and welcome to dateline. 20 year old lindsey the told each other everything. or so her mother believed. when the college student vanished after a night out clubbing, nancy thought that she was at a sleep over with friends. and that wasn t the only thing that lindsey was hiding. it would take years for detectives to uncover the truth. in a pile of lies. but could they find lindsey? here s josh mankiewicz with the night lynsie disappeared. sometimes the facts are as clear as the southern california sky. but other times, you have to know where it will look. to see the truth. this man has made a career of noticing what others did not. what is his reputation? a meticulous investigator. just pours over volumes of
audience. and finds things that other investigators do not find. correct. does this man act guilty? does he know more than he is saying? i didn t know anything was going on. what about this man? can you believe the story that he is telling? i was supposed to pick her up twice. and she she did not show up on either day. the evidence whisper was not present at any of those interviews. but watching them helped him solve the mystery of what happened to our vivaciously little woman. and bring answers to the mother who loved her. i was always proud of her, she was a real fighter. lynsie ekelund arrived on july 7th, 1980. she was the youngest of three. maybe that fighting spirit isn t visible in her photos. but her mother nancy said it was always there. lynsie had a passion for animals. she helped out in her spare
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supposed to call after she was done tutoring two girls from the neighborhood. when the call never came, nancy drove over. and found out that lynsie never showed up at her job. all of a sudden, my daughter is not where she is supposed to be. she had taught these little girls for four months about. and you have no way of reaching her? i had no way. less nancy ekelund frantic. i started calling hospitals, i called the mark. i was desperate, i thought it was a jane doe in the. mark there was no jane doe, and there was no lynsie ekelund. most people who disappear like that, they come back in a couple of days? if not tierney for hours, yes. kareem was a detective with the police department. we had no and identified bodies. you check the? are we checked everything. which everybody. we checked everything. there was just no sign. coming up!
time at a local shelter. kim davidson, who worked at the middle school, remembers young lynsie also had a sense of compassion. i was freezing cold, and i didn t bring a jacket that they. and i felt this little hands up my shoulder. and a sweater that turned around, and it was lynsie and she said i just can t stand watching you shiver. she gave back in other ways, her mother says that lynsie would lie about her age so she could give blood. remarkable in itself, because lynsie struggled with their own disabilities. her left arm was paralyzed, her left leg impaired. did she ever talk about how she came to she brought it up to me. and said that she was in a car accident and she was thrown. and when she was a little girl. but very, very matter-of-fact. growing up, lynsie needed so much care. her mother nancy was with lindsey. like her shadow. she was my only purpose. and my life, it s to make her