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find them. when i find them, then what? they go to jail. how long do you think they should go to jail? as long as it takes. like what? for a while. should go to jail for a while. that s as strong as you could get out of him? that s as strong as we could get out of him. not he ought to go to heel or i d personally electrocute him. i d personally electrocute him, i should get the gas chamber, she was my friend, she didn t deserve that, she wouldn t hurt a fly. there was nothing. his lack of emotion was suggestive that perhaps chris should move to the top of the list, but it was not evidence. after the interview chris mcamos was free to leave and detectives weren t any closer to learning what happened to lynsie ekelund, and neither was nancy, who remained convinced her daughter would one day just come home.
at the idea that marty and lynsie were together at that clothing store after she went missing. i flat wasn t there on that day, okay. no one ever found any security video of that and larry s learned over the years that well-meaning people often get dates wrong. and larry learned a key fact. marty had actually participated in the early searches for lynsie. you eliminated marty fairly quickly then? yes. marty s behavior matched up with that of an innocent person, not with a guilty one? that s correct. he is actually doing exactly what you would do if you were looking for lynsie. he was searching. so larry montgomery turned his attention to chris mcamis. guilty or innocent? chris was the last person known to be with lynsie. he told police he drove straight home after dropping lynsie off, and police found that photo of what looked like his truck heading north away from lynsie s
actually proved chris wasn t there. it wasn t your truck, but for years it was thought of that it was your truck. it is not. matter of fact, your truck did not go by that night. it wasn t there. he told chris about the credit card statement and how he found someone who remembered chris working on the job site. all of a sudden big red flags, you know. you are working, you are up there when you said you were not, but he said you guys don t work on saturday. lynsie disappeared on a saturday morning. none of your credit card usage up there is on any weekend, all of it is on weekdays except for the day lynsie disappeared. so you re not up there working that day. he told chris the lie about lynsie being found. we went recently and got dna from mother and dad of lynsie and had that checked against the body and it is lynsie. so now we ve got lynsie up there right in the area where you were, right at the time when you
anyone realized she was even missing. chris says he then drove up to the work site and used a skip loader to dig a hole. he held on to lynsie s body for a few days, and then when no one was around, he buried her. does it feel any better to finally know? no, because i was really devastated. there was a relief. but i wasn t any happier because of it. after the confession, detectives left chris in the interview room with another detective to watch him, and chris simply could not stop talking. unbelievable. it s been so long. finally, you know, it feels better when you finally just say what you were supposed to say, you know. i know my life is ruined now,