very different happened? the dog told you a dead body had been in the back of lyle s car? correct. but with few clues, hollywood detectives with strange a dramatic press conference hoping to flush out a killer. i was just floored by what was happening. hello and welcome to dateline. aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sister lesley followed to support her. then leslie went missing. and was desperate to find her. in a town built on deception scripted to smoke out a suspect and the stakes were high. here is josh mankiewicz with a sister search. in the movies and on tv, people can just disappear without a trace, leaving family and friends with nothing more than memories, questions, and worry. in real life, vanishing is more a magicians trick than an everyday occurrence, which brings us to that crossroads where magic and entertainment collide. hollywood. the cops who world on the streets call it holly weird, because they know anything can hap
shower. she was going to get to see her little sister become a mom. the little boy named everett joined the family in january 2009 and though aunt lesley was sick with a cold, she couldn t resist coming by to look through the window at her brand new nephew. those should have been happy times for aasha and her sister. a time of the family bonding with its newest member. but then aasha got a phone call from lesley s boss that changed everything. he said, lesley didn t show up for work yesterday and she s not here today. and i instantly felt wrong. the joy of new motherhood melted away. it was tuesday, february 10th. lesley had missed two days of work and she hadn t called in sick. together, it was completely out of character for the always responsible lesley. i instantly called the two people who would know where she is. that s the one she s always
isn t lesley. lo and behold, it is lyle herring. lyle herring by himself, no wife, with his long dread lock hair and he purchases a single item. he didn t buy another cup for someone waiting outside. no. and we re looking for that, obviously. you re thinking you were meant to find it in lesley s purse? i suspected so. as the investigation moved forward, i knew that we were expected to find it there. three more days passed. an instant in hollywood. an eternity for aasha and her family. then the bolo got a hit. lyle herring had been stopped at the mexican border. not fleeing but returning to the united states. the detectives dropped everything and headed south. you don t want to wait until the next day. oh, no. our spidy senses were up thinking something
the front desk walked aasha, jesse and their baby back to detectives. we went back to the detectives and we explained everything about lesley and about how worried we were. we didn t know what was going on. lyle and lesley were both missing and unreachable. maybe they were together. may be they weren t. maybe they were safe. and maybe they weren t. my instincts are that there s something suspicious going on. i still don t know what it is. they could have both taken off. i don t know these people. they live a pretty isolated lifestyle. but from the things i ve found so far, it seems suspicious. gable checked hospitals, coroner s offices and the highway patrol and came up with exactly nothing. he put out a bolo, be on the look out for, asking police throughout southern california to look for
finished collecting their evidence and night turned to day in hollywood. what had dawned on these detectives was that this may not have been the happy home of a happy couple. a visit with aasha s mother vivian gave them a glance. glimpse behind the bright picture leslie had always painted. lyle put a certain spice in the food. when she asked him what spice he had in the food, he couldn t tell her. vivian knew certain spices triggered lesley s debilitating migraines, but vivian also knew, and was the only one who did know that this fight over spices was just a symptom so much that was going on between mr. and mrs. lyle herring. things had not been good between your daughter and lyle. no. they had financial problems. to say these were financial