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Should move to the top of the list but it was not evidence. after the interview chris was free to leave and detectives werent any closer to learning what happened to lynsie ekelund and neither was nancy who remained convinced her daughter would one day just come home. >> you thought that one day she would walk back through the door? >> yes. >> she believed it because she wanted to and because over the years several people had told her theyd seen lynsie. >> they never saw the front of her face, t...

Learned a key fact. marty had actually participated in those early searches for lynsie. >> you eliminated marty fairly quickly then? >> yes. >> martys behavior matched up with that of an innocent person, not with a guilty one? >> thats correct. he is doing exactly what you would do if you were looking for lynsie. he was searching. >> so larry montgomery turned his attention to chris mccanus, guilty or innocent? chris was the last person known to be with lynsie. he told police he drove straight h...

Police do it all the time and its legal. in fact, larry had tried to find lynsie up at the construction location where chris had worked and he had gotten some interest from cadaver dogs but nothing more. just down the street from chriss house bryce angel of the placentia p.d. who was assigned to work with larry was listening and keeping an eye on the action. >> youre watching him as the interview happens on the front doorstep. >> yes. i was sitting ten houses down watching the reporter or under ...

Lynsie ekland had been killed before anyone had realized she was missing. chris says she drove up to the work site and used a skip loader to dig a hole. he held on to the body for a few days, and 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 wasnt any happier because of it. >> after the confession, detectives left chris in the interview room with another detective to watch him, and chris simply...

You know if im going to get the death penalty for this? >> youre going have to ask them those questions. >> then larry came back, all was meticulous. he wasnt done. he wanted that final detail. >> where approximately was it that you dug a hole to put her? >> where exactly chris had left lynsie? he explained to chris even though they had found their remains, the grave site shifted over the years from flooding. >> where the tractor was parked and exactly where you dug the hole. >> with the detecti...

>> correct. >> but when larry compared photos of chriss truck with the photos from the bank, he saw something no one else had noticed. the paint on the back of the side view mirrors on chriss truck was white. >> what about the truck in the photo? >> truck in the photo had a dark spot in the photo. so which means whatever mirrors were there, they were black. >> so its not the same truck? >> thats right, its not. >> suddenly chriss alibi had a big hole in it. larry moved on to chris history with w...

>> no. i dont know until i get into it and see the details. >> youre no doubt aware you have a reputation for believing that gods in the details but guilts in the details. >> and innocence. >> innocence. >> was it marty or chris. larry even considered another possibility. could it have been random, someone who had seen lynsie at just the wrong time? >> so youve got a bad guy waiting, hoping that a girl drops out of her car at 4:25 in the morning. >> it can happen. >> you consider that and weigh ...

Spot. >> its over in this vicinity. >> way out there or way over here. >> all the way to that brush. >> that brush over there? >> it took more than a day of bigging to find what was left of lynsie. first they found a shoe, then a jacket, then a bracelet. thats how nancy knew they had found her. the coroner confirmed it using dental records. >> the back of my truck was over here. >> two years after he confessed, chris has pleaded guilty to second degree murder. his sentence -- 15 years to life. y...

To the cops chriss story added up. and that was when police learned matthew and chris were not the only men in lynsies life. there was someone else both matthew and chris had mentioned to investigators, an older man who drove lynsie around. no one knew his name. they had heard lynsie refer to him as her friend. >> all anybody knows him by. >> as her friend? >> yeah. >> nancy had no idea lynsie was friends with any older man. she was about to find out. two days after lynsie vanishes you get a pho...

Off and we have enough to prove the crime. >> and knowing about chris anger issues with previous girlfriends, larry summoned up a little empathy to draw chris in. >> i know that you have that ability to be angry but i dont know what would cause her to get you that angry or what she could have done. >> chris didnt say much until a little body language revealed that larry was on the right track. >> was it a premeditated thing? i didnt think it was. so what did she do? >> larry finished talking? he...