he was a sweetheart a drummer with big rock and roll dreams. but the music stopped the day he suddenly vanished. i can t believe i m doing this right now. searching through dumpsters for my boyfriend. didn t want to deal. i curious disappearance that no one could explain. then, across town, another scare. i felt a gun to the back of my head. a teenager in danger. he grabbed me and said, you have to come with me or i m going to kill you. two young lives, strangely linked. had police put the two things together? i said i will do whatever i can to help find your son. can they help unravel this mystery in time? don t you understand, every minute counts right now? hello, and welcome to dateline. it s a story of young dreams interrupted, a talented drummer who was aiming for rock and roll stardom finally disappeared. his parents immediately since he was in danger, and they were forced into a race to find him in time, here is dennis murphy with taken. matt landry
statement to fat daddy that you better get out of our neighborhood. so he ultimately turned himself in. reporter: taylor was also charged with murder and kidnapping in the quiznos abduction. he pleaded not guilty. at the trial, the defense theorized that matt had gone voluntarily with maslamani and taylor. they were doing a drug deal and what happened happened. any idea he would have known who they were? no, sir. we believe it was totally random. wrong place at the wrong time. could have been any one of us. reporter: and these detectives have advice for anyone ambushed like that in broad daylight or even at night. at no time should you allow someone to take you from point a to point b. reporter: don t go. don t go. you fight. you fight to the death, period. because once you re on their turf, it s over. the young woman at the bank dropped right to the floor. she says, i m not going with you.
i m not sure. but it looks like a robbery. they ve got a guy cornered over here. reporter: the previous sunday afternoon, the police in yet another small city near detroit, east point, got a 911 call. the distressed witness was reporting an apparent carjacking and abduction in the parking lot here behind the quiznos sub shop. but when the police officers arrived, the car in question was gone, and they weren t sure exactly what it was they had to write up. the incident at the quiznos went largely unnoticed, until matt s sister got tipped to it by a friend online. so now you have a lot of very bad information at your disposal, huh? well, i just felt sick when i showed my mom the facebook message and it said carjacking at the quiznos. as soon as she said quiznos, i said that was the last place matt used his debit card, other than the atm. he s got him by the neck now. i think he s putting him in the trunk. they re beating him up now. hurry up now. hurry, hurry! reporter: what t
so there was the missing piece of the puzzle. and as francesca put it together, it all started because her concerned boyfriend had decided on his own that she, feeling crumby, needed a tlc sandwich to get back on her feet. well, he had mentioned to the girl at quizno s, my girlfriend is sick, i don t know what to get her, can you help me. and that s why he got two subs. reporter: two subs that started a three-day crime spree in the detroit suburbs. from the quiznos in east point on sunday afternoon, spreading ten miles to the flagstar bank in harrison township at high noon on monday and ending eight miles away at the walmart in roseville, midday on tuesday. bad news, bad patterns. but matt s family and friends were still clinging to a sliver of hope. okay, he s still alive somewhere, he s still alive somewhere. maybe he s just tied up. maybe he s just tied up. maybe he s just they re holding him at a crack house or something. maybe, maybe, maybe. reporter: you had a dream.
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