the last call he made before shutting off his phone was to doug stewart. reporter: then they both turned off their phones, except ricky briefly turned his back on. good for the investigation, bad for ricky. his phone hit off a tower just north of doug s apartment later that morning. reporter: so he s not in delaware. he s all the way down in coastal virginia? correct. reporter: ricky then told the detectives that he d recently learned from doug that something happened to his wife. he was like, ricky, she s missing. i m like, what, dude? cause he was tellin me like, she does weird stuff, like weird stunts. reporter: was ricky still covering up for both doug and himself? lt. christensen thought so. he tried to shake him up, taking a turn as the bad cop. i ll be blunt. doug stewart abducted and killed his wife, okay? we also know that somebody went into a legal office down there
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reporter: you re checking to see if he s got any offense reports, if there s a sheet on him? sure. reporter: he s coming up clean. yep. his dad has his own veterinary clinic. they re well to do. the mother and father are both extremely caring. he has siblings. reporter: it didn t make sense. why would a college kid from delaware have anything to do with an older ex-military man from michigan and virginia? in mid-june, eight weeks since venus went missing, michigan detective criger and his lieutenant, chuck christensen, decided to find out. they got in the car and headed east. destination: bear, delaware. would the man on all those phone logs hold the key to what happened to venus stewart? coming up we ve got a guy who i believe is of interest. he s making a lot of calls to doug. he looks a lot like doug. he could pass for doug. we did not want him to know we were coming. police pay a surprise visit to this mystery caller. how do you know doug stewart? xbox live.
The Berrien County Prosecutor's office says a police officer-involved shooting in September was justified. The prosecutor has released the following report: The