sandi johnson's family and friends would agree. the young mom was petite, pretty, and devoted to her two kids. though when she went missing, police wondered if sandi's home life was as happy as it seemed. they quickly uncovered a web of romantic relationships and a dark mystery that would take years to solve. here's andrea canning with "the disappearance of sandi johnson." >> reporter: it's a celebration no mother would ever want to miss. a child's 5th birthday. but suddenly, she was gone. out of his life. >> there's nothing that anybody could really do to fix that or repair that missing part. >> reporter: his mother, sandi johnson, was outgoing, energetic, and an awesome mom. >> those kids were everything to her. >> reporter: so why wasn't she there to sing "happy birthday" to her son? >> all they knew was she disappeared into thin air. >> reporter: she should have seen you get married, go into the merl and become a police officer one day. >> it's a -- toughest day to deal with. >> reporter: it was heartbreaking and baffling. >> it

sandy. mr. bush is trying to run against lyndon johnson and jimmy carter and everybody in the world but me in this race. i have proposed a managed competition plan for health care. i will say again, you cannot control health care costs, simply by cutting medicare. look what's happened. the federal government has cut medicare, and medicaid in the last few years, states have cut medicaid. we've done it in arkansas, under budget pressures. but what happens? more and more people get on the rolls as poverty increases, if you don't control the health care costs of the entire system, you cannot get control of it. look at our program. we set up a national ceiling on health care costs, tied to inflation, and population growth, set by health care providers, not by the government. we provide for managed competition, not government models in every state. and we control private and public health care costs. now, just a few days ago a bipartisan commission of republicans and democrats, more republicans than democrats, said my plan will save the average family $1,200 a year more than the bush plan will by the ye

sandy. mr. bush is trying to run against lyndon johnson and jimmy carter and everybody in the world, but me in this case. i have proposed a managed competition plan for health care. i will say again, you cannot control health care costs simply by cutting medicare. look what's happened. the federal government has cut medicare and medicaid in the last few years. states have cut medicaid. we've done it in arkansas under budget pressures, but what happens? more and more people get on the roles as poverty increases. if you don't control the costs of the health care system you cannot gain control. we set up a national ceiling on health care costs set by health care providers and not by the government and we provide managed competition and we control public and private health care costs. now just a few days ago a bipartisan commission of republicans and democrats, more republicans than democrats said my plan will save the average family $1200 a year more than the bush plan will for the year 2000. $2.2 trillion in the next 12 years. $400 billion a year by the end of this decade. i've got a plan to control