MARYSVILLE – Tammie Metzger and her five children want answers.

Her husband and their father, Greg, was killed in a motorcycle accident on Sunnyside Boulevard eight months ago, on Sept. 20, 2015.

He was 41.

The county prosecutor has the case, with Marysville police recommending a charge of vehicular homicide. But Metzger said officers have told her “not to get her hopes up.”

Metzger, 40, was told the charge may not stick because of a lack of witnesses. She is hoping two people interviewed by police that night might come forward, or anyone else who may have seen or heard the crash. Police dismissed one witnesses statement. They said there is no way he saw what he thought he saw.

“To get answers I guess,” Metzger said this week. “Did somebody see something others didn’t?”

She and her husband of almost 16 years were together for 23 and have children ages 21, 18, 14, 12 and 10. She has read through the more than 100 pages of accident reports made by half-a-dozen officers. She said the information is so different that it is hard to figure out the truth of what happened.

“They got my statement wrong,” she said. “The stories don’t match up in the police reports.”

The three youngest kids talked about their dad, who had been a long-haul truck driver before getting a job with local concrete company so he could be at home more with his family.

Savannah, 14, said she liked to wrestle and play football with him, along with watching TV.

Alexus, 12, said she liked to go fishing and tent camping to places like Winthrop and Port Susan.

Geoseph, 10, misses playing video games with his dad.

“We were always a close family,” said Metzger, who was born and raised in this area.

Along with being her husband, Greg was Metzger’s best friend. “We were never apart,” she said. “We said we were high school sweethearts, even though we didn’t go to school together.”

She enjoyed riding with him on his Harley Davidson. But on the night he died, she was a few blocks behind him in a car.

That night

Metzger said that night Greg was sleeping when they got a call from friends asking them to come to a local tavern for karaoke. They played darts for a few hours then decided about 1 a.m. to go to one of their houses in the Sunnyside area.

Police reports say Greg and friend Erin Tresham “peeled out” in the parking lot. He was just “messing around,” Tresham said.

Everyone followed in a caravan.

When they got to a stoplight near Little Caesars the caravan separated from the other two.

Police reports say Greg passed Tresham at the boulevard grocery store, and then Tresham in turn tried to pass him.

The details of what happened right after that are unclear. But Greg ended up crashing going about 69 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone. He went airborne and hit a tree. A makeshift memorial with Seahawks and other memorabilia is still there.

Police say the two were racing but Metzger doesn’t believe it. Greg had been riding motorcycles safely for more than 20 years.

“I know deep down inside he wasn’t racing,” she said, adding he may have just sped up to avoid colliding with Tresham’s two-door black sedan.

At the scene

What Metzger does know is when she reached the scene people in the caravan were at the side of the road screaming. She looked over and saw her husband’s body lying on the ground.

She went over to him, and one of their friends already was doing CPR.

A police report says she was crying loudly and rocking back and forth. “He’s cold,” she’s quoted as saying in one of the reports.

Reports say Tresham also was there, obviously upset about the death of his friend. He was holding Greg’s hand, screaming his name and for him to wake up. When a firefighter came over to put a blanket over the deceased man people started swearing and yelling out for medics to help their friend. A chaplain was called to the scene.

Tresham was especially upset. “It took four officers to wrestle Erin away,” one report says.

As for Tresham, Metzger said, “I don’t want to talk to him.” But she said she later received a text from Tresham that she took photos of. He reportedly accepted responsibility. “He said he was at fault,” she said.

The investigation

Tresham was arrested for DUI. His reading was .085 percent, just over the legal limit. Greg’s body had no drug or alcohol readings. He was wearing a novelty helmet, not one approved by the DOT.

Greg was a big man at 5-foot-9, 292 pounds. On the night he died he was wearing an “Iron Maiden” t-shirt and a brown, leather motorcycle vest.

He had a number of tattoos, including metal blades, skulls, eyeball, pirate cap and spider web. One on his right forearm was blue, green and red praying hands with flowers and banners that ironically read, “Guilty Until Proven Innocent.”