either by accident? accidents happen. i never touched her. no, never touched her. okay. this girl is have you put her someplace where she s left? no, no. police searched marty s home and found nothing. no proof that marty had anything to do with lindsay s dis disappearance. so they moved on to a suspect, someone closer to lindsay than anyone else on earth. dateline returns after the break. > dateline returns aftee break.
guy named matty. did you know a marty? no. he said he had gone to pick up lindsay at school and she wasn t there. he said he had money of lindsay s she needed for tuition. none of that made sense to nancy. after lindsay goes missing, her mother gets a phone call from marty. marty rossler. what does he say to her? he says he has befriend lindsay s, he s a friend of lindsay s and he s concerned because he hadn t heard from her. what had you heard about marty rossler? s watt not marty rossler. he had a relationship with lindsay he didn t tell his wife about. he told police he would pick lindsay up and give her rides but that was about it. marty was 58. and she was 20? and she was 20. and they were boyfriend and girlfriend? don t think so.
many years of mom and daughter being each other s best friends and confidantes, lindsay began to keep some things in her life to herself, like where she was really headed one night in february 2001. does it make any sense she would like to you about what she was going to do that night? i have never known her to lie to me, but you don t know what you don t know. narrator: it was a friday night. lindsay was in college part time and working but still living at home. she told her mom that instead of their usual friday night dinner she was staying the night with a girlfriend named andrea, someone nancy had never met. and then a young man named chris came to the door to pick lindsay up. she introduces you to this guy, chris? did chris say hello to you? uh-huh. narrator: was he polite, have good manners? uh-huh. narrator: but nancy said something felt wrong. i had a feeling about him.
so police brought in marty. over two days they recorded those interviews, at times on video and sometimes just on audio tape. when s the last time you saw lindsay? a week ago. no. no, i don t think so. absolutely. no, absolutely not. marty said that he had last seen lindsay the day that she went to san diego on that friday. did you believe him? we really didn t believe him. they didn t believe him because of a tip they had received. a clerk at a local clothing store had called to say she had seen lindsay and a much older man who matched marty s description together at her store after the day lindsay went missing. i flat wasn t there on that day, okay. i have been in that store, all right, and i said i m i m like you. i m easily, you know, identified. okay. i mean probably every place i been with her would know that i was in there with her, okay.
friends about four months prior, and it turned out he never drove lindsay to andrea s house for a sleepover. chris said it was a lie lindsay made up for her mother. the real plan was to go clubbing all night in san diego. she said, don t tell my mom we re going to san diego because my mom won t let me go and definitely don t tell her we re going clubbing. narrator: chris told police when the clubbing went bust, they headed home earlier than expected. chris said it was after 4:00 a.m. when he finally got back here to lindsay s neighborhood and he said lindsay was worried her mom might hear his truck pull up at that hour. so chris said lindsay asked to be dropped off not at her house but here at the corner 50 yards away. that sounded strange from police until they heard from lindsay s friends that at other times she asked to be dropped off right here. chris said he then drove home