and i remember halfway down the road, remembering that i forget my key. but the closer we got to the house, i had seen my sister s car. so i said, oh, okay, cool. you know, i don t i don t need the key. you know, she s home. reporter: then she noticed the door wasn t quite closed. it was closed, but it wasn t latched. like you could just pull on it and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. what did you assume when you saw the door open and the tv on? i thought maybe she left in a hurry. maybe she went with a friend, you know, and she just didn t close the door all the way. reporter: she was tara, veronica s older sister, not quite 20 then. veronica called out. no answer. she walked through the house, bathroom light was on. i went and looked in the bathroom and then i went in our bedroom and i d seen her purse and everything on top of her dresser. so then, i m like, where would she be without her purse? cause that wasn t usual. so tha
the closer we got, i had seen my sister s car. i said cool, i don t need the key. she s home. then she noticed the door was not quite closed. it was closed, but not latched. you could pull on it and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. what did you assume when the door was open and the tv on? maybe she left in a hurry or went with a friend and didn t close the door all the way. she was tara. veronica s older sister, not quite 20 then. veronica called out and walked through the house. the bathroom light was on. i went in the bathroom and our bedroom and i had seen her purse and where would she be without her purse? that was unusual and i called keith. keith mcphillips was her mom s fiance and he told
ord, then almost 14 years old, and her younger brother, paul. and i remember halfway down the road, remembering that i forget my key. but the closer we got to the house, i had seen my sister s car. so i said, oh, okay, cool. you know, i don t i don t need the key. you know, she s home. reporter: then she noticed the door wasn t quite closed. it was closed, but it wasn t latched. like you could just pull on it and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. what did you assume when you saw the door open and the tv on? i thought maybe she left in a hurry. maybe she went with a friend, you know, and she just didn t close the door all the way. reporter: she was tara, veronica s older sister, not quite 20 then. veronica called out. no answer. she walked through the house, bathroom light was on. i went and looked in the bathroom and then i went in our bedroom and i d seen her purse and everything on top of her dresser. so then, i m like, where wo
veronica called out, no answer. she walked through the house. bathroom light was on. i went and looked in the bathroom, then i went in our bedroom and i seen her purse and everything on top of her dresser, so then i m like where would she be without her purse because that was unusual. that s when i called keith. keith was keith mcphillips, her mom s fiance. he was just leaving work, told veronica he was thinking of stopping for coffee with a friend on the way home. veronica told her about tara that her purse was home but she wasn t. what did you think when she told you that? something wasn t right. if tara was going to go somewhere, she wouldn t leave her stuff. that s how responsible she was. sure. keith cancelled the coffee plan, drove straight home. as soon as i got home, it just didn t look right. there was all kinds of tracks on the floor. i said what are these marks on the floor.
reporter: we means veronica ord, then almost 14 years old, and her younger brother, paul. and i remember halfway down the road, remembering that i forget my key. but the closer we got to the house, i had seen my sister s car. so i said, oh, okay, cool. you know, i don t i don t need the key. you know, she s home. reporter: then she noticed the door wasn t quite closed. it was closed, but it wasn t latched. like you could just pull on it and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. what did you assume when you saw the door open and the tv on? i thought maybe she left in a hurry. maybe she went with a friend, you know, and she just didn t close the door all the way. reporter: she was tara, veronica s older sister, not quite 20 then. veronica called out. no answer. she walked through the house, bathroom light was on. i went and looked in the bathroom and then i went in our bedroom and i d seen her purse and everything on top of her