first i was, okay, no, that can t be. reporter: then the truth came crashing down, undeniable. quinna had missed a scheduled court date in santa ana for a prostitution charge. wait a minute, you talked with her every day, texted her all the time in. exactly. reporter: and you knew nothing of this secret life? no, nothing. reporter: what does it feel like to hear that in. heart breaking. reporter: when she heard kathy s story, detective trapp began to think she was on to something. then she discovered that just two-and-a-half weeks after quinna disappeared, there was another one, josephine monique vargas. she had a beautiful personality. they used to call her giggles because she always made people laugh. reporter: josephine s mother priscilla had been on the local news searching for her daughter for months, after she left a family bar-b-que telling them she was going for groceries. reporter: that was the last time any of us sue her.
for? we re looking to have better relationships with people and be a little more content with our lives. i don t know. what do i know, anderson. i wish my name was anderson. can you imagine if i was an anderson. wouldn t fit this face. got to look like you to be an anderson. i don t know what that means. do you know that s a popular first name in brazil. is it really? i don t know why. i think the name howard is on the list of popular names. i think it actually just broke into i think it s 999. you know and my mother you ve been cursed with your name. my mother wanted to name me harvey, which would have made my life more difficult. my sister s name is ellen. she wanted to name her fern. fern stern. my mother goes fern is a beautiful name. and my father stepped in and went, are you crazy? that can t be. i am not harvey, i am harvey.
my mother was not good at picking names. my sister s name is ellen. she wanted to name her fern. fern stern. my mother goes fern is a beautiful name and my father actually sat there and said are you crazy? that can t be. so i m howard and i m thankful for that. i would have gotten beaten up 20 times more if i had been harvey. i hope you enjoy this interview with howard stern. his best selling back howard stern again comes out soon. thanks for watching. the following is a cnn special report. his business practices are opaque. everybody else lost that goes bankrupt. their allegations of deception. what we re developing doesn t mean year the developer.
what do i know, anderson? do you understand? i wish my name was anderson. can you imagine if i was an anderson? it wouldn t fit this face. you have to look like you to be an anderson. do you know it s a very popular first name in brazil? is it really? yeah, i don t know why. i think the name howard is on the list of popular names, i think it actually just broke into, i think it s 999. harvey, which would have made my life more difficult. yeah. my mother was not good at picking names. my sister s name is ellen. she wanted to name her fern. so she would have been fern stern. my mother goes fern is a beautiful name and my father actually stepped in and went are you crazy? that can t be. so i m not harvey, i m howard. and i m thankful for that. fern stern. i would have gotten beaten up 20 times more if i had been harvey. he s a great person to talk to.
lipstick, keys, that kind of thing. all coming down the staircase. and first thing i m wondering is, was there a struggle? was her wallet there? the wallet was there. and money in it? there must have been because at first we didn t think it was a robbery. reporter: edythe, who knew none of this, now rushed to denita s building, where she hoped to find her close friend but instead was greeted by several of the university s professors. i was like, what are you all doing here? and they were like, you know, unfortunately she s not alive. everything in me, you know, just went into shock, of course. i kept saying, you know, i want to see her. i was like, are you sure? maybe it s mistaken identity. i m like, she s not dead, this can t be. reporter: denita monique smith was just 25 years old and engaged to be married. now her fiancé, jermeir stroud, who had also arrived on scene, was given the awful news. how d jermeir look?