traumatic in the age of isis and al qaeda. but this was a verien different era. and also a smaller media world, which didn t call attention to the bombings the way we would today. and the other reason is simply that it s a mystery story. it s about one woman s choices. did pat ri hearst really join with her captors, the people who kid. napped her, or was she coerced, forced. it s not just anyone. this is patty hearst. talk about power in this time and place. again, it s a window into the time. hearst was this enormous newspaper family. the great publisher was her grandfather. newspapers were the way most people got their information in the 1970s. and there were still vast newspaper fortunes. it s a window, again, into a world that s very different from our own. so patty hearst is kidnapped.
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? yeah. i flipped out. i got little anxiety right now
realizing his house was burglarized. while i was gone, on the super bowl just got back. cop spending hours in massachusetts, and didn t call police according to the initial dispatch. and facing backlash were telling her kids tom brady left of the philadelphia eagles win the super bowl, the model consoled her crying children by telling them, quote, you have to let someone else when sometimes, we have to share. more than 500 yards in three touchdowns, those numbers don t mean anything when you don t bring it home. isn t that right? good morning. we all know he let himself
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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? yeah. i flipped out. i got little anxiety right now. 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