so next day comes, we go to pick him up and he s real quiet. he, of course, was nick holbert who was now back in the forest outside fayetteville. it was may 14th, 2014. two years of searching had now come down to this one sweltering spring morning. but holbert still couldn t remember exactly where he had buried kelli s body and went off searching in a different direction. we re standing there, like, darn, i can t figure this out. all of a sudden i look over to my left and there s some clearing over here and there s the sun coming down. then in that very same spot, cass seemed to pick up a scent. all of a sudden he starts crawling to it, like whimpering crawling. and he stopped. that was our spot. they carefully pushed a metal rod into the ground. the soil was loose like a hole
his wife grabbed her cell phone and locked herself in the bathroom to call 911. the husband yells out at her, honey, go get the gun. go get the gun. this was very smart on the father s part because they have no gun, but he said it to scare this guy away. the father continued to flight. in the struggle, he left some things behind. zip ties for one and what turned out to be the key to the case, a cell phone, which led the dublin detectives to a home near sacramento. they called the family there and the woman who answered said the phone belonged to her adult son, a man named matthew muller. he told me he lost it this morning. okay. where is he? he d like to give it to him. he s on his way to south lake tahoe. the dublin cops knew their next stop was south lake tahoe. first they put in a call to the local sheriff to ask if there d ever been trouble at the cabin.
saw during the arrest, but photos that matched henry lee. there was more. significant clues pointing to a real kidnapping that vallejo cops seemed to have ignored from the start. window screens at aaron s house had been slit. the window locks drilled. and those missed calls made to aaron quinn s cell phone while he was being interrogated that night, calls that vallejo cops suspected aaron had somehow faked. it turns out they were placed from this intersection right near muller s cabin in tahoe. when law enforcement hacked into the car s navigation history, they found this address in huntington beach. the exact spot denise said she had been left by her kidnapper. as they continued to investigate, detectives learned their suspect was just as unusual as the crime he was implicated in.
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