or was he afraid? afraid somebody was trying to set him up. which might have been the reason why scott shared this document with detectives this is a temporary restraining order against giselle esteban. in signed declarations, both scott and his mother told how their family was awakened early one morning by scott s car alarm. scott went to investigate. and while he s out front, he hears his mother screaming. he goes inside, giselle is inside of his house she s inside his room tampering with his computer. keith morrison: sound familiar? it was the same thing esteban was doing at the nursing school. and when was this, vis-a-vis the murder? four days before, on the tuesday. keith morrison: but there was something else a piece of evidence you have to hear to believe. scott told the detectives that four months before michelle s disappearance, giselle harangued and threatened him. verbal attacks so alarming he recorded some on his iphone, just in case something bad ever happened.
keith morrison: prosecutors had a hard time believing esteban was physically capable of killing michelle le all by herself. we encouraged them to make sure they eliminated any possible suspects, such as the father of giselle s child. keith morrison: that would be scott, the ex-boyfriend, butch is referring to. and so, everybody s antenna went up. in late july of 2011, 63 days after michelle s disappearance as the le family searched the hills for her ritchie got a very strange phone call from scott who sounded out of breath. saying that he believed that he had found michelle s phone. i asked him, where did you find michelle s phone? in the backseat of his car. lester holt: coming up at first, police doubt scott s story. had we missed something? is he the other part of this? lester holt: or was he giselle s next victim? did you ever have any concern about scott s safety? yes.
keith morrison: ritchie listened to giselle s tone careen from aggrieved, to furious, to threatening all in less than a minute. this was far from the subdued woman he had met back in may. it was apparent that she was a violent person. did you ever have any concern about scott s safety? yes. and we advised scott that. if it is giselle, you have to be concerned for your safety as well. and he might well be a target. yeah. keith morrison: esteban, it was clear in the recording, had become fixated on her old friend was convinced michelle had somehow broken up her relationship with scott. and yet, as ritchie took pains to discover michelle and scott were nothing more than just friends. she had a boyfriend. scott was just one of the many friends that she had. but the only person in this world that seemed to think that there was more to it was giselle. keith morrison: prosecutor butch ford heard the audio too and read the 1,500 pages of texts and emails scott gave police. butch ford: for t
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remember the vigil the le family held a week after michelle s disappearance? the one attended by giselle s ex-boyfriend, scott? it turned out, giselle was there too sort of. the tracking device showed giselle circling the block as michelle s family pleaded for help. and later, it showed her driving past scott s house. why? ritchie was all but sure now giselle had something to do with michelle s disappearance. the question now was, did she have some help? it was something that we had to look at. if so, who? yeah. dive into her life who s her friends? and who can we talk to that knows giselle? keith morrison: ritchie consulted an alameda county assistant da, now deputy district attorney, a guy named butch butch ford. some of my colleagues, their response was, well, who helped her do it? because she s a woman, she s pregnant in order to do this, she had to have help.