and dreams. and it s so real, it feels like her. and she just gives me a hug. why did it have to happen to our family? why did it have to happen to michelle? why that they? a young nursing student disappears. she was still dressed in my hospital scrubs. something drew her out to her car. the cousin she grew up with. the brother she raised. desperate to find her. they were able to do what a lot of other families have never been able to do. text messages, security monitors, surveillance videos. were they sons that she was trapped, reaching out for help? one of the things about, this is that didn t make sense. moment by moment dateline was there for every turn. look, there s blood wiped across. was she missing or murdered? was this the key? i will take her life and hers. a threat, a voice seething with hate and rage. you deserve to die for your lies. it s your last and final warning. what s happened to michelle? this case is not going to be over unt
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?
so i go yeah, yeah ex-boyfriend just trying to get a hold of michelle. so, didn t pay any mind. but just in, case i wanted to see if she was okay so i checked on her facebook recently and she had plans to go to tahoe hall with some friends so, i said those friends facebook messages just to make sure she was okay. michael went to work, didn t think much more about. it but then you got another call. this time, it was that nursing instructor and she was trying to be composed, and she told me a story of how she had went out to the garage looking for marcia she said she saw what match the course description taking off suddenly, it wasn t a game anymore it was something you could excuse. that christine was calling michel s cell phone she didn t pick, up that s when i had this feeling where something might have been wrong. after she didn t pick up a few times. at 9:30 am, 12 hours after michele was reported missing, police found her car. it was parked outside this apartment buildi
enough to not quite know what happened to michelle le. one of the things i was so angry about is that nothing made sense. nothing made sense. especially. this same night, 8:56 pm, nischelle s nursing instructor annoyed, baffled, blurred by her absence takes the security guard to the parking lot to look for car. 9:05 pm, michelle s car re-enters the garage two floors below. 9:06 pm, it arrives on the third floor. the camera, nursing instructor sees it and ways frantically. the car suddenly stopped, backs up, races down the ramp out of the garage. but why? alarmed, the nursing instructor calls the police. and the next morning, 400 miles south of san diego, michelle s cousin christine was awakened via text from michelle s former boyfriend. and he messages me and says, hey, just so you know we don t
almost like light pink, white. keith morrison: (voiceover) it is, it turns out, another false lead. so they pack up. another fruitless day in a case gone cold. or so it seemed to michael and christine. but oh, what they did not know. that during all those weeks and months in which the family had been searching for a living woman, a police murder investigation had been very active indeed. and now in the last days of august, inspector fraser ritchie was in fact closing in on a very hot target. but to understand how he got there, we need to go back almost to the beginning. it was minutes before midnight, may 28th, 2011. 29 hours after michelle le disappeared. ritchie had gone to pay a midnight visit to michelle s old high school friend, giselle esteban. months in which the family had