away things. fit together with away things. that s our thing. by early wednesday, august 12th, 2009, matt landry s fourth day missing, his parents, bob and doreen, had put together some facts that scared them to death. the same guy seen on tape using matt s atm card looked to be the man who had robbed the flag star bank. when i saw him holding a gun to that girl s head, knowing he was the one who used my son s
behind matt s disappearance. and the landrys also heard on local news that the very same guy was already in police custody for the botched carjacking in the local walmart. matt s mom called the roseville p.d. i said the man you re holding who just robbed the bank is the same man who used my son s debit card. and my son is missing. you need to get a detective in there now to talk to him. reporter: that detective would be lieutenant ray blarek, who just pieced it all together himself. now he needed answers from the man they call ihop, and the veteran cop had a few tricks up his sleeve to get what he wanted. as detectives prepare for an intense interrogation, friends uncover troubling new information and an eyewitness on the day matt vanished. coming up they re beating him up now. hurry. when dateline continues.
threatened at gunpoint. was there any connection? once again here s dennis murphy with taken. bob and doreen, the parents of matt, the young man missing for the third day now, could only pray that he would walk in the door. the police told them, often kids go off like this, and it s something to do with drugs. the parents weren t buying it. didn t fit the pattern for matt. reporter: something innocent would explain matt s absence. i still had hope that it was something crazy. it was something, you know he ll show up. yes. something that we would laugh about. reporter: but just in case it wasn t that, matt s mother and girlfriend, after waiting the required 24 hours, went to matt s hometown police in chesterfield to get an official missing person case going. in the state here, just in case, we wanted to make sure someone was always here at the house. reporter: at first, chesterfield p.d. told the landrys it wasn t their case. they would need to go to the
so when do you guys miss him? every second, every day. yeah. like i miss him any time i touch an instrument or listen to our favorite band. they identified him on friday. reporter: matt s decomposed body, discovered in a hell hole of a house, was positively i.d. d by the medical examiner through dental records. the cause of death was a single gunshot to the back of the head. already under arrest and now charged with a fresh crime, killing matt, was a man known on the streets known as ihop. he had given police the phony name giles, but his fingerprints revealed him to be 17-year-old ihab maslamani. born in this country? no, born in libya. reporter: his attorney said he came to michigan to live with relatives, who, according to juvenile court records, neglected him. he then entered the state s child welfare system and it didn t go well, fleeing foster homes for a life
got here, i can t explain that one. but we got here. reporter: it was now 10:30 in the morning. i see what looks like a little footpath where somebody had gone through there at some point in the summer. i make my way up what used to be the porch. and i look in. the house is all burned out. as i peeked around the corner, i saw some flip-flops here. i stepped in further. and i saw the body itself. reporter: in the august swelter, the body had decomposed beyond recognition. they knew they had a white man with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. the victim had been wearing jeans and tell tale flip-flops. it s not the outcome we wanted. but at least he was found. reporter: the hometown detective, scott blackwell, rushed over from nearby streets to confirm the finding. when i saw this body, i knew it was him. reporter: detective blackwell s immediate concern