>> reporter: a ballet academy in upstate new york was where mina raj got to know her friend karrie neurauter. >> i met karrie when she was eight. she was very sweet, very bubbly personality. >> reporter: both of them were 'girly' girls but wanted to grow up to be like their dads. >> our dads were both engineers. so we were both gonna become engineers and be professional ballerinas on the side. >> reporter: and everyone could see that karrie was very close to her dad, lloyd neurauter. every saturday he'd not only drive his daughter to class in corning, new york, he'd stay to help out. >> he was the only father there that was bringin' the kids in the morning at that time. >> reporter: mina's mom, cynthia, would see him on those saturdays but rarely his wife. >> instead of doin' the -- the children's hair at home, he would always sort of bring them there and brush their hair out and -- and put these buns together. >> with some skill and art? >> um, yes, and -- and he -- he definitely enjoyed the admiration of the other mothers around him. >> reporter: as their daughters rehearsed for the annual