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Wanted. >> you become the only mom he remembers in his life. your mom. >> i am on. >> he calls me mom. >> he understands. im not his biological mother. >> well kind of dad was close? to christian? >> he was a great dad. they went and played ball together. they went fishing together. they went on travels together. cliff is a phenomenal father. >> meanwhile, up in tennessee, lends one-time fiancée, at odell, had moved on with his life, to. married now, with children. the dwindling friends of lynn...

Throughout the night. >> hello, hello. its 10:30, and i had hoped i would hear from you by now. >> i am so so worried about you. i have no idea where you are. call me. by. >> the next day, a neighbor spotted lindas car abandoned about a half mile from her home. a front tire was flat. soon the cops arrived and esther let them in lindas condo. >> wet i noticed that was very odd. she is very meticulous and very neat. and she is very frugal. the television was on, the lights were on, the air conditi...

>> what did you think the biggest problem of the case was? >> i had nobody. i had no witnesses. and i didnt have anything to show that she was actually dead. >> well, i think that especially now, juries have high expectations. >> the csi speech that so many prosecutors given jury selection. >> they expect physical evidence. they want to see a body. >> the two reexamined the 16 year old file and took a fresh look at a lead from back then that had never panned out. an acquaintance of cliffords, so...

They searched her abandoned car with a flat tire. inside they found a waste pouch with her drivers license. >> there was no evidence, no fingerprints, no foreign dna evidence. >> forensically are not coming up with this all kind of glue? >> no we are not. >> that says this explains everything? >> no. >> so what did happen to the 35 year old single mother. with all due to fuel forensic clues to examine. the investigators became -- learning just who this missing woman was. when did they peeled bac...

>> it means that she was in the bag, she wasnt coming back. and that was the end of lynn. >> clifford said he would need the 30-foot vote they owned together. it was dark behind islands condo on miami beach. >> wanted to use the boat to take her out. pretty deep water, and dump her. >> and when he told you that, did you immediately turn and run out the door? >> no. >> allen said go figure. he decided to help his buddy out of a jam because of his son. >> i basically didnt want to see the kid fath...

That covered the disappearance. >> for her to disappear, without leaving word for her son was just something that everyone knew would never happen. >> esther sanchez met lin when she came to work at parkway hospital in fort lauderdale. at the time, lynn was still living with her fiancée. a business owner named clifford. when the two married in 1989, esther was the maid of honor. >> she wanted whatever girl dreams, of getting married, having a beautiful wedding, and looking forward to having chi...

Of the child, although she ensured that christians father clifford had generous visitation rights. >> she had agreed to everything that clifford wanted. she tried to play, nice she said if this is what you want we will do that. >> in august, 1994, the clock was counting down to moving day. lynn was home packing when ed called from nashville at about 8:00 on the sunday night. she told him she would be running out for a few minutes, but would call him back, as soon as she returned home. two hours ...

Among the first witnesses was ed. linda one-time fiancée. he described his last call with a limb. her call waiting beeped as she put him on hold. she said it was her ex husband clifford on the other line. asking her to come over to his house and pick up some money he owed. >> so when you hung up with her, that was the last time you ever spoke to her? >> that is correct. >> what did you do when you didnt hear from her? >> i tried to call her, and did not get through. and -- >> did you call her? ...

Few in the disappearance of lynn. the missing mother of a five year old boy seemed to have gotten in her car on a rainy sunday night and never come home. lynns friends and fiancée fred pleaded for help. >> all i want is lynn back, i want to marry her and take her away and live happily ever after. >> they handed out flyers and search the residential area where her car was found abandoned. >> honestly, i was very afraid. >> a town house she left with a tv still on. ed an investigator assigned by ...

>> at age 68, he didnt like the prospect of years in jail, he chose the door marked operation. allen limped into court with a certain bravado. he passed by his former friend clifford, moments away from telling his version of that fateful night 20 years before. he testified when he went to cliffords house, the son christian, who was supposed to be spending the weekend with his father was not there. it turned out clifford had dropped the boy off at a babysitters. and then allen said he right away ...