i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. i just collapsed. she s dead because she was my friend. first melissa disappeared. where s melissa? that s the million dollar question. i knew right then she absolutely never made it into her house. left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist, then her boss went missing too. who is he afraid of am. he might have been afraid he s next. he left behind a bigger mess. we three kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark a billion, billion and a half dollars. a missing woman. we have know clue, no leads. some wonder was there a link? this had a twist to it. two crimes, one for money, one supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong, and i can t fix it. welcome to dateline. hotshot florida attorney melissa lewis was living large in fort lauderdale dale, but then her seemingly charged life ended
wrong, and i can t fix it. welcome to dateline. hotshot florida attorney melissa lewis was living large in fort lauderdale dale, but then her seemingly charged life ended in tragedy. her body was discovered in a drainage canal. she d been murdered. but who would want her dead? with few clues, few suspect and a scandal involving her law firm, investigators had their work cut out for them to unravel the mystery of what had happen today melissa. here s dennis murphy with betrayed. if you ask someone in town where the buzziest part of fort lauderdale dale lies they ll probably steer you here. and way up there is penthouse off the street that once upon a
wide one. cell phone towers don t pinpoint exact locations. we know from that cell tower there is maybe three to four-mile radius from that tower that we re looking for to try to figure out where that phone is. reporter: investigators believed melissa was killed in her garage around 8:30 p.m. wednesday. that night, her phone went south from her home in plantation, eventually stopping in an area in miami gardens. from midnight till about 5:00 am, the phone s in one location. reporter: thursday morning, the phone went northeast to fort lauderdale then went further north to pompano beach. shortly afterwards, it turned back towards fort lauderdale. but somewhere along the way, the signal was lost. either the battery died or the killer dumped the phone. all told by thursday, the day after the murder, the phone or whoever had it travelled a distance of about 60 miles. so obviously, who s with that cell phone, was most likely the last person that was with with melissa. reporter:
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