Enter this guy. He sees things other cops dont see . Phenomenal. They call him the evidence nc whisperer. Hes about to crack this case open before your eyes. The answer was in the details . It was right there. And you wont believe how. You walk out of there thinking i spooked him, it worked . I hoped. I wasnt quite sure. Hello, and welcome to dateline. 20yearold lynsie ecland and her mother nancy told each other everything. Or so her mother believed. When the College Student vanished after a night out clubbing, nancy thought she was at a sleepover with friends. And that wasnt the only secret lynsie was hiding. It would take years for detectives to uncover the truth buried in a pile of lies. But could they find lynsie . Heres josh mankowicz with the night lynsie disappeared. Sometimes the facts are as clear as the Southern California sky, but other times you have to know where to look to see the truth. U this man has made a career of noticing what others do not. Whats his reputation . Meticulous investigator. Just pores over the volumes of evidence and finds things that other investigators did not find. Fi the evidence whisperer . Correct. That night i went out does this man act guilty . Does he know more than hes saying . M well, i didnt know anything was going on, all right . I was just like, wheres lynsie . Okay . What about this man . Can you believe the story hes telling . I was supposed to pick her up twice and she was so out of character. She didnt show up on either day. The evidence whisperer wasnt present at either of those it interviews, but watching them helped him solve the mystery of what happened to a vivacious young woman and bring answers to the mother who loved her. Mo i was always proud of her. She was a real fighter. Lynsie ekelund arrived on july 22nd, 1980. She was the youngest of three. Maybe that fighting spirit isnt visible in her photos, but her mother nancy said it was always there. Lynsie had a passion for animals. She helped out in her spare times at a local shelter. Kim davidson, who worked at lynsies middle school, remembers young lynsie also had a sense of compassion. I was freezing cold and i didnt bring a jacket that day. B i felt these little hands up on my shoulder and a sweater come up around me and i turned around and it was lynsie and she said i just cant stand sitting here seeing you shiver. G lynsie gave back in other ways. U her mother said lynsie would lie about w her age so she could giu blood. Remarkable because lynsie struggled with her own disabilities. Her left lung was paralyzed. Le b her left leg impaired. Mp did she ever talk about how she had become disabled . She had brought it up to me. She said she was in a car accident and thrown when she was a little girl but very, very t just like matter of fact. But growing up lynsie needed so much care, her mother nancy was with lynsie like her shadowi she was my only purpose in my life is to make her as normal as she could be. By the time kim met lynsie, lynsies dad and brothers had moved away. Kim remembers a very tight family unit of just two. How close were lynsie and e nancy . Unbelievably. Extremely. But as lynsie reached adolescence, that started changing. Like a lot of teens she wanted her own identity. Ce she changed the spelling of her name from this to this. By high school there were girlfriends, even some boyfriends, and by the time she was 20 after so many years of mom and daughter being each others best friends and confidantes, lynsie began to keep some things in her life to herself. Like where she was really headed one night in february 2001. He does it make any sense that she would lie to you about what she was going to do that night . Ive never known her to lie to me but you dont know what you dont know. It was a friday night. Lynsie was in college parttime and working but still living at home. She told her mom that instead of their usual friday night dinner she was staying the night with a girlfriend named andrea, someone nancy had never met. Nd and then a young man named chris came to the door to pick lynsie up. She introduces you to this guy chris. Did chris say hello to you . Uhhuh. Was he polite . Did he have good manners . Uhhuh. But nancy says something felt wrong. I had a feeling about him. What feeling . I dont know. But you put it aside . Uhhuh. Of course, nancy was used to things feeling wrong. She had spent so many years worrying about lynsie. It was a struggle to let go, but she did. The last thing i said to her was remember your seat belt, and she looks over her shoulder and she says, back at you, mom. Love you. Thats the last thing she said to me. Nancy locked up the house ans went to bed. The next day lynsie was supposed to call after she was done tutoring two girls from the tee neighborhood, but when the call never came, nancy drove over and found out lynsie never showed ur at her job. All of a sudden my daughter is not where shes supposed to be. She had taught these little girls like for four months about. And you have no way of htgi reaching her . I had no way. Nancy ekelund was frantic. I started calling hospitals. I called the morgue. Thats how desperate i was. See if there was a jane doe in the morgue. There was no jane doe. And there was no Lynsie Ekelund. Most people who disappear like that, they come back in a couple of days. If not 24 hours, yes. Is that what you thought was going to happen . I think we did. F Corrine Loomis was a detective with the police department. We had no unidentified bodies . You checked the e. R. . We checked everybody, we checked everybody, we checked everything. There was no sign. Bo it was as if she vanished. Coming up when was the last time you saw lynsie . A week ago now. When dateline continues. There are thoughts that are hard to control youre not good enough but i am enough music and i know what im made of put your skin in the game with a razor that puts your skin first venus my skin. My way. Did you know you can shorten your cold [ ] with coldeeze® lozenges. Coldeeze® can shorten your cold by 42 . It releases zinc ions that some scientists believe inhibit cold viruses from replicating. Try coldeeze® the number one bestselling zinc lozenge. People are surprising themselves the moment realize they can du more with less asthma. Thanks to dupixent, the addon treatment for specific types of moderatetosevere asthma. Dupixent isnt for sudden breathing problems. It can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. Its not a steroid but can help reduce or eliminate oral steroids. 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Its typical with family members when they report a missing person, sometimes they give you the idea that this is an idyllic family life because i think theres a fear that if they dont paint a very rosy picture of this person were not going to be sympathetic and look for them. That youre not going to work hard . That were not going to work hard. And i think there was a little bit of that with nancy. Plasencia pd was working the case. They brought in the usual suspects, like the boyfriend. When you guys were dating, she hasnt been dating anyone else to your knowledge . No. His name is matthew ramirez. He was at college with lynsie. They had been off and on a bit but then when i went to her house thursday she was like, i want to break up. As can happen with young romance, what was off was soon back on. Lynsie and matt were back together in time for the weekend but not in time to make plans for that friday night. Im going to san diego with chris and everybody. I told her have fun, be careful. Okay . Shez like, okay. Then in came the last person nobody to have seen her, chris mcamis, 21 years old, out of school. He told the cops he was unemployed. Lynsie had met him through friends about four months prior and it turned out he never drove lynsie to andreas house for a sleepover. Chris said that was a lie lynsie made up for her mother. The real plan was to go clubbing all night in san diego. She says dont tell my mom were going to san diego because my mom wont let me go or Something Like that. And definitely dont tell her that were clubbing. Chris told police that when their night of clubbing went bust they headed home earlier than expected. He dropped off the other girls, he said, and then headed to lynsies house. Chris said it was after 4 00 a. M. When he finally got back here to lynsies neighborhood. And he said that lynsie was worried that her mom might hear his truck pull up at that hour. So chris said lynsie asked to be dropped off not at her house but here at the corner, about 50 yards away. That sounded strange to police until they heard from lynsies friends that at other times she had asked to be dropped off right here. Chris said he then drove home and police even found a photo from a bank atm of what looked like chriss truck heading north on the right street at the right time. To the cops chriss story added up. And that was when police learned matthew and chris were not the only men in lynsies life. There was someone else both whom matthew and chris had mentioned to investigators, an older man who drove lynsie around. No one knew his name. They had heard lynsie refer to him as her friend. All anybody knows him by. As her friend . Yeah. Nancy had no idea lynsie was friends with any older man. She was about to find out. Two days after lynsie vistey vanishes you get a phone call . Yes. Youre pretty much at your wits end . Yes. The phone rings and its marty. Yes. Did you know a marty . No. As far as you know did lynsie know a marty . No. Marty says he went to pick lynsie up from school and she wasnt there. He said he had money for lynsie that she needed for tuition. None of that made any sense to nancy. Nancy, the mother gets a phone call from a guy named marty. Marty rossler. And what does marty rossler say to her . Marty says hes befriended lynsie. Hes a friend of lynsies and hes concerned because he hadnt heard from her. What did you learn about marty rosler . Marty rosler was not marty rosler. Marty rossler was really marty preginzer. He did not have a criminal record. What he did have was a relationship with lynsie that he hadnt told his wife about. He told police he would pick lynsie up and give her rides but that was about it. Marty was 58. And she was 20 . She was 20. They were boyfriend and girlfriend . Dont think so. So Police Brought in marty. Over two days they recorded those interviews. At times on video and sometimes just on audiotape. Whens the last time you saw lynsie . A week ago now. I dont think so. Absolutely. No. Absolutely not. Marty said that he had last seen lynsie the day that she went to san diego on that friday. Did you believe him . We really didnt believe him. They didnt believe him because of a tip they had received. A clerk at a local Clothing Store had called to say shed seen lynsie and a much older man who matched martys description together at her store after the day lynsie went missing. I flat wasnt there on that day. Okay . I have been in that store, all right . And i said im like you. Im easily, you know, identified. Okay . I mean, probably every place id been with her would know that i was in there with her. Okay . It was a very long interview. Friendly . No. No. I remember drilling down on him because i really thought that he might know where lynsie was. Youre a parent . Yes. Okay. How many kids do you have . Two. If you had a child gone for eight days, vanished, vaporized in thin air, would your heart not be broken . Oh, absolutely. Do you not feel some compassion for nancy . Unbelievable. I think this is a nice girl and, you know, this familys had their share of hard you know, hardships. And this is just i mean, i feel so, you know, helpless. I dont think you are helpless. I think you can help us. Marty insisted he couldnt, that he didnt know what had happened to lynsie. Detectives werent buying it. Did you harm lynsie . No. No. Never. Even by accident . Accidents happen. I never touched her. Okay . You know, never touched her. Okay. This girl is have you put her someplace where shes left . No. No. Police searched martys home and found nothing. No proof that marty had anything to do with lynsies disappearance. So they moved on to a new suspect, someone closer to lynsie than anyone else on earth. Dateline returns after the break. 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In the dark about where her daughter was and about the pace of the investigation. Police were not keeping her in the loop. So nancy was delighted when they called to say they were coming to visit. You look at the boyfriend, matthew. Uhhuh. You look at marty, the older guy. The relationship nobody knew about. He denies it . Right. You look at chris, he says i dropped her off, i never saw her again. Right. And you look at lynsies mother. We did look at lynsies mother. You have to. So i made my cookies and all this kind of silly stuff. Coffee, right . Yeah. The cops werent coming for coffee. They arrived with a search warrant, shovels, and cadaver dogs. I was shocked that they even suspected me. I didnt know what even a search warrant was. The house nancy and lynsie had once shared was torn apart. How much of a suspect was nancy . I dont know that nancy was on the radar for a long time. She was on the radar long enough to be able to set her aside. After that search they did just that. They believed this anguished mother had nothing to do with the disappearance of her daughter. So they took nancy off the list. They also took off the boyfriend, matthew. He had an alibi that held up, putting him somewhere else at the time lynsie went missing. So that left just two. I havent seen her since that day. Marty, whom police didnt trust because of his secret relationship with lynsie and because he had lied about his identity, and the man who dropped lynsie off at that corner. The last person to see her before she vanished, chris mcamis. Go on in here. Have a seat there at the end. Do you remember Corrine Loomis . Yes. April 2002, more than a year after lynsie went missing detectives decided to start over. They brought chris mcamis back to see if his story still held up. I really would like to think that lynsie has been like either abducted or something happened to her. Id really rather id really rather think that shes with friends or Something Like that. Police turned up the heat. Cut the bull and get down to the nittygritty. And strip away the id like to think in my polyana mind if i lived any Perfect World shed be someplace. Okay . Its a possibility shes dead. Right. Police thought chris seemed oddly calm talking about a friend who may have been murdered. If it turns out somebody killed her, what do you think should happen . Find them. When i find them, then what . Go to jail. How long do you think they should go to jail . As long as it takes. Like what . Go to jail for a while. Thats as strong as you could get out of him . Thats as strong as we could get out of him. Not he ought to go to hell or id personally electrocute him . Id personally electrocute him. He should get the gas chamber. She was my friend. She wouldnt deserve that. She wouldnt hurt a fly. There was nothing. His lack of emotion was suggestive that perhaps chris should move to the top of the list, but it was not evidence. After the interview chris mcamis was free to leave and detectives werent any closer to learning what happened to Lynsie Ekelund. And neither was nancy, who remained convinced her daughter would one day just come home. You thought that one day she would walk back through the door . Yes. She believed it because she wanted to and because over the years several people had told her theyd seen lynsie. They never saw the front of her face, they always saw the back of her, and i held on to every word they said. It was torture for nancy no matter what version of events you believed, and police still werent telling her anything. Nancy, during all this time, feels like shes been sort of cut out of the loop. Yes. Nancy was pretty angry. We worked this case diligently for a long time. At some point you hit the wall. At the time there were nine detectives in placentia working everything. Drugs, gangs, rape, murder and cold cases. By 2008 it was clear placentia pd had hit that wall. They would need help on this one. And who they needed was a guy named larry. Tell me about larry. Larry is phenomenal. Phenomenal because, what, he sees things other cops dont see . Phenomenal because he sees things cops dont see. I dont know anybody who could have done a better job than larry. The evidence whisperer was about to listen to what the facts of this case were really saying. Was there something that police had missed . You bet. Coming up, that picture of the truck spotted on the night of the crime. Something about it just doesnt seem right, but the evidence whisperer is all over it. When dateline continues. R 100. Now weve created a brand new way for you to sell your car. Whether its a year old or a few years old, we want to buy your car. So go to carvana and enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our technowizardry calculates your cars value and gives you a real offer in seconds. When youre ready, well come to you, pay you on the spot, and pick up your car. 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A. s office, to a guy named Larry Montgomery. With more than 30 years working homicide, larrys put away his share of bad guys, not usually by knocking on doors. Instead, larry works by looking very closely at the evidence. He doesnt work fast. In fact, larry is meticulously slow. And that was just what this cold case needed. Was there anything in the original investigation that struck you as something that you needed to reexamine . Everything. Everything that had led Placentia Police into that wall trying to decide between two suspects. I mean, im concerned about this girl, okay . You know. And shes missing. Marty, lynsies older friend who kept their relationship a secret and lied about his name, and chris. In my heart it seems like she might be still alive. The last person known to have seen lynsie when he dropped her off at that corner. At that point any idea on your part which of those two was a more likely suspect . No. I dont know until i get into it and see the details. Youre no doubt aware youve got a reputation for believing that i dont know if gods in the details but guilts in the details. And innocence. Guilty or innocent . Was it marty or chris . Larry even considered another possibility. Could it have been random, someone who had seen lynsie at just the wrong time . So youve got a bad guy just waiting, hoping that a girl drops out of a car at 4 25 in the morning. It happens. Yeah. You consider that but then you weigh it. And you go, is that a good possibility . Probably not but still keep an open mind. So larry sat down and read through the entire case file. All the witness statements, all the interviews. He did that for two years. Were going down this dead end road again. He watched the february 2001 interview that police did with a very unhappy marty. Doesnt it strike you as tremendously suspicious that marty would call after lynsie disappears, talk to lynsies mother and give a phony name . If you didnt know the background of marty, then absolutely. When i talked to the mother on the phone, i gave her an identifier, okay . Named marty resler, thats what i said. Which is a lie . Which is a lie. Watching that interview, larry chalked up martys dishonesty as an attempt to save his marriage. I dont want my wife to be brought into this thing. Larry also took a closer look at the idea that marty and lynsie were together at that Clothing Store after she went missing. I flat wasnt there on that day, okay . No one ever found any security video of that and larrys learned over the years that wellmeaning people often get dates wrong. And larry learned a key fact. Marty had actually participated in those early searches for lynsie. You eliminated marty fairly quickly then . Yes. Martys behavior matched up with that of an innocent person, not with a guilty one . Thats correct. He is actually doing exactly what you would oif you were look for lynsie. He was searching. So Larry Montgomery turned his attention to chris mcamis. Guilty or innocent . Chris was the last person known to be with lynsie. He told police he drove straight home after dropping lynsie off. And police found that photo of what looked like his truck heading north away from lynsies neighborhood, which took him past this atm camera. The video from the atm camera, police at the time saw that as not ironclad proof that chris was telling the truth but suggestive that what he said he actually did. Correct. But when larry compared photos of chriss truck with the photos from the bank, he saw something no one else had noticed. The paint on the back of the side view mirrors on chriss truck was white. What about the truck in the photo . Truck in the photo had a dark spot in that area, which means whatever mirrors were there if there were mirrors there they were black. So its not the same truck . Thats right, its not. Suddenly chriss alibi had a big hole in it. Larry moved on to chriss history with women. Two exgirlfriends talked to police about how chris would become unhinged by rejection, or what he called disrespect. Larry heard about how chris had once crushed a pet crab with a hammer right in front of one of his girlfriends because he thought the crab had killed one of his fish. This is a guy with some significant anger issues. It certainly appears that way. He told me it was from a car president. Larry listened to chriss interviews and caught him talking some of the time about lynsie in the past tense. Her hand was pretty much stuck like this. Okay. Then larry found something in the paperwork from placentia p. D. That proved chris mccamis had lied to the police early on about his whereabouts on saturday february 17th, the day lynsie didnt come home. Chris had told the cops he stayed close to home, but larry checked chriss credit card statement. There was one entry on february 17th and it turns out it was Santa Clarita, which is 50 miles north of where chris lived. Why would chris be in Santa Clarita . Well, thats what i wanted to know. Digging through the reports, larry found information about chriss dad, that he was in construction and that in 2000 and 2001 he had a job site in Santa Clarita. You cant tell now, but back in 2001 this was a Major Construction site. Now, chris had told police that he did not work for his dad that winter, that he was on unemployment, but larry saw some big cash deposits going into his bank account in addition to his unemployment checks. So he thought chris may have been working for his dad off the books. And larry came up here to ask around. And they told you it was chriss fathers Construction Company . Chriss father did some of the tractor work at that site. And chris worked there . And chris was one of the tractor drivers that the superintendent said was there ever day. 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Im from Fullerton College torch magazine. Officer sandelli was posing as a student reporter complete with a phony press pass. She knocked on chriss front door. Chris had talked to a student reporter from lynsies college in the past about the case. Did you use your real name . No, i used a fake name. Told him who i was. And we just received word at the torch magazine that remains have been found that they believe belong to lynsie. So i guess theyre doing dna testing right now and in the meantime im supposed to go contact friends, family to get their initial reaction for a story. Okay. When i told them that the police believed they found lynsies remains his demeanor changed. How . Quite drastically. I could see the color in his face went white. The police had not found lynsies remains. That was a lie. Police do it all the time and its legal. In fact, larry had tried to find lynsie up at the construction location where chris had worked and he had gotten some interest from cadaver dogs but nothing more. Just down the street from chriss house bryce angel of the so youre watching him while this interview happens on his front doorstep . Yeah, i was sitting ten houses down watching the reporter, or the undercover Police Officer. Once she left the area, we were in business. What happens . Later that night he was seen coming out of his house and going into the garage. Lights go on, and were talking like 3 00 in the morning. It was clearly a sign of somebody who couldnt sleep. Detectives were sure theyd rattled their suspect. The next day they trailed chris when he left his house. At some point it became apparent that he knew we were following him. They broke off surveillance. And brought chris in. Chris, have a seat. Larry had read all about chris mcamis, and hed looked at tape of every time chris had been in for an interview. Heres what the situation is. Today he and chris were going to meet for the first time. I have been investigating this case for about two years now as a cold case investigator. Larry had a plan to get chris to talk without asking for a lawyer. You probably want to know whats going on, whats happening, why youre sitting here. Larry promised to fill him in on the case in detail, thinking chris would want to know if the cops had the goods, and then maybe hed have something to say. I do have to advise you of your rights, which i will do in a moment. Then id like to explain to you everything. Larry read chris his rights. And then before chris could really respond, larry laid out his case. He said he knew chris had never dropped lynsie off that night. Because the atm photo that at first fooled investigators actually proved chris wasnt there. It wasnt your truck. But for years, it was thought of as your truck, but its not. As a matter of fact, your truck did not go by that night. It wasnt there. He told chris about the credit card statement and how he found someone who remembered chris working on the job site. All of a sudden, big red flags, you are working. You are up there when you said you were not. But he said you guys dont work on saturday. Lynsie disappeared on a saturday morning. None of your credit card usage up there is on any weekend. All of its on weekdays, except for the day lynsie disappeared. So youre not up there working that day. He told chris the lie about lynsie being found. We went recently, got dna from mother and dad and had that checked against the body. And its lynsie. Now weve got lynsie up in the area where you were, right at the time where you did not drop her off. And we have enough to prove the crime. And knowing about chris anger issues with previous girlfriends, larry summoned up a little empathy to draw chris in. I know you have that ability to be angry, but i dont know what would cause her to get you that angry, or what she could have done. Chris didnt say much until a little body language revealed that larry was on the right track. Was it a premeditated thing . I dont think it was. So what did she do . Larry finished talking. He was hoping chris would give it up. I think i need a lawyer to talk to you about this with me. Its up to you. The Supreme Court has made it pretty clear. If someone declares that they want an attorney, the interview is supposed to stop until one can be hired or provided. But in this case, larry was walking a line. Believing that asking for a lawyer isnt the same as wondering if you need one. Corrine loomis was watching from another room. Thats about as close as you can get to the i want a lawyer line without actually saying it. Right. Were you holding your breath when he said that . Yes. This was a make or break interview. If he didnt confess, he was going to walk again. Coming up its pretty inspiring the way families redefined the word school this year. Its why, at xfinity, were committed to helping kids keep learning through the summer. And help College Students studying at home stay connected through our university program. Were providing affordable Internet Access to low income families through our internet essentials program. And this summer, xfinity is creating a Virtual Summer camp for kids at home all on xfinity x1. Were committed to helping all families stay connected. Learn more at xfinity. Com education. I need to know what occurred so i do the right thing, because something happened to her. Larry montgomery spoke for 45 minutes. Hed given chris mcamis everything he had. Take a look at the credit card usage. The photo, the job site. How long did you know lynsie . This is not a very convenient time right now. The phony story about finding the body. And then the interview had suddenly stopped dead. I think i need a lawyer to talk to you about this with me. Well, its up to you. And because chris said i think i need a lawyer and not i need a lawyer larry thought whatever came next would be admissible in court. Detective angel whod been letting larry do the talking then spoke up. I knew that was a moment of truth, i had to interject something very quickly. Chris, nobody likes to be labeled a monster. And in this case, thats the way its pointing. Only you have the other side of the story. Nobody is going to be able to speak for you. Thats why were here now. Thats it. Theres a reason everything happens. Im sure there were some circumstances that happened that night or that morning. He kind of sighed, and he laid out a story. All right, what happened was and suddenly, you realize this is it. Hes going to give it up. I was sitting next to the detective from the other agency, and i reached over and grabbed his arm and i said, he is going to confess. It was sad, and it was ugly. She i was going to take her home. Okay. She was telling me, why dont i just sleep over at your place, because i dont want to upset my mom. Makes sense. As larry had suspected, chris never dropped off lynsie at that corner. I was trying to kiss her. And then she elbowed me in the chest. And then i went to my i went to my kitchen in my apartment. And i drank a lot of vodka. And then i went back, and i tried to do the same thing. Okay. She pretended to be asleep. And i pulled her pants down and i was totally drunk. Okay. She got up, said oh, my god, what are you doing . Im calling the police. When i got up and walked to her, she tried to knock me out with my phone, with my home phone. Did she to my face, yeah, she, like this to my face. Okay. And being drunk, it enraged me. It set me on fire. And i grabbed her, throw her onto my bed, and i got her into a head lock. Okay. And she died. Then what did you do . Then i tried to figure out what i should do, because i couldnt believe how it just happened that way. Quickly, huh . It just i couldnt believe it. I thought she was just going to pass out, and i ended up killing her. That was it. Lynsie had been killed before anyone realized she was even missing. Chris says he then drove up to the work site and used a skip loader to dig a hole. He held on to lynsies body for a few days, and then when no one was around, he buried her. Did it feel better to finally know . No, because i was really devastated. There was a relief, but i wasnt any happier because of it. After the confession, detectives left chris in the Interview Room with another detective to watch him. And chris simply could not stop talking. Unbelievable. Whats that . Its been so long, it finally feels better when you finally just say what you were supposed to say, you know . I know my life is ruined now. Do you know if im going to get the Death Penalty for this . Youre going to have to ask them those questions. Then larry came back. Always meticulous. He wasnt done. He wanted that final detail. Where approximately was it that you dug the hole to put her . Where exactly chris had left lynsie. Right up in here . He explained to chris, that even though they found her remains, which wasnt true, the grave site had shifted over the years from flooding. This is where the tractor was parked and where exactly you dug the hole . With the detectives, chris returned to the site that had become lynsies final resting place. Right where this tree is, i pulled my truck over and parked it. This tree to our left here . Uhhuh, right where this tree is. It didnt used to exist there when we had construction. Okay. He wasnt sure of the exact spot. Its over in this vicinity. But it could be way up there or way over here . From that tree all the way to that brush. That brush over there . It took more than a day of digging to find what was left of lynsie. First they found a shoe, then a jacket. And a bracelet. Thats how nancy knew theyd found her. The coroner confirmed it using dental records. The back of my truck was over here. Two years after he confessed, chris mcamis pleaded guilty to seconddegree murder. His sentence is 15 years to life. You told me that you thought youd let this consume your life too much. Oh, it did. It does to this day. Well, now its over. What are you going to do . I dont know. A new life is opening up to you, and i dont know. I dont have any answers. I just have to get over this. Thats all for now. Thanks for joining us. Mystery on the missippi im craig melvin. And im natalie morales. And this is dateline. Very bubbly personality. A huge smile. A childs worst nightmare. To lose a mom. Every day i wanted answers. Every days was told it was unknown. People just dont die. She was a loving mother. He was a Crime Fighting prosecutor. You are a pillar of that community . I did what i thought was right. Then one day the law was at his door. His wife was dead, in bed. Her eyes were opened, she was pale