her friend summer starks was the one that encouraged her to get out there again. i tried to set her up, but it didn t work out. i said why don t you go date? just go out. reporter: nothing serious, though. not yet. maybe she was finally having some fun. i thought it would have been great if she could have just focused on a little portion of herself, you know, a little bit, yeah. she deserved that. reporter: of course she did. and her love life wouldn t have been anybody else s business if it hadn t been for what happened, but now detectives went digging into hidden places. people she saw in private, things she did she might not want the world to know. if there were secrets, and though there were, they were about to be exposed. one of those secrets was right here on the dead woman s cell phone. there was a text message to
evening came. the kids call the cell. not afraid. more like irritated. it had happened by then of course. though as the children bedded down at their father s house they never guessed it. wouldn t understand for days. everything about life was different now. nothing made any sense at all. unbelief. was unbelief. reporter: a friend named summer starks put the words to it, so impossible that she of all people. it was hard to wrap your mind around that it had occurred. reporter: but apparently it was possible. chanin starbuck, mother of five, was dead, dead in a way that made skin crawl. she had been so many things,
reporter: flashing lights, squad cars violated the peaceful neighborhood in deer park, washington. something big going down at chanin starbuck s house. a bunch of crime scene tape outside of the house. reporter: when chanin s son blake drove up to the street where his mother lived he stopped cold. it was obvious something bad happened because the whole yard was blocked off. the awful news had started to spread. when chanin s friend summer starks heard all she could think of was those kids. do they know? do they know what s happened? they don t know they just lost their mother, they just lost their mom. reporter: and thousands of miles away in florida, chanin s brother steven heard it first from the local sheriff and
reporter: flashing lights, squad cars violated the peaceful neighborhood in deer park, washington. something big going down at chanin starbuck s house. a bunch of crime scene tape outside of the house. reporter: when chanin s son blake drove up to the street where his mother lived he stopped cold. it was obvious something bad happened because the whole yard was blocked off. the awful news had started to spread. when chanin s friend summer starks heard all she could think of was those kids. do they know? do they know what s happened? they don t know they just lost their mother, they just lost their mom. reporter: and thousands of miles away in florida, chanin s
evening came. the kids call the cell. not afraid. more like irritated. it had happened by then of course. though as the children bedded down at their father s house they never guessed it. wouldn t understand for days. everything about life was different now. nothing made any sense at all. unbelief. was unbelief. reporter: a friend named summer starks put the words to it, so impossible that she of all people. it was hard to wrap your mind around that it had occurred. reporter: but apparently it was possible. chanin starbuck, mother of five, was dead, dead in a way that made skin crawl.