and dreams. and it s so real, it feels like her. and she just gives me a hug. why did it have to happen to our family? why did it have to happen to michelle? why that they? a young nursing student disappears. she was still dressed in my hospital scrubs. something drew her out to her car. the cousin she grew up with. the brother she raised. desperate to find her. they were able to do what a lot of other families have never been able to do. text messages, security monitors, surveillance videos. were they sons that she was trapped, reaching out for help? one of the things about, this is that didn t make sense. moment by moment dateline was there for every turn. look, there s blood wiped across. was she missing or murdered? was this the key? i will take her life and hers. a threat, a voice seething with hate and rage. you deserve to die for your lies. it s your last and final warning. what s happened to michelle? this case is not going to be over unt
to identify who killed her. during the memorial day weekend in 2011, when detective heard the name about someone whose name was michelle le, was this a break in his case? this is almost the same, named the same circumstances, it was bizarre. michele s family, also hearing about phuong le. when they met with detectives for the first time, 48 hours after michele s disappearance, they asked the dreadful question. could michel s case be connected to the phuong le murder? the community brought it up, and thought it might be linked. we brought that up with the hayward police. they said, yes, we looked into it, but we don t think there is a connection. there was a wash of relief. the detectives told the family they had found michel s car, that it was locked, appeared undamaged. to the family, that was good news. it meant, michelle must be alive, or held somewhere. although, during that sunday meeting, the police gave the impression they still had no idea what had happened to miche
vanished. from the shopping mall parking lot. her name? phuong le. police lieutenant greg caught the case, but couldn t find her. several weeks later, we got a call from a neighboring county. that county said that they had a body, out in the woods, that someone matched the description of our missing person. indeed, it was phuong le. that was by no means the end of the investigation. to this day, we are trying to identify who killed her. during the memorial day weekend in 2011, when detective heard the name about someone whose name was michelle le, was this a break in his case? this is almost the same, named the same circumstances, it was bizarre. michele s family, also hearing about phuong le. when they met with detectives for the first time, 48 hours after michele s disappearance, they asked the dreadful question. could michel s case be
almost exactly the same, the same name, the same circumstances. it s a real bizarre coins den. michelle s family also heard about phuong le, so when they met with detectives for the first time, 48 hours after michelle s disappearance, they asked the dreadful question. could michelle s case be connected to the phuong le murder? the community thought that they might be linked, so we brought that up with the hayward police and they said, yeah, we looked into it, but we don t think there s any connection. so then there was a wash of relief. the detectives also told the family they d found michelle s car, that it was locked, appeared undamaged. to the family, that was good news. it maintain to them that michelle must be alive, held somewhere. though during that sunday meeting, the police gave the impression they still had no idea what happened to michelle. they asked us a lot of questions about her relationships and her friendships and they told us
police lieutenant greg hurlbut caught the case, but couldn t find her. several weeks later, we got a call from a neighboring county, napa county, saying that they had a body out in the woods that somewhat matched the description of our missing person. keith morrison: it was, indeed, phuong le. but that was by no means the end of the investigation. to this day we re trying to identify who, in fact, killed phuong le. keith morrison: so during that memorial day weekend in 2011 when detective hurlbut heard about the disappearance of a young woman named michelle le, he wondered, was this a break in his case? when you have somebody that looks almost exactly the same, almost the same name, the same circumstances, it s a real bizarre coincidence. keith morrison: michelle s family also heard about phuong le, so when they met with detectives for the first time 48 hours after michelle s disappearance, they asked the dreadful question. could michelle s case be connected to the phuong le murder? th