that something was very, very wrong. >> mike called his mom's best friends, linda dondero and cindy ertmanad last spoken to deede three days before as deede prepared for a date, rushed to the house. >> you could tell just the dogs had been running around for days. but the way the tv was on and the way the shades were, i felt like thursday night had never ending. i felt like friday morning never came. >> cindy immediately phoned deede's new boyfriend car salesman, bobby lowe. he reported they'd had dinner on thursday at a local restaurant then returned to deede's house for a nightcap. >> he said she'd had had a little bit too much wine and she lay down on the couch. she was starting to fall off to sleep and, so he just said goodnight, and let himself out. >> anything about what bobby lowe said sound in any way suspicious to you? >> not at all. >> the next call, to el segundo police. and soon on the scene, then detective sergeant carlos mendoza. >> this does not happen in el segundo. especially people known as well as deede. >> and what detectives found in their initial search of deede's hom