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Woman, and bring answers to the mother who loved her. >> i was always proud of her. she was a real fighter. >> reporter: lynsie arrived on july 2nd, 1980, the youngest of three. maybe that fighting spirit isnt visible in her photos, but her mother nancy says it was always there. she had a passion for animals. she helped out in her spare time at a local shelter. kim davidson, who worked at lynsies middle school remembers she also had a sense of compassion. >> it was freezing cold and i didnt brin...

>> no. >> reporter: he said he had money that lynsie needed for tuition. none that have made any sense to nancy. >> nancy gets a phone call from a guy named marty. >> marty rossler. >> reporter: what does marty say to her? >> marty says hes befriended lynsie and hes concerned because he hadnt heard from her. >> reporter: what did you learn about marty rossler? >> marty rossler was not marty rossler. >> reporter: marty rossler was really marty predegenzer. he sdrntdidnt have a criminal d but he h...

To create a plan that works for you, visit cigna.com/mystressplan. cigna. together, all the way. 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. >> reporter: you look at the boyfriend, matthew. you look at marty, the older guy, the relationship nobo...

Of reaching her. >> no way. >> reporter: nancy was frantic. >> i started calling hospitals, i called the morgue, thats how desperate i was, to see if there was a jane doe in the morgue. >> reporter: there was no jane doe and there was no ekland. >> we had no unidentity bodies. we checked everything, we checked everybody, we checked everything. there was just no sign. it was just as if she vanished. >> where was lynsie? detectives uncover a secret, one the missing college student kept from just a...

Because i really thought that he might know where lynsie was. youre a parent? >> yes. >> how many kids do you have? >> two. >> if you had a child gone for eight days, 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 share of hardships, and this is just, you know, i mean, i feel so, you know, helpless. >> i dont think you are help...

You. >> the supreme court has made it pretty clear, if someone declares 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. >> reporter: were you holding your breath when he said that? >> yes. this was a make or break interview. if he didnt confess, he was going to walk again. >> "the nig...

Her daughter was missing. nancy ekelund began handing out flyers and counting the days without lynsie. ticking them off on little post-it notes. she also went to talk with a detective from the police department. nancy wanted them to know about her lynsie, how they were best friends. it was a speech the detective had heard before. >> sometimes parents give you the idea this is an idillic family life because theres a fear that if they dont paint a rosy picture, we wont look for them. >> reporter: ...

Nancy, no matter what version of events you believed. and police still werent telling her anything. nancy, during all this time, feels like shes been sort of cut out of the loop. >> yes. >> reporter: like youre not telling her anything, maybe youre not actually working on it. >> right. >> reporter: whatever you are doing, youre certainly not sharing it with her. >> nancy was pretty angry. we worked this case diligently for a long time. at some point you hit the wall. >> reporter: at the time, th...

Left leg impaired. did she talk about how she became disabled? >> she brought it up to me and said she was in a car accident and was thrown when she was a little girl. but very matter of fact, not poor me or not anything like that. >> reporter: but growing up, she needed so much care. her mother nancy was with lynsie like her shadow. >> somebody had to be with her 24 hours a day. >> reporter: that was you? >> yes. it was her and i alone. she was my only purpose. in my life, it was to make her as...

Name from this to this. 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 confidants, 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 she would lie to you about what she was going to do to you that night? >> i have never known her to lie to me. but you dont know what you dont know. >> repo...