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
gisele circling the block as michele s family pleaded for help and later, it showed her driving pass scott s house why? ritchie was all but sure now that jason had something to do with michele s disappearance the question now was, did sh have some help it was something that w have to look at. if so, who? yes dive into her life her friends. who can we talk to that nose gisele ritchie consult did a alameda county da. busch ford some of m colleagues the response was, well who help to do. it because she s a, woman she pregnant in order to do this, she had t have help. prosecutors had a hard time believing that esteban was physically capable of killin michelle le all by herself we encourage them to make sure they eliminated any possible suspects just just, the father of gisele s child that would be scott, th ex-boyfriend which is referrin to so, everybody s antenna went up in late july of 2011, 63 day after michele s disappearance,
there you will be honest wit me look at me you will be honest with me regarding her. otherwise i will take your lif and hers and you can take that to the grave with the why why because you lied about are s many times it s hard to believ that you didn t sleep with her and knock her up you deserve to die for you lies, as should she. and you will if you do it again, this i your last and final warning. why do you understand me? it s your last and final warning. ritchie listen to gisele tone from [inaudible to threatening this was far from the subdue woman he met back in may it was clear that she was a violent woman. we advise not that, if it wa just so you have to be concerned for your safety as well and he might well be a. target esteban was cleare the recording and fixated on her old friend was convinced that michele had somehow broke up her relationship with scott and, yet as richie too
almost like light pink, white. keith morrison: (voiceover) it is, it turns out, another false lead. so they pack up. another fruitless day in a case gone cold. or so it seemed to michael and christine. but oh, what they did not know. that during all those weeks and months in which the family had been searching for a living woman, a police murder investigation had been very active indeed. and now in the last days of august, inspector fraser ritchie was in fact closing in on a very hot target. but to understand how he got there, we need to go back almost to the beginning. it was minutes before midnight, may 28th, 2011. 29 hours after michelle le disappeared. ritchie had gone to pay a midnight visit to michelle s old high school friend, giselle esteban. months in which the family had
reporter: esteban, it was clear in the recording, had that s the scent that puts the giddy in giddy up! become fixated on her old for a scent with even more giddy up, friend, was convinced michelle try gain scent blast in detergent, had somehow broken up her fabric softener and scent beads. relationship with scott. and yet, as ritchie took pains to discover [fa mers bell] michelle and scott were nothing more than just friends. she had a boyfriend. scott was just just one of the many friends that she had. (burke) a rock and wreck. but the only person in this seen it. covered it. world that seemed to think that at farmers insurance, we know a thing or two there was more to it was giselle. because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum reporter: prosecutor butch ford heard the audio too and read the 1,500 pages of texts and emails scott gave police. for the better part of six years, she had an obsession with we don t see who you re against