killer. i wanted all of this to be behind this. go on happily ever after. single mom meets single dad, and in a single moment it was love. he was very handsome. he was fun. all smiles, very outgoing, charming. everything he did melted my heart. but there is something else about this dreamy single dad, something about his past, something deadly. my wife, she s dead. i just came into the house, i saw janet on the floor. she was crying, he was in shock. his whole life was shattered. he said i should probably let you know that my wife was actually murdered. killed in a crime that had never been solved. she was almost the perfect victim. and what about him? he had become the focus in his first wife s mysterious death. was he a victim too? on the father, i have a family, i did not kill janet. i felt horrible for him. you did not want to believe? it who would want to believe that? hello. welcome to dateline. vanessa pond was a single parent lookin
and it sees dateline . i just knew something horrible happened. she was a small town girl with big dreams. and they were all coming through in vegas. a career at the casino, and a fiancée then, she vanished. i remember going to church every day and saying days later, police did. murder, blood on her collar, a struggle at her house, and clues from a camisole. what had happened? i can t arrest until it solved. her friends will not quit. her parents will not stop. i am a pain. and i am a nuisance. but i am a mother. can dateline s own team of investigators help? nothing is missing from this house. hello, and welcome to dateline it s a puzzle police have struggled to soften more than a decade. what happened to a small town girl who had moved to the big city of las vegas? it was there that theresa insana found a new career and a new life, but then suddenly, she vanished. within days, police would find her body. but finding who killed her, that would
that individual. there is plenty of? dna dna under her fingernails. we heard about the argument with the boyfriend. it sounds like somebody try to build now by. it s what it sounds like. you don t think this was someone close to her? no. i want answers. someone that could deal with this could hurt other people. if someone inside the bathroom? i just knew he was in the house. 9-1-1. what city? las cruces. november 2003. to them were barricaded inside their bathroom in las cruces new mexico and desperately calling on 11. what s your emergency? i think someone is trying to break into our house. what is your name? another. reporter: they had seen the intruder before watching them, lurking. waiting. anela? i need you to calm down, okay? anela? reporter: now he was inside the apartment they shared as cold roommates. you ll want to remember this 9-1-1 call. is the officer? they re because although no one knew it at the time. ma am?
marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can only imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s. there is an old saying, that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. we never talked about
which one what she? carrie. the organizer? everybody s friend? but tv fantasy, turned real life mystery when the friend everyone loved was murdered. i didn t believe it. there s somebody out there that did this to her. stabbed to death, at a luxury, million dollar home. shocked the officers that were investigating. there were plenty of possible leads, the boyfriend. i text, or are you okay? and the acts. are you involved? and two curious, big money clients. what happened inside of that house? i saw a few people in the financial bind. dateline s own, unsolved case squad, takes on the crime. someone got paid to go murder that girl. someone who was very close to her. i think it s someone she knows. so full of life. who was behind her death? i am going to find out. if it kills me. hello, and welcome to dateline, she was 24 and just starting her life as a real estate agent, she thought she had landed the assignment of her dreams, big cli