here again is josh mankiewicz. >>> pam fayed was dead.tabbed to death in a century city parking garage. lapd detective salaam abdul-rahman has seen enough cases to know that, in his line of work, murder and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. the ongoing fayed divorce, therefore, got his attention. >> acrimonious, nasty, bitter. mr. fayed was really upset with his wife, mrs. fayed. >> and so that marriage would bear much more scrutiny. investigators set about talking to friends and family to solve the mystery of pam's death. they needed to start with the story of her life. >> pamela had a spirit that was infectious. >> carol neve was pam's best friend. >> she was always happy. she had a personality that just sucked you in and kept you there. >> carol met pam 22 years ago. >> we were neighbors, and we did become best friends to the tune of every day we talked. every single day. >> that was long before jim came into the picture, of course. >> good morning, baby desiree. first christmas. >> pam was a single mom. she and carol bab

here again is josh mankiewicz. >> the ransom drop had been made.tors and fbi agents believed they might be on the verge of breaking the kidnapping case of quinn gray. undercover teams and an fbi plane were following several men in an suv who had just picked up the ransom money from a restaurant parking lot. investigators were hoping the men didn't notice the tracking device in the bag or that the bag only contained $10,000. fbi agent in charge james casey. >> the kidnappers asked for $50,000. >> right. >> you didn't give them $50,000, you gave them ten. >> we gave them less than $50,000. >> and they said don't put a gps tracking device in. >> right. >> and you did. >> right. >> is that standard procedure, to sort of ignore kidnappers when they say that kind of thing? >> look, we're in charge of how this goes, not them. the idea was get the bag to them and find out where they are. >> but then came something no one expected. quinn's mom, gail sikes. >> quinn called and said where's the money, they're going to kill me. where's the money? >> and you sa

returning to our story, here's josh mankiewicz. >>> for four years detective ida lopez tended her list as if it were a garden plot. >> did you notice when the girls were going missing? >> mostly she just watched it grow. but occasionally she was able to do some pruning whenever a lost soul was found. >> i find a girl with the same background, but guess what? i find her months later. i get to call the dad and say we found her, she's been arrested. >> kind of weird to be able to call a family and say great news, your daughter's a prostitute and she's alive. >> but i get to say this is where she's at. >> the families of the 18 women now on ida's list prayed for happy endings like that one. but most of the women who worked albuquerque's war zone, fellow travelers who might have helped ida find them missing, were too drug addled to provide useful leads. some passed on grizzly rumors to ida that the missing women were dead and had been dumped in the desert west of town. >> it's like a little dark hidden evil city out here. >> desiree gonzalez said she used to hang out on the streets and knew

here again, josh mankiewicz. >> quinn gray had finally been released after three days of captivity.hen she was brought to the fbi's jacksonville headquarters, quinn started blaming her husband, reid, for putting her through the whole ordeal. >> i feel like my husband wanted me dead. >> she said that if reid had only given the money to the kidnappers on that first night she was abducted, she might have been set free much earlier. >> but if my husband had just done what he was supposed to do, i would be fine. >> as it turned out, investigators had been suspicious of quinn's husband from the very beginning. sheriff david shore first spoke with reid right after quinn was kidnapped. >> when you talked to the victim's husband, reid gray -- >> yes. >> -- what's the first thing you say to him? >> well, his first comment to me is was the media involved. >> that's the first thing he said to you? >> i didn't feel comfortable with that. gosh, your wife's kidnapped and that's your first question? >> and someone else was suspicious of reid. quinn's mom. >> i thought possibly reid had something to

here's josh mankiewicz with "a texas twist." >> reporter: named for the body of christ, corpus christi sits on the texas gulf coast. this part of the lone star state is sheltered from hurricanes and storms. but as it turned out, not from one unnatural disaster. >> to me, it just looked like a pile of debris, to be honest. and then he looked and he said, "oh, my god, it's two bodies." >> reporter: a crime so shocking that years later they're still talking about it. >> i can't even imagine what was in that person's mind that evoked his violence, his rage. >> reporter: two young women. who wanted them dead? and why? >> it was a true whodunit type murder. >> reporter: and along with who and why was the question of why here? >> this was definitely something that we weren't used to or accustomed to in our town. >> reporter: this part of texas isn't exactly ground zero for murder. it's known more for roping, riding, and friday night lights. here, life is pretty simple, as are the values its people hold dear, like friendship, family, community. this is where 19-year-old mollie olgin grew up. >