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reporter: the stars at night were big and bright. but by dawn, deep in the heart of texas there was no trace of christina morris. i didn t sleep for 24 hours. i stayed up all night. reporter: by wednesday morning, four days after christina vanished from the fancy shopping center, her mom jonni was growing frantic. i called every police department. i called every hospital because you never know. reporter: the calls led nowhere, and jonni felt helpless in oklahoma, so she and her husband packed their bags and drove the four hours down to plano. straight to the parking garage where christina s car had been found. you came straight here. yes. even though this was the one place in dallas where you can pretty much guarantee police had searched pretty thoroughly. yes. but you re searching. you re walking all over the place. yes. as a mom, i just couldn t
and yet it s the opinion of all her friends who heard her side of that conversation that they were? oh, yeah. the friends said she was upset to the point of even crying sometimes. she was so upset with hunter that she was tearful and upset. reporter: hunter told police he was out with friends in downtown dallas the night christina disappeared and 20 miles away from that mall in plano. but when cops pressed him for details, he was vague. and there was one more thing. hunter would not give up his cell phone. that s like wearing a sandwich board saying, be suspicious of me. so it s friday night, but they re not going out together. and he doesn t call when she s missing. and he won t let you download his phone. is that about right? that s all true. reporter: christina s mom also found hunter s behavior very odd. and she confronted him about it. i need to know why you didn t call, why you didn t check on her? yeah. i flipped out. i got little anxiety right now. reporte
she grew up in suburban dallas with her dad, mark, her step-mom, anna, and a brother and sister. but she remained close to her mom, jonni mcelroy. she s the love of my life, the apple of my eye, my heartbeat. she s my everything. reporter: it was almost like christina had two moms, and later when jonni married ronnie, two dads. and lots of friends. sydney robertson has known christina since they were 3 years old. her personality was definitely ten times bigger than she was. and she d get so small but she gives the biggest hugs. and she will not let you go. reporter: kelly lange met christina just after high school. she was this animated, smart, beautiful fashionista. she was quirky, and it drew people in no matter who you were. reporter: and all her life, christina was drawn to two boys.
the ambition or the money, relying on christina to help him with his business and with the bills. she worked a full-time job and was a manager. her boyfriend didn t do anything. she supported him. reporter: so she had a mom and a dad who worked, correct? uh-huh. right. reporter: where did she get this idea that it s, like, okay to be with a guy who didn t do anything? well, because that s our world, not her world. reporter: okay. i i know, i m the same way. trust me. it bugged the heck out of me. reporter: on the friday of labor day weekend, hunter decided to drive to dallas and hang out with his friends and not with christina. she went back to her old neighborhood to see some high school pals. steven nickerson, another of her childhood buddies, was surprised to see her. it was good, because i hadn t seen her in probably, like, six to eight months. and we caught up. reporter: the group met up at an apartment. and then around 11:00 or 11:30 we went down to the