interrupted. a talented drummer aiming for rock n roll stardom suddenly disappeared. his parents immediately sensed he was in danger and they were forced into a race to find him in time. here s dennis murphy with taken. reporter: matt landry from the detroit suburbs was just a regular guy. the kid who delivered the pizza you order. traveled his world on a skateboard, and cracked up his friends with jackass style stunts. with matt, it was never a dull moment. he was always thinking of something crazy to do. reporter: but if you wanted to know what made matt landry get out of bed in the morning, it was the music. to his new girlfriend, francesca, matt was first and foremost a rockin dude. a ferocious drummer with a basement band of long-time buddies. so what kind of stuff did they play? stuff that s 200 beats per minute and up. and set the volume at 11. plus.
detective and a partner went down to that bleak section of detroit where matt s green honda had been ditched. we started looking for matt landry. reporter: so the question in your mind, lieutenant, is are we going to find the body of matt landry, or do you expect to find this guy bound inside one of these houses? i didn t know what we were going to find, but i was hoping he was still alive. that s why i went out there. reporter: two other people were searching that same bad neighborhood tuesday night, but they weren t the police. this was our first house we looked at. reporter: two friends of matt s father, bob and chris, had come down to investigate on their own. they think your friend s son could be in one of these houses. you know you re going to search until you find him. reporter: the family friends, amateur detectives armed with only a flashlight, managed to search dozens of homes, many of them burnt-out shells. a local guide challenged them. we had to tell them
went missing, had bought a new security camera system. the security cam he was replacing had a blind spot in the back where his atm dispenser was. moses opened the carton and set to installing his new video security system. it was the weekend. his son said, forget it, let s wait. i said, no, we re not going home until we hook it up. reporter: and on the security cam video, detective blackwell was seeing something that filled him with dread. someone else is using his card at that point. that s correct. and it s obvious foul play. the news didn t surprise me. for some reason i was hoping it was matt. reporter: meanwhile, on that tuesday, back north in the near suburbs, matt s friends and family fanned out through the county, putting up flyers with matt s face. they checked autozone stores. maybe he had stopped by one of them for his broken car alarm. francesca was searching, too. checking out dumpsters. and i m like, i can t believe
up. reporter: so that saturday, matt delivered pizzas in his mom s borrowed car, because the alarm on his green honda was going off without notice, blaring. after his shift, he killed time until francesca got off work at the restaurant. they had agreed to hook up after. he s like, you really want me to come over,and i was like yes, please. reporter: after midnight, very early sunday morning, matt s mom was having a restless night. it was thundering and lightning out. and i saw matt walk outside, and kind of circled around his car. and i thought, oh, no. matt, careful. because, you know, his alarm was going to go off, and it was almost 3:00 in the morning. it was 2:55 a.m. so he very slowly went to lift up the hood of his car, and the alarm went off, and he jumped in his car and just went down the street to get out of the neighborhood until it went off. he came over and he had a bottle of wine. you know, we had a really good