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Her left arm was paralysed, her left leg impaired. >> did she ever talk about how she became disabled? >> she brought it up to me and said she was in a car accident and she was thrown when she was a little girl, but very, very, just like matter of fact. >> but growing up lindsey needed so much care. her mother nancy was with lindsey like her shadow. >> she was my only purpose, in my life was to make her as normal as she could be. >> by the time kim met lindsey, lindseys dad and brothers had move...

>> it was a very long, very long interview. >> friendly? >> no, no. i remember drilling down on him because i really thought that he might know where lindsay was. >> youre a parent? >> yes. >> okay. how many kids do you have? >> two. >> if you had a child gone for eight days, okay, vanished, vaporized in thin air, would your heart not be broken? >> oh, absolutely. >> do you not feel some compassion for nancy? >> unbelievable. i think this is a nice girl and, you know, this family has had their s...

>> narrator: nancy and lynsie had been together all lynsies life. now alone, nancy waited, ticking off the days, in the dark about where her daughter was and about the pace of the investigation. police were not keeping her in the loop. so nancy was delighted when they called to say they were coming to visit. >> you look at the boyfriend, matthew. >> uh-huh. >> you look at marty, the older guy, the relationship nobody knew about. he denies it. >> right. >> you look at chris, he says, i dropped he...

>> what feeling? >> i dont know. >> but you put it aside? >> uh-huh. >> narrator: of course, nancy was used to things feeling wrong. she spent so many years worrying about lindsay, it was a struggle to let go, but she did. >> the last thing i said to her was, remember your seatbelt. she looks over her seatbelt and says, back at you, mom, love you. thats the last thing she said to me. >> narrator: nancy locked up the house and went to bed. the next day lindsay was supposed to call after she was d...

>> narrator: there was no jane doe and no nancy eckland. >> most people that disappear, they come back within a couple of days. >> if not 24 hours, yes. >> is that what you thought would happen. >> i think we did. >> she was a detective with the police department. >> we had no unidentified bodies. >> you checked the er? >> we checked everything. we checked everybody, everything. there was no sign. it was as if she vanished. >> come ing up -- >> whens the last time you saw lindsay? >> a week ago....

End? enter this guy. >> he sees things other cops dont see? >> phenomenal. >> they call him the evidence whisperer. hes about to crack this case open before your eyes. >> the answer was in the details? >> it was right there. >> and you wont believe how. >> you walk out of there thinking, i spooked him, it worked? >> i hoped. i wasnt quite sure. hello. welcome to "dateline." 20-year-old lindsey eckland and her mother nancy told each other everything, or so her mother believed. when the college ...

Did not drop her off, and we have enough to prove the crime. >> and knowing about chriss 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 ...

Free to leave and detectives werent 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 theyd 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 fo...

Yeah. >> the cops werent coming for coffee. they arrived with a search warrant, shovels and cadaver dogs. >> i was shocked that they even suspected me. i didnt know what even a search warrant was. >> the house nancy and lynsie had once shared was torn apart. >> how much of a suspect was nancy? >> i dont know that nancy was on the radar for a long time. she was on the radar long enough to be able to set her aside. >> after that search they did just that. they believed this anguished mother had no...

>> yes. >> youre pretty much at your whits end. >> yes. >> the phone rings and its marty. >> yes. >> did you know a marty? >> no. >> did lynsie know a marty? >> no. >> marty went to pick lynsie up and she wasnt there. he had money for lynsies that she needed for tuition. none of that made any sense to nancy. >> nancy, the mother gets a phone call from a guy named marty. >> marty ross. >> what did marty say? >> marty says hes befriended lynsie. hes a friend of lynsies and hes concerned because he...