that something was very, very wrong. >> mike called his mom's best friends, linda dondero and cindy ertman'd 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, you know, running around for days. but the way the tv was on and the way the shades were i felt like thursday night had never ended. 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 a little bit too much wine and she laid down on the couch and was kind of starting to fall off to sleep and so he just said good night 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 that are known as well as deede is. >> and what detectives found in their initi