and he left. reporter: find the car and you ll find cathy. it had become practically a family motto. so when another officer arrived hours later, the torrez family was waiting for what they had dreaded all week. my mom asked him what had happened. did you find cathy? and then he looked at my mom, and he said, i m sorry. and all i remember were the flyers that were on my mom s table in the living room and feeling so much pain. i was yelling, not my cathy. not cathy. reporter: mary bennett had been right all along. cathy s toyota corolla had been spotted in a hospital parking
reporter: find the car and you ll find cathy. it had become practically a family motto. so when another officer arrived hours later, the torrez family was waiting for what they had dreaded all week. my mom asked him what had happened. did you find cathy? and then he looked at my mom, and he said, i m sorry. and all i remember were the flyers that were on my mom s table in the living room and feeling so much pain. i was yelling, not my cathy. not cathy. reporter: mary bennett had been right all along. cathy s toyota corolla had been spotted in a hospital parking lot.
the torres family had planned a marnl search for saturday, the week after she disappeared. but at 3:40 that morning mary had a visitor. a police officer. he asked for cathy s keys. i gave him the key, and i asked him if it was cathy s car. he just looked straight. he didn t look at me. he said he didn t know. that they had just told him to come and pick up the key. then he left. find the car, and you ll find cathy. it had become practically a family motto. so when another officer arrived hours later, the torres family was waiting for what they had dreaded all week. my mom asked him what happened? did you find cathy? and then he looked at my mom, and he said, i m sorry.
and he left. reporter: find the car and you ll find cathy. it had become practically a family motto. so when another officer arrived hours later, the torrez family was waiting for what they had dreaded all week. my mom asked him what had happened. did you find cathy? and then he looked at my mom, and he said, i m sorry. and all i remember were the flyers that were on my mom s table in the living room and feeling so much pain. i was yelling, not my cathy. not cathy. reporter: mary bennett had been right all along. cathy s toyota corolla had been
it had become practically a family motto. so when another officer arrived hours later, the torrez family was waiting for what they had dreaded all week. my mom asked him what had happened. did you find cathy? and then he looked at my mom, and he said, i m sorry. and all i remember were the flyers that were on my mom s table in the living room and feeling so much pain. i was yelling, not my cathy. not cathy. reporter: mary bennett had been right all along. cathy s toyota corolla had been spotted in a hospital parking lot. a plastic bag was peeking out of the trunk.