maribel ramos had vanished. police, her friends and family mounted a full-scale search, as in many investigations police were turning up the heat on the men in maribel's life. but then news that a phone call had been made to 911 by maribel, and she sounded scared. did this confirm the family's worst fears? josh mankiewicz picks up the story, "mystery in orange county." >> this is the city of orange, california, in the county of orange, california. much of it is a small town stuck in time. there's a university, a zoo, cute local businesses. and a police department that doesn't have to deal with a lot of violent crime. after all, the happiest place on earth is just down the street. but in may 2013, detective joey ramirez was far from happy. he had a lot of ground to cover and a strong sense that time was against him as he tried to figure out what had happened to maribel ramos. >> she just vanished? >> yes. >> how often does that kind of thing happen? >> it doesn't happen often. >> ramires started by investigating

hammond, indiana, just down the road three days after nailah vanished.lack chevy impala. >> we rushed out there to see it. >> it was hers. >> owe open the trunk, the last thing you want to think is there something in that trunk? there wasn't. >> you do a work-up on the vehicle. did you find any prints? any dna? anything useful at all? >> i think our evidence technicians that processed it described it as it was wiped clean. >> including in the trunk? >> yes. >> yes. >> believing somehow she might find her sister, the younger ashley drove out there. >> the car was parked in front of an abandoned house. and i went and i banged on the door, looked through the windows. i screamed her name. i didn't want to leave. i had to be taken from the area. >> of course, the cops canvassed the neighbors, and what do you know? >> they had seen a male mulling around the vehicle. and then enter another vehicle and leave. and it was a few days prior to us actually locating the vehicle. >> did they give you a good description? >> a male african-american. thin build. >> that d

that video of reginald potts with nailah the day she vanished?ideo at the target store that did not show him and thus blew up his alibi. nailah's friends testified she showed them e-mails and played a voice mail in which he threatened her. >> nailah played that voice mail for them because she was so terrified. and essentially, in that voice may, he said to nailah, i'm going to have you erased. i'm going to make you disappear. >> in fact, said the prosecutors, that's exactly what he did. snuck into her building, led her terrified to the garage where he strangled her, stuffed her body in the trunk of her own car. and how do they know he took her out to the suburbs to dump her body and her car? cell towers linked their phones together. like a trail of breadcrumbs. >> from the moment that they walked out of that vestibule out to the garage, she's not seen by anybody. she's not calling anybody, she's not answering calls. her texts are all odd but her phone and his phone are together lock step the entire rest of the day. >> right to the abandoned video

vanish. >> oh, man. you ain't lying. identical happened just a few days before. you see this car pull up -- >> doors open. the plan is in motion. they run over to these very similar lion ornaments. the guy on the left having a bit of trouble. the guy on the right loads one into the back. decides the guy in white is taking too long and says so the guy in the white just dumps it there on the lawn and gets into the car. my favorite part about this though is the fort worth police >> #hernia, #backbreak. >> #save. >> the fun starts when she holds out her hand. >> going to vanish now? >> that's kind of how they present this. >> see all that appears, next. >>> he's the fishing fireman he's about to go overboard. >> another boat? >> submarine. >> see what he caught on "right this minute." nexium 24 hour s. so now, there are more ways, for more people... to experience... complete protection from frequent heartburn. nexium 24hr. the easy-to-swallow tablet is here. because i'm a woman, do you think i'm going to crack under pressure or conquer the field? defy expectations an

it's vanished. it's magic. >> i've got a side table to do that as well. >> i'm going to be single for life is this is what i have to look forward to. >> she wouldn't have left me. this sort of thing happens. i heard her get up in the middle of the night to get a drink or something. she must have fallen onto the coffee table and just vanished. >> no, he's not insane. i've got the same coffee table at home. >> this very clever video put together by troy kinney i want to give him credit but oh, you got under my skin dude. >> magic. >> devon spotted a celebrity. >> it's eric andre. >> but this encounter gets even better as you're about to find out why. and a new way to extinguish candles. >> i can't help but think this is staged. ler and i'm here to tell homeowners that are sixty-two and older about a great way to live call right now to receive your free dvd and booklet with no obligation. it answers questions like... how a reverse mortgage works, how much you qualify for, the ways to receive your money

it's vanished. it's magic. >> i've got a side table to do that as well. >> i'm going to be single for life is this is what i have to look forward to. >> she wouldn't have left me. this sort of thing happens. i heard her get up in the middle of the night to get a drink or something. she must have fallen onto the coffee table and just vanished. >> no, he's i've got the same coffee table at home. >> this very clever video put together by troy kinney i want to give him credit but oh, you got under my skin dude. >> magic. >> devon spotted a celebrity. >> it's eric andre. >> but this encounter gets even better as you're about to find out why. and a new way to extinguish candles. >> i can't help but think this is staged. ler and lder about a great way to live a better retirement... it's called a reverse mortgage. call right now to receive your free dvd and booklet with no obligation. it answers questions like... how a reverse mortgage works, how much you qualify for, the ways to receive your money... and m

vanish. >> oh, man. you ain't lying. >> this next video almost identical happened just a few days before. you see this car pull up -- >> doors open. the plan is in motion. they run over to these very similar lion ornaments. the guy on the left having a bit of trouble. the guy on the right loads one into the back. decides the guy in white is taking too long and says so the guy in the white just dumps it my favorite part about this though is the fort worth police comment in the description. >> #hernia, #backbreak. >> #save. >> the fun starts when she holds out her hand. >> going to vanish now? >> that's kind of how they present this. >> see all that appears, next. >>> he's the fishing fireman >> another boat? >> submarine. >> see what he caught on "right this minute." nexium 24 hour introduces new, easy-to-swallow tablets. so now, there are more ways, for more people... to experience... complete protection from frequent heartburn. nexium 24hr. the easy-to-swallow tablet is here. because i'm a woman, do you

that video of reginald potts with nailah the day she vanished? store that did not show him, and thus blew up his alibi. nailah's friends testified she showed them e-mails and and played a voicemail where he threatened her. >> she was so terrified. essentially in that voicemail, he said, tonight, nailah, i'm going to have you erased. i'm going to make you disappear. >> prosecutors said that's exactly what he did. he strappingngled her, and stuf her in the trunk of her own car. >> she's not seen by anybody, she's not calling anybody, she's not answering calls. her texts are all odd. but her phone and his phone are together, lock step, the entire rest of the day. >> right to the abandoned video store behind which they finally found nailah's body. no coincidence he chose that particular spot so far from chicago, said prosecutors. >> we find out the video max store is opened by potts' brother-in-law. >> he said yes, he initially lied for reginald but didn't know it was to cover up a murder. remember the phone calls, it was reginald potts using her pho

then just four months before pegye vanished, the bechlers were fired amid allegations they had overbild medicare for more than $1 million. so when linda heard pegye had vanished -- >> i started thinking about how disturbed she was, about going to jail. >> and she wondered if pegye had somehow staged her own disappearance. pegye's friend, glenda, said no way. was pegye bechler capable of committing white collar crime, medicare overbilling? >> in my opinion, no. >> but if you're wrong about that, then maybe the idea that she faked her death to escape possible prosecution for that, maybe that's a little bit more plausible. >> white collar crime and faking your death and leaving your children and your family are two really separate issues. >> glenda said pegye adored her children, and would never abandon them. i will say that people who have never been in the inside of a courtroom, or the inside of a jail cell, sometimes do pretty crazy things when they realize that might happen to them. >> i believe that. but not pegye. >> glenda did tell the detectives that pegye and eric were having some

make yourself vanish, make your clothes vanish and stuff like that. so if you think this is the kind of trick that you want to be pulling you want to be a bit more like rich ferguson check out his video and maybe grab this app as well and you, to phone. >> modern safety and technology allow us to go wow instead of oh, no. bmw rally car coming around the turn here gets a little loose. >> oh! >> oh, no. >> wow. >> right. >> don't worry, though, as soon as the dust settles, there's your driver. oh, driver, also just fine. >> he gets out of the car so jovial like oh, almost died today. >> like a gymnast, todd today! >> a perfect dismount. >> that driver and tow driver okay these rally cars must be built like bank vaults because in three, two, one, >> oh! >> oh! >> oh! oh, maybe too quick on that one. >> that thing was flying. >> look at it in slow motion. >> wow! >> the great part about these kinds of videos and crashes and stuff like that so much safety technology makes its way from the racing world into the cars that we drive today, so we thank these gu

a $51,000 down payment for a home vanished. shannon behnken has uncovered a sophisticated computer hacking scheme that robbed a woman of her life savings. this story is so upsetting. if you have done any banking or bought a home to think of that home just vanished. >> reporter: yep. didn't do anything to stop this. even with the victim crying in their lobby, they let this crook take her money and walk away. and now, i have discovered the federal trade commission has already warned banks and real estate to fight back against the scam. but the ones in this story, they ignored that warning. cheryl johnson is shocked and devastated. a scammer hacked into her real estate agent's intercepted her transference instructions. she wired the money directly to a scammer's account at bank of america. >> they should have processes in place to prevent this. >> reporter: cheryl figured out the con in time to get her money back. she told the story to the bank. right in their lobby. begged for help. but a bank manager turned her away. >> how do y

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he was tired of it. >> reporter: about seven months before peggy vanished, kobe says he and eric hadr since. >> eric asked me about what he thought -- what i thought of the idea of him killing his wife. and i was pretty much shocked. i didn't know what to say. he told me that he was thinking of taking her out to the ocean and dumping her in a barrel. >> he said when he saw there was a boating accident and eric's wife was missing, he knew right then and there, he saw it on tv, he knew that he had killed his wife. and he lied to us. he said because he panicked and was afraid and he didn't know what to do. >> reporter: detectives convinced kobe to wear a wire and to meet eric at a restaurant in orange county. eric had no idea that police were listening in. even so, he stuck to his story that peggy's death was a terrible accident. >> i was there. i know what happened. i tried so hard to understand that people can think anything else. >> you never said hey, look, man, i don't know what the [ bleep ] you guys are talking about. i'm innocent. you never said anything about anything. >> i hav

she vanished while working at a gas station. you will see a computer generated photo of what she might look like today. the police have a timeline of events and evidence. they believe a man abducted her while she was pumping his gas and they hope that someone out there has news tips. >>> and superstar singer sia is heading to cleveland soon and her show will be free. she has a message. it a part support abortion rights. the concert here is saturday, september 10th. and the show is free but you will need to get tickets online. >>> there is much more in the morning sprint. we're keeping you updated on the champs in akron and there is a look from air tracker 5 as . >>> breaking overnight, 49 civilians working at a factory killed overnight in yemen. it happened during a saudi airstrike. and they were supposed to target shiite air levels and one hit a food factory instead and this is between yemen -- failed peace talks between the government. >>> and police inmas mass are trying to unravel a murder mystery. >> a 27-year-old woman is

sam, who will turn 6 this from vanishing white matter disease. a brain disorder that destroys white matter, the substance that helps transmit neural impulses and lead to the loss of motor control. ? happy birthday to you ? >> reporter: there is no cure. and the disease is typically fatal by the age of 10. >> every birthday feels like it is another year less that you have. >> don't turn six, you are getting closer to 10. >> exactly. and so much we want to see. >> reporter: alison and husband nick have kept careful track in the three years since their son's diagnosis as sam's speech has slowed down. >> reporter: what is your favorite part of being in school? >> play time. >> reporter: his ability to walk, slowly eroding. leaving him now unable even to stand. >> i think it is really hard for people to wrap their heads vibrant as sam could be dying. >> i'm doing it. >> reporter: the bucks are trying to show sam as much of the world as possible. in the time they have left. he has been to 30 states and 19 countries. from these mayan ruins in mexico. to

most move on and then vanish from the authorities' radar, in search of work to pay their families backnext up, the big city. munich's main train station. we are following the drug squad. during the refugee crisis, they have seen more and more juveniles here working as upfront dealers handing drugs to customers. nearly 50 underage refugees have been arrested on drug trafficking offenses. police noticed a group of very young looking refugees. their ids are checked. their officers have seen how kids like them are forced into a life of crime, and they worry. >> if they cannot pay the people smugglers for these voyagers -- voyages, it's possible they will be recruited by criminalal gangs to smuggle drugs or sell them or drum up business. people that young can easily become dependent and exploited. >> counselors and eight organizations criticized the fact that the german government has practically put family reunificatation's on ice for juvenile refugees. another problem is that t these facilities are desesigned to hep kids with behavioral if you -- issues. refugee kids have very different n

most move on and then vanish from the authorities' radar, in search of work to pay their families backnext up, the big city. munich's main train station. we are following the drug squad. during the refugee crisis, they have seen more and more juveniles here working as upfront dealers handing drugs to customers. nearly 50 underage refugees have been arrested on drug trafficking offenses. police noticed a group of very young looking refugees. their ids are checked. their officers have seen how kids like them are forced into a life of crime, and they worry. >> if they cannot pay the people smugglers for these voyagers -- voyages, it's possible they will be recruited by criminal gangs to smuggle drugs or sell them or drum up business. people that young can easily become dependent and exploited. >> counselors and eight organizations criticized the fact that the german government has practically put family reunification's on ice for juvenile refugees. another problem is that these facilities are designed to help kids with behavioral if you -- issues. refugee kids have very different needs. h

she vanished less than two hours later. she would have turned 56 this year. >>> we are getting answers on the refund policy for the nfl hall of fame game. refunds will be processed by the end of august. credit card purchases will automatically be refunded. cash purchases will be refunded by check. you can request a refund by mail office. >>> it's official. the browns named robert griffin as the team's starting quarterback today. griffin and josh mccown were competing for the starting job. head coach hue jackson says rgiii has done everything asked of him to earn the spot. >>> protestors demonstrated in detroit ahead of donald trump's se speech at the detroit economic club. >> mark: give the speech. >> reporter: donald trump was repeatedly interrupted by protestors as he tried to lay out his economic vision for america. >> in the coming weeks, we will be offering more detail on all of these policies. and the ones we have already rolled out. [ yelling ] >> reporter: trump plans to spur job growth through deep tax cuts and tak

a beautiful young woman vanished and her close knit family was frantic to find her. she had a thriving career, hand som new boy fren and suddenly there was silence, which was quite unlike her. it lead clues to one of chicago's most exclusive neighborhoods. here is smoke and mirrors. >> it wasn't like this. it wasn't gray. it wasn't snow. no snow to catch the bitter breeze. no. it was hot and it was late after midnight, september 27th, 2007. >> pretty secluded area next to a forest preserve. >> so it was clear and dark and still and vacant. here where it fought back against the decaying suburban sprawl. nothing was clear at all. >> i never cracked this violent crime. >> you're experiencing everything but it's not true. >> it feels like you're literally in a nightmare. >> yes. still does. the name you'll want to remember is niela. this is niela's mother. >> i wanted her to be successful and she was. she lived her name. >> quite true as frankly have the rest of them in this big family. this is leah, the first born. >> we might need a graph or a chart. it is kind of invo

make yourself vanish, make your clothes vanish and stuff like that. so if you think this is the kind of trick that you want to be pulling you want to be a bit more like rich ferguson check out his video and maybe grab this app as well and you, too, could have naked people on your phone. >> allow us to go wow instead of oh, no. bmw rally car coming around the turn here gets a little loose. >> oh! >> oh, no. >> wow. >> right. >> don't worry, though, as soon as the dust settles, there's your driver. oh, driver, also just fine. >> he gets out of the car so jovial like oh, almost died today. >> like a gymnast, todd today! >> a perfect dismount. >> that driver and tow driver okay these rally cars must be built like bank vaults because in three, two, one, >> oh! >> oh! >> oh! >> ha! oh, maybe too quick on that one. >> that thing was flying. >> look at it in slow motion. >> the great part about these kinds of videos and crashes and stuff like that so much safety technology makes its way from the racing world into the cars that we drive today, so we thank thes

years ago the girl vanished. his car was found with dna that matched the teen. no body and no crime scene makes dna and usual testimony usual. >>> a stolen bmw all caught on camera there is a vague description of two men coming in to look at cars. one man distracted an employee and the other went to the corner office to throw out his cup of water and the box of yeas can hes was on the -- keys was on it desk. >> the previous day one of our colleagues took his information because he wanted to get the car but we have his information his address, his social, phone number, andlife that stuff -- all of that stuff. >> the suspect came in multiple times. police still investigating this inis aaccident fe incident. >> we learning the names from the hot air balloon crash in texas. the coupled was married for less than 6 months the balloon ride was a birth day gift and they leaving behind a son. >> a long mower looks to be what started a fire that burns 120 acres in san jose. >> flames burned and no homes were damaged by the fire it is now fully contained the huge open spac

sunken ship, vanish crew and the final mystery of parole harbor. what is the mystery? cargo ship named cynthia olson that went missing between seattle and honolulu and perhaps the ship sinking was the first casualty of that war. it's a wonderful history, wonderful military history. sad story but fascinating. >> does he solve mystery in the end? >> it does and i'm not going to tell you but you should read it, it's great, it's great. >> is there a secret to marketing military history books? >> you need to build some of your base, make sure you're not getting reviews in "the new york times" review but also getting reviews in proceedings which is the journal of the naval academy, naval institute. it needs to be targeted approach but we do find that because there's so much interest in the military we are able to get mainstream media for those books as well. >> do you send your books out on tour, authors out on tour? >> we do, we do it judiciously. if we have an author that we are confident is going to draw, we know it's the right subject matter and the right store and the r

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. >>> the search is on for a 16- year-old girl who vanished about 1 week ago. police say they do not know where she is. she is known to ride bart to friends in richmond and san francisco. she is described as a black female around 5 foot 9 inches tall with brown eyes weighing about 120 pounds. she was last seen wearing white -- a light-colored shirt and black teens. anyone with information should call police. >>> ryan lochte had to clarify an apology he made in an interview with nbc news today. he said he over exaggerated what he told in a story about being robbed at gunpoint a gas station in rio. he and 3 other us swimmers were accused of vandalizing a bathroom and armed guards confronted them and asked them to pay for the damage. the u.s. olympic committee has apologized for the behavior. >>> still ahead, cooler conditions. is coming up. >>> we're back with a look at the weather. >> in the middle of the weekend. here we are. we have the fog rolling in. we will see more of that in the coming days. on and off a week we will see a lot of fog. the good news is eno

why isn't this all vanished?want charles to respond. >> for people who don't want it to vanish. >> i want charles to respond and then we have to go. >> what you're leaving out of that equation is you're assuming that issues around black progress or lack thereof in america has everything to do with political parties and leaving out of that equation the affects of white supremacy, systematic racism. that has no party, right? and so you can't banish that until you -- sorry, i let you finish, jeffrey. you can't banish the problem until you get to the root. what we're doing now is trying to address the leaves on the tree. it is the root of the problem of blacks in america unless you believe in racism, unless you believe there is something fundamentally wrong, deficient about blackness, then you have to believe that there is something wrong with the structures around blackness that have suppressed it. >> we have to go. i would like to continue this another time. jeffrey lord, thank you. charles blow as well. director s

that means the man accused of killing the south bay teen.in the community where she vanished. new tonight at eight. kron 4's ella sogomonian spoke with sierra lamar's father. she's live at the santa clara county jail with his reaction to today's ruling. ella? the suspect is staying in santa clara and so will the murder trial. kerosene taking to the passenger side of the point a second suspect assaults them all the other takes on his belongings. the victim's cell koala and pat are still in other cabdrivers' say they've also been attacked in the neighborhood. police say the driver only suffered minor injuries able to recover his taxi in return it back to him. coming up we tell you why drivers say they're having to take more risks. >> steve: the judge denied a motion and that means the music man accused of killing in the community where she banat vanished >> reporter: spoke with the father of that young woman who was kidnapped and police to be murdered back four years ago for years now since the family is waiting for justice to prevail happy for those reasons one is the trial not

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