was to let the landrys know in the most humane way possible before the media was on to it. he called his chief of police. i remember chief of police coming to the front door. i knew when he walked in. i could tell by the look on his face what he was going to tell me. i didn t want to hear it. after i got done crying, i wanted to take a shower, like i was going to wash it all away. my matt. coming up, could one man have done this? i m 6 6 , 280 pounds. matt could take me out. matt was that strong. maybe one man didn t when dateline continues. then own it
like the cops before them, also went to the sunoco station and got the owner to play them the video of the atm withdrawal made on matt s card. as the friend studied the security cam video, a clerk behind the counter was watching local news. up popped a recap of the bank robbery story. it was a, hey, that s him kind of moment. they swivelled heads from the news clip of the sunglasses-wearing bank robber to the figure on their security cam who had just withdrawn the money. bingo. we all put together that it s the same guy. it was the same guy who did the bank robbery, same guy that used matthew s atm card at the sunoco station. reporter: what s more, the guy behind the counter recognized the person in the atm security cam video. a local guy who went by the name of ihop. the counter man said he had a rep as being a gang member and a violent thief. the friends told the landrys what they had learned, that a kid named ihop seemed to be
still hurting and waved him off. i was like, never mind, i m not going to eat it anyway. reporter: as matt left to run some errands, fran snoozed, figuring matt would wake her in time for the barbecue. i woke up at 5:47 and i called him. he didn t answer, and i texted him staring at my phone waiting for him to refly and fell back asleep. reporter: she called him twice more. she remembers the exact times. 7:31 and 9:01 and got his voice mail. she was starting to freak. even six hours in, you thought something bad had happened. right because he always answers or calls me right back. so i started calling the police stations and hospitals. reporter: over at the landrys barbecue, the salmon tasted great, but matt and fran were no-shows. still, no one thought twice about it. i knew she was running a fever, and you don t really feel like doing much, especially, you know, going over to parents house. reporter: meanwhile, matt s friends were getting as worried as francesca. th
behind matt s disappearance. and the landrys also heard on local news that the very same guy was already in police custody for the botched carjacking in the local walmart. matt s mom called the roseville p.d. i said the man you re holding who just robbed the bank is the same man who used my son s debit card. and my son is missing. you need to get a detective in there now to talk to him. reporter: that detective would be lieutenant ray blarek, who just pieced it all together himself. now he needed answers from the man they call ihop, and the veteran cop had a few tricks up his sleeve to get what he wanted. as detectives prepare for an intense interrogation, friends uncover troubling new information and an eyewitness on the day matt vanished. coming up they re beating him up now. hurry. when dateline continues.
threatened at gunpoint. was there any connection? once again here s dennis murphy with taken. bob and doreen, the parents of matt, the young man missing for the third day now, could only pray that he would walk in the door. the police told them, often kids go off like this, and it s something to do with drugs. the parents weren t buying it. didn t fit the pattern for matt. reporter: something innocent would explain matt s absence. i still had hope that it was something crazy. it was something, you know he ll show up. yes. something that we would laugh about. reporter: but just in case it wasn t that, matt s mother and girlfriend, after waiting the required 24 hours, went to matt s hometown police in chesterfield to get an official missing person case going. in the state here, just in case, we wanted to make sure someone was always here at the house. reporter: at first, chesterfield p.d. told the landrys it wasn t their case. they would need to go to the