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Situated like in a medical clinic. >> reporter: it was a murphy bed that could be pulled down from the wall, with several chairs surrounding it. and then in an adjacent hallway they found the parts of another bed which had been disassembled. track marks on the rug suggested it had at some point been moved in and out of the white room. the rangers put it back together, and this is what it looked like. complete with railings and a kneeling bench at the foot of the bed. >> we needed somebody to hel...

Problem get in the pandemic >> between april and may of 2020, our numbers tripled. >> tripled >> yes. >> reporter: here in west virginia, the state with the highest overdose death rate in the country, cabell county was once the epicenter. is this what people around here are hearing all day? >> yeah. >> reporter: thats why local officials built quick response teams like this one, complete with a police officer, emt, treatment counselor, and faith leader so this is the quick response vehicle >> ye...

Streets and steal and rob for it. sometimes ive heard cases in here where the mother actually drives them to the spot where they pick up their heroin. thats why its a mamas boy drug for me. >> at 22 years old michael still have boyish looks but said he mother didnt pay for heroin and said she didnt realize he was shooting. >> hit the same spot about a hundred times. even my mom was -- my mom never knew i was doing heroin because i never left track marks. >> he said he started using heroin at age...

Stay with her. dont let her get any further into her addiction and try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said about the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. im like, wow. you know what i mean? were too pretty for that. we dont need to have all these marks and scars on our body. all the things i lost getting high. you know what i mean? its crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself. you cant do ...

Mom. i went through my dads inheritance. its taken a toll not only mentally but also on my arms and everything about me physically. thats pretty drastic, you know. >> thats a pretty big abscess you got from surgery. >> you could have lost your arm. >> yeah. i know you guys were staring at my arms like this girls crazy. >> i didnt think you were crazy. i was oh my god. honestly, im glad thats not mine -- >> dont look like this? >> yes. >> i shot all my arms, you can see here. i was shooting over ...

Then in july 2005, about five months after dan had first reported michelle missing, he got a call from a detective who had only recently been assigned michelles case. a detective named ida lopez. >> i thought ida being a police officer was awfully small. short lady. but other than that it seemed that, you know, that she was on the up and up and that she was doing -- doing what she could, in her power, and the time that she had to go out and -- out to the streets. >> reporter: it would become a c...

Mutual admiration. >> dan is a strong, quiet man. this is a man who absolutely loved his daughter no matter what. he didnt see her with the track marks. he didnt see her strung out. >> and he had no idea shed been arrested that many times. >> well, he did see her that way. but thats not the -- thats not what he saw in his eyes, or his heart. >> reporter: dan continued to cruise the war zone, willing himself to believe that his daughter was still out there. >> i thought she was alive and well and...

On frequent phone calls and mutual admiration. >> dan is a strong, quiet man. this is a man who absolutely loved his daughter no matter what. he didnt see her with the track marks. he didnt see her strung out. >> and he had no idea shed been arrested that many times. >> well, he did see her that way. but thats not the -- thats not what he saw in his eyes, or his heart. >> reporter: dan continued to cruise the war zone, willing himself to believe that his daughter was still out there. >> i though...

Power and the time that she had to go out to the streets. >> it would become a close working relationship based on frequent phone calls and mutual admiration. >> dan is a strong, quiet man. this is a man who absolutely loved his daughter no matter what. he didnt see her with the track marks. he didnt see her strung out. >> and he had no idea she had been arrested that many times. >> well, he did see her that way, but thats not -- thats not what he saw in his eyes or his heart. >> dan continued t...

Forward here. >> and don, also remember, he cant assert the privilege now for some of these cases. rudy giuliani and his team, especially on the cash versus check telephone conversation that was recorded, you can do that in a one-party-consent jurisdiction, they waived it. he already preempted the ability to do so, which is probably the most interesting strategy of all. to say, let it all out there. he has foreclosed some of his legal avenues as the president of the united states. >> dont think ...