and i just started crying like a baby. i just felt at a loss because i was so far from my wife and from carly, but it was -- it was devastating. >> whitney's father, newell, was on a church trip in mississippi, 1,000 miles away. now, someone had to tell their other daughter, carly, what had happened. the family pastor offered to make the call. >> he knew i was so heartbroken at that point it was hard for me to even talk to carly. >> as soon as i heard him i knew that it must mean that whitney wasn't alive. i remember just dropping the phone and just falling right there on the spot and crying. >> carly had rushed to marion, indiana, general hospital in hopes of finding out her sister was alive. now she was told whitney had been dead for hours. her body, just a few feet away. carly couldn't bear to look. >> i was too emotional to have