>> chenango sheriff? >> tom renz, jennifer ramsaran's father. >> yeah. >> i found the van. >> reporter: it was jen's red van. it had been abandoned here in this apartment complex eight miles from her home. that must have been just an awful, awful discovery for her father. >> i'm sure it was. >> reporter: the van was empty. but inside there were spots of blood. are all your worst fears being realized? >> absolutely, yeah. devastated, absolutely devastated. shocked. >> reporter: did you start to fear at that point that jennifer is never coming home? >> whatever was going on here was probably not going to be a good outcome. there's two questions, really. where is jennifer? and who did something to her? >> reporter: and now eileen, jen's best friend, began thinking back to that game, the virtual kingdom that had jen so fascinated. did you think something sinister had happened? >> absolutely. you know, the first thing i thought was these people on the game. >> coming up -- who had jen been meeting online? >> w