the garage with a spare set of keys. 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 s
reporter: 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. 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
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. reporter: 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 was vague. and there was one more thing. hunter would not give up his cell phone. that s like wearing a 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. reporter: 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? yea
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 from nexgard. nexgard kills fleas and ticks all month long. and it comes in an easy-to-give tasty chew. and that makes dogs and owners happy. no wonder vets love it too. reported side effects include vomiting, itching, diarrhea, lethargy and lack of appetite. see your vet for more information
then you have psychics that call you. reporter: and some of these people are people who genuinely want to help. there are. right. reporter: and some of them are just czy. right reporter: but no matter how crazy plano police checked out every tip every sighting. and they didn t findnything? 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.