hello. i m andrea canning. and this is dateline. i was just like, oh my god this is really an answer. it may not be definitive, but this guy knows something. a young couple vanishes. then, nearly a decade later, a discovery in their own backyard turns the mystery into a murder. they find a back, and inside the back is a human skull. detectives had a suspect. and then, he disappeared, too. his trailhead just stopped. until this please, please, bring him back. he kidnapped his own daughter right from this boston straight, after claiming to be a rockefeller clark rockefeller. i hired a private investigator, trying to find out who i was married to. and they couldn t find out. now, a second chance for investigators to prove that this mysterious con man was also a killer. but was this case as clear cut as it seemed? there was no motive. there was no reason he would have done this. we will hear from detectives who helped crack this puzzlin
must ve been. it was hard to go to sleep some nights. reporter: a young woman living on her own. hurt in the middle of the night. she was vulnerable, alone, and in bed. a crime that jolted a sleepy seaside community. killer walking among them. i do not think that it really sets in, that we are all are in a little more danger at that point. reporter: young, fun, and pretty. cory had plenty of admirers. and one of them like to do much. a strange coworker oh my god. i was, i was obsessed. that is scary stuff, right there. exactly. an adoring friend. her statements about how much she loved cory. peaked our interest. and a young man who made some people very uncomfortable. she called him the night creeper. a gallery of potential suspects, piles of evidence, but the truth would only be revealed by a tiny telltale clue. did everyone s jobs drop? my eyes filled with tears. i could not believe it. reporter: welcome to dateline. she was
person. the supervisor ask to interview a girl named crystal. we didn t really have any idea who she was. blood all of the floor. i saw blood up the wall. she told us what you start cleaning up? i started picking things that were blood splattered. this woman knew about the murder, covered up. the things that were thrown into the fire by me or the belongings from kelsey s house. she could have stopped this from happening. he had a hold on her that he totally exploited. this whole thing is crazy. it took my breath away. was there any blood on the tv, do you remember? yes, there is blood on the tv. okay. there was blood on the chairs. there is blood on the table. there was bloody on the hobby lobby bag sitting there. reporter: you re witnessing something highly unusual. a woman at the center of a murder investigation reconstructing the scene of the gruesome crime. can you tell me what you saw in here and what you cleaned up? there was a lo
she s missing. we can t find her. that s all she kept saying. everything changed from there on out. and it just got uglier and uglier. a loving mother one day, just disappears. her heart was there. she wasn t home. blood. we all know, there s something very wrong here. nobody, no evidence. and no suspects. no arrests. the ex husband and the ex-boyfriend both had alibis. then, lightning strikes again. i drove into the driveway. someone s been shot. how often are a mother and daughter killed at the same house? who would steal so much from the one family? was she afraid of him? she was afraid of him. i just found out there are investigating me again. motive validated everything in this case. miles away, buried in the sand. lay one place of the puzzle. i know where she s at. period. the rest of the mystery. hiding away in a woman s heart. she couldn t keep it inside anymore. the killer thought his secret was safe. he was wrong. this is, a
kevin klym: i m freaking out. it s not like her to be gone this long. hello i m andrea canning and the medical examiner gets back on the phone and says, this is decline. she was a knock, outstanding. she stood out, tan, beautiful. a playboy model wannabe who loved to party, maybe a little too much. i m freaking out, it s not like her to be gone that long, the medical examiner is back on the phone and says we are sending a detective. my heart sinks. he pulled a photocopy of her hearing and i knew it was her. and police thought they knew who killed her. they were having an argument he grabbed her arm, that s when i called security. i just said i hope we don t find out you did it. we were sitting there waiting and watching and then when we saw what we said wow, it was her. who was that stranger walking with her? the person in the sketch is seen walking towards paula and then they turn and walk off together. hello and welcome to dateline, she was no stra