There is no way you could look at this and say, this is a person who ran away. The mystery had this sinister side to it. Oh my god, this is really happening. It is happening right now. In the dark waters off miami, miles out to sea, a federal agent hunting for Drug Smugglers spots a suspicious boat. I noticed the Passenger Role a large duffel bag off the side of the boat. Drugs . The agents never found any, and back on shore, no one could find a missing young mother, either. Was there a connection . Lynne was just months away from her wedding when she vanished, leaving behind a young son and mystery. Any sign that someone had broken and ended up abducted her . No. The search continued on land and at sea. No bag, nobody, no case. I did not have anything that would show she was actually dead. Decades go by and the mystery is almost forgotten, but not by everyone. They knew he was the bad guy. They just could not put him in jail. All they needed was a miracle, or a witness. Hello, and wel
met clifford again a few weeks later. there was something that was worrying the pawnbroker about their earlier breakfast meeting. my biggest concern is the conversation that we had at ihop. i just want to make sure you didn t talk to anybody. oh, no. i had no conversations. ever. okay. and that, to us, gave us confirmation there had been an actual conversation at the ihop, and there was probably a discussion about the disposing of lynne friend. missy turned out to be a hapless technically challenged informant. missey wanted to make sure he didn t discover his concealed wire and used his own baby as cover. when we asked him what was wrong with the baby, the baby was screaming? oh, i took the recording device and dropped it in her diaper. you re kidding? the reason she was screaming, those things get kind of hot, and we were just all appalled that he had done that. investigators did believe the initial ihop story.
o dell, lynne s one-time fiance. o dell described his last call with lynne. her call waiting beeped as she put him on hole. she said it was her ex-husband, clifford, on the other line asking her to come over to his house and pick up some money he owed. so when you hung up with her, that was the last time you ever spoke to her? that is correct. what did you do when you didn t hear from her? i tried to call her and did not get through. did you call her excuse me a minute. mr. o dell, would you like to take a break? no, i would like to get finished. all right, sir. to prove clifford killed lynne to stop her from taking their son away, prosecutors called her divorce attorney. he testified that one week before her disappearance clifford went ballistic in a family law court when a judge
drugs? the agents never found any. and back onshore no one could find a missing young mother either. was there a connection? i was afraid for her. lynne was just months away from her wedding when she vanished, leaving behind a young son and a mystery. any sign that someone had broken in and abducted her? no. the search continued on land and at sea. no bag, no body, no case? i didn t have anything that would show she was actually dead. decades go by and the mystery is almost forgotten, but not by everyone. they knew he was the bad guy. they just couldn t put him in jail. all they needed was a miracle or a witness. it wasn t april fool s. it was a body. hello and welcome to dateline. a devoted mother with wedding
plans seemingly vanished into thin air. florida police suspected foul play. but with no body, no witnesses, no crime scene, this investigation went cold. then a new prosecutor was determined to find out was this the story of a runaway bride or a woman who ran into trouble? here s dennis murphy with what lies beneath. you don t need a moon over miami for it to be beautiful by night. the skyline reflected in biscayne bay will do just fine, but it s not for everyone. i am so, so worried about you. some people are scared by the dark water, afraid of the creatures that lurk down below, afraid of the creatures above, who scuttle through the night on secret errands. i have no idea where you are. you just may share those fears after you hear the story of a woman named lynne friend. none of this makes sense to anyone who knows lynne friend.