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Mother. we have to. >> so i made my cookies and all this silly stuff that i always do. >> reporter: and some coffee. >> 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 that nancy was on the radar for a long time. she was ...

On the right street, at the right time. 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 who 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 bhy. >> as her friend? >> yeah. >> reporter: nancy had no idea lynsie had any friends who were an older man. you get ...

Girlfriend. nothing. >> reporter: they thought perhaps chris should move to the top of the list. but it was not evidence. chris was free to leave and detectives werent any closer to learning what happened to lynsie, and neither was nancy, who remained convinced her daughter would one day just come home. you thought one day she would walk back through the door? >> yes. >> reporter: she believed it because she wanted to, and because over the years, several people had told her they had seen lynsie....

Corner. >> any idea on your point which of those two was a more likely suspect? >> no. i dont know until i get into it and see the details. >> reporter: youre aware that you have a reputation for believing that -- i dont know if god is in the details, but guilt is in the details. >> or innocence. >> reporter: was it marty or chris wom chris? larry even considered, could it have been random, someone who had seen lynsie at just the wrong time? >> so youve got a bad guy just waiting, hoping that a ...

>> reporter: she introduces you to this guy chris. did he say hello? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: did he have good manners? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: but nancy said something was wrong. it was a struggle to let go, but she did. >> the last thing i said to her was, remember your seatbelt. she looked over her shoulder and said, back at you, mom, love you. >> reporter: nancy locked up the house and went to bed. lynsie was supposed to call but when the call never came, nancy found out that lynsie never sho...

♪ >> narrator: her daughter was missing. nancy ekelund began handing out flyers and counting the days without lindsay, ticking them off on little post-it notes. she went to talk with the detective of the plascencia police department. nancy wanted carinne to know about her lindsay, how nancy always knew where she was, how they were best friends. it was a speech she had heard before. >> it is typical with a lot of parents or family members when they report a missing person, sometimes they give y...

♪ it was october of 2010, nine years after her daughter disappeared. nancy ekelund was still waiting and doing what she could. she was now at 3,535 days without lynsie. miles away larry montgomery was tightening the noose around chris mcamis. larry had recruited a motorcycle cop from a nearby town to go undercover. >> they needed a police officer who looked like a college student and didnt have the mannerisms of a police officer. >> spring sandelli was that officer. >> how were you dressed? ...

>> i dont know. >> but you put it aside. >> mm-hm. >> of course nancy was used to things feeling wrong. shed 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 seat belt. and she looks over her shoulder and says back at you, mom, love you. thats the last thing she said to me. >> nancy locked up the house and went to bed. the next day, lindsay was supposed to call after she was done tutoring two girls from the ne...

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 you have that ability to get angry, but i dont know 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 was hoping chris would give it up. >> i think i need...

And by the time she was 20, after so many years of mom and daughter being each others best friends and confidantes, lindsay began to keep some things 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. >> it was a friday night. lindsay was in college part time and working but still living at home. she told ...