did you kill lee porter? >> i maintain my innocence, but i would like a lawyer. >> reporter: the detectives get a search warrant for christopher's apartment. then police hit pay dirt. when they find buried in the mess on the floor this receipt from 7-eleven. it's for bleach and rubber gloves. stocked, as they all are, with slim jims, slurpees, and security cameras. >> here you'll see chris coming from his apartment, buy the bleach and gloves, 11:54 in the morning. inside the store he's no housekeeper but grabs the bleach. after speaking with the clerk, rubber gloves. now police are watching his every move. and they see christopher meet with someone new. >> we had detectives watching him and watching this whole thing go down. >> reporter: it's lee's brother, maxx, setting a trap, luring christopher with friendly text messages like these. >> i don't think you did anything but other people do. i'll let people know to stop harassing you." >> reporter: all a ruse to bait christopher into talking. maxx brings a fri

. >> reporter: for lee porter's family, they wanted the man to confessed to killing their daughter to spend life behind bars. >>> he got 48 years for killing, murdering my daughter. >>> lee was just 19 years old when she disappeared in the summer of 2014. a week later the case took a shocking turn police arrested chst him with murder after he confessed to killing lee to porter's own brother who recorded it on his phone. >> chris was sitting about right here. >> put the knife away, let her go and let her regain consciousness but that didn't happen. >>> lee went to high school with wade, reconnected with him on facebook, drove up on pueblo and never seen again. >> she has been disguarded somewhere, whether he has can go back and visitor which is truly what my mama heart says. and i feel that way because i know his history. >> wade told police he threw her body in a dumpster by his house, investigators spent more than 40 days searching this landfill but never found her body. one of the main reasons the district attorney says he took the plea deal. >> anytime you don't have a body in a ho

. >> friends and family desperately searching for lee porter -- >> reporter: now more than two years later, lee still not found. her motor renee jackson follows her own leads with search dogs. >> my mama heart can't accept the fact that i don't know where my daughter is. i can't live with that. >> reporter: lee grew up in a small town but had a big personality. >> she was an amazing young woman. a joker. she loved her brother like crazy. >> reporter: after high school, but then secretly drops out of class and moves in with an older man. 38-year-old jesse mine, a tattoo artist who one of lee's friends says has a taste for tender young women and hard drugs. >> it got bad right away. she said, i did heroin for the first time and i am hooked on it. >> reporter: the trouble in lee's life is about to get worse. jesse breaks up with her, packs his truck, moves east. leaving lee with no place to live. sh drops off the grid. >> i knew there was something wrong right away. i couldn't get ahold of her. >> reporter: the family goes to police who immediately turn to boyfriend jesse. his trip to th

lee porter from pueblo was just 19 years old when she was killed by a high school friend. the questions remain about where her killer put her body. tonight, that is being looked into on 2020 right here denver 7. now, we have more. >> young and pretty, loss and nowhere to be found. lee porter. a 19-year-old colorado woman simply vanish if in june of 2014. >> she was very social. she had lots of friends. >> reporter: in a desperate search for her daughter, renee jackson begins to investigate. looking at the last calls lee made from her cell phone. >> this one number kept popping i never heard that name before. >> reporter: 23-year-old christopher wade, a former army soldier now studying criminal justice. he went to school with lee. >> he told me that she had gotten a notification on her phone late that night and left. >> reporter: lee's brother max thinks he knows more and takes matters in his own hands. we were all sitting on this side. >> reporrer: meeting up with wade at a park. he secretly records their conversation. >> chris look at eyes. dude where is she? >> reporter:

the second story line is about lee porter's brother who launched a parallel investigation to the police, and got christopher wade one on one in a gazebo in colorado and got him to confess and got it all on tape. jummy: i understand you also spoke with christopher's professor from school. what are some of the things he said? jim: that is what is interesting about the first storyline. christopher wade was in a criminology class and allegedly was gathering information to carry out the perfect crime. the professor now tells us that in fact he thinks that is what happened, that he learned how to clean up a crime, avoid interrogation, and a lot of things from that class. jummy: was there any reason christopher gave for wanting to speak out about this? jim: he wanted to tell his story again. he told a little bit in court before he went to jail, but he decided he never had a chance to tell his complete story, and talk about the motive for what happened. he also tells us some things he did not tell police about that motive, and what he wanted to do to himself. jummy: jim avila, certainly one to

the family of lee porter on 20/20. they just want to ind her body, that's it. the pueblo teen disappeared back in 2014. it was porter's brother who ended up getting the killer to confessed, recording it all on his cell phone. >> i placed my hand at her throat, i didn't start squeezing until after she kept would relax when she went unconscious and that i could gradually move the knife away and let her go and let her regain consciousness. but that didn't happen. >> even with that confession, christopher waide was offered a plea deal that ended with a 48- year sentence. that could have been a little longer, but lee's body still has not been found. >>> five students and a bus driver were recovering tonight. with three other cars, look at your screen, this happened at fox and 39th this afternoon. one of the other cars lost control hitting that bus taking 34 denver montessori juniors and seniors home today. none of the injuries were serious. >>> man look at this haze over a town north of kansas city. its especially troubling considering it's all from a chemical spell

lee porter, a 19-year-old colorado woman simply vanished in june of 2014. >> she was very social. she had lots of friends. >> in a desperate search for her daughter renee jackson begins to investigate looking for the last calls that lee made from her cell phone. >> this number kept popping up over and over and it was christopher wade and i had never heard that before. >> 23-year-old christopher wade, a former army soldier, new studying criminal justice help. went to high school with lee. >> he told me that she had gotten a notification on her phone late that night and left. >> lee's brother max thinks wade knows more than he's letting on and takes matters into his own hands. >> chris was sitting about right here, and we were all sitting on this side. >> reporter: meeting up with wade at a park near his apartment, he secretly records their conversation. >> chris, look at me right in my eyes. dude, where is she. >> reporter: max gets much more than information. he gets a confession. >> i turned, grabbed her and then i placed my hand at her throat. >> reporter: christopher wade says

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porter. he will not be out done his home turf. check out this run and he goes on in for the touchdown. future wins this one 48-18. >>> boys at roxboro lee johnson with the touchdown, boys latin 58 to your 15. >>> to new jersey, notre dame at paul the 6, picked up by isaiah jones, and he's gone, paul 6 wins 24 to seven. shavon riley, and right to him nice catch. end then mike plain finishes off the drive. collingswood wins 24 to nothing. >>> it's a damp night for a big-time match-up. visiting malvern tech. the he doesn't amir brown goes up grabs it. 47-7. >>> johnny finelli: springfield wins it in ot. boilertown visiting perk yo men, steven stern, brandon shim's. park valley winning 30 to 0 and finally we have pope john paul 2nd taking on phoenixville. mat garcia. great lateral moves. he scores 21 yards out. just hold on a minute. back comes pope john palm. brandon knocks runs on in for the score, pope john paul the winner, 20-14 >> time-out. it's our game of the week and a huge bucks county match-up, abington traveling to when pat toomey went to washington, he didn't stop... working for wall street. toomey's plan would risk social secur