disabilities. her left arm was paralyzed. her left leg impaired. did she ever talk about how she had become disabled? she brought it up to my and said she was in a car accident and was thrown when see was a little girl, but very, very matter of fact, not poor me or not feel sorry for me or anything like that. but growing up, lindsey needed so much care. her mother nancy was with lindsey like her shadow. somebody had to be with her 24 hours a day. and that was you. yes. it was her and i alone. she was my only purpose, in my life, is to make her as normal as she could be. by the time kim met lindsey, lindsey s dad and brothers had moved away. kim remembers a very tight family unit of just two. how close were lindsey and nancy? unbelievably, extremely. as she got older that changed. she wanted her own identity, changed the spelling of her name from this, to this. by high school, there were girlfriends, even some boy friends.
it wasn t your truck. but for years, it was thought of as your truck, but it s not. as a matter of fact, your truck did not go by that night. it wasn t there. he told chris about the credit card statement and how he found someone who remembered chris working on the job site. all of a sudden, big red flags, you are working. you are up thayer when you said you were not. but he said you guys don t work on saturday. lynsie disappeared on a saturday morning. none of your credit card usage of there is on any weekend. all of it s on weekdays, except for the day lynsie disappeared. so you re not up there working that day. he told chris the lie about lynsie being found. we went recently, got dna from mother and dad and had that checked against the body. and it s lynsie. now we ve got lynsie up in the area where you were, right at the time where you did not drop her off.
interviews. but watching them helped him solve the mystery of what happened to a vivacious young woman and bring answers to the mother who loved her. i was always proud of her. she was a real fighter. lindsey arrived on july 22, 1980. she was the youngest of three. maybe that fighting spirit isn t visible if her photos, but her mother nancy says it was always there. lindsey had a passion for animals. she helped out in her spare time at a local shelter. kim davidson who worked at lindsey s middle school remembers young lindsey also had a sense of compassion. standing outside, i was freezing cold and i didn t bring a jacket that day. and i felt these little hands up on my shoulder and a sweater come up around me, and i turned around and it was lindsey, and she said i just can t stand watching you shiver and wrapped me up in her sweater. lindsey would lie about her age so she could give blood. remarkable itself because lindsey struggled with her own
chris said i drove home and police even found a photo from a bank atm of what looked hike chris s truck heading north on the right street at the right time. to the cops, chris story added up. and that was when police learned matthew and chris were not the only men in lynsie s life. there was someone else, whom both matthew and chris had mentioned to investigators, an older man who drove lynsie around. no one knew his name. they had heard lynsie refer to him as her friend. all anybody knows about him, knows him by. as her friend? yeah. nancy had no idea lynsie was friends with any older man. she was about to find out. two days after lindsey van ishs you get a phone call. yes. you re pretty much at your wit s end. yes. and the phone rings and it s a guy named marty. did you know a guy named marty? no.
experience with the olympics got involved. this is discrimination, plain and simple. reporter: but for decades the international olympic committee disagreed. the sport must be widely practiced around the world. this is not the case for women s ski jumping. jessica and lindsey van and girls from five different countries decided to take on the ioc in koufrmt they filed suit and demanded that women jumpers be included in the vancouver olympics. it turned out to be another heartbreaking defeat. there was a lot of times when i wasn t sure i wanted to jump anymore. reporter: jessica says watching the vancouver olympics felt like seeing a party that she wasn t invited to, and she was getting tiertd of fighting. i didn t like having to be an advocate for the sport. i would rather have been a participant. i would be the first to say i was very narrow minded when the women first started fighting. reporter: but now he s a believer and he ll coach the