i don't go under cover every day. that's what made me nervous. >> they had a secret plan. >> were you armed? >> yes. >> and you were wearing a wire? >> yes. >> to solve a baffling case. a college student on a friday night out who vanished. >> she was a very shy girl but she was something special. >> the possible suspects just about everyone. the friend, the boyfriend, the mysterious older man. even her mom. >> i was shocked that they even suspected me. >> so why were police at a dead end? enter this guy. >> he sees things other cops don't see. >> phenomenal. >> they call him the evidence whisperer. he's about to crack this case before your eyes.

>> the answer was in the details. it was right there. >> and you won't believe how. >> you walk out of there thinking i spooked it. it worked. >> i wasn't quite sure. >> the night lynsie disappeared. >> thanks for joining us. i'm lester holt. it stumped police for years, the case of a young college student who had gone missing but they finally get their big break from a very small thing. take a look at this photo. there is a key clue here. a single detail spotted by an eagle eye detective. and that's what helped him turn this 9 year mystery into a slam dunk case. watch now and see exactly how he did it. here's josh mancowitz. >> sometimes the facts are as clear as the california sky but other times, you have to know where to look to see the truth.

this man has made a career of noticing what others do not. >> what's his reputation? >> meticulous investigator. just pores over the volumes of evidence. finds things others don't find. >> the evidence whisperer. >> correct. >> does this man act guilty? does he know more than he's saying? >> i didn't know anything was going on. all right? >> what about this man, can you believe the story he's telling? >> i was supposed to pick her up twice and so out of character. didn't show up on either day. >> the evidence whisperer wasn't present at either of those interviews but watching them helped him solve the mystery of what happened to a vivacious young woman and bring answers to the mother who loved her. >> i was always proud of her. she was a real fighter. >> lynsie ekelund arrived on july 22nd 1980. she was the youngest of three.

maybe that fighting spirit isn't visible in her photos but her mother nancy said it was always there. lynsie had a passion for animals. she helped out in her spare time at a local shelter. kim davidson who worked at lynsie's middle school remember young lynsie also had a sense of compassion. >> outside, it was freezing cold. i didn't bring a jacket that day and i felt these little hands up on my shoulder and a sweater come up around me and it was lynsie and said i just can't stand sitting here watching you shiver and just wrapped me up in her sweater. she just melted me. >> lynsie gave back in other ways. lynsie would lie about her age to give blood. remarkable because lynsie struggled with her own disabilities. her left arm was paralyzed, her left leg impaired. did she ever talk about how she became disabled? >> she brought to me that she was in a car accident and she

was thrown when she was a little girl and very very just like matter of fact. not, poor me or feel sorry for me or anything like that. >> but growing up lynsie needed so much care. her mother nancy was with lynsie like her shadow. >> somebody had to be with her 24 hours a day. >> that was you. >> yes. it was her and i alone. she was my only purpose in my life is to make her as normal as she could be. >> by the time kim met lynsie lynsie's dad and brothers had moved away. kim remembers a very tight family unit of just two. >> how close were lynsie and nancy? >> unbelievably extremely. >> but as lynsie reached adolescence, that started changing. like a lot of teens, she wanted her own identity. she changed the spelling of her name from this to this. by high school they werere were girlfriends and even some

boyfriends. after years of moms and daughters being best friends and confidants lynsie began to keep some things in her life to herself. like where she was really headed. one night in february 2001. >> does it make any sense that she would like to you about what she was going to do that night? >> i had never known her to lie to me but you don't know what you don't know. >> it was a friday night. linynsie was in college part-time and working but still living at home. she told her mom that instead of her usual friday night dinner she was staying the night with a girlfriend named andrea. someone nancy had never met. and then a young man named chris came to the door to pick lynsie up. >> she introduces you to this guy chris. did chris say hello to you? >> yes. >> was he polite good manners? >> mm-hmm. >> but nancy said something felt wrong. >> i had a feeling about him. >> what feeling?

>> i don't know. >> but you put it aside. >> mm-hmm. >> of course she was used to things going wrong, spent years worries about lynsie. it was a struggle to let go but she did. >> last thing i said wear your seat belt and looks over and said back at you mom. love you. last thing she said to me. >> locked up the house and went to bed. the next day, lynsie was supposed to call after she was done tutoring two girls from the neighborhood but when the call never came nancy drove over and found out lynsie never showed up at her job. >> all of the sudden my daughter is not where she's supposed to be. she had taught these little girls about four months about. >> and you had no way to reach her. >> i had no way. >> nancy ekelund was frantic. >> i started calling hospitals, the morgue. i was desperate to see if there was a jane doe in the morgue. >> there was no jane doe. and there was no lynsie ekelund.

>> most people who disappear like that they come back within a couple of days. >> if not 24 hours, yes. >> is that what you thought was going to happen? >> i think we did. >> corinne lou mas with the placentia police department. >> no unidentified bodies. >> no unidentified bodies. >> you checked the er. >> we checked everybody, we checked everything. there was just no sign. it was as if she vanished. >> when we come back lynsie had a secret that she kept from just about everyone. >> when's the last time you saw lynsie? >> a week ago, no, i don't think so.

her daughter was missing. nancy ekelund began handing out flyers and counting the days without lynsie. ticking them off on little post post-it notes and talked to corrine loumas with the

placentia police department. she wanted to know how they were best friends. it was a speech corinne loomis heard before. >> parents sometimes give you the idea it was an idyllic family life because there's the fear if they don't paint a rosy picture of the person they're not going to be sympathetic of them. >> not going to work hard. >> not going to work hard. i think that was a little bit of that with nancy. >> placentia pd was working the case and brought in the usual suspects like the boyfriend. >> when you guys were dating hadn't been dating anyone else to your knowledge. >> his name was matthew ramirez. off and on. >> on thursday when i went to her house, she said i want to break up. >> as can happen with young romance what was off was soon back on. lynsie and matt were back together in time for the weekend. but not in time to make plans

for that friday night. >> and then she's like i'm getting ready. i'm going to san diego. i would her, i'm like have fun. be careful. she's like okay. >> and then the last known person to have seen her, chris mcamis, 21 years old out of school. told the cops she was unemployed. lynsie met him through friends about four months prior and turns out he never drove lynsie to andrea's house for a sleepover. chris said that was a lie lynsie made up for her mother. the real plan was to go clubbing all night in san diego. >> don't tell my mom we're going to san diego because my mom won't let us or won't let me go or something like that and definitely don't tell her that we're clubbing. >> chris told police when their night of clubbing went bust they headed home earlier than expected. he dropped off the other girls, he said and then headed to lynsie's house. chris said it was after 4:00 a.m. when he finally got back

here to lynsie's neighborhood. and he said that lynsie was worried that her mom might hear his truck pull up at that hour so lynsie asked to be dropped off not at her house but the corner about 50 yards away. that sounded strange to police until they heard from lynsie's friend. but another time she asked to be dropped off right here. chris said he then drove home and police even found a photo from a bank atm of what looked like chris' truck heading north on the right street at the right time. to the cops, chris' story added up. and that was when police learned matthew and chris were not the only men in lynsie's life. there was someone else who both matthew and chris mentioned to investigators. an older man who drove lynsie around no one knew his name. they had heard lynsie refer to him as her friend. >> all anybody knows him by.

>> as her friend. >> yeah. >> nancy had no idea lynsie was friends with any older man. she was about to find out. >> two days after lynsie vanishes you get a phone call. >> yes. >> you're pretty much at your wits end at this point and the phone rings, it's a guy named marty. did you know a marty? >> no. >> as far as you know did lynsie know a marty? >> no. >> he said he went to pick lynsie up at school but she wasn't there. said he had money of lynsie's she needed for tuition. none of that made any sense to nancy. >> after lynsie goes missing, nancy, her mother gets a phone call. a guy named marty. >> marty rossler. >> and what did marty rossler say to her? >> marty said he's befriended lynsie's and concerned because he hadn't heard from her. >> what did you learn? >> marty rossler was not marty

rossler. >> he was really marty pregenzer. he did not have a criminal record. what he did have was a relationship with lynsie that he hadn't told his wife about. he told police he'd often pick lynsie up and give her rides but that was about it. marty was 58. >> and she was 20? >> she was 20. >> and they were boyfriend and girlfriend? >> don't think so. >> so police brought in marty. over two days they recorded those interviews. at times on video and sometimes just on audio tape. >> when's the last time you saw lynsie? >> a week ago. >> no. i don't think so. >> absolutely. >> no absolutely not. >> and marty said he had last seen lynsie the day that she went to san diego on that friday. >> did you believe him? >> we really didn't believe him. >> they didn't believe him because of a tip they'd received, a clerk at a local clothing store had called to say

she'd seen lynsie and a much older man who matched marty's description together at her store after the day lynsie went missing. >> i wasn't there on that day, okay? i have been in that store, all right, and i said i'm like you. i mean, i'm easily identified. okay? i mean probably every place i've been with her would know i was in there with her, okay? >> it was a very long very long interview. >> friendly? >> no. no. i remember drilling down on him because i really thought that he might know where lynsie was. you're a parent? >> yes. >> how many kids? >> two. >> if you had a child gone for 8 days and then vaporized in thin air. would your heart not be broken? >> oh absolutely. >> do you not feel some compassion for nancy? >> unbelievable. i think this is a nice girl

and, you know, this family has had their share of hardships, and this is just, you know i feel so helpless. >> i don't think you are helpless. i think you can help us. >> marty insisted he couldn't but he didn't know what had happened to lynsie. detectives weren't buying. >> have you harmed lynsie? >> no. >> either by accident? accidents happen. >> never touched her. never touched her. >> okay. >> this girl -- >> have you put her someplace? >> no no. >> police searched marty's home and found nothing. no proof that marty had anything to do with lynsie's disappearance. so they moved on to a new suspect. someone closer to lynsie than anyone else on earth. coming up -- >> i was shocked that they even suspected me. >> lynsie's own mother. were investigators ruling her out or roping her in?

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nancy and lynsie had been together all lynsie's life. now nancy waited alone ticking off the days worrying about where her daughter was and the investigation. police not keeping her in the loop and so she was delighted to hear they were going to visit. so marty, the older guy, the relationship. nobody knew about. he denies it. chris, said i dropped her off, never saw her again. >> right. >> and you look at lynsie's mother. >> we did look at lynsie's mother. you have to. >> so i made my cookies and all this stuff, like i do. >> the cops weren't coming for

coffee. they arrived with a search warrant, shovels and cadaver dogs. >> i was shocked that they even suspected me. i didn't know what a search warrant was. >> the house nancy and lynsie had once shared was torn apart. >> how much of a suspect was nancy? >> i don't know that nancy was on the radar for a long time. she was on the radar long enough to set her aside. >> after that search they did just that. they believe this anguished mother had nothing to do with the disappearance of her daughter. so they took nancy off the list. they also took off the boyfriend, matthew. he had an alibi that held up putting him somewhere else at the time lynsie went missing. so that left just two. >> i haven't seen her since that day. >> marty who police didn't trust because of his secret relationship with lynsie and because he had lied about his identity. and the man who dropped lynsie

off at that corner the last person to see her before she vanished. chris. >> come on in here. grab a seat. you remember her? >> detectives decided to start over. they brought chris back to see if his story still held up. >> i really would like to think that lynsie has been like either abducted or something's happened to her. i'd rather than to think with friends or something like that. >> let's cut the bull and being positive. let's just get down to the nitty-gritty and strip away the i'd like to think. you know how things are in a perfect world, then i'd, what she's, okay? >> it's a possibility she's dead.

>> thought chris seemed oddly calm talking about a friend who may have been murdered. >> it turns out somebody killed her. what do you think should happen? >> find them. >> find them. then what? >> they go to jail. >> how long do you think they should go to jail? >> as long as it takes. >> like what? >> i don't know. go to jail for a while. >> that's as strong as you could get out of him. >> as strong as we could get out of him. >> personally electrocute him. >> he should get the gas chamber. she was my friend. she didn't deserve that wouldn't hurt a fly. >> his lack of emotion was suggestive that perhaps chris should move to the top of the list. but it was not evident. after the interview, chris was free to leave and detectives

weren't any closer to learning what happened to lynsie. and neither was nancy who remained convinced her daughter would just come home one day. you thought one day she would walk back through the door. >> yes. >> she believed it because she wanted to. and because over the years, several people had told her, they'd seen lynsie. >> they never saw the front of her face. they always saw the back of her and i held on to every word they said. >> her friend kim, remembers how hard it was on nancy thinking lynsie had just left her. >> she went through the period of being angry at her and thought, maybe she did leave me. and threw some pictures out, clothes out. >> she threw lynsie's stuff away? >> yes, because she was so angry and thought, how could she do that? how could she leave me? >> it was torture for nancy no matter what version of events you believed and police still

weren't telling her anything. nancy, during all this time feels like she's been sort of cut out of the loop. >> yes. >> like you're not telling her anything. maybe you're not actually working on it. >> right. >> whatever you are doing, you're certainly not sharing it with her. >> nancy was pretty angry. we worked this case diligently for a long time. at some point, you hit the wall. >> there are nine detectives working every night, drugs, gangs, rape murder and cold cases. but 2008 it was clear plasencia pd hit a wall would need help and who they needed was a guy named larry. tell me about larry. >> larry is phenomenal. >> phenomenal because what he sees things other cops don't see? >> phenomenal because he sees things cops don't see. i don't know anybody who could

have done a better job than larry. >> the evidence was for about to listen what the facts of this case were really saying. when we come back was there something that police had missed? you bet. that picture of a truck spotted on the night of the crime, something about it just doesn't seem right. and the evidence whisperer is all over it. when the night lynsie disappeared continues.

by 2008 lynsie ekelund had been missing for seven years. the case had gone from cold to frozen in time. to placentia pd decided to outsource the investigation to the cold case unit at the orange county d.a.'s office to a guy named larry montgomery. with more than 30 years working homicide larry's put away his share of bad guys. not usually by shocking on doors. instead, larry worked by looking very closely at the evidence. he doesn't work fast. in fact larry is meticulously slow and that was just what this cold case needed. was there anything in the original investigation that struck you as something that you

needed to re-examine? >> everything. >> everything that had led placentia police into that wall trying to decide between two suspects. >> i mean, i'm concerned about this girl. okay? you know and she's missing. >> marty, lynsie's older friend who kept their relationship a secret and lied about his name. and chris -- >> in my heart it seems like she might be alive. >> last person to see lynsie when he dropped her off. >> i don't know until i see the details. >> you're no doubt aware you have a reputation for believing, i don't know god in the details but guilt in the details. >> in essence. >> guilty or innocent? was it marty or chris? larry even considered another possibility. could it have been random someone who had seen lynsie at just the wrong time? >> so you've got a bad guy just

waiting, head coaching that theoping that the guy drops out and then consider it weigh it. go it doesn't, a good possibility, probably not, but still keep an open mind. >> so larry sat down and read through the entire case file. all the witness statements. all the interviews. he did that for two years. he watched the february 2001 interview with a very unhappy marty. >> did it strike you as tremendously suspicious that marty would call after lynsie disappears talk to lynsie's mother and give a phony name? >> if you didn't know the background of marty, then absolutely. >> when i talked to the mother on the phone, i just gave an identifier. marty rossler.

>> which is a lie. >> which is a lie. >> watching that interview, marty chalked up dishonesty as an attempt to save his marriage. >> i don't want my wife to be brought into this thing. >> larry also took a closer look at the idea that marty and lynsie were together at that clothing store after she went missing. >> i wasn't there on that day, okay? >> no one ever found any security video of that and larry learned over the years that well meaning people often get dates wrong. and larry learned a key fact. marty had actually participated in those early searches for lynsie. >> you eliminated marty fairly quickly then. >> yes. >> marty's behavior matched up with that of an innocent person not with a guilty one. >> that's correct. >> he is doing exactly what you would do if you're looking for lynsie. he was searching. >> so larry montgomery turned his attention to chris mcamis.

guilty or innocent? chris was the last person known to be with lynsie. he told police he drove straight home after dropping lynsie off. and police found that photo of what looked like his truck heading north away from lynsie's neighborhood which took him past this atm camera. >> the video in the atm camera police at the time saw that as not ironclad proof that chris was telling the truth, but suggestive that what he said he actually did. >> correct. >> but when larry compared photos of chris' truck with the photos from the bank he saw something no one else had noticed. the paint on the back of the side view mirrors on chris' truck was white. >> what about the truck in the photo? >> the truck in the photo had a dark spot in that area which means whatever mirrors were there, they were black. >> so it's not the same truck. >> that's right. it's not. >> suddenly chris' alibi had a

big hole in it. larry moved on to his history with women. two ex-girlfriends talked to police about how chris would become unhinged by rejection or what he called disrespect. larry heard about how chris had once crushed a pet crab with a hammer right in front of one of his girlfriends. because he thought the crab had killed one of his fish. >> this was a guy with significant anger issues. certainly appears that way. >> told me it was from a car accident. >> larry listened to chris' interviews and talking some of the time about lynsie in the past tense. >> pretty much stuck like this. >> and then larry found something in the paperwork from placentia pd. that proved chris mcamis lied to the police early on about his whereabouts on saturday february 17th the day lynsie didn't come home. chris had told the cops he stayed close to home.

but larry checked chris' credit card statement. >> there was one entry on february 17th and it turns out it was santa clarita, which is 50 miles north of where chris lived. >> where would chris be in santa clairta? >> that's what i wanted to know. >> digging through the reports, found information about chris' dad, he was in construction and in 2000 and 2001 he had a job site in santa clarita. you can't tell now but back in 2001 this was a major construction site. now chris had told police he did not work for his dad that winter but he was on unemployment. but larry saw some big cash deposits going into chris' bank account in addition to his unemployment checks. so thought chris might have been working for his dad off the books and larry came up here to ask around. >> told you it was chris'

father's construction company. chris' father did some of the work and chris worked there. chris was one of the tractor drivers the superintendent said was there every day. >> is this where you thought to yourself that's where lynsie ekelund is? >> i thought chances were excellent if i killed lynsie and was in chris' situation and had use of a tractor in the middle of nowhere, i might use that tractor to dig a hole to put her in. >> now all of thethe evidence whisperer had to do was prove it. coming up an undercover operation. >> were you armed? >> yes. >> and you were wearing a wire? >> yes. >> could she help them get the proof they'd need? >> the color of his face went white.

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cop from a nearby town to go undercover. >> they needed a police officer who looked like a college student and didn't have the mannerisms of a police officer. >> officer fit the bill. how were you dressed? >> a shirt and something a college student would wear but also appeal to a guy. >> were you armed? >> yes. >> and you were wearing a wire? >> yes. >> hi are you chris? >> yes. >> my name is nicole anderson. i'm from torch magazine. >> officer sangelli posing as a reporter with a fake press badge. he had talked to in the past about the case. you used her real name. >> no a fake name. worked at the torch magazine

that remains have been found they believed found to lynsie. i guess they're doing dna testing right now and in the meantime i'm supposed to contact the family to get the initial reaction for the story. >> okay. >> when i told him the police believe they found lynsie's remains, his demeanor changed. quite drastically actually. i could see his color of the face went white. >> the police had not found lynsie's remains. that was a lie. police do it all the time and it's legal. in fact larry hadn't tried to find lynsie up at the construction location where chris had worked and he got some interest from cadaver dogs but nothing more. just up the street from chris' house, detective brice angel of placentia pd who was assigned to work with larry was listening and keeping an eye on the action. so you're watching him while this interview happens at the front doorstep? >> yeah i was sitting, you know ten houses down watching

the reporter or undercover police officer. once she left the area we were in business. >> what happened? >> later that night, he was seen coming out of his house and going into the garage lights go on. we're talking like 3:00 in the morning. it was clearly a sign of somebody who couldn't sleep. >> detectives were sure that they had rattled their suspect. the next day, they trailed chris when he left his house. >> at some point, it became apparent he knew we were following him. >> they broke off surveillance. and brought chris in. larry had read all about chris mcamis and looked at a tape of every time chris had been in for an interview. >> here's what the situation is. >> today, he and chris were going to meet for the first time. >> i have been investigating this case for about two years now. >> larry had a plan to get chris to talk without asking for a lawyer. >> you might want to know what's going on why you're sitting

here. >> larry promised to fill him in on the case in detail thinking chris would want to know if the cops have the goods and then maybe he'd have something to say. >> i have to advise you of your rights which i will do in a moment. after that what i'd like to do is explain to you everything. >> larry read chris' rights and then before chris could really respond, larry laid out his case. he said he knew chris had never dropped lynsie off that night. because the atm photos first fooled investigators proved that chris wasn't there. >> it wasn't your truck. for years, it was thought it was your truck and it's not. as a matter of fact your truck did not go by that night. it wasn't there. >> he told chris about the credit card statement. and how he found someone who remembered chris working on the job site. >> all of the sudden big red flags. you know you are working. you are up there when you said

you were not but he said work on saturday disappeared on a saturday morning. none of your credit card uses up there is on any weekend. all of it is on weekdays except for the day lynsie disappeared. so you're working up there. >> he told chris the lie about lynsie being found. >> found dna for mother and lynsie. check against the body and it was lynsie. now we've got lynsie up there right in the area where you were right at the time where you did not drop her off and we have enough to prove the crime. >> and knowing about chris' anger issues with previous girlfriends, larry summoned up a little empathy to draw chris in. >> i know you have that ability to be angry. but i don't know what would cause her to get you that angry. what she could have done. >> chris didn't say much until a little body language revealed

that larry was on the right track. >> was it a premeditated thing? i didn't think it was. so what did she do? >> larry finished talking. he was hoping chris would give it up. >> i think i need a lawyer to talk to about this with me. >> well it's up to you. >> the supreme court had made it pretty clear if someone declares that they want an attorney the interview is supposed to stop until one can be hired or provided. but in this case larry was walking a line. believing that asking for a lawyer isn't the same as wondering if you need one. corinne was from the other room watching. >> were you holding your breath when he said that? >> yes, this was a make or break

interview. if he didn't confess, he was going to walk again. >> coming up -- >> i knew that was true. >> years of mystery come down to one chance. >> you have the other side of the story. >> what kind of story would he

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the job site. >> how long have you known lynsie? >> the story about finding the body and then the interview had suddenly stopped dead. >> i think i need a lawyer to talk to about this i think. >> well it's up to you. >> and because chris said "i think i need a lawyer" and not "i want a lawyer," larry thought whatever came next would be add miz addmissable in court. >> it interjected something very quickly. >> nobody likes to be labeled a monster and in this case that's the way it's pointing. only you have the other side of the story. nobody is going to be able to speak for you. that's why we're here now.

there's a reason everything happens. i'm sure there was some circumstances that happened that night or that morning. >> he kind of sighed and he laid out a story. >> all right, what happened was -- >> and suddenly you realize -- >> this is it. he's going to give it up. i was sitting next to the detective from the other agency and i reached over and grabbed his arm and i said he is going to confess. >> it was sad and it was ugly. >> she, i was going to take her home. >> okay. >> she was telling me, why don't i just sleep over at your place because i don't want to upset my mom. >> makes sense. >> and larry had suspected chris never dropped off lynsie at that corner. >> i was trying to kiss her and then she elbowed me in the chest. and then i went to my kitchen in

my apartment. and i drank a lot of vodka. and then i went back and i tried to do the same thing. she pretended to be asleep. and i pulled her pants down and i was totally drunk. >> okay. >> she got up said oh my god, what are you doing? i'm calling the police. when i got up and walked to her, she tried to knock me out with my phone, with my home phone. she hit my face. like this to my face. >> okay. >> and being drunk, it enraged me. it set me on fire. and i grabbed her. threw her on to my bed and i got

her into a headlock. >> okay. >> and she died. >> and then what did you do? >> then i tried to figure out what i should do because i couldn't believe how it just happened that way. >> quickly, huh? >> i couldn't believe it. i thought she was just going to pass out and i ended up killing her. >> that was it. lynsie ekelund had been killed before anyone realized she was even missing. chris said he then drove up to the work site and used a skip loader to dig a hole. he held on to lynsie's body for a few days and then when no one was around he buried her. >> did it feel any better to finally know? >> no because i was really devastated. there was a relief but i wasn't any happier because of it. >> after the confession

detectives brought another officer and chris could simply not stop talking. >> unbelievable. it's been so long. finally, you know it feels better when you finally just say what you're supposed to say. you know? i know my life now, i don't know if i'll get the death penalty for this. >> you'll have to ask them the questions. >> then larry came back. always meticulous. he wasn't done. he wanted that final detail. >> where approximately was it that you took her? >> where chris had left lynsie. >> right here. >> explained even though they found her remains, which wasn't true, the grave site had shifted over the years from flooding. >> where the tractor was parked

and exactly where does the hole? >> chris returned to the site that had become lynsie's final resting place. >> and right where this tree is i pulled my truck over. parked it. >> the tree to our left heefrre? >> uh-huh. this true didn't used to exist there before construction. >> okay. >> he wasn't sure of the exact spot. >> it's over in this vicinity. >> but it could be way up there? >> in the tree. all the way to that brush. >> that brush over there? >> it took more than a day of digging to find what was left of lynsie. first they found a shoe. and then a jacket. and a bracelet. that's how nancy knew they'd found her. the coroner confirmed it using dental records. >> the back of my truck was over here. >> two years after he confessed, chris mcamis pleaded guilty to

second-degree murder. >> she was there. >> his sentence is 15 years to life. >> you told me that you thought you let this consume your life too much. >> it did. it does to this day. >> well now it's over. what are you going to do? >> i don't know. a new life is opening up to you, and i don't know. i don't have any answers. i just have to get over this. >> that's all for now. try to turn a half century of mistrust. history made. we are hearing more about a woman killed by a getaway driver in san francisco.

a a. he's not going to be happy among other people not going to be happy when he comes to the conclusion she's not coming home. >> family and friends struggle to come to terms with a sudden tragic loss. thank you for joining us. peggy bunker has the night off. we begin in san francisco where we are learning more about the woman killed by robbers fleeing