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She needed it to counter depression, anxiety, insomnia. she never left home without it. meanwhile, cyber-sleuth bill capps buried himself in social media sites. kate used them. bill scoured them all. >> if she was awake, she was facebooking, she was texting, she was calling people on the phone, she was e-mailing. and at the time she went missing, when everything immediately ceased, i mean, that was completely out of character for her. >> using kates friends, capps built an electronic map of her ...

>> the call from heather wasnt all that fat bag of money accomplished. before long, it reeled in a fish. that neighbor heather was sneaking off to see called, too. the a-team went to talk to him. >> and he said, "i know ethan and heather did something to kate." and terry went in the back room, came back out, and had this ipod. and terry said, "i believe this ipod is going to belong to kate." >> now that was huge. the last time kate was seen with that ipod it was at the gym the day she went missi...

Again and told this man, "do what it takes." his name is andy savage, former prosecutor, now famously tenacious criminal defense attorney. savage had heard about kate, too, and how police had no evidence of any crime. really? >> as soon as we scratched the surface just a little bit, we were absolutely convinced that foul play was involved. >> savage was given just two mandates -- find kate waring, tell police everything you find. that last part, keeping the police in the loop, should be easy, fi...

Romantic interest, howard gatts, told capps he heard from her about 10:30 p.m., still at dinner with ethan then. there was another call. it was after midnight. well after police believe she was dropped off at him. >> she told me she was at some friends house. they had already made it to the house. she sounded a little buzzed. >> and then a very last message from kate. a text. very strange. >> "im off to greenville to pick up some lovely." whatever lovely was i had no idea, you know, and, "ill be...

Was completely out of character for her. >> using kates friends, capps built an electronic map of her communications the friday night she vanished. from kates friend jason locke, capps retrieved the weird voicemail left that evening. >> 10:06 p.m., missed call. voicemail. voicemail said that someone had "stolen her identity," and had obtained a couple of credit cards in her name. she wanted me to sue the person responsible. >> the gym trainer and kates romantic interest, howard gatts, told capps...

The battery, up the stairs, down the hall, and into kates bedroom. >> these type cases, you have to take on the personality, and you have to see this persons world through their eyes. >> he sat there for a bit, looked around. the russian notes in kates handwriting made sense, but why chinese paper money? and why was her brand-new prescription sitting there untouched? >> the medication in which she had gotten for a prescription was still on her dresser, unused. >> that medication was her lifeline...

The last time kate was seen with that ipod it was at the gym the day she went missing. now a man kate never met said heather gave him the ipod days after kate disappeared. just to be sure this was, in fact, kates ipod, tech expert bill capps got the serial number. and within minutes, had the proof. >> i examined the registry files from all the computers that we had access to that kate had used in the past. we knew proof positive that that was kates ipod. and it only takes one mosquito bite to tr...

Foul play was involved. >> savage was given just two mandates -- find kate waring, tell police everything you find. that last part, keeping the police in the loop, should be easy, figured andy, given the team he assembled. a band of retired policemen-turned-private eyes. each with a particular talent. >> bobby minter. >> bobby minter, human blood expert. tracking people his specialty. >> bill capps. >> bill capps, techno geek. tracks bad guys through cyber-space. happens to be a crack shot. >> j...

>> thats correct. they wanted a statement from us as to everything that we had done from the very beginning. not just what we had done that day. >> the whole, long story? >> thats basically what they were asking for. and in fact, they had been given the story along and along as it occurred. >> hours later the ex-detectives were finally released. but not bill capps car. didnt get that back until they filed motion papers for an injunction. even now the memory still rankles all of them. 34 years in...

>> he sat there for a bit, looked around. the russian notes in kates handwriting made sense, but why chinese paper money? and why was her brand-new prescription sitting there untouched? >> the medication in which she had gotten for a prescription was still on her dresser, unused. >> that medication was her lifeline. she needed it to counter depression, anxiety, insomnia. she never left home without it. meanwhile, cyber-sleuth bill capps buried himself in social media sites. kate used them. bill ...