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>> we did look at lynsies mother. you have to. >> so i made my cookies and all this kind of silly stuff that i always do. >> reporter: make some coffee, right, yeah. >> yeah. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: the house nancy and lynsie had once shared was torn apart. how much of a suspect was nancy? >> i dont know tha...

Lynsie struggled with her own disabilities. her left arm was paralyzed, her left leg impaired. did she ever talk about how she became disabled? >> she had brought it up to me and said that she was in a car accident and that she was thrown. and when she was a little girl, but very, very -- just like matter of fact. just didnt -- not poor me or not feel sorry for me or anything like that. >> reporter: but growing up, lynsie needed so much care. her mother nancy was with lynsie like her shadow. >> ...

Suspected me. >> so why were police at a dead end. enter this guy. >> he sees things other cops dont see. >> phenomenal. >> they call him the evidence whisper her. >> you wont believe how. >> you walk out of there thinking. >> i hoped. i wasnt quite sure. >> told her mother everything. when the college student vanished, nancy thought she was at a sleepover. that wasnt the only thing she was hiding. it would take years for detectivings to uncover the truth buried in a pile of lies,

I mean, probably every place ive been with her would know that i was in there with her, okay? >> it was a very long, very long interview. >> reporter: friendly? >> no, no. >> i remember drilling down on him, because i really thought that he might know where lynsie 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 c...

And shes missing. >> reporter: marty, lynsies older friend who kept their relationship a secret and lied about his name. and chris -- >> reporter: and so larry sat down and read through the entire case file. all the witness statements. all the interviews. he did that for two years. >> here we go down this road again. >> reporter: he watched the february 2001 interview that police did with a very unhappy marty. doesnt it strike you as tremendously suspicious that marty would call after lynsie dis...

At your wits end at this point. >> yes. >> reporter: and the phone rings, and its a guy named marty. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: did you know a marty? >> no. >> reporter: as far as you know, did lynsie know a marty? >> no. >> reporter: marty told nancy that hed gone to pick up lynsie at school, but she wasnt there. he said he had money of lynsies that she needed for tuition. none of that made any sense to nancy. after lynsie goes missing, nancy, her mother, gets a phone call from a guy named marty? ...

By high school, there were girlfriends, even some boyfriends. and by the time she was 20, after so many years of mom and daughter being each others best friends and confidantes, lynsie began to keep some things in her life to herself, like where she was really headed one night in february 2001. does it make any sense that she would lie to you about what she was going to do that night? >> ive never known her to lie to me. but you dont know what you dont know. >> reporter: it was a friday night. l...

>> reporter: the supreme court has made it pretty clear, if someone declares that they want an attorney, the interview is supposed to stop until one can be hired or provided. but in this case, larry was walking a line, believing that asking for a lawyer isnt the same as wondering if you need one. corinne loomis was watching from another room. thats about as close as you can get to the "i want a lawyer" line without actually crossing the line. >> saying that i want it. right. >> reporter: were yo...

Had asked to be dropped off right here. chris said he then drove home, and police even found a photo from a bank atm of what looked like chriss truck heading north on the right street at the right time. to the cops, chris story added up. and that was when police learned matthew and chris were not the only men in lynsies life. there was someone else whom 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 t...

Want to know if the cops had the goods. and then, maybe hed have something to say. >> since you are under arrest, i will advise you of your rights, which ill do in a moment. and after that what id like to do, is id like to explain to you everything. >> reporter: larry read chris his rights. and then, before chris could really respond, larry laid out his case. he said he knew chris had never dropped lynsie off that night because he said that the atm photo, that at first fooled investigators, actu...