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Tremendously suspicious that marty would call after lynsie disappears, talk to lynsies mother, and give a phony name? >> if you didnt know the background of marty, absolutely. >> when i talked to the mother on the phone, i just gave her an identifier. okay. i mean, marty rossler, thats what i said. >> which is a lie. >> which is a lie. >> reporter: watching that interview, larry chalked up martys dishonesty as an attempt to save his marriage. >> i dont want my wife to be brought into this thing....

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. she didnt know it, but a few miles away, larry montgomery was tightening the noose around chris mcamis. larry had proceeded a motorcycle cop from a nearby town to go undercover. >> they needed a police officer that looked like a college student and didnt have the mannerisms of a police officer. >> reporter: officer spring sandele f...

Nancy ekelund began handing out flyers and counting the days without lynsie. ticking them off on little post-it notes. the pd brought in the usual suspects, like the boyfriend. >> when you guys were dating,

Very unhappy marty. >> doesnt it strike you as tremendously suspicious that marty would call after lynsie disappears, talk to lynsies mother and give a phony name? >> if you didnt know the background of marty, then absolutely. >> when i talked to the mother on the phone, i gave her an identifier, named marty resler, thats what i said. >> which is a lie? >> which is a lie. >> watching that interview, larry chalked up martys dishonesty as an attempt to save his marriage. >> i dont want my wife to ...

>> did she ever talk about how she became disabled? >> she had brought it up to me. she said she was in a car accident and thrown when she was a little girl but very, very just like matter of fact. not poor me or not feeling sorry or anything like that. >> but growing up lynsie needed so much care, her mother was with lynsie like a shadow. >> somebody had to be with her 24 hours a day. >> and that was you? >> yes. it was her and i alone. she was my only purpose. and my life is to make her as nor...

Actually proved chris wasnt there. >> it wasnt your truck, but for years it was thought of that it was your truck. its not. matter of fact, your truck did not go by that night. it wasnt there. >> 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 where you said you were not. he said you guys dont work on saturday. lynsie disappeared on a saturday morning. none of ...

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 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. lynsie was in college part ...

Should move to the top of the list but it was not evidence. after the interview chris was free to leave and detectives werent any closer to learning what happened to lynsie ekelund 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, t...

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 man named marty. >> marty ross. >> what did marty say? >> marty says hes befriended lynsie. hes a friend of lynsies and hes concerned because he hadnt heard from her. >> what did you learn about marty rosler? >> marty rosler was not marty rosler. >> he did have a criminal record, what he did have was a relationship with lynsie that he hadnt told his wife about. he tol...

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 corrine lewis from the police department. nancy wanted corrine to know about her lynsie, how nancy always knew where she was, how they were best friends. it was speech she had heard before. >> its typical with family members when they report a missing person, sometimes they give you the idea that this is an idyllic family life because i think theres a f...