think it will help someone and it s okay to talk about it. an actress finds real life drama when her sister and her sister s husband disappear. they said lesley didn t show up for work. lesley s life had seemed perfect but maybe that was an illusion. she mentioned going underground. yes, she did. had something driven her to leave town or had something very different happened? the dog told you a dead body was in the back of the car? correct. but with few clues, hollywood would stage a dramatic press conference hoping to flesh out a killer. i was just floored by what was happening. hello and welcome to dateline. aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sister lesley followed to support her. then lesley went missing. in a town built on deception, the police came one a plan. it was a dramatic stunt scripted to smoke out a suspect and the stakes were high. here s josh m with a sister s search. in the movies and on tv, people can disappear
very different happened? the dog told you a dead body had been in the back of lyle s car? correct. but with few clues, hollywood detectives with strange a dramatic press conference hoping to flush out a killer. i was just floored by what was happening. hello and welcome to dateline. aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sister lesley followed to support her. then leslie went missing. and was desperate to find her. in a town built on deception scripted to smoke out a suspect and the stakes were high. here is josh mankiewicz with a sister search. in the movies and on tv, people can just disappear without a trace, leaving family and friends with nothing more than memories, questions, and worry. in real life, vanishing is more a magicians trick than an everyday occurrence, which brings us to that crossroads where magic and entertainment collide. hollywood. the cops who world on the streets call it holly weird, because they know anything can hap
we said hey, have you seen the woman who owns this car? he said i haven t seen her, but i saw her husband yesterday. that was strange. so aasha and jesse waited in the car by the front gate. if that neighbor was right, maybe they would find lyle when he came home from work. i remember a few cars coming in, no, no, no of the then all of a sudden, a car that matched his description came in. then the car turned away from lyle and lesley s building. and we said oh, i guess it s not him. because it went in a different direction. that s what we thought. aasha and jesse probably would have waited all night but they had a new baby with them. so they headed home. it wasn t the last time aasha would have to balance being a sister and being a parent. while all this was going on you had a brand new baby. i m guessing you weren t sleeping a whole lot anyway. i m thinking maybe this
washes lesley s hair. as a way of what? getting back into her good graces. he believes the bathtub was the real crime scene. i believe they were talking about the letter that he had already received. and she was likely adamant that she was leaving. he was going to have no part of that. and i think he just pushed her under. drowned her right there. remember all those towels gable saw? he believes lyle used those to mop up the bathroom. then he wrapped up lesley, put her on the dolley and had the bad luck to run into a neighbor in the elevator later that night. lyle said he wasn t guilty because lesley isn t murdered. she wasn t even dead. i don t want to you hold me to a promise that there will be a perry mason moment and lesley will walk through the door and say here i am. i will tell you
at lyle. whenever she was unhappy, if i wanted her to laugh, i would always say to her, what do you expect? you met him in the 99 cent store? soon enough, aasha was married, too, and in 2008 she and her husband jesse found out she was pregnant with a boy. lesley was so excited to have a nephew and she was so supportive. she threw my baby shower. she was going to get to see her little sister become a mom. the little boy named everett joined the family in january 2009 and though aunt lesley was sick with a cold, she couldn t resist coming by to look through the window at her brand new nephew. those should have been happy times for aasha and her sister. a time of the family bonding with its newest member. but then aasha got a