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that was it. lynsie eckland had been killed before 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. did 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. i finally you know, it feels better when you finally say what you were supposed to say, you know?
lynsie off at that corner. the last person to see her before she vanished, chris mccanus. in here. do you remember connie loomis? yes. april 2002, more than a year after lynsie went missing detectives decided to start over. they brought chris mccanus back to see if his story still held up. i really would like to think that lynsie has been like either abducted or something happened to her, i d really rather think that she s with friends or something like that. police turned up the heat. cut the bull and get down to the nitty-gritty. poly than mind all things in a perfect world i d like to focus. it s a possibility she s dead. right. police thought chris seemed
jeans on and just a little shirt. something that a college student would wear. were you armed? yes. and you were wearing a wire? yes. hi. are you chris? yes. hi. my name is nicole anderson. i m from the college sports magazine. officer sandelli was posing as a student reporter complete with a phony press pass. she knocked on chris s front door. chris had talked to a student reporter from lynsie s college in the past about the case. did you use your real name? no, i used a fake name. told him who i was. we received word at the college magazine that namremain had been found so i guess they re doing dna testing right now and in the meantime i m supposed to go contact friends, family to get their initial reaction for a story. okay. when i told them that the police believed they found lynsie s remains his demeanor
free to leave and detectives weren t any closer to learning what happened to lynsie eckland 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 they d seen lynsie. they never saw the front of her face, they always saw the back of her and i held on to every word they said. it was torture for nancy no matter what version of events you believe, and police still weren t telling her anything. nancy, during all this time, feels like she s been sort of cut out of the loop. yes. nancy was pretty angry. we worked this case diligently for a long time. at some point you hit the wall. at the time there were nine detectives in placentia working