started yelling, shelley shelley. a young art student murdered. she said, your daughter as been found in blood. and then the phone went dead. this was brutal and sad. the clever killer leaves a blank canvas that had no fingerprints, no dna. yeah. police zero in on three fellow students. the dead girls friend. trying to corner in the hallways at school, texting her on the phone, her boyfriend he had daggers, knives, sorts, who collects that kind of stuff? and her roommate. it felt like a leopard with. you absolutely. you could have been that she sure could have. soon, the dark picture begins to develop. look at this. that s what the whole thing happened. a portrait of the artist says a young killer. you notice the people in there. once there was a quiet little girl in a quiet little town who like to draw. she to the butterflies that floated by her around a plea, texas, like the country, but they pronounce it italy. she drew a but
hair, and a wide open heart. she is a very, very kind of person. and then she vanished. i called the police. something is wrong. and something was. days passed, then months. no leads, no clues. no progress. i thought, i m not going to put up with this. we have to get going. get moving on this. enter the a team. a band of tough guy private eyes. this guy has something to hide. they had a brief encounter with the mysterious stranger. and that train coming home, she had met this woman. did that hold the answer? she is talking about how someone has tried to assume her identity. a chilling case of a daughter in danger. somebody was after them. welcome to dateline, i am lester holt. she was beautiful, talented, trusted and sometimes troubled, a young woman from a prominent family finally grabbing the promise in life, right up until the day that she vanished, and when the police seemed unable to find her, her family hatched a plan but an unusual str
deeply deeply sorry. it was right out of a soap opera. the husband, the wife, the affair with a local dentist. i just don t think of myself as someone, why would he be interested in me, you know? was it passionate? yes. but the script turned dark when her husband turned up dead. everything was a blur, she said she found him in his car outside his gym. words like heart attack, and and tourism. we all assumed it was a health related death. 40-year-old men just don t drop dead. it s just too many coincidences, shall we say. adding up. they believed it was poisoning. someone else was there with him that morning. this is now a murder investigation. 100%. you are hearing about a love triangle. she admitted that she was having an affair. i had nothing to do with his death. the plot was just beginning to thicken. oh my god, this can t be happening now. a new love makes the world seem a little brighter. a very smooth, i want to say a almos
and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. something wasn t right at her house. i saw a lot of police cars. that woman was a fighter. she would never leave her daughters. she would never do it. michele ran the home. she was very proud about how she was able to make ends meet. lloyd helped with the kids. they re wonderful girls. they re amazing. the end came much too soon. she s motionless. and i m concerned. there appeared to be a body hanging from a banister. from first look it would appear as though it was a suicide. but then they looked closer. it appeared that there was a struggle. my gut was telling me there s something wrong here. did someone want michele dead? was someone else willing to help? at that point we re shell-shocked. a bond forged in blood. did you cry? we called it the lie and cry conversation. betrayed by blood. what are you hoping for? some conversation between the two of them about the death. we have a
that was surreal, kind of, just an ache in the heart. it was one of the most baffling cases investigators had ever seen. this tops the charts for most bizarre. no one can believe that this actually happened. a single mom and a smart computer whiz who seemed to disappear. i am starting to get text messages saying that she which her job. she had something down in kansas. left behind a puzzling computer trail. emails, text messages, so active on social media. nobody can locae her. she did not want to be found. exactly. a mom turned ghost. was she missing? or hiding? i wanted to know. taunts, threats, violence my leg is soaked with blood. oh, jesus. a deadly mystery that would lead three moms and one man. you were the last one to see her? it was as if i had already done something, and he already knew it. he was a drilling me with the police man eyes. it was almost an obsession to get it solved. a heart stopping case of jealousy, secret