reporter: and now mini-michelle and michael and the rest of the le family held vigils, issued press releases, anything to keep michelle s case in the public eye. i needed to work on something all the time that was her every day, that was related to her every day. reporter: did you feel like you were getting anywhere? it felt productive. but it still felt hopeless, hopeless in the sense where you still don t know what what s going on. reporter: after weeks of casting about they were no closer to finding michelle than they d been that first chaotic weekend. and it was sad but perfectly understandable that public interest began to wane. it was during that period of darkness when one of michelle s uncles down in san diego begged for help from this woman carrie mcgonigle.
when we were growing up, we were so alike that my family called me mini michelle. reporter: and now mini-michelle and michael and the rest of the le family held vigils, issued press releases, anything to keep michelle s case in the public eye. i needed to work on something all the time that was her every day, that was related to her every day. reporter: did you feel like you were getting anywhere? it felt productive. but it still felt hopeless, hopeless in the sense where you still don t know what what s going on. reporter: after weeks of casting about they were no closer to finding michelle than they d been that first chaotic weekend. and it was sad but perfectly understandable that public interest began to wane. it was during that period of darkness when one of michelle s uncles down in san diego begged for help from this woman carrie mcgonigle. michelle le s uncle asked, you know, what do i do? i m completely lost. reporter: why her?
boys? yeah, we talked about boys all the time. she helped me write my first love letter. oh, my gosh. when we were growing up, we were so alike that my family called me mini michelle. reporter: and now mini-michelle and michael and
reporter: and now mini-michelle and michael and the rest of the le family held vigils, issued press releases, anything to keep michelle s case in the public eye. i needed to work on something all the time that was her every day, that was related to her every day. reporter: did you feel like you were getting anywhere? it felt productive. but it still felt hopeless, hopeless in the sense where you still don t know what what s going on. reporter: after weeks of casting about they were no closer to finding michelle than they d been that first chaotic weekend. and it was sad but perfectly understandable that public interest began to wane. it was during that period of darkness when one of michelle s uncles down in san diego begged for help from this woman carrie mcgonigle. michelle le s uncle asked, you know, what do i do? i m completely lost.