this is "nightline." >> tonight, two women gone missing ten years apart. now one body discovered. >> last night, for me, was the hardest thing i've ever done. >> the same man suspected in both disappearances. will he talk? two families united in grief and hope. >> we're here to get justice for them. plus -- ♪ purple rain >> the prince's bride. matae garcia telling all about her marriage to the "purple rain" pop superstar. >> that's the part of prince that's very controlling. >> his drastic reaction to the loss of their first child. and the private struggles his adoring public never saw. >> i don't even know what the pills were, i just know that they didn't make him feel good.

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good evening. thanks fare join is us. tonight a major break in a desperate months-long search for a missing daughter. sparking renewed intensity for the investigation into a second disappearance. now two families in a painful search for answers. from the one man with a disturbing history linked to both cases. could he provide critical clues? >> when i found out, i showed no emotion. i was just -- shocked. >> reporter: a heartbreaking mystery partially solved. but raising painful new questions in the disappearance of a missouri woman. >> the last two weeks i've had a really bad heaviness in my heart. >> reporter: the body of 21-year-old jessica runyan, who vanished seven months ago, discovered just this week outside kansas city. >> last night for me was the hardest thing i've ever done. it was hard for me to telling me began that her best friend and sister is gone. >> reporter: jessica's mother jamie seeking solace with

another grieving family, the beckfords. ronda and jim's daughter went missing nearly ten years ago. two families linked together in tragedy. both missing daughters who disappeared miles apart, both connected in one man, kyler yust. >> we've been through this before and it's a roller coaster ride of emotions. kind of a self-presentation mechanism -- >> reporter: a ring, police telling them a second skull in the same location had been discovered. >> i'm not going to say 100% but my gut's telling me they'll have some resolution. >> reporter: the other set of remains? a potential bombshell breakthrough in the 10-year-old disappearance of cara kapetsky. police say it could take up to a year to get a positive identification. both bodies found just miles away from the kopetsky home. >> in my heart of hearts i believe it's kara. everybody always said when he took jessica, that they felt that when they found one, they

would find both. >> reporter: kyler yust, kapetsky's ex-boyfriend, allegedly the last person jessica runyan was seen with, denied any connection with the disappearance. >> did you kill jessica? >> did you? >> the 28-year-old has never been charged in connection with the disappearance, authorities now investigating a homicide. the family hopeful new clues might finally link back to kyler yust, a man with a troubled past. >> our fight begins now. we're not done. >> reporter: jessica rannian known for her easy laugh and playful spirit. >> we like to drive around and burglary music. >> reporter: the oldest of three girls, she was a role model, her family says, to 14-year-old megan and 6-year-old michaela. >> i love you, jessica. >> that's my last one of the four of us. it shows our closeness. >> reporter: we first spoke with jamie in january. she let us into their lives for her first extensive tv interview since her daughter went missing.

>> i can talk about anything and everything about her, but it's just -- the sentimental stuff like future, past. yeah. sorry. >> reporter: jessica's grandfather driving us on the route he believes she took that last night. at the time still searching for clues. >> jamie's pretty strong. but eventually there's a time when jamie is -- it's going to hit her and hit her hard. >> reporter: thursday, september 8th. jessica is at a party with friends. >> six to seven people there. sitting around, drinking beer, watching tv, goofing off. >> reporter: she reportedly leaves with kyler, a long-time friend of her boyfriend. kyler, a man with an alleged history of violence towards women. he'd just gotten out of prison on a drug charge. >> she offered to give him a ride? >> they came together what we were told. >> when did you first get that

sinking feeling when something was wrong? >> when she didn't show up at her doctor's appointment in the afternoon. >> reporter: hours later police find jessica's black chevy equinox, interior destroyed by fire in an isolated wooded area just off the road. there is no sign of jessica inside. >> that was my worst fear that she was burnt in the car. >> reporter: early the next morning, kyler yust arrested, accused of setting jessica's car on fire, charged with knowingly burning a vehicle. he's pleaded not guilty. molly hastings is his lawyer. >> jessica runyan's mother is essentially begging him to speak out, you've advised him not to. >> this is not advice to further punish or penalize jessica's family. kyler has not been charged with anything outside of knowingly burning this car, and that is again a charge we pled not guilty to and that we intend to fight. >> reporter: kyler still in jail waiting trial on charges relating to the burning of jessica's suv. in a statement to abc news on

the discovery of jessica's remains, hastings saying, despite developments made over the course of the past week, mr. yust remains charged with only one count of knowingly burning a vehicle. she continues, there are too many unknown factors to comment further, but i can assert that kyler has not been charged with any further crimes. but there were disturbing signs in his past? >> court documents show almost an escalation of violence against the women in his life. >> any time we have domestic violence in a relationship, there's clearly an escalation. >> reporter: 2011, an ex-girlfriend sought an order of protection against him, alleging yust choked me and slapped me and punched me, he threatened to kill me and my family and my baby." but it's what happened to kylr's other ex-girlfriend almost 10 years ago that's most alarming. >> kara was 17 when she went missing. >> kara loved her friends, loved being around people, she always had a -- she had a smile --

>> reporter: her parents noticed a personality change after started dating kylr. >> his idea was to separate her from us. so he could have the control. the manipulation over her. >> reporter: later, her family says they started noticing bruises and then she told them stories indicating physical and emotional abuse. >> she said, he grabbed me by the throat, slammed me up into the corner of the door, and said, what are you going to do now [ bleep ]? and she said, dad, i thought he was going to kill me. >> reporter: kara filed an order of protection citing he had a knife and said, i'm going to slit your throat. >> he has never been charged with any crime related to her disappearance. i have every expectation that had there been enough evidence against kylr to have charged him in that young woman's disappearance, that they most certainly would have. and they haven't. and it's been ten years. >> reporter: yet ten years later he is still a person of interest in that case. >> i think kylr will be a person of interest forever based on the

fact that public opinion has made up its mind. >> reporter: for the grieving families, still a long way away from resolution. >> just can't imagine it. until you've experienced it -- had to deal with it, it's really hard to explain. >> the waiting is the hardest part. i was happy for jamie when she got the confirmation that it was jessica. to hear that awful word that it might be a year? i mean, that was just -- that was hard to take. >> reporter: two mothers not leaving each other's side, vowing to fight until justice is served. >> we're going to make sure that their voice is heard loud and clear. and we're here to get justice for them. >> our thoughts are with both families tonight. and of course we'll continue to follow developments in the story. up next for us, prince's ex-wife opening up about his life behd

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that motorcycle, the heels, and otherworldly aura. >> i don't know any other man that can wear eyeliner and wear heels and be a cool dude. it's not going to happen again. >> reporter: partners in life and music together, mayte garcia and prince made the video for the morning papers here in l.a.'s griffith park. >> i'm honored to have known him. and shared what we did together. >> reporter: now nearly a year after prince died of an unintentional overdose, mayte reveals her side of their story in her new memoir "the most beautiful: my life with prince." >> talk about him being not particularly lucid, perhaps aspirin overdose. there were signs there? >> there were signs. >> reporter: once she says he was taking to the e.r. after what he convinced her was an aspirin overdose. you never saw him taking drugs? >> i never saw him taking drugs.

never saw him drunk. marijuana, never. the aspirin, i believed him. >> i felt bad for you during parts of this book. >> i know that people would probably be angry with him. i hope that i turned it around and made you appreciate and respect prince. >> reporter: prince is the kind of guy i can't imagine having in everyday life. tuesday morning breakfast. what's he like? >> his mornings were sometimes 2:00, 3:00 in the afternoon. disclaimer, no, he's not your average guy. but he loved driving in the car, he loved tostitos. >> reporter: prince was intensely private, and at that time a devout seventh day adventist. mayte was pregnant. there was something wrong. she claims prince declined medical intervention. >> the faith that he had just made me believe that everything was going to be okay. >> reporter: it wasn't. their baby amir died of a rare

genetic disorder, fifer syndrome, at 1 week old. >> the worst thing that ever happened to me and to him, i think. >> reporter: a week later, they appeared on "oprah." prince insisted -- >> what is the status of your baby? >> our family exists. we're just beginning it. >> reporter: amir is already dead. >> it's all good. never mind what you hear. >> i knew we had an album to promote, and -- the faith that kept me going was that we were going to try again. >> reporter: prince called the shots. he made the decision that neither of you would be there when amir passed? >> i wouldn't have survived that. >> you weren't given the choice? >> i know. i wasn't given the choice. and i was very, very resentful for many years. >> so the house that you shared, i mean, he had that burned down. >> bulldozed down. that's the part of prince that's very controlling. he doesn't look back. he moves forward. >> reporter: but soon the loss

overwhelmed her. >> i had a whole bunch of pills in the bathroom. i went into the bedroom because i figured if they were going to find me, at least find me laying down. i had a yorkie, her name was mia. i had the pills in my hand. and she just came and just started scratching me. she just wouldn't stop scratching me. she saved me. >> reporter: she did become pregnant again, but suffered a miscarriage. >> i think that's what drove us apart. >> reporter: three years later, prince married again. >> i think he thought because we lost our two children, two babies, that i wasn't the one. >> reporter: prince and mayte drifted apart, hadn't spoken in years. in late 2015 she got a call. >> he wasn't doing well. i felt the need to try to reach out. but once you're out of that circle, it's really hard to get back in the circle. >> reporter: later, mayte got a text from his second wife, manuela, that read simply "call me."

>> she's the one that told me he passed away. first thing i thought about was that he was alone. that was beyond heartbreaking to me. >> reporter: the genius who gave us five number one singles, the first in '84 "when doves cry." ♪ this is what it sounds like when doves cry ♪ >> reporter: cream. ♪ cream >> reporter: died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. >> prince was a gemini. geminis have two personalities, two different moods. >> reporter: prince and mayte first met when she was a teenaged belly dancer. >> i'm pretty confident that i had a past life where i was of that descent. >> reporter: she was an air force brat in europe. her parents dragged her to a prince concert in spain. >> they both through the loud music, you need to give him a tape of your belly dancing! >> reporter: they got a tape of her dancing to prince and met him later on the tour iny. >> when he got on stage, he

owned it. it felt to me like he was performing for me, just for me. >> maybe he was. >> a lot of people were there. he would send me music. >> you met up occasionally? >> yeah, meet up occasionally. >> 16-year-old hot dancer. stage mom. slightly older rock star. hm, sounds a bit dodgy. >> reporter: mayte now has her own adopted daughter, 6-year-old gea. >> i pro hesitant for my daughter. fy trusted her, i would have to let her do what she wants to do. >> reporter: the year after prince and mayte met, he released this. ♪ the most beautiful girl in the world ♪ >> are you the most beautiful girl in the world? ♪ the most beautiful girl >> when he wrote that song he had all women in mind. >> reporter: two years after they met in '92, prince hired her to dance on the world tour promoting "diamonds and pearls." ♪ diamonds and pearls >> my intention was to be in a

music video, or to perform live. it had nothing to do with interest what's. >> reporter: that came later. in '96 they married. she was 22, he was 37. >> i remember being on stage doing a sound check and i heard, mm, mm, mm. and i was like, what? i'm being checked out, okay. and he would just say, it's about that walk. about a week later i heard a song. a jazzy song that -- they were jamming and it's "it's about that walk." >> reporter: mayte in this book gave us a glimpse of a man who rarely let us in. what would he have thought about your book? >> i think he would have liked it. >> why? >> because it's coming from a loving place. >> nick watt for "nightline" in los angeles. from "pretty woman" to pretty blue. julia roberts on why she chose to become a smurf.

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wait. well, after decades of being a single father, papa smurf is about to meet julia roberts. from "pretty woman" -- >> oh! >> reporter: to "noting hill." >> i'm also just a girl. >> reporter: julia roberts has shared that dazzling signature smile with audiences for nearly three decades. and now america's sweetheart like you've never seen her before. >> surrender, wizard! >> i thought, yeah, i want to be a smurf. >> reporter: lending her voice to the character smurf willow. in the animated feature "smurfs: the lost village." >> i'm smurf willow, leader of the smurfs. >> reporter: my colleague sat down with julia. >> i thi think of her as the matriarch of this group of unknown smurfs that are discovered in the course of the movie. >> you say this is a movie you did because your kids can watch it, they can enjoy it.

but does it make you cool in their eyes? you're a smurf. >> does being a smurf make a person cool to anyone who's taller than a smurf? >> one day your kids are going to say, i'm going to watch all mom's movies tonight. >> at the age they are now, it would be a short night. in a few years i think they'll be pleased with how i spent my 20s and 30s. >> that's a movie marathon worth waiting for. thanks for watching abc news. and as always we're online at abcnews.com and our "nightline" >> hey, everybody, welcome to "millionaire." coming to you from bally's las vegas. one lucky hotel guest is about to get the opportunity of a lifetime. we're going to knock on their door, tell them to drop everything, and come try to win $1 million right here right now. get ready. it's instant millionaire week on "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] ♪

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