murder and first degree arson. surprisingly, he was granted bail. he wouldn t have to await trial in jail. then it looked like the charges were going to be even more serious. just before he was to be indicted for first degree murder in march 2000, he disappeared. the last trace of him, his mother s car, which he had been driving. police found it abandoned 400 miles away in suburban chicago, with blood inside. and a nearby hotel, police also found some of his personal items, clothing, and medication for depression. colleen got the news when she was at her brother rich s house. i was totally shocked. i can still remember that day rich got the phone call and turned around and said, they can t find him. he s gone. gordon weaver was not only gone but his parents said they feared he was dead. in december that year, his mother sent out this christmas
of blood inside. her mother got a call from her in the middle of the night and missed it. when she called back, a man answered and hung up. harris faulkner has more on this. reporter: yeah, a couple of other details having to do with the mom, and she says she s been getting odd text messages since her daughter disappeared, amber el cins, 20 years old, as you mentioned. we don t know the nature of those odd text messages, but it is an important part of the information, so we re told. harris county sheriff s department down in the houston area looking for amber after they found her car in disrepair; broken window, a substantial amount of blood inside, and no clues for where she might be. they have a tipline out for this, but they say recently she s been in a custody battle over her child, so they re looking at that part of the story and, also, those text messages that are supposedly coming from amber s phone. she s been missing since last sunday, and that tip line is
answered and hung up. harris faulkner has more on this. reporter: yeah, a couple of other details having to do with the mom, and she says she s been getting odd text messages since her daughter disappeared, amber el cins, 20 years old, as you mentioned. we don t know the nature of those odd text messages, but it is an important part of the information, so we re told. harris county sheriff s department down in the houston area looking for amber after they found her car in disrepair; broken window, a substantial amount of blood inside, and no clues for where she might be. they have a tipline out for this, but they say recently she s been in a custody battle over her child, so they re looking at that part of the story and, also, those text messages that are supposedly coming from amber s phone. she s been missing since last sunday, and that tip line is 713-222-tips. want to quote the sheriff s department, they fear something
turned up on thursday abandoned on the campus of kenyon college. that s when they decided they had to go back to the house. that s when they found the blood inside; jon? jon: jonathan hunt, thanks. in north carolina police are now confirming they identified the remains of a girl who disappeared last month. the father and stepmother of 10-year-old zarha baker reported her missing from their home. bone cancer had taken zarha s left leg and searchers found her prosthetic a few weeks after she vanished. now police say d.n.a. tests confirm the worst. i have been dreading this moment early on in this investigation. we have recovered enough physical evidence to believe we have found zarha. jon: investigators have cast doubt on stories from zarha s father and stepmom about her disappearance and prosecutors charged the stepmom with obstruction of justice in the case. but no word yet how zarha might have died or whether police plan to make any arrests.
about the condition of her home. what do we know? jonathan: we could have more detail on what the sheriff described as unusual condition. her former husband now telling an ohio tv station that the co-worker who went looking for her when she did not turn up at her job on wednesday looked in the home, saw things looked unusual and went inside and according to the husband that co-worker found blood inside. that is when she called the cops. trace: and the boyfriend is speaking out? we hear from the boyfriend finally. he was the one who reported her missing on wednesday. he says the last he heard from her was when he was on his way to work and at 4:40 a.m. he says she sent him a text message and he says he never saw her again.