she was a design original. christina. the fashionista. fantastic wardrobe. she went out to drink with friends and never came home. i sensed something was wrong. this is real. who was the last to see her? she went her way? that s all i can tell you. where was her ex-model boyfriend? he doesn t call when she s missing. someone had something to hide. he thought he was getting away with it. she was fighting for her life. all i can do is pray with all that i have. tell me what happened that night. welcome to dateline. 23-year-old christina morris had vanished without a trace. no clues and blurry security video to go on, could the clue investigators needed really be scribbled on a trash post-in note? here with frantic is josh makowitz. christina morris was afraid of the dark. through grade school, she woke up in the middle of the night. we knew about it because she was in our bed. she was scared of the boogie man. it was something she never rea
sandwich board saying, be suspicious of me. so it s friday night, but they re not going out together. and he doesn t call when she s missing. and he won t let you download his phone. is that about right? that s all true. christina s mom also found hunter s behavior very odd. and she confronted him about it. i need to know why you didn t call, why you didn t check on her? yeah. i flipped out. i got little anxiety right now. jonni kept pressing hunter for details about that night. you kept in touch with him. you stayed in contact. yes. if he was responsible, i m going to keep that enemy closer, so i wasn t going to let him out of my sight. jonni wasn t giving up. neither was christina s stepmom anna. somebody s seen her. something is somewhere. we just need that little bit of information so we can bring her home. there were no witnesses and few leads but attention grew. plano police were leading
weekend, hunter decided to drive to dallas and hang out with his friends and not christina. she went back to her old neighborhood to see high school pals. steve nickerson, another high school buddy was surprised to see her. i hadn t seen her in six months. we caught up. the group met at the apartment. around 11:30, we went to the bars. the bars were in an upscale shopping mall in plano. it was hopping. the group headed to the bar called henry s tavern and closed down another a called scruffy duffy. we were all pretty drunk. a couple of shots and beers. steven wanted to crash on the couch and sober up.
times and then he stopped texting her back, and then she tried calling him and he didn t answer. as a result, steven said, christina became more and more upset as the night wore on. i mean, yeah, they were in a fight. they were definitely fighting that last night? uh-huh. police asked hunter to come down to the station. former prosecutor zeke fortenberry. what s he say about that fight that he and christina were having? hunter says he wasn t really aware of the fight. he said that he was out drinking, partying. he wasn t paying attention to his phone. and yet it s the opinion of all her friends who heard her side of that conversation that they were? oh, yeah. the friends said she was upset to the point of even crying sometimes. she was so upset with hunter that she was tearful and upset. hunter told police he was out with friends in downtown dallas the night christina disappeared and 20 miles away from that mall in plano. but when cops pressed him for details, he wa
and no concrete evidence that he, hunter foster or anyone else was responsible for christina s disappearance. her family was losing hope. but in early december, about three months after christina disappeared breaking news, late tonight, we learned that christina morris boyfriend is charged as part of a massive drug bust. officially, dallas police said hunter foster s arrest was not related to christina s disappearance. anything concerning the missing person case is obviously a plano case and so we are certainly here to help them in any way we possibly can. still, reporters wondered if police were telling the whole story. we didn t know if he was being maybe arrested for that federal drug charge and there was something there that might be connected to christina. just to get him into custody. just to get him into custody? we had no clue. coming up, investigators were starting to think they knew what happened to christina morris, but could they prove it? she was figh