searchers have all the facts. kaylee sawyer and her family got word out however they could. posters, facebook. within less than 24 hours, there was 10,000 shares of kayleigh being missing. there wasn t a spot in downtown bend, or redmond that you could go that you did not see kayleigh s missing picture. we had people call and say, i canceled everything for the week, what do you need? kelly s family did not know with this police officer had told detectives. he said something like, he hitter with a car, and then he panicked. did not know that this security company car with the missing flyer attached was the very one edwin laura was driving when, as he told his wife, he ran into kayleigh. but, was she dead or alive? it was almost certainly a race against time.
part of you was suspicious of cam? i thought, did they really have that bad of an argument? did something bad happen? your mind when there because, the vast majority of time, when something happens to young woman and someone very close. cam is a very innocent young man, it s hard to believe, he was a nice guy. it s hard to imagine that, but you still do. remember, cam story troubled kaylee s mother too. and police officer kyle denny arrived. and park outside the apartment, right across the street from the campus of central oregon community college. it s on one of the more prestigious areas of town, very nice homes. very safe area, i would think? very safe. officer denny was soon joined by corporal . we ll denny talk to the family, he found that friend, the girl who had seed kaylee dancing at the bar. the one who texted cam, better come get her. a little after midnight, kaylee sent a text message to her friend, i m home, everything is okay, sorry about earlier ton
chance that she would have gone back to that guy she had met at the bachelorette party? initially, i thought maybe there is a chance. did you talk to him? i called him on the telephone. didn t get kaylee s phone number. didn t give his phone number. it was just kind of, hanging out that night, that was the last he knew or saw of her. and that seemed to make sense to you? it did. so, nothing to disprove anything cam had told them. what was your take on cameron s story of what happened? did it make sense? the story made sense, it made absolute sense. officer denny took julie aside to address concerns about cam. he was able to come and tell me, it s not that his story has changed, his story is evolving, he s remembering things. i think that he, very early on, took on the guilt and the responsibility that if something did happen to her, that maybe it was his fault. i think it was hard for him to re-tell that story.
i was holding on to hope, and every officer was holding on to hope, that she might be clinging to life. and if we could find her, we could bring her back from the point of no return. and, as they search for her, they searched also for him. for answers. detective struggle to contain is outrage that a the security guard a central oregon community college, i want to be cop, would cut and run. how do you wrap your mind around that, that somebody in that level of trust will do such a thing? i don t think you can wrap your mind away around that. by now, the major crimes team had grown to more than 30 investigators. one of whom was detective james mclaughlin, about to be sent to conduct a search of of edwin laura s home. i would like to see what makes this person take. and it just happened, coincidence really, that mclaughlin was a former pastor, which was about to matter. a lot.
stepfather, and that s how the investigator knew that the stepfather lived five minutes from the police department. and also, only five minutes from laura s house. what do you know? his wife, the police officer, basically let you away from that. she definitely didn t lead us directly to that place, that s for sure. and there, lo and behold, just two blocks from the parents house, detectives found edwin laura s getaway car. his 2008 nissan altima, abandoned. a swat team was assembled, they went to his parents door. was he at his parents house? he was not a disappearance house. and from the parents? there wasn t much detail, if any. only that he had come by, that he had asked for some money. they had no idea where he was, where he had gone, that there was any trouble at all. that was the initial interview. they gave no credible information. did they tell the officers that they had given him a car to use? no. that doesn t make it easy to find a person. it s typical, bu