While working for the Collins family, Maggie met and began dating a local artist named Jeff Clark. She often spent her free evenings over at his small art studio. In June of 1970, David decided to play a trick on Maggie. He pretended to hang himself from the closet in his bedroom. Maggie found him and shrieked in terror. David let himself down and ran out of the house. Roger ordered Maggie to find the boy, and she first began searching around the Collinwood horse stables. Finding nothing but a drunken handyman named Willie Loomis, she extended her search to the original mansion site known as the Old House. David tricked her into following him into a dark room. As she entered, he locked the door behind her and raced back to Collinwood. Maggie was horrified to be stuck inside the damp room.