maria mederos: horrible news.murphy: amid the shock and tears the detectives pieced together from the mother a sense of who their victim was and what her final days and hours had been about. sunday evening, the phone call, wendy sounded ok, the detectives were told. but that next call at 5:48 am--the one from michel asking if she was at her mom's--was worrisome. a few hours later, michel was waiting for wendy's mother at the school where she worked. maria mederos: he met her at-- at her job. she tells me, you know, "he was very disheveled and very worried about where she could be." dennis murphy: michel escoto, it turned out, was about to get an official answer to his "where is she" question. maria mederos: and while we're talking the phone rings. and it's-- michel escoto calling-- dennis murphy: again asking his mother-in-law -- had she heard from wendy? detectives grabbed the phone and asked where he was. they headed over to michel's apartment to deliver the news about his girlfriend of eight-months, his bride o