believe that she had it all together. so she wouldn t tell us about the problems she was having with lyle. she had always taken care of you. you re on tv. and doing great and maybe she thought, you know what? i m not going to break aasha s concentration for a minute. oh, definitely. yeah. i love protection. a little bit of pride. so perhaps lesley was still alive somewhere and just keeping her head down. it is what vivian was hoping. i believed that lesley would come home. i went to sleep every night and imagined i could hear the doorbell ring. i could imagine that there were knocks on the door. i imagined the phone would ring. she believed it because vivian knew something that aasha didn t know. something vivian didn t tell detectives right away. that lesley had spoken openly to her mother months earlier about some
and the herrings condo complex in the hollywood hills to see what, if anything, they could find there. lesley s car is there in her assigned parking spot. that made it feel heavier. like her all of a sudden, her car is here and she s not answering the phone. they went into the building to not timelessly in lyle s front door. aasha wondered if leslie, who suffered from migraines, might be sick inside. but they re knocking got no response. they waited and waited. they return to the garage where they saw a man parking in the spot next on lesley s. we said hey, have you seen the woman who owns this car? he said i haven t seen her, but i saw her husband yesterday. that was strange. so aasha and jesse waited in the car by the front gate. if that neighbor was right, maybe they would find lyle when he came home from work. i remember a few cars coming
maybe recognize aasha davis. he s one of those lucky few for whom that hollywood fantasy came true. within a few years of her move west, her star was rising. and in 2007, she caught her big break on friday night lights. she was cast as waverly, the sharp as attack preachers daughter. but just as aasha s career was taking off, a real life drama began. one that would test her strength in a way the climb up the hollywood ladder never had. hi, i m here to plead for help to find my sister lesley. aasha was used to facing the cameras, but this wasn t on the a set or for a publicity tour. the scene was a news conference where aasha begged for help from anyone who would listen. we are heart broken and extremely concerned for her well being. any sister would be frantic with worry. but aasha and her big sister lesley were closer than most despite their gap in age.
feeling hopeless. so they called the lapd. aasha and jesse couldn t get into the herring condo but police could. officers went inside and found nothing that looked unusual. they also found no lyle and no lesley. aasha worked the phones, friends and relatives knew nothing. then she reached lyle s boss who said he hadn t heard from lesley but he thought he had seen lyle on tuesday which was the day after lesley missed work. no less confused, aasha decided it was time to file that missing persons report. we went to the police station and we gave them a picture of leslie and the guy said, thank you, and he pushed her picture on a pile. in california, i m sure, i don t know how many people go missing, especially in hollywood, in a day.
very different happened? the dog told you a dead body had been in the back of lyle s car? correct. but with few clues, hollywood detectives with strange a dramatic press conference hoping to flush out a killer. i was just floored by what was happening. hello and welcome to dateline. aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sister lesley followed to support her. then leslie went missing. and was desperate to find her. in a town built on deception scripted to smoke out a suspect and the stakes were high. here is josh mankiewicz with a sister search. in the movies and on tv,