to the police and soon on the scene then detective sergeant carlos mendoza. >> this has not happened and especially people known as well as dee dee is. >> reporter: and what detectives found in their initial search of dee dee's only only deepened the mystery. in the kitchen, her purse. her cell phone still inside but no wallet. a vodka bottle that police learned was usually kept in the freezer was out on the counter. and in the living room, the tv was on cnn. >> we discovered that whenever she left the house she would always put the tv on to a classical music station so it would relax the dogs but it was on cnn when we came into the house. >> reporter: so many dee dee was watching cnn, had the dogs there, was having a drink, and then left for some reason? suggesting kind of whatever happened, happened in a big