she was a design original. christina. the fashionista. fantastic wardrobe. she went out to drink with friends and never came home. i sensed something was wrong. this is real. who was the last to see her? she went her way? that s all i can tell you. where was her ex-model boyfriend? he doesn t call when she s missing. someone had something to hide. he thought he was getting away with it. she was fighting for her life. all i can do is pray with all that i have. tell me what happened that night. welcome to dateline. 23-year-old christina morris had vanished without a trace. no clues and blurry security video to go on, could the clue investigators needed really be scribbled on a trash post-in note? here with frantic is josh makowitz. christina morris was afraid of the dark. through grade school, she woke up in the middle of the night. we knew about it because she was in our bed. she was scared of the boogie man. it was something she never rea
johnny called christina s dad. i asked her father if he heard from her. he said no. anna had not heard from her. i said something is wrong. mark, his wife, anna and sar sarah, her sister called friends. your oldest daughter, sarah, and she says to hunter have you seen christina. he hasn t since friday. right. he figured she was with us or with her mom. hunter, who is living with her, doesn t say anything? doesn t call you or sound the alarm? don t get me started. mark and anna continue to work the phones eventually reaching steven. her dad asked me if i had seen or heard from christina. i said no. the last time i talked to her was saturday morning and he asked me who she left with. i said enrique.
i just found out about it. does she own a vehicle? yes. a 2001 toyota celica. silver. about 30 minutes later, mark got a call back. officer called me and said they found christina s car. it was still parked in the parking garage. it never left. just after midnight, mark and anna raced to the garage with a spare set of keys. i opened the door, i looked inside, you know, the car was locked and it was just a mess. and it was a mess, just like she keeps it. but no bag, no wallet, no cell phone. the car was locked. and she never got in it. now, police had to play catch up. the plano police department had a disadvantage with the four-day delayed start. zeke fortenberry was a prosecutor in the collin county district attorney s office. plano police department knew
we don t know him. enrique was a guy christina had known in school. he left the party the same time and offered to walk with her. how well did you know enrique? i was in high school with him. i didn t really ever talk to him. that was pretty much christina s relationship with him, too? yeah. steven chased down enrique s number from friends and called. he said we walked together, but went our separate ways. i say you did not see her get into her car? he said no. no one has heard from her. i cannot find her. we re about to call the police. mark couldn t dial fast enough. communications. how may i help you? i m trying to report a missing person. my daughter. she hasn t shown up for work.
off to the laboratory for confirmatory tests. as you can imagine, detectives weren t saying much about the case, not even to christina s parents. they re not giving you a play by play? no, no. right. and we understand they can t. but you know, we we had to ask questions. we couldn t just sit and wait. they also had questions for enrique. maybe he knew more than he was telling. from the beginning, they d been suspicious of his story. and given christina s fear of being taken, anna and mark thought their daughter would never have let him leave her alone on the walk to the car. she would have because she grabbed ahold of his leg and screamed bloody murder or she would have run back into that apartment. right back upstairs. and got steven. she would not have walked to her car alone. never. at 3:00 in the morning? never, never. now, christina s family wanted to speak with enrique. he refused, so they began protesting in front of his house. you wanted to be