he said his name was phillup thompson.ked if he knew anybody by the name of joshan ashbrook and if he had picked up anybody or knew this female. >> phillup thompson confirmed he and his daughter had picked up joshan when she was hitchhiking. >> hey, can i borrow your phone real quick? >> took her to her boyfriend's house to leave the note, and then they dropped her off at the local walmart. >> and that's the last that he had seen of her. >> phillup thompson agreed to meet police later that day, but he failed to show up for his appointment. >> investigators looked at that as possibly, you know, a telltale sign of, you know, someone who was running away from something. >> but police received some troubling news. the cell phone wasn't registered to phillup thompson, it was registered to phillup partin, a convicted killer. >> phillup partin was convicted of a murder that he committed in 1987 in which he strangled a man with a phone cord or some kind of cord. >> short version was that phillup partin was what they call a hustler