friends and family. he brought up his association with a motorcycle gang. he came off as kind of a tough guy. we d fool around a little bit, like teasing, sibling teasing i guess you could call it. he threatened to take out my whole entire family to get custody of our kids. wow. a chilling story of danger and duplicity. we were trying to figure out who did this. he knew the whole time. this is the ultimate betrayal. reporter: it was 9:00 in the morning on the 25th of june 2015. omaha, nebraska. missy nelson s morning ritual was interrupted by a phone call. it was the bank where her daughter jessyka worked. she was an hour late. i was like, what? what do you mean she s not there? they re like, she s not here and we ve been calling her and she s not answering. reporter: thing was, jessyka was never late. missy tried calling her. no answer. panicked now, she ran to her car. was jessyka at home sick? so i was calling her all the way over there. and i w
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Too. yes, yes. i met him through my oldest daughter. reporter: wow. yep. my husband taught him how to drive his truck, you know, things like that. things that you would do if we had a teenage boy. reporter: sure. and then one day he caught her alone at home, and he grabbed her neck and tried to choke her. and she, fearing he would kill her, stopped struggling and discovered something revealing about matt. from what i could tell, and with my situation, is the violence and stuff is what got him. reporter: yeah, because when you relented it obviously wasn t a turn-on for him anymore. uh-uh. reporter: and if she hadn t given in? i wouldn t be here. reporter: you would have been in jessyka s place? yeah. this shouldn t have happened to that girl. reporter: no, it shouldn t have.
The english channel on record. three children and a pregnant woman among the dead. 52 people in russia lost their lives after a blast in a coal mine. officials believe it was a methane explosion. they declared three days of mourning. back to date line extra. reporter: it was a week before they could have a funeral for jessyka. a small, sad service for family and friends is what they expected. but it wasn t small, not at all. it was overwhelming. just to see that that many people knew her or at some point had cared enough to show up and say, hey, we re sorry. reporter: and some of the young men vowed revenge as they
Wore their justice for jessyka bracelets. her brother matt, her brother s best friend, also named matt, who d once lived with them, who knew jessyka like a sister. he was with us throughout the whole thing. reporter: like another son? like another son. you know, just, you know, what do you need help with? people would bring over food. he s there helping us carry it in, you know, that kind of thing. reporter: and there as well helping out, grieving, was john mcdowell, jessyka s ex. he may have looked the part of a tough guy, but police had checked his alibi. he could not have been the killer. we were also able to look at his cell phone locations. and they were exactly where he said he was. at no point did his phone ever put him anywhere near jessyka s house. reporter: john did not kill jessyka, and when he first learned she was dead i just felt completely lost. i was instantly trying to figure