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Never have let him leave her alone on the walk to the car. >> she would have because she -- >> grabbed ahold of his leg and screamed bloody murder or she would have run back into that apartment. >> right back upstairs. >> and got steven. >> she would not have walked to her car alone. >> never. >> at 3:00 in the morning? >> never, never. >> reporter: now, christinas family wanted to speak with enrique. he refused, so they began protesting in front of his house. >> you wanted to be sure the neighb...

The car? my guess is he lied to her. maybe he told her, "ill take you home to fort worth." >> reporter: fortenberry pointed to records from cell phone towers that he said proved she was in the car. he said christinas phone battery was almost drained as she and enrique approached the garage that night. not surprisingly their phones were pinging near each other. then, it gets a bit murky. >> reporter: the prosecutor explained that after the camaro left the garage, it passed through a toll station ...

>> reporter: the stars at night were big and bright. but by dawn, deep in the heart of texas there was no trace of christina morris. >> i didnt sleep for 24 hours. i stayed up all night. >> reporter: by wednesday morning, four days after christina vanished from the fancy shopping center, her mom jonni was growing frantic. >> i called every police department. i called every hospital because you never know. >> reporter: the calls led nowhere, and jonni felt helpless in oklahoma, so she and her hus...

>> if i would have been there, none of this would have happened. and this -- this is -- this is why i didnt want -- this is -- i cant do this. i just -- im done. i dont -- >> and maybe two questions into the interview, he gets up and takes off his mike. i cant do this anymore. >> reporter: was he traumatized because his girlfriend was missing? or could it be something else? so hunter walks out of there basically having done himself probably no good. >> no favor at all. >> reporter: at the same t...

>> the video clearly shows him wearing a black shirt the whole night. >> and bank and cellphone records might explain where he was, what he was doing? >> right. >> reporter: plano detectives were already looking at enriques cell phone records. now they took a close look at his bank records. and they found this transaction at saturday morning, about six hours after christina was last seen on the garage camera. >> whatd he buy the morning that she went missing? >> he got gas at a local grocery sto...

>> and yet its the opinion of all her friends who heard her side of that conversation that they were? >> oh, yeah. the friends said she was upset to the point of even crying sometimes. she was so upset with hunter that she was tearful and upset. >> reporter: hunter told police he was out with friends in downtown dallas the night christina disappeared and 20 miles away from that mall in plano. but when cops pressed him for details, he was vague. and there was one more thing. hunter would not give...

But since enrique was the last person seen with christina, police kept digging, even digging through the trash outside of enriques home. >> whatd they get out of that? >> they saw several cleaning bottles that were empty, odor removing chemicals, bottles of that were empty. >> which couldve been used by him on his car or somebody in the house. >> yeah. theyre normal household cleaners, but the timing might be a bit suspicious. >> reporter: the trash runs continued. then in late september more th...

>> right. he figured she was with us or with her mom. >> reporter: hunter, whos living with her, doesnt say anything, doesnt call you? doesnt sound the alarm and call anybody? >> dont get me started. >> reporter: mark and anna continued to work the phones. eventually reaching christinas pal, steven nickerson. >> her dad had asked me if he had seen -- if i had seen christina or heard from christina. and i said, "no, and the last time i talked to her was, you know, saturday morning." and he asked ...

>> reporter: investigators turned their sights back to christinas boyfriend, hunter. a week after she disappeared, hunter finally brought his phone into plano pd. but when forensic experts went through it, the questions for hunter did not fade away. >> some things had been erased. text messages, conversations, things like that have been erased. >> reporter: could you tell what hed erased? >> we know he erased part of the conversation with him and christina, that that conversation was gone. >> re...

Down. >> you knew she was gone then? >> yeah. >> reporter: in september of 2016, almost two years to the day since christina had vanished, enrique arochi went on trial at the collin county courthouse charged with aggravated kidnapping. zeke fortenberry was the lead prosecutor. >> why not prosecute him for murder? >> we thought about that, and i believe he did murder her. the problem is we didnt have a body to show that and we didnt have a crime scene to show murder. its probably the most difficu...