very different happened? the dog told you a dead body had been in the back of lyle s car? correct. but with few clues, hollywood detectives with strange a dramatic press conference hoping to flush out a killer. i was just floored by what was happening. hello and welcome to dateline. aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sister lesley followed to support her. then leslie went missing. and was desperate to find her. in a town built on deception scripted to smoke out a suspect and the stakes were high. here is josh mankiewicz with a sister search. in the movies and on tv, people can just disappear without a trace, leaving family and friends with nothing more than memories, questions, and worry. in real life, vanishing is more a magicians trick than an everyday occurrence, which brings us to that crossroads where magic and entertainment collide. hollywood. the cops who world on the streets call it holly weird, because they know anything can hap
was a room that was lyle s and it was like a tornado had been through it. but still no sign of a struggle? no. no blood. no visible blood. the only thing that caught my attention that night was there was a large amount of towels hanging over the showers of both bathrooms. i just made note of it, but i thought there was a flood or something that they sopped up. inside the apartment he also saw spilled candle works. if the ocd intensive leslie had seen that, she would have cleaned it up right away. so did it happen after she left? and gable and bynam found something else. a receipt from starbucks dated february 9th at 9:17 p. m. that was the first day lesley missed work. where did you find that receipt? that receipt was found inside of a purse, inside of lesley s purse. inside of her closet. so presumably it was lesley that went to starbucks? exactly. it was 6am when they
and the herrings condo complex in the hollywood hills to see what, if anything, they could find there. lesley s car is there in her assigned parking spot. that made it feel heavier. like her all of a sudden, her car is here and she s not answering the phone. they went into the building to not timelessly in lyle s front door. aasha wondered if leslie, who suffered from migraines, might be sick inside. but they re knocking got no response. they waited and waited. they return to the garage where they saw a man parking in the spot next on lesley s. we said hey, have you seen the woman who owns this car? he said i haven t seen her, but i saw her husband yesterday. that was strange. so aasha and jesse waited in the car by the front gate. if that neighbor was right, maybe they would find lyle when he came home from work. i remember a few cars coming
with love. i didn t think shaking him would get an answer. i hugged him like i always do when i see him. that didn t work either? no. she did not run away. unlike his sister, aasha and leslie s brother linda did not approach lyle with love. i would like you, lyle, to tell me what s going on here. because we came a long way to know what s going on. this is killing our family. through it all stood lyle herring. either a husband worried about his wife or a killer worried about being caught. i m the lead investigator for this case when detective gable began to speak, a reporter asked if lyle was being helpful in the search for his missing wife. as you ve been cooperative? i would describe his cooperation as fragmented and less than helpful. at one point, reporters asked detective gable, is lyle cooperating? and with lyle standing right there, detective gable says not really.
pushed her under. and rhonda right? they re trying to right there. remember all those towels gable saw? he believes lyle used those to mop up the bathroom. then he wrapped up lesley, put her on the dolley and had the bad luck to run into a neighbor in the elevator later that night. lyle said he wasn t guilty because lesley wasn t murdered. she s not even dead. i don t want to you hold me to a promise that there will be some perry mason moment and leslie will walk through the door and say here i am. i will tell you at the conclusion of this trial, there will be more than sufficient evidence to believe that she in fact could. i wish they were right. let me say that. i would love to be hugging my sister and i wish that were true. but i know who she is and i know she s not alive. we are on the record. after a three and a half