time? >> yeah. >> reporter: it was here in this patch of paradice, said cal, that he woke up one morning, years ago, to find that his wife michelle wasn't home. she had gone to work the evening before and didn't come back. mary harris is cal's aunt. >> he didn't know where she was and didn't know what had happened. >> reporter: woke up and she wasn't there? >> and honestly he didn't -- it wasn't something he seemed comfortable talking about a lot. i think it was very emotional for him. >> reporter: she was gone. gone without warning. her friends distraught. called her cell phone. they heard her cherry cell phone message haunting them.