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Looks like giselle is sending out text messages. and at that moment, as records show, michelles iphone was pinging off a nearby cell tower. to ritchie it seemed quite clear-- giselle esteban was the one using michelles phone to send those creepy text messages to worried friends and family, and to him. and giselle did all this, while on the shopping trip with her daughter. and shes on that phone roughly the same time that shes getting text messages from the classmates, and family members, and thi...

Records and began plotting out a timeline of her whereabouts, but the picture the records painted wasnt quite what they expected. that morning call to scott, the one he couldnt hear? teresa did not call from moundville. >> cell tower shows that its pinging from up in tuscaloosa. >> wait a minute, how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? thats miles and miles away. >> theres no way she could make the call and be back to where she was murdered out. >> so curt at this of the cell towers you were ab...

Those are the electronic connections made when a phone hits a particular cell tower, and that gave investigators a general idea where quinn might have been held. fbi agent tony kravit was selected as the lead crisis negotiator for the bureau. >> were tracking the phone and thinking weve got some leads. >> agents felt they were making progress, but suddenly the phone was also pinging farther away. the kidnappers and quinn might have been on the move. sheriffs detective howard cole was sent in pur...

Welcome back to "dateline." im craig melvin. while enriques story continued to unravel, another twist in the case. christina morris boyfriend hunter was arrested in a drug bust. investigators wanted the truth, but would that lead them to her body. here with the conclusion of "frantic" is josh mankiewicz. >> reporter: by early december 2014, christina morris had been missing for three months. police had arrested her boyfriend, hunter foster, on drug charges. investigators had thought he might hav...

>> very important. cell phones almost like someone dropping pieces of popcorn, leaving a trail. >> reporter: but the trail was a wide one. cell phone towers dont pinpoint exact locations. >> we know from that cell tower there is maybe three to four-mile radius from that tower that were looking for to try to figure out where that phone is. >> reporter: investigators believed melissa was killed in her garage around 8:30 p.m.

To each cell tower and each connection leads to digital trai trails. sometimes the police can tells where we have been. police seek that data tens and thousands of times a year. in a 5-4 decision, the supreme court says it is a detailed records of our movements, it nearly turned the phone into an ankle monitor. we expect for it to be private and the police will need a court order to get it. >> we have a solid majority of five justices who recognized these device that is we are carrying around is...

Naturally. a major decision for the supreme court court that impacts all of us who regularly use cell phones. the court says police cant use your phone to track your movement unless they get permission from a judge. pete williams has the story. >> reporter: we are a nation of nearly 400 million cell phones and many of us have more than one. today the supreme court says police must get a search warrant for our phone records to track where we have been. as we move, our phone connects to each cel...

Records and began plotting a timeline of her whereabouts. the pictures the records painted wasnt quite what they expected. that morning call to scott, the one he couldnt hear, teresa did not call from moundville. >> the cell tower shows its pinging up in cuss kalousa. >> wait a minute, how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? thats miles and miles away. t tuscaloosa. >> the cell phones she could not besing that phone, it had to be somebody using her phone and what do you know, the phone is missi...

They pulled teresas cell phone records and plotted out a timeline of her whereabouts. but the picture the records painted wasnt quite what they expected. that morning call to scott, the one he couldnt hear, teresa did not call from moundville. >> cell tower shows its pinging from up in tuscaloosa. >> wait a minute. how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? thats miles and miles away. >> right. theres no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. >> c...

The testimony weve heard from admiral rogers and others, hes not interest in cyberor communication security. there are voice cellular intercept systems around washington, d.c. which are being run by hostile intelligence agencies. theyre not just inside embass beatses. i might haveself have used systems that looked like briefcases or, you know, laptops and can be left alone remotely and operated from foreign countries to pinpoint where he is, and if possible mimic a cell tower, lower the threshol...