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>> he was a family man, who didnt seem to have an enemy in the world. right up until, the night he was murdered. >> there was evidence of a violent struggle between jack and his killer. >> someone was keeping secrets and police thought they knew who. >> her -- was just scary. >> they thought they knew the motive to. but -- >> a matter of proving it was a different story. >> until someone found the perfect bag. >> hey, dude its me. you need to call me asap. >> could they set the perfect...

different story. >> until someone found the perfect bag. >> hey, dude its me. you need to call me asap. >> could they set the perfect trap? >> these people might literally get away with murder. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello, and welcome to dateline. jack jessee, who was a doting granddad and the patriarch of a large blended and by all appearances, loving family. but when he was stabbed to death in the southern california home, police wondered if the jessee werent quite as happy as the scene. th...

didnt seem to have an enemy in the world. right up until, the night he was murdered. >> there was evidence of a violent struggle between jack and his killer. >> someone was keeping secrets and police thought they knew who. >> her -- was just scary. >> they thought they knew the motive to. but -- >> a matter of proving it was a different story. >> until someone found the perfect bag. >> hey, dude its me. you need to call me asap. >> could they set the perfect trap? >> these people might...

Sputtered sandra leff. so jacks house here in california moved to arizona to be near her son tom, and soon her daughter followed to. and they all lived within a couple of blocks to each other in the home sandra helped percentage with sandras insurance money and savings. >> when everything was said and done, she got close to $700,000. and, as the month slip back, leads failed to connect the investigation hit one dead after another. and why it was promoted out of homicide. the case bounce from the...

And they all lived within a couple of blocks of each other in homes sandra helped purchase with jacks insurance money and savings. >> when everything was said and done, she got close to $700,000. >> reporter: and as the months slipped past, leads failed to connect, the investigation hit one dead end after another. wyatt was promoted out of homicide. the case bounced from the placentia pd to the orange countys sheriffs department, where before long it became a case to avoid, toxic, an unsolvable ...

In fact, larry had tried to find lynsie up at the construction location where chris had worked and he had gotten some interest from cadaver dogs, but nothing more. just down the street from chriss house, bryce angel of the placentia pd who had been assigned to work with larry, was listening and keeping an eye on the action. >> so youre watching him while this interview happens on his front doorstep? >> yes. i was sitting, you know, ten houses down watching the reporter or the undercover police o...

>> 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. they always saw the back of her, and i held on to every word they said. >> it was torture for nancy, no matter what version of events you believed, and police still werent telling her anything. >> nancy during all of this time feels like shes been sort of cut out of the...

Hammer right in front of one of his girlfriends because he thought the crab had killed one of his fish. >> this is a guy with some significant anger issues. >> it certainly appears that way. >> she told me it was from a car accident. >> larry listened to chriss interviews and caught him talking some of the time about lynsie in the past tense. >> hand was pretty much stuck like this. >> okay. >> then larry found something in the paperwork from placentia pd that proved chris mcamis had lied to the...

With "the light lynsie disappeared. >> by 2008 lynsie ekelund had been missing for seven years. the case had gone from cold to frozen in time, so the placentia pd decided to outsource the investigation to the cold case unit at the orange county das office to a guy named larry montgomery. with more than 30 years working homicide, larrys put away his share of bad guys, not usually by knocking on doors. instead, larry works by looking very closely at the evidence. he doesnt work fast. in fact, larr...

Found lynsies remains, that was a lie. police do it all the time and its legal. larry had gotten some interest from cadaver dogs, but nothing more. just down the street from chriss house, bryce angel from the placentia pd was listening and keeping an eye on the action. so youre watching him while this interview happens on his front doorstep? >> yes, i was sitting ten houses down, watching the reporter, the undercover police officer. once she left the area, we were in business. >> reporter: what ...