. >> you didn't pay lalimony, did you? >> it's not a yes or no question. >> you think this is funny? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: he isn't expected to appear in court again in this civil case. a judge will rule early next year whether he needs to repay the money to his mother-in-law, but the criminal kpcase is stil ongoing as investigators are still on the hunt to solve the disappearance. it started in new canaan, connecticut. it was a friday morning in late may, almost the end of the academic year when jennifer dropped off her five children for school. surveillance camera shows she returned to her rented home around 8:00, then vanished. >> we love you, and we are doing everything we can to bring you home. >> reporter: hours later, worried friends called the police after she missed several appointments. her disappearance sparking an intense search across state line, making headlines in the national enoughs. >> new developments in the case of that missing mother of five. >> reporter: drones, k-9s and a helicopter scoured th