was he able to make phone calls? I answered their questions and concerns on the Missing ... Facebook page. Another mistake. Eunice was able to log onto her false name Facebook page and see my comments. I found this out days later. This was how she was able to keep one step ahead of all of us all this time. They had now been running for 13 months. So this wasn't her first time she had been suspected. She kept up to date on Facebook by looking at Lyle's family's posts. She was one step ahead of us all the time. Hopefully Lyle is healthy, is taking his meds, is able to make outgoing calls, etc. He is a nice man with a fun personality and is very giving of his time, labor and more. He made many friends here at Pine Forest Lodge. We all miss him and are extremely concerned for his welfare. Eunice had become a friend of mine, but when I found out about all the lies she told me, I realized I had been betrayed. I wonder still about if anything she told me was the truth. I will always wonder if she cared about us at all. I remember her smile and smirk, her eyebrows rising in humor, at what she was looking at on her cell phone. She had been enjoying this. May God help them.