i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. i just collapsed. she s dead because she was my friend. first melissa disappeared. where s melissa? that s the million dollar question. i knew right then she absolutely never made it into her house. left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist, then her boss went missing too. who is he afraid of am. he might have been afraid he s next. he left behind a bigger mess. we three kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark a billion, billion and a half dollars. a missing woman. we have know clue, no leads. some wonder was there a link? this had a twist to it. two crimes, one for money, one supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong, and i can t fix it. welcome to dateline. hotshot florida attorney melissa lewis was living large in fort lauderdale dale, but then her seemingly charged life ended
about that part of our lives. she s special, and she had a baby. keith morrison (voiceover): so the cemetery isn t a place of sadness for them, usually. i love it, because my boys get to hear about her. and they always bring cars out for connor, or i think, they brought a baseball out this time. keith morrison (voiceover): it s a place where they can celebrate a life, someone they loved. she s in heaven, and she s in our hearts. keith morrison (voiceover): their laci. woman: beautiful. oh, how pretty. [camera clicking]