he said his name was phillup thompson.was asked if he knew anybody by the name of joshan ashbrook, and if he had picked up anybody or knew this female. >> phillup thompson confirmed he and his daughter had picked up joshan when she was hitchhiking. >> hey, can i borrow your phone real quick? >> took her to her boyfriend's house to leave the note. and then they dropped her off at the local walmart. >> and that is the last that he had seen of her. >> phillup thompson agreed to meet police later that day, but he failed to show up for his appointment. >> investigators looked at that as possibly you know, a telltale sign of somebody, you know, who was running away from something. >> but police received some troubling news. the cell phone was not registered to phillup thompson. it was registered to phillup partin, a convicted killer. >> phillup partin was convicted of a murder that he committed in 1987 in which he strangled a man with a phone cord or some kind of cord. >> short version was that phillup partin was what they call

the cell phone was not registered to phillup thompson.stered to phillup partin, a convicted killer. >> phillup partin was convicted of a murder that he committed in 1987 in which he strangled a man with a phone cord or some kind of cord. >> short version was that phillup partin was what they call a hustler, a male prostitute. he had picked up this gay math teacher at a local club. they went back to the teacher's place. something happened. partin beat him, strangled him to death with the telephone cord. once he killed him, he took his wallet, credit card, money and got into the car and drove off. >> partin was convicted of second degree murder, served six years in prison and was released in 1995. police believed that it was partin they had been speaking to about joshan. partin said he and his daughter dropped joshan off at this walmart the morning she disappeared. but that's not what store surveillance video showed. >> the walmart surveillance video shows them pulling in at around 8:48. you see the suspect, you see joshan, and you see the