Prevention and work for our home office at american eagle. she was 31. she had all kinds of plans. but on the morning after thanksgiving, black friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, chris phone rang at home. it was our other assistant manager. and chris, ashlea s apartment is on fire and we can t get her on the phone. i threw clothes on as fast as i could get, started driving to ft. worth and following the smoke trail and sirens. coming up, no one would have guessed where that trail would eventually lead. we were asking if we could talk to ashlea or where she was at. they said she s unavailable now. and ash lea s friends weren t the only ones with questions. police swur shuffling us into the office. lenge. we are solving problems that improve lives.
i can t imagine god giving me this child and living with her and raising her, that he would want me to stop loving her. wouldn t make any sense at all. yet, for a long while, monica wasn t comfortable with ashlea s new relationship. laura said she and ashlea were good together. she was always very giving and very what else can i do for you to make you happy. the romance losted more than three years, and then it was over. and they remained friends. and laura remembers how happy ashlea was when she started working at american eagle outfitters at the mall in ft. worth. ashlea loved it. she was an assistant manager and good at it said her boss chris cravy. just her personal, caring, loving, compassionate. she just loved life. yeah. and she loved taking videos
reporter: and, by the way, chris told detective cedillo, carter left american eagle because she was fired. cedillo filed that away and sorted through the crime scene and talked to witnesses. and a day that began at 8:30 that morning didn t end until 1:00 am. did you get any sleep? no, sir, i didn t. reporter: the story about carter cervantez and her black infiniti was just bugging him. well, i m thinkin about the case and i m thinking, where do i go from here? reporter: might have tossed and turned all night thinking about that. but something inside him said, nope. i m not gonna be able to get any sleep. i might as well go back out there and see what i can find. reporter: wouldn t be his first wild goose chase. he had carter s address. so, wee hours of saturday morning, he drove over there and what do you know? i saw a black infiniti backed in, right in front of their apartment. reporter: but he didn t knock on her door. i was going to go ahead and basically si