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. reporter: 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. reporter: there were no witnesses and few leads but attention grew. plano police were leading larger and larger search parties, scouring the countryside. there was a lot of people from the community that didn t know the family, that had no connection to christina, and they were coming to support. and dozens and dozens of people in these searches just trying to find this girl. reporter: days went by with no sign of christina or her belongings. more resources arrived like a mounted search team and drones.
people are people who genuinely want to help. there are. right. reporter: and some of them are just crazy. right. reporter: but no matter how crazy plano police checked out every tip every sighting. and they didn t find anything? no. reporter: reporters wanted to hear from christina s boyfriend hunter, who hadn t shown up for any of the searches. why can t we ask him just a routine sound byte? how do you feel? what is your hope? and to much insistence, he decides to come down and be interviewed. reporter: but when he sat down with nbc 5 dallas, he was a wreck. pretty clear that i m not emotionally or mentally stable at all. barely enough to do this right now. i just want her to come home and be alive and safe. his body is trembling in a way i ve never seen anybody shake before. his voice breaking up. so nervous.
believe that there s no way that there s no evidence that she didn t come out of this parking garage, that she had to still be here. reporter: jonni didn t find anything but she hoped maybe someone in the neighboring apartments heard or saw something. how many doors you knock on total do you think? oh gosh. 50, 100. reporter: christina s friends were searching the shopping center too. we walked to restaurants. we talked to people. we walked the path that she possibly could ve walked that night. reporter: and plano police were also hitting the streets. they began to contact all of the the friends who were at the party that night, who had been at the bars and drinking with christina. reporter: including enrique arochi the guy who left the party with christina. the detective reached him at this sprint store, where he worked as a manger. hello? hi, enrique, this is detective cathy stamm of plano police department. reporter: enrique was more than willing to help.
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. reporter: 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. reporter: by early december investigators had thought he might have something to do with
i opened the door, i looked inside, you know, the car was locked and it was just a mess. and it was a mess, just like she keeps it. reporter: but it s always a mess? it s always a mess. reporter: but no bag, no wallet, no cell phone. the car was locked. and she never got in it. reporter: now, police had to play catch up. the plano police department had a disadvantage with the four-day delay start. reporter: zeke fortenberry was a prosecutor in the collin county district attorney s office. plano police department knew that it was four days she d been missing already. and so that kind of raises a red flag that something serious might be going on. there is still no sign of a missing ft. worth woman who vanished from a plano parking garage. reporter: by this time a lot of people in north texas were hearing about christina morris. lorraine caceras covered the story for telemundo dallas. people don t randomly disappear from shopping centers in plano. that just d