Poor Peggy Fossett.
First, she loses her famed aviator husband, adventurer Steve Fossett after his plane went down Sept. 3 somewhere in a remote Nevada.
Now, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons intends to bill her for the $687,000 the state spent for a month-long, unsuccessful search, according to the Associated Press. Fossett was declared dead Feb. 15 by an Illinois judge. In that determination, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Jeffery Malak said Fossett left a “vast” eight-figure estate.
State and local government in Nevada don’t normally charge when they hunt for missing people, the AP report said. But the final decision on whether Peggy Fossett will be billed rests with the Nevada governor, who since January has cut state spending to deal with a budget shortfall.