First Wife Goes Missing, Now Husband

Aug. 29, 2010— -- When 61-year-old Marcia Forsberg disappeared in February, her husband told neighbors she had gone away, but after police questioned Richard Forsberg last week, the college administrator vanished too.

Now Orange County, Calif., police are looking for both of them, and they say Richard Forsberg is a person of interest in his wife's disappearance, though they have not said he is suspected of any crime.

"He hasn't been to work in a couple of days, which is unusual," Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino told "Good Morning America."

Richard Forsberg, 61, hasn't been seen since Tuesday, the day police questioned him about his wife, a retired magazine writer and cancer survivor.

"He stated he last saw his wife on March 13, but has not filed a missing persons report," Amormino said.

Marcia Forsberg's brother, Tony Litoff of Ventura, Calif., said he had not spoken with his sister since January, but that is not unusual for them. However, after talking to police he is "concerned."

"I'm concerned because of the information that I have so far, it's a bewildering kind of a thing," he said. "I'm not going to push any panic button and get into that treadmill until I get some good information. Right now it's just a story with a lot of loose ends. ... I don't want to do anything until I have more information."

Friends and neighbors of the Forsbergs in Rancho Santa Margarita said they didn't think much of Marcia's disappearance at first, but as time went on their suspicions began to grow.

"We heard she was going to see some friends in Arizona so we didn't think anything of it," Nicole Kontoff, a neighbor said.

It wasn't just the amount of time that Marcia Forsberg had been gone, but the behavior of her husband that started to raise questions.

"He would give us a date of when she was supposed to get back and that date would come and she still wasn't back. Then we would ask again," another neighbor, Judy Quinn, said. "And then after a while he said they were having marital problems and they were in a trial separation."