i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. i just collapsed. she s dead because she was my friend. first melissa disappeared. where s melissa? that s the million dollar question. i knew right then she absolutely never made it into her house. left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist, then her boss went missing too. who is he afraid of am. he might have been afraid he s next. he left behind a bigger mess. we three kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark a billion, billion and a half dollars. a missing woman. we have know clue, no leads. some wonder was there a link? this had a twist to it. two crimes, one for money, one supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong, and i can t fix it. welcome to dateline. hotshot florida attorney melissa lewis was living large in fort lauderdale dale, but then her seemingly charged life ended
absolutely never made it in her house. left behind her garage, signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist. we did not know what it was. then her boss went missing to! who is he afraid of? he was might be afraid that he was next. someone would put a bullet in my head. he left behind a bigger mess. we kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark, a billion and a billion and a half dollars. a missing daughter. we have no clues, no leads. some wondered, was there a length? this had a twist to. it two crimes, supposedly for love. and behind both? a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong. that i can t fix it. welcome to dateline! hot shot florida attorney melissa lewis was really large in fort lauderdale. but then, her seemingly charmed life ended in tragedy. her body was discovered in a drainage canal. she had been murdered. but who would want her dead? with few clues, fewer suspects, and a scandal with the law firm. inves
when he got the report, detective kendall couldn t believe what he saw. melissa s iphone had been active ( after the murder and someone had actually gone into her voicemail and played back messages, read texts. we try to make sense as to why he would want to do something like this. reporter: police were dumbfounded that someone wouldn t know that a smartphone was a detective s best friend and police could track them using cell towers. it was either bold or stupid or both. people know this concept of pinging off towers. it s the cell phone is telling the towers, here i am ? yeah. so it s giving us a general vicinity and of an area, where that cell phone communicated. reporter: and the phone records showed that person had been on the move from the believed time of the murder into the next day. how important is the story told by the cell phone? very important. cell phone s almost like someone dropping pieces of popcorn, leaving a trail. reporter: but the trail was a
type of questions we asked of him. he voluntarily answered them. he had been released from prison in the past. so you have been with them out yet? not yet. with a list of possible suspects shrinking. detective shifted their focus on something that might provide their brought first break in the case. with melissa s iphone missing, detectives put in an emergency request to the phone company to see if it could help track her cell. when you got the report, detective candle couldn t believe what he saw. melissa s iphone had been active after the murder. and someone had actually gone into her voice mail and played back messages. brett texts. we tried to make sense of why he would want to do something like this. people were dumbfounded that someone would know that a smartphone was a detective s best friend. and police could track them using cell towers. it was either bold, or stupid, or both. people know their concept of pinging off towers, it s a cell
type of questions we asked of him. he voluntarily entered them. he had been released from prison in the past. so you have a ruled him out? yet not yet. with a list of possible suspects shrinking, detective shifted their focus is something that might have provided them a first break in the. case with melissa s iphone missing detectives put an emergency request to the phone company. to see if it could help track herself. one thing i got the report. detective candle couldn t believe what he. saw ulises iphone had been active after the murder. and somebody had actually gone into her voice mail, and play back messages. red tex. it kind of makes sense, as to why he would want to do something like. this police were dumbfounded that somebody wouldn t know that a smartphone was a detective s best friend. and police could track them using cell towers. it was either bold or stupid or both. people know this concept of pinging off towers. the cell phone is telling the