here's josh mankowitz with "mystery in orange county." >> orange county, california. on tv it's a place of sun, fun and privilege. it's where the real housewives first aired their dirty laundry. it's where kids showed us what temperature cool really was. around here you get the sense that everybody is rich, white and lives in a mansion with a view of the pacific. but step back from the coast, and you'll see the orange county that isn't on tv. not as wealthy, not as white, full of those who came here super somewhere else, chasing a better life and finding it in places like santa ana, a mostly working class immigrant community in the shadow of disneyland. it's the part of the oc where people know that to survive, they'll have to work hard. marabel ramos arrived here as a baby, leaving mexico behind. she would not only survive here, but thrive. to tell you the truth, this should be the story of a woman who worked hard to change her life, and in doing so, carved a path for others to follow. >> hello? >> but this story is going to end differently. >> why are you crying? >>

here's josh mankowitz. ♪ ♪ >> this is the sheriff's office. >> my wife gave me a phone call a minute. called to say she was held by gunpoint. >> businessman reid gray was on the line with the sheriff's office in a panic. he told the 911 operator his wife had just phoned him minutes earlier to say she'd been kidnapped. >> you probably think it's me, but it's not. >> the call would turnout to be the beginning of an unbelievable saga that would baffle investigators and turn this husband's life upside down. the next few days would bring one set back after another. and no one could have predicted how it all would come to an end. >>> it was around 5:00 p.m., september 4th, 2009. reid's wife quin had called him at work and told him she'd just been kidnapped right out of their $4 million home. reid couldn't believe what he'd heard and went to his office parking lot to try and think straight. >> did she tell you where she was at? >> no. there's a note in the house with the gunman's demands. >> the news was as shocking as terrifying. quin, a mom of two young daughters, was a trained nurse who

to "somebody's daughter," here is josh mankowitz. >> it's been years since that summer night when idae war sewn alone searching for a couple of missing women. these days she patrols with a partner still looking for the lost. >> the majority of our girls are street-level prostitutes. >> in that time the case has gone from a nightmare for a few flawed souls to a nationwide search for a serial killer, an unidentified man police chief ray schultz says may not have succeeded in killing every woman he coaxed into his car. >> he may be waiting in some other community to start doing the same thing again. and what we hope to happen is that someone that's had an encounter with this killer will make that phone call to us and we can link that individual to these crimes that have occurred here in albuquerque. a >> if these women had been blonde and from the right part of town, would you have sounded the alarm sooner? >> some of these victims were missing for months before anybody ever reported them for missing. also it goes back to the life-style. women very often involved in prostitution, it is n

here's josh mankowitz with a texas twist. named for the body of christ, corpus christi sits on the texas gulf coast and just east of the bay is a park known for bird watching, and that's what chris seymour was doing there when he came across something very unnatural. >> 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. >> 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. >> two young women. who wanted them dead? and why? >> it was a true who dun it type murder. >> 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. >> 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

h it >>> and now with the conclusion to the secret, here again is josh mankowitz. >>> his family hadafter he disappear disappeared. they waited for the police to call when investigators first said they'd look for him. that didn't happen either. years later with ellen snyder facing a murder charge for killing mike, they waited for justice. mike's sister, terry. >> how could you look at us, the family, in the face and tell us that you have no idea where mike is at or you just spoke to mike and mike is doing just fine? >> thus, giving all of you hope. >> thus giving all of us hope. it's beyond me how any one person can do that. it's unimaginable. >> finally, ellen snyder would pay the price for the murder of mike snyder and the cover up that followed. at least that's what mike's side of the family fully expected. but there was that problem with the statute of limitations expired on anything less than first degree murder. there was the chance ellen snyder could be found not guilty. mike's family was willing to risk that. >> we felt that strongly that it was premeditated. you know, that w