don't know, but he claims video surveillance gives him an alibi the night she goes missing. in the last hours police execute multiple search warrants on married boyfriend's house and business. tonight, where is 24-year-old le? >> phuong le, resident of suisun city, recently reported miss and believed at risk. >> suspicious -- >> suspicious type of missing person. >> something's wrong. >> search warrants have been executed on the home and business of someone police reportedly say was romantically linked to phuong le. >> on these kinds of matters, there are certain things that go unnoticed by the family. >> the man in question is her former boss, who the family regarded as a brother. >> she was upset about something. >> police refused to confirm what was taken and sources say computers were seized at both locations. >> the last phone call phuon made before she disappeared was her former boss and friend. >> was that unusual? . >> phuong's family does not believe phuong's former boss was involved, describing him as a friend of the family. >> we have that she was at barnes & noble. >> the car is there with the windows down unlocked and her purse, cell phone and wallet in the trunk. >> no signs of phuong le. she's now deemed at risk. >> we will continue to do everything possible to return phuong le to her family. thank you very much. and tonight live, rural michigan. 7:30 a.m., mommy, in pajamas, goes to the mailbox in the front yard to mail a letter. mommy's never seen again. in the front yard clear signs of struggle in the grass, the driveway, gravel where mommy kicked and fought, kidnapped at the mailbox 7:30 a.m. in her pjs. where is gorgeous young mom of two, venus stewart? >> she's my baby. >> the search continues for 32-year-old michigan mother of two, venus stewart, after a stunning disappearance. >> i know she would never leave on her own. there's no way she would ever leave on her own. >> i was surprised she didn't wake me up to tell me to watch the kids before she went out to put the mail in the mailbox. i wish she would of. >> cops say venus walked outside the family home early monday morning wearing slippers and pajamas to put a letter in her mailbox, then vanishes. >> i've never seen anyone disappear like this so thoroughly. >> signs of a strig l around the driveway. venus' parents noticed remnants of what appeared to be a scuffle in the gravel in the yard. >> there's absolutely no trace, no hint, no nothing. >> cops calling venus' estranged husband, douglas stewart, their only person of interest because of an alleged rocky marriage. police reportedly find stewart in virginia. he denies he has anything to do with his wife's disappearance and says he's a good citizen and a good person. good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. bombshell tonight. a beautiful girl just graduates nursing school, then goes missing from the local barnes & noble bookstore. we learn the very last phone call she makes before she vanishes into thin air was to her former boss, who we now know to be her married boyfriend. in the last hours police execute multiple search warrants on married boyfriend's house and business. >> there's a goal here. >> help us find her. >> to get everybody to know her face. >> help us find phuong. >> this is just really odd. >> authorities investigating the disappearance of 25-year-old phuong le, have executed search warrants. >> a bunch of suits and ties. >> on the home and office of a man police reportedly say was romantically linked to the missing woman. >> these guys were too quiet. >> they are not telling us what they found. >> cops are keeping a lot of things close to the vest. >> sources say investigators began looking at tuck nguyen, former boss -- >> cell phone records. >> who did they call? >> his number was the last on the cell phone. >> did she say anything about leaving the area, running away? >> no, not at all. >> police will not confirm what was taken. sources say computers were seized from both locations. >> if somebody was doing something, you know, i think she would have said something. >> phuong's family recorded her former boss as a brother. >> i think something would have come out. >> a mn man her relatives describe as a family friend. >> i'm just hoping -- really hoping -- i'm hoping she's safe right now. >> i want to point out that the married boyfriend is not a suspect. he's not a person of interest. according to everything i know right now, he has been cooperating with police. straight out to henry k. lee, reporter with "the san francisco chronicle," author of "presumed dead: a true life murder mystery." henry, everything i'm learning is getting worse and worse. give he me all the updates. >> they have searched mr. tuck nguyen's home and business. he runs postal express in suisun city, same city where phuong le lives, and he's her former boss. of course, she called him on sunday and what we don't know is does he have any involvement in her disappearance? the family says no. >> henry k. lee. a couple of questions, quick yes or no. if you don't know, fine. the police may not have released it yet. number one, do you know how long they spoke on the telephone? >> not sure at all. >> okay. do you know what they talked about other than he says she was angry she had to hand out flyers for her sister's business? anything else? >> that's it. that's what they talked about. >> do you know where he was? has his cell phone been pinged? for all i know he was driving to the front of the barnes & noble to pick her up. where was he at the time of the phone call? >> he says he was home on the day she disappeared. it stands to reason, nancy, the cops would be looking at his cell phone records to jive it up with hers. >> he says he was home. stacey newman, our producer on the story, doesn't he say video surveillance supports his alibi that he was at home? >> yes, nancy. he says he has an alibi. surveillance video from the surrounding neighborhood he lives in he says will prove that he was at home that night and did not leave home. >> wait. so you're telling me he doesn't have a nanny cam or anything like that at his home but believes surveillance video in his neighborhood -- what surveillance video in his neighborhood? >> he says there's videothere that shows people coming and going from the neighborhood. he lives in a very nice somewhat upscale neighborhood in fairfield and says video will prove he did not leave his home the day that le disappeared. >> marc klaas, president own founder of klaaskids foundation. what do you make of this? >> it's incredulous that this gentleman would be able to supply himself with that kind of an alibi. say that he knows that the videotape will prove that. it almost seems like he had something pre-prepared. but you know what, i'll tell you, law enforcement in northern california has plenty of experience in searching for missing persons. so i don't think that there's any region in the country that a person could disappear in where they wouldn't have as much experience to draw from as northern california. >> okay. pat brown, criminal profiler, author of "the profiler: my life hunter serial killers and psychopaths." you're just what we need. you and marc klaas, between the two of you, certainly we can figure this thing out. pat brown, all right, of course, all types of red flags are waves. when you find out not only did she have a married boyfriend who is a former boss, did he fire her? did she quit? why is it a former boss? also, we learned that's the very last person that we know of that she spoke to before she vanishes into thin air. weigh in. >> well, i say two things there. romantic relationship at one point and last person she called. those are absolute connections they have to look at. here's the other thing. that purse in the trunk bugs the heck out of me. i have gone into a bookstore before, put the purse in the trunk. i roll up the windows, lock the car. the only reason her purse would be in the trunk, she left the bookstore and she jumped in the back of the car and sat in the car next to her's or somebody put her purse in the trunk and dumped her car in the barnes & noble lot. only things i can think of. >> thinking this through, pat, first i thought maybe she met somebody in the parking lot and took off with them, but why would she leave everything behind? even if she went into the barnes & noble, why wouldn't she take her cell phone or wallet with her? >> right. if she went in, i agree with that. if she came back out again, if she was going to sit in somebody's car and talk to them, sometimes you open up your trunk and toss it in there to get rid of it while you're sitting and talking. you have your eye on it but don't want it in your lap. that's one thing. or somebody dumped her car there and drove her car to the lot and left it there because they knew she went to barnes & noble and they think that's a place she could get abducted out of. in other words a staged crime scene. >> you know, isn't it true, henry k. lee, with "the san francisco chronicle," joining us in san francisco, didn't she go to the local barnes & noble, the local bookstore, and study? she had just taken her nursing boards, and she was studying for more tests? >> that's correct. barnes & noble, nancy, was a familiar haunt for her, and as the brother has told reporters, it's possible that a complete stranger may have realized what her daily routine was which included the barnes & noble -- >> back it up, back it up. marc klaas, how often is it that someone le's age is an ducted by a complete stranger? >> it it certainly happened to my daughter. that happened to many of of the kids. >> i said le's age. >> i don't know about that. >> 24. >> i would think less often than more. i don't think we want to narrow it down to one individual, at least not at this point. >> marc, you know me better than that. i think everybody's a suspect. i thing i'm a suspect. i have to find out where i was that night. listen, nobody is ruled out. i'm just saying let's look at statistics. let's take an educated look at what happened. what about it, pat? what are the stats? >> well, i mean, there are women who go missing out of parking lots. that's a popular place for serial killers to go and grab their people, but i don't understand why she would put her purse in the trunk if she was leaving the store. what purpose is it going to serve if she's going to get in the car and drive away? that doesn't work for me. i think it's not an abductor out of the lot. >> the family told us today they regard nguyen as a brother and don't believe had anything to do with the disappearance. her friends are simply fighting their fears. >> that we'll never find her or find out what happened to her and she won't come home. 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"hello." calculator humor. i'll be here all week. i will -- that was my schedule. the freedom to name your price. now, that's progressive. call or click today. help us find her. >> breaking news in the case of missing woman phuong le last seen at a barnes & noble bookstore. >> we know fairfield police have conducted two searches. >> on the home and business on someone police reportedly say was ro mantly linked to phuong le. >> a former co-worker says he has nothing to do with her disappearance. >> the man is in question is her former boss who the family regarded as a brother. >> we talked for a few minutes, and that's it. >> phuong worked at the postal express for about two years. she left a year ago and since then nguyen says they've remained friends. >> police are reportedly led to the former boss because his phone number was the last one showing on phuong's cell phone, found in her car outside the barnes & noble. >> why did phuong call you? >> she was upset about something about like passing out flyers for her family. >> did she say anything about leaving the area, running away? >> no, knock at all. >> those close to her do not believe phuong took off. >> her disappearance is out of the ordinary and around suspicious circumstances. >> friends remember phuong talking about her old job at the postal store but not nguyen in particular. >> we're like a sisterhood and i think she would have said something. >> and i am getting the information in the last commercial break that police are now denying reports that le was pregnant. saying she absolutely was not pregnant. how do they know? out to you, henry k. lee. how do police know? >> they're not telling us us how they came to that conclusion, but they obviously want to shoo away any rumors. in fact, today nancy, they met with the family of phuong le to clear the air and address any rumors. >> family of who? i couldn't hear you. >> the family of phuong le. the officers did meet with pu huong's family to meet with them, give them an update and clear the air. i think that was a springboard asking about more sense it active issues about any romantic relationship she may have had with this individual or not. >> wait. how do they know whether she's pregnant? >> that's a good question. i don't know how they would define that, but certainly you would find a way to do that conclusively. they said there's a denial that she's pregnant then we have to take that at face value. >> unless they have the ept stick in her hand, henry k. lee, nobody knows anything except her as to whether she's pregnant or not. out to the lines. becky in kentucky. hi, becky. >> reporter: hi, nancy. >> hello, dear, what's your question? >> caller: i wanted to tell you i'm a crime victim myself. my mother was murdered when i was 10, and i very much appreciate what you do to seek justice in this country. >> hey, becky, i bet you still suffer your mom's death even to this day. >> caller: i will never get over it. >> people don't get it unless they've been a crime victim. you go on in life. it's like you break your arm but you learn to flip a pancake anyway. >> caller: uh-huh. >> but it's never the same again. you're never the same again. thank you for sharing that -- >> caller: me and my daughter, chl chloe, and i watch you every night. >> thank you becky and chloe. what's your question, dear? >> caller: i've been thinking about this where she left the windows down. every car i've ever had, you can access the trunk from inside the car. so she wouldn't leave the windows down and put her things in her trunk. >> becky, you're absolutely right. becky in kentucky, becky and chloe watching tonight. just point out something all of us missed, ron shindel, nypd deputy inspector. what about it, ron? she's right. why bother to lock your stuff in the trunk with the windows down? you can reach right in and go, hit the button. >> this is true, but a lot of people put things in the trunk to keep them out of sight. in this case there's so many things that don't make sense. this is just one more thing. >> put him back up. did you say a lot of people put things in the trunk and leave the windows down? >> no, i'm saying a lot of people put things in the trunk to keep them out of sight even if the windows are up or down they don't want the items seen from outside the car. huh, i've never heard of that, to leave your windows down and put your valuables in the trufrg when anybody has to do is reach in and push the button and open the trunk. >> it's true, but all valuables should be out of sight in the car. >> what do you make of the detail? >> that's what i said before. if i'm going into the store and leaving my purse i'm going to roll up the windows and lock it, but if i'm going to sit in a car next to my car i might dump my purse in the trunk because i am watching my car and i know no one's going in my trunk. >> the search intensifies for a 24-year-old california woman last seen as a barnes & noble bookstore. >> the disappearance is out of the ordinary and around suspicious circumstances. >> friends and family members handed out flyers with a picture of 24-year-old phuong le to everyone they could. >> her brother found her car in the parking lot with the windows down and her purse, cell phone and wallet in the trunk. thing as taking a chance? as having to decide to go for it? at the hartford, we help businesses of all kinds... feel confident doing what they do best. by protecting your business, your property, your people. you've counted on us for 200 years. let's embrace tomorrow. and with the hartford behind you, achieve what's ahead of you. ♪ police also served a warrant at the home of 40-year-old nguyen in fairfield's rancho neighborhood. at both locations sources say computers were among the items seized. sources say police were led to nguyen because when phuong's car was found unlocked outside a fairfield bookstore with her backpack and other belongings in it, nguyen's number was the last one showing on her cell phone, a man her relatives describe as a family friend. >> we're taking your calls live. out to jackie. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a question about the backpack and cell phone in the trunk. i heard the other day her windows were broken. that's they were down. she couldn't turn them all the way up. okay. i want to question, because i was her age, she just locked everything in the trunk before she went into barnes & noble and the first phone call she made was the timeline before she went into the store, she never made it back to her car. i used to do that when i was with my friends when i was her age going into barnes & noble. everything was in the trunk and i put a $10 bill in my trunk and car keys. it's something everyone is perplexed about, the stuff in the trunk. i wanted to run that by you and ask a question. >> that's a good idea. that's a good idea. >> caller: it's very possible she took a $10 bill and keys and bent into barnes & noble. >> show could have gone in with a $10 bill or a single credit card. what about her car keys, stacey newman? where were her car keys? >> that's a key piece in this case we don't know about. what i do want to add, nancy, i can say this about the timeline. ktvu is reporting the last call le made to tuck nguyen was 6:00 p.m. the night she went missing. witnesses say she saw her in the cafe at 8:30. where was she at 6:00 when she made this call? >> okay. so we don't know where the keys are. jackie's point is well-taken. henry k. lee, is it true that her windows were broken, that's why she couldn't let them up? >> phuong's brother has told me her front windows may have been malfunctioning so that's why she left her back windows half way down for ventilation. that does not answer why things were in the trunk. obviously it might have been for security reasons. >> what about the car keys, henry k. lee? >> i believe they are not telling us where they are. i believe they may have been missing. >> phuong le's mother pleads for her daughter to come home. saying she believes the 24-year-old who just passed her state nursing boards two weeks ago must have been kidnapped. 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[ gasps ] that's cold. making sure you get a great deal. now, that's progressive. call or click today. authorities investigating the disappearance of 25-year-old phuong le have executed search warrants on the home and office of a man police reportedly say was romantically linked to the missing woman. >> tuck nguyen granted cbs 13 an interview earlier this week. tonight he's refusing to go on camera, but did confirm police searched his business, this postal express, and his home. nguyen says investigators seized his computers and questioned him. the former co-worker of phuong le says he had nothing to do with her disappearance. >> phuong's family does not believe phuong's former boss is involved, describing him as a friend of the family. >> she's never been out overnight before. >> le says he called the police department who responded to the fairfield bookstore. they didn't immediately impound the car or take a missing persons report. they didn't turn over the case to the fairfield police department for nearly 48 hours. >> we feel the system might have failed us in this case or failed phuong in this case, because -- just because of the time delay. we don't know what happened. we're going to take you live to rural michigan where a young mom of two little girls goes to a front mailbox in the yard, 7:30 a.m. in her pjs and is kidnapped. first, i want to take your calls on the missing nursing student. straight out to sonya in louisiana. hi, dear. >> caller: hi, nancy. >> hi, dear, what's your question? >> caller: my question is, has the trunk of the car been checked for dna or fibers or hairs or anything? and i'm a crime victim, myself. i have so much focus on this man. i believe he has something to do with her disappearance. >> sonya, the reality is that your instinct is backed up by statistics in many, many cases. investigators start their investigation with lovers, boyfriends, husbands, ex-husbands, live-ins, because statistically they are most likely to commit a homicide on a woman. all right. here this guy has not been named a suspect or person of interest, so cops are starting there within the family, within the circle of friends. remember they said he's like a brother or an uncle to them. then they're moving out. but as far as the car, stacey newman, hasn't it been taken and processed? >> yeah, that car has been impounded and they've thoroughly combed over it. i'm sure, to the caller's question, they've gone through everything and searched through everything in the car. >> let's unleash the lawyers. joining us tonight high profile lawyer out of seattle anne bremner and renowned defense attorney out of san francisco, john burris. weigh in, burris. >> well, you know, when i think about this, my troubled part of it right now is how did the police get information to allow for them to do a search warrant on this man's house? they had to have more information than just a telephone number that had been called and/or that they had been previously romantically involved. that doesn't give you a basis necessarily to go in and search and go through all this man's privacy stuff. i'm curious about what information they may have. they must have something more to link them in. everyone is right that you look to the boyfriend in situations like this or husbands and spouses. that part is not troubling. it is troubling they got a search warrant without us knowing much more about it. >> okay, john burris, why do you think -- are you saying you believe they've got more evidence or you're troubled they're not sharing it with you as if you, john burris, have a right to -- >> i think, no, i don't have a right to it. i think they must have more information because i'm troubled they would get a search warrant without the information we know right now. which then means that they just -- a judge would have had to review something, more than a telephone call and/or that they had been previously romantically involved in order to have a broad, wide-sweeping type of search warrant that apparently has been exercised. >> that leads to my next question, anne bremner out of seattle. john burris is dead on, absolutely correct. here's my question. why didn't the married boyfriend consent to the search? why did they have to show up with a search warrant? >> because the fact of the matter is this is all over the national news, especially through your very popular show, nancy, so why would he consent to a search? because he should be very, very careful in everything he does. there is probable cause -- >> put bremer up. >> i'm here, nancy. >> if cops wanted to search my place, i would search my place. for what, what are they going to find? >> you're a suspect, and you're innocent and you don't have anything to hide. we all know don't talk to the police, don't consent to a search. anyone that watches tv knows that, and anyone that talks to a lawyer knows that. the fact is he's being smart about it. >> according to you a criminal defense attorney. to dr. janet taylor psychiatrist joining us out of new york. what do you think about that assertion? >> well, i mean, i think -- >> if cops told you, this girl is missing, can we search your place? i bet you go, okay, fine, have at it. knock yourself out. >> well i mean, we also saw the guy on tv, so who goes and talks to a tv reporter about that? clearly he must think he's innocent and, you know, maybe that's part of his delusion or his cover-up. >> to dr. glen kolanski, board certified physician, joining us out of new york. how can anybody, beyond her, the missing girl, know she's pregnant? >> very simple. her friends may recognize, you know, some women get this pregnancy glow or you can find engorgement in her breast size or check her credit card and see if she bought a pregnancy test. >> well put. everyone, we're switching gears. i want to tell you about a missing young mom, gorgeous young mom of two little girls, goes to the front yard to the mailbox to mail a letter. 7:30 a.m. rural michigan in her pjs. she's never been seen again. take a listen. >> venus stewart was last seen in her pajamas. police believe she was taking her mail to the mailbox around 7:30 in the morning and say there was a scuffle in the yard. >> what happened next to 32-year-old michigan mom venus stewart is unknown. the mother to 3 and 5-year-old girls vanishes. venus' parents say she loved being a mom and never, ever would leave her children. perhaps for disturbing, venus wearing pajamas and slippers. her estranged husband, douglas stewart, named person of interest because of an alleged rocky marriage, after allegations of abuse made by both parents. venus just winning temporary custody of her 3 and 5-year-old daughters. one week before she vanishes. >> you know, i disagree with a lot of what i just heard as our intro. abuse on both sides? you know what he claimed was abuse? she threw a shampoo bottle at him once, and he called the police. i don't know if that rises to abuse, but forget about their rocky marriage. it's a lot more than rocky. out to john mcneill, news director wkzo news radio, joining us out of kalamazoo. john, what happened? the woman goes out to her mailbox at 7:30 in the morning, and she's kidnapped? >> well, that's what appears to have happened, an abduction of some sort. it's hard to believe that no one saw anything. this is not a -- the neighborhood plan itself is somewhat rural. the houses are close together. it's 7:30 in the morning and people are up getting ready for work, whatever, but nobody saw anything. police have no clues, they have no tips. >> hold on. john mcneill joining us. news director wkzo news radio. john, was she living with her parents at that time? >> she had moved in with her parents because of her problems with her marriage. >> yes. now, didn't -- isn't the husband saying that he was like 13 hours away and has eyewitnesses to prove it? >> 600 miles away, but yeah 13 hours if you drive slowly. it's like an eight or nine-hour drive. >> huh. okay. what exactly is his alibi, john mcneill? >> police have told us that his lawyer claims that he has two witnesses who will say he was in newport news, virginia, where he has a home, on that morning. and i'm sure that they're checking those alibis, but so far they have not been able to shake them. >> john mcneill, his lawyer, what is it, his tax lawyer, his divorce lawyer? what kind of lawyer? >> he has a lawyer. >> a criminal defense lawyer? >> we assume so. >> holy moly. okay. everybody, we're taking your calls live. we're talking about venus rose stewart, a 32-year-old mom of two, goes to the mailbox, 7:30 a.m. her dad comes out shortly after. you can see where the yard is churned up where she fought. as we go to break, on a happy note, happy 6th birthday to a georgia friend, tiny crime fighter, london. a little fashionista. she loves dressing up in mommy chizan clothes. she dreams of being a pediatrician when she grows up. now, is she not beautiful? 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>> they are still married right now, nancy. they were estranged, however. >> okay. tell me, when we were coming into this segment i hear about both of them filing protective orders against each other. wasn't his complaint that she threw a shampoo bottle at him? >> right, that was one of the complaints. he said actually on three occasions she went to a judge and asked for a restraining order, rather protective order against him. on one occasion he asked for one against her, and he claimed that, yes, she had thrown objects at him in anger is what he said. >> and the objects were unless it's a machete, why call police? >> right, nancy. >> it was a shampoo bottle, ellie. are you saying that with a straight face? i'm supposed to be -- she's violent because she threw a shampoo bottle at him. >> that is the allegation he made. >> stop. you're hurting my teeth. he also said what? what did he say? >> he said that all of the allegations that she made, for example, that there were threatening phone calls, harassing, threats to take the children, he claims that he never made those threats, she was the one that did it. he says that it was reversed. she was the one that did it, not him. >> okay. one thing, ellie, why is she living with her parents? >> right. well, in february of this year and this is in her petition to get custody of her children that she just filed, she said that she had recently found out that her husband had allegedly assaulted one of their children or that there had been some sort of abuse between -- >> are you talking about sex molestation or beating or starving, what? what abuse? >> it was sexual conduct between the daughter and daughter. >> he denies it? >> of course he he did. he said he denies it, that it's a disgusting allegation. based on this -- i should point out that the cps investigation is ongoing and it's an open investigation right now, but the mother was awarded temporary custody of her two children just a week before she disappeared. >> now, that still doesn't explain to me why she's living at home. why didn't she move into her own apartment or home? on her own? >> that, i don't know. she apparently packed up the children and moved back to michigan. which is where the family had lived. they just moved to virginia last summer for her husband's job. she has family in michigan, moved back and moved in with her parents. >> joining me right now, special guests, venus stewart's parents, larry and tarice mccomb. thanks so much for being with us. first to you, tarice, miss mccomb, what happened that morning? >> she got up out of bed, she had coffee with me, one of the girls was up early, gets up early, too. and i'm getting ready for work, and we're just having coffee together. and everything, you know. just say good-bye and get ready for work. >> hold on, i'm having a hard time understanding you. larry, pick it up. what happened that morning? i heard miss mccomb say you had coffee together. what else happened? >> my wife went to work. zblo zbloek. >> okay. >> i was still in bed sleeping. and i heard the kids getting really loud, and i thought, why is venus letting those kids be so loud when she knows i'm in here sleeping? i got up to chew her out, and she was gone. >> what did the kids tell you? >> they told me that mommy went outside. so i went outside, and she wasn't there. i went to the neighbor's house across the street and asked them if they'd seen my daughter. she said no, she hadn't seen her. i came back in the house and i called 911 because i knew what happened. >> when you say you knew what happened, what do you mean by that? >> she was scared to death of her husband. she told me that he was going to get her, and i kept telling her, no, honey. he's just going to move on to his next victim. i was trying to reassure her. she was so certain he was going to get her, she took out a will three weeks ago. >> mr. mccomb, you have a propane tank, container in your front yard, right? >> yes. >> what did you find on the propane tank? >> after the police dusted it for prints -- >> yeah. >> -- she had hard-soled slippers on, and there were prints from her slippers on the side of the propane tank, like somebody had picked her up and she was kicking against the tank to get away. >> where were the girls when this happened? >> they were in the front room of my house, and i was sleeping in my bedroom. about 20 feet away. >> is there any way they could have seen what happened? >> no. >> not the way our house sits. we have no windows on that side of our house. all of our windows face on towards the river. and they were in the front room with the river side. she told me earlier she was going to go mail a letter, she had to mail a letter, but she should have told her father when she went out. like his watch. oh. we can help you save. because we instantly compare your progressive direct rate with rates from other top companies. watch this. 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