reporter: the investigation began the very day chanin s body was found. as luck would have it, among those just beyond the yellow police tape that night was a man that police surely would have looked up sooner or later, didn t have to. chanin s ex-husband clay was clearly looking for them. what was going on, he wanted to know. his ex-wife was missing. was she okay. he was asking to talk to the lead detective, he wanted some answers. reporter: first responders at the scene wouldn t tell them anything about what was found inside the house, not even that chanin was dead. an ex-husband after all is no longer next of kin. so clay went down to the sheriff s station where he met detective jim dressback. come in, we need to have a chat. his response was, well, your jacket says major crimes. what s going on? nobody will tell me anything. reporter: the detective broke the news, chanin was gone. waited for clay to collect himself. and then i start by asking him very simple things.
cruel? well, of course, it s the homicide detective s job to figure that out. it could mean many things, it could mean somebody very close to her that was very upset and angry with her, or it could mean somebody else. reporter: the investigation began the very day chanin s body was found. as luck would have it, among those just beyond the yellow police tape that night was a man that police surely would have looked up sooner or later, didn t have to. chanin s ex-husband clay was clearly looking for them. what was going on, he wanted to know. his ex-wife was missing. was she okay. he was asking to talk to the lead detective, he wanted some answers. reporter: first responders at the scene wouldn t tell them anything about what was found inside the house, not even that chanin was dead. an ex-husband after all is no longer next of kin. so clay went down to the sheriff s station where he met detective jim dressback.
lead do it. he wanted some answers. reporter: first responders at the scene wouldn t tell him anything about what was found inside the house, not even that shannon was dead. an ex-husband after all is no longer a next of kin so he went to the sheriffs station where he met a detective. i said, well, come in, we need to have a chat. and his response was, well, your jacket says major crimes. what s going on? nobody will tell me anything. the detective broke the news, shannon was gone. waited for clay to collect himself and then. i start by asking him very simple things. gave him a little history, was she on medication? does she have any enemies you know and what i ask everybody in that situation is, what do you think happened? he asked me, do you know anybody that wants to harm her? do you know who she was see something do you know, you know, were you over there is this when did you see her last? you do have any idea of these