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There with her, okay. >> 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 lynsie was. >> youre a parent? >> yes. >> how many kids do you have? >> two. >> if you had a kid vaporized, vanished 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 familys had their share of hardshi...

Was your truck. it is not. matter of fact, your truck did not go by that night. it wasnt there. >> reporter: he told chris about the credit card statement and how he found someone who remembered chris working on the job site. >> all of a sudden, big red flags. you are working. you are up there when you said you were not. and he said you dont work on saturday. and you disappeared on a saturday morning. none of your credit card usage up there is on any weekends, all on week days except for the day...

Chris anger issues with previous girlfriends, larry summoned up a little empathy to draw chris in. >> i know you have the ability to be angry, but i dont know what would cause her to get you that angry, or what she could have done. >> reporter: 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? >> reporter: larry finished talking. he was hoping chris would give it up. >> i think i...

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 once shared was torn apart. >> 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. >> reporter: after that search, they did just that. they believed this anguished mother had nothing to do with the disappearance of her d...

>> 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 bring a jacket that day. and i held little hands up on my shoulder and a sweater come up around me and i turn ar...

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. >> reporter: it was a friday night, lynsie was in college part time and working, but still li...

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 normal as she could be. >> reporter: by the time kim met lynsie, her dad and brothers moved away. kim remembers a tight fami...

This man has made a career of noticing what others do not. what is his reputation? >> meticulous investigator. just pours over the volumes of evidence and finds things that other investigators do not find. >> reporter: the evidence whisperer. >> correct. >> that night i went out dancing. >> reporter: does this man act guilty? does he know more than hes saying? >> i didnt know anything was going on. all right. i just heard lynsie. >> reporter: what about this man? can you believe the story hes te...

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. >> everybody knows him by her friend. >> reporter: nancy had no idea lynsie was friends with any older man. she was about to find out. two days after lynsie vanishes, you get a phone call. >> yes. >> reporter: youre pretty much at your wits end at thi...

Believing that, i dont know, god is in the detail, but guilt is in the details. >> and innocence. >> reporter: guilty or innocent. was it marty or chris? larry even considered another possibility. could it have been random? someone who had seen lynsie at just the wrong time. >> so you got a bad guy just waiting, hoping that the girl drops out of a car at 4:25 in the morning. >> reporter: it happened. >> yeah. and you consider that but then weigh it and go, it doesnt -- is this a good possibility...