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Matter what version of events you believe, and police still werent telling her anything. nancy, during all this time, feels like shes been sort of cut out of the loop. >> yes. >> like youre not telling her anything, maybe youre not actually working on it. whatever you are doing, youre certainly not sharing it with her. >> nancy was pretty angry. ree worked this case diligently for a long time. at some point you hit the wall. >> at the time there were nine detectives in placentia working drugs, g...

And where. but could he get chris to lead team the lynsie? heres josh mankiewicz. >> 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 mccanus. >> they needed a police officer who looked like a college student and didnt have the mannerisms of a police officer. >> spring sandelli was that...

>> but nancy said something felt wrong. >> i had a feeling about him. >> what feeling? >> i dont know. >> but you put it aside? >> uh-huh. >> of course, nancy was used to things feeling wrong. she had spent so many years worrying about lynsie. 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 she said, back at you, mom, love you. thats the last thing she said to me. >> nancy locked up the house and went to be...

>> no. i dont know until i get into it and see the details. >> youre no doubt aware you have a reputation for believing that gods in the details but guilts in the details. >> and innocence. >> innocence. >> 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 youve got a bad guy waiting, hoping that a girl drops out of her car at 4:25 in the morning. >> it can happen. >> you consider that and weigh ...

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 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 by. >> as her friend? >> yeah. >> 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 pho...

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

Off 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 that you have that ability to be angry but i dont know what would cause her to get you that angry or 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...

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 whisperer. hes about to crack this case before your eyes. and you wont believe how. you walked utof there it worked. >> i hoped. i wasnt quite sure. >> "the night lynsie disappeared. >> hello and welcome to det line extra. im craig melvin. a sheltered young woman who lived at home with her mother nancy. on the night she vanished lynsie had been ou...

The mother who loved her. >> i was always proud of her. she was a real fighter. >> lynsie ekelund arrived on july 22nd, 1980. she was the youngest of three. maybe that fighting spirit isnt visible in her photos, but her mother nancy said it was always there. lynsie had a passion for animals. she helped out in her spare times at the local shelter. kim davidson who worked at lynsies middle school remembers that she had a sense of compassion. >> i was freezing cold and i didnt bring a jacket that d...

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. >> reporter: 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. they always saw the back of her. and i held onto every word they said. >> reporter: her friend kim remembers how hard it was on nancy thinking lynsie had ju...