we all just wanted to find her. we didn t think that anything bad happened to her. where was she? they hammered her iphone with more than 100 calls and texts. and heard in response, nothing. then, 12:45 pm, 15 hours after michele was last seen, finally a text from her phone. i am not missing, it read, my phone has been acting crazy. it deleted everything. all these texts have killed my battery. michelle sent a flurry of reassuring texts to friends and family. i m fine, she wrote. just taking it easy. so that ex-boyfriend texted her back. his phone number he knew almost as well as her own. a response from michelle. who is this. uh oh. when we come back, did michelle really sent that text? coming up i had asked, is it possible
and while you re hittin the trail, i m hitting your cooler. oh, cheddar! i ve got hot dog buns! and your cut-rate car insurance might not pay for all this. so get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem, like me. roar. (sfx: family screams in background) that s some bad luck brian. and i think i m late on my car insurance. good thing the general gives you a break when you need it. yeah, with flexible payment options to keep you covered. so today is your lucky.day [crash] so today is your lucky.day for a great low rate, go with the general.
had not yet done she asked for forgiveness for us since she had not committed? that s the interpretation o the priest roughly 3:00 in the afternoon. the day that michele wen missing. reporter: richie wa convinced that giselle esteban killed michelle. a so is the prosecutor but they did not know how sh did it or when she did or where she tip. or, more importantly, what you did with the body. if you don t have a body, i makes the case more difficult. reporter: so rich and the other investigators with the hayward pd continued the bus work of doing the case without a body they ran fingerprints, sent dn for testing, interviewed witnesses, all quietly, out of sight of the family and press.
south china sea. then they spent months in a refugee camp, before being dropped in a land, whose language, and customs, they did not know. and, yet, before long, they had embraced it all. big family celebrations at christmas time, and easter, and birthdays. they went on all american vacations, like this one, to the california coast. that s little michelle and their glasses. here we are, at santa barbara beach. we are having lots of fun. here is my brother. they succeeded in america by doing what they did since their days on the south china sea. they stuck together. and epic, very american tale of great, hope, and self reliance. lessons, absorb hole, by their children. if i was missing, and michelle was looking for me, she would tear heaven and earth. so, i had to fight for her. there was a new generation, the american born generation, that had finally convinced the family, it needed to go public. to put their story into the press, and on
just a few blocks from the hospital where michelle was last seen. odd. fraser richie was the hayward police inspector the car was locked, it was secured. that s how we believed that michelle was somewhat around here. but we had no clue where to start looking. but they could see through the tinted windows. it looked. fine as if michele had probably left the car here herself. all morning, a flurry of word phone calls went back and forth among michelle s friends and family. what should they do? it was just chaotic. but we weren t thinking the worst at the time. still in san diego, christine, along with her aunts uncles begin packing for the eight hour drive north to san francisco east bay. brother michael was attending college at uc berkeley. he rushed over to nearby hayworth to join michelle s friends and fellow students who were already handing out missing posters outside the hospital parking garage. had anybody seen her?