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hi, mom. this woman had gone out to get the mail and disappeared in her pyjamas the case was never closed. it was consuming all of us. the individual was wearing a baseball cap, hoodie with the hood pulled up and large mirrored sunglasses. oh, my gosh, did this really happen? i m like, no, dude, i can t do this. there was a scream. a drop of blood came from her nose. it was like a game. he was a part of this game. we re done with the games. it needs to stop. it needed to stop. michigan snow blankets field and woodland with silent beauty, sometimes encasing ugly secrets hidden beneath, never meant to be disturbed until finally they re revealed and all is made clear. i know a lot of people say, you wanted to find her. yeah, i wanted to find her, but then it was going to become so real to me that maybe you don t want to find yeah, yeah. start with the mother of two who vanished as she stepped outside her door to pick up mail. she wasn t there ....
Man from michigan and virginia? in mid june, eight weeks since venus went missing, detective krieger and chuck christiansen decided to find out. they got in the car and headed he s. destination, bear, delaware. would the man on all those phone logs hold to key to what happened to venus stewart? coming up! we have a guy who i believe is an interest. he looks like doug. he makes a lot of calls to dog. he could pass for doug. he didn t want him to know we were coming. reporter: police pay a surprise visit to this mystery caller. how do you know doug stewart? through xbox live. reporter: he s got a spinning of his own. what was the business he needed taken care of? go see his wife. did he say why? to hide her. when dateline continues! hen dateline continues ....
Venus stewart. did you attempt it again? yes, we did. reporter: it was deja vu all over again. this time, sunday, april 25th. i went down to virginia. he was heading up back up to michigan. reporter: later that day, ricky said he made a call to doug s boss, pretending to be doug, under the weather. and i said in a sick voice, like, hey bobby, this is me doug. i m feeling like [bleep], i can t get to work. he said, all right. so doug didn t have to come to work on monday. reporter: monday would be venus s last day alive, as ricky would explain in his chilling story of duplicity and death. it began, the prosecutor said, with doug in a field across from venus parents house. he parked there with his truck kind of watching things. i d say probably 500 yards from venus parents house. reporter: doug called ricky at 7:00 a.m. from a trac phone and gave him his instructions. ricky, i want you to leave ....
Cameras. to pull off this double vision ruse, ricky would need to wear sunglasses, a cap and a hoodie pulled up and over. ricky returned to delaware to wait for doug s signal. it came on april 15, 2010. doug drove up from virginia, ricky from delaware, and they met at a gas station in bethesda, md., outside the nation s capital. that s where ricky said doug gave him the things he needed to turn into doug, his clothing, cellphones, keys to his car and apartment, and a credit card. what s that a photograph of? this is the parking space area where i met with doug stewart. where did you go? i went i drove to virginia. where did doug tell you he was going? to michigan. what was he gonna do there? he didn t say kill his wife, but he said to take care of business up in michigan. and but i knew what he meant. reporter: sure enough, surveillance cam pictures taken ....
Things stood in the investigation into the disappearance of venus. the western michigan mother of two had gone out to the mailbox one morning in 2010, and had not been seen again. investigators suspected her strange husband doug was behind it. his one solid alibi that he had been elsewhere was now on shaky ground. cops theorize that he maybe had a stand-in in virginia, so he could sneak off to michigan. but could they prove it? to find out detective shane kreeger and chuck christiansen drove to delaware to question a college kid named rickey spencer. we ve got a guy who i believe it s of interest. he making a lot of calls to doug, he looks like doug, he could pass for doug. on june 21st, 2010, the detectives made an announced visit to this house. where ricky lived with his ....