a local teenager and a look of terror that has gripped metro detroit in fear. reporter: just watching the news, like anyone else, was a police detective from roseville. lieutenant ray blarek. this was a vicious incident. huh? very vicious, yes, sir. reporter: the detective watched the security cam pics of the bandit in sunglasses, holding a gun to a young female customer. a bad crime, but still one he never expected to investigate. because it didn t have anything to do with the city of roseville, where i m in. it s a couple jurisdictions over. reporter: but by the next day, the detective would prove himself wrong. he would be thick in the bank robbery case, as well as the disappearance of matt landry. a missing person report he knew virtually nothing about. but dots were getting connected, and there was one more to come. coming up he s scared to death. could you get someone down here? another brazen attack on a bright afternoon. will it shed light on what might have
carjackings? had he also maybe stolen matt s car? by then, the abandoned car had been towed to the police station in matt s hometown, chesterfield. the detective called a counterpart there about his hunch. i told him, i said, i think it s all related. i said, can you get somebody to go into the car without destroying any evidence and see if there is anything in there that links the bank robbery to matt landry. reporter: and sure enough, there was. and it had to do with that map found inside matt landry s car. when investigators got a closer look at it, they saw an x marks the spot pinpointing the flag star bank, which the guy in the shades had robbed, and where he briefly held a 19-year-old hostage. now lieutenant blarek began filling in the blanks. he figured that the guy who pulled off the bank job was the same guy who carjacked matt landry s honda with matt in if. but he wasn t ready to share his conclusion with matt s parents yet. he had something to do first. at 11:30 tuesday
were tossed away that ended when police zapped the man from a taser gun like this one. when the jolts wore off and the man was back on his feet, lieutenant blarek recognized a familiar face, someone he had seen just recently on tv. he was standing right there, right in front of me in the walmart lot when i said, that s the bank robber. reporter: the same ice-cold bandit who had held a gun to 19-year-old sarah maynard s head and demanded money. give me $50,000 or i ll kill her. a violent suspect, involved in two things that we know of, and who knows how many others. reporter: could one of those other things be a missing person? just that day, the detective had become aware that doreen landry had reported her son missing to the police in roseville, where matt s girlfriend lived and he had last been seen. and lieutenant blarek knew something else. detroit police had just found the young man s car abandoned in a bad neighborhood. he wondered, did the walmart suspect now in his ho
behind matt s disappearance. and the landrys also heard on local news that the very same guy was already in police custody for the botched carjacking in the local walmart. matt s mom called the roseville p.d. i said the man you re holding who just robbed the bank is the same man who used my son s debit card. and my son is missing. you need to get a detective in there now to talk to him. reporter: that detective would be lieutenant ray blarek, who just pieced it all together himself. now he needed answers from the man they call ihop, and the veteran cop had a few tricks up his sleeve to get what he wanted. as detectives prepare for an intense interrogation, friends uncover troubling new information and an eyewitness on the day matt vanished. coming up they re beating him up now. hurry. when dateline continues.
he saw a ghost. he saw a ghost. reporter: but not shaken enough to spill whatever he might know about matt landry. what are you seeing, lieutenant, when you re right there with the guy. you see anything in his eyes? just a cold, callous, heartless person. he is definitely near the top of the list. if not on top. of one of the coldest people i ve ever talked to. reporter: the landrys headed home from the roseville p.d., satisfied at last that the police were now seeing their son s disappearance as they were. gina, their daughter, meanwhile, was learning more troubling information about her brother, something she had picked up on the internet. i got a phone call from one of my best friends. and she said, gina, check your facebook when you get home. and, you know, there s an important message on there. reporter: the heads up was from a woman gina had known in high school. her parents had witnessed on sunday a violent carjacking, and it was a green honda. 911, police. in