Case. Elizabeth mattered. She i had gotten a call saying, youll never believe this. Sayin youre like, this is it. It was just a picture, shut up one they on social media back in 2014. It was an early offering on our missing america series. And that bright, open face, the questions that begged for answers. Who was Elisabeth Sullivan . Completely brilliant. She was almost an unacknowledged genius. I dont even know how to describe it, it was like this tornado mom that was disheveled, she was fighting, she will talk here in here and go all over the place. They knew her well, these two. And so they knew in October Of 2014 something very serious was going on. I had never seen her so nervous. She didnt know what to do. Their best friend seem to be on the verge of doing something drastic. She was angry. I dont want to call it frantic, but, you know, it gives you cold sweats. We needed to know. What happened to her . Was she alive . Was she dead . Couldnt know that. There was a story here that
the missing person, did not see any signs of all. play it s like what, i know i m just different. i ll just feel like something s lost. i very, very much believe that my friend was in danger. did you get the impression you were a list of possibles? definitely. the husband, he was under suspicion, basically immediately. there were searches of his own the husband was cooperative. the boyfriend was not. got a warrant for his home, his phone, his computer. this was a very complicated case. elizabeth mattered. she i had gotten a call saying, you ll never believe this. you re like, this is it. it was just a picture, shut up one they on social media back in 2014. it was an early offering on our missing america series. and that bright, open face, the questions that begged for answers. who was elisabeth sullivan? completely brilliant. she was almost an unacknowledged genius. i don t even know how to describe it, it was like this tornado mom that was disheveled, she
arms were bandaged. i didn t see the wound but i was really concerned about it. steve s reaction to the whole thing? hard to say because he wasn t talking. when investigators asked him to take a polygraph he refused. that only heightened detective suspicions so they kept digging. why did you conduct a search at a lake? there was a surge that was done by search and rescue, and we had them go out to a place where we knew was close to his home. close to steve s home and a place they knew he had once taken liz. a team of more than 50 searched in and around the area and they found something. something very interesting. a shallow grave. and in place of a headstone, someone had left a high heel
it was badgering or poking at steve with text messages. matt seem to know whenever steve and liz talked on the phone. glad you got to talk to her today. and a few days later, good chat earlier. about a week before liz went missing matt texted steve, sorry to trouble you yet again, but i m going to cut her off financially soon. if you do care, then please take action and support her. as much as he tried after he found out about stephen, it just didn t get better. so their lives were a mess again? but more so than it had ever been. there was no hiding the problems anymore, sweeping it under the carpet did you feel trapped? yes. remember the last time she was over at nathan s, when the in laws were coming and liz seemed desperate? nathan knew it wasn t just about the in laws. liz had told him that matt was
finally, after months of investigation stephen sutton. after we executed the search warrant at steve, he did not appear to be involved. but steve, said the detectives, had managed to drag out the investigation. i mean he was protecting himself but making it more difficult for himself. yeah, that is your right but it would ve made the investigation easier. and the deep dive into steve s record wasn t a total dead and. in fact it opened the door to look more at matthew at that point. matthew. the husband. because, as they searched to seize phone records they found something very interesting. multiple text messages from matt. this is where we started noticing matthew who was telling us that he didn t care that much, it becomes more clear that he cared more than he let on. coming up.