by now, kathy had been missing for two full days and john heckel feared the worst. >> kathy heckel wouldever on this earth abandon those two children. >> reporter: trooper caldwell still didn't know if he was working a missing persons case, an abduction or a homicide. then on the evening of the third day investigators got a big break. they found kathy heckel's car parked behind the local hospital. the keys were missing. >> i think they recovered one print. but i don't know that it was ever identified. it was from the exterior of the car. >> reporter: investigators were now pretty sure that someone, possibly her killer, had moved kathy heckel's car to the hospital parking lot. and then the case hit a dead end. days turned to weeks. those weeks stretched into months. kathy heckel was somewhere in the wind. >> we had cadaver dogs come down often. and we would have troopers go out and we would search the area looking for remains or whatever. >> reporter: while some investigators focused on finding kathy heckel, others concentrated on finding evidence of a crime. as far as investigators could

hercule van wolfwinkle, also known as phil heckels, joins us now from his home in west sussex. making some thank you cards, so i got all of his felt tips out on paper and stuff, and just to get him interested, i drew a picture of ourdog. he get him interested, i drew a picture of our dog. he coloured it in, and that got him going on the thank you cards, and then while he was drawing the thank you cards, i drew another couple of pictures of our dog, trying my best to copy some photos on my phone, and just stuck them on facebook with a jokey comment saying pet portraits for sale, £299, and by the end of that day i think i had drawn about six portraits for people. and it kind ofjust sort of naturally kind of gathered a bit of pace from there. couple of days after doing that, i had set up the page because i'd had about 25 requests for portraits outstanding, and then a friend of mine asked for and then a friend of mine asked for a picture of his dog jess, which i did, and he said, i've got to pay something for it. you've seen them, i couldn't accept any money for it because it was r