Leave town or something very differ deant happened . But with few clues hollywood detectives would stage a Dramatic Press Conference hoping to flush out a killer. I was just floored by what was happening. Hello and welcome to dateline. Aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sisterer, leslie fall eoed to support her. Then leslie went missing and aasha was desperate to find her. In a town built on can deception, police came up with a highstakes plan. And the stakes were high. Heres josh a sisters search. In the movies and on tv people can just disappear without a trace leaving family and friends with nothing more than memories, questions, and worry. In real life vanishing is morer a magicians trick than an everyday occurrence. Which brings house to cross roads where management and entertainment collide. Hollywood. The cops who roll down these streets call it holly weird because they know anything can happen here and sometimes what does happen makes no sense. Hollywoods a real place but its also a myth and the fantasy of what might be. Has always drawn the hopeful from every town in america a bus station. Quite Different Reasons it drew these two sisters, leslie and aasha. Maybe you recognize aasha davis. Shes one the lucky few for whom the hollywood fantasy came true. In 2007 she caught her big break on friday night lights. It. She was cast as waverly, the sharp as a tack preachers daughter. But just as her career was taking off a reallife drama began, one that would test her strength in a way the climb up the hollywood ladderer never had. Im here to plead for help to find my sisterer, leslie. She was used to facing the cameras but this wasntb for a set or a publicity tour. It was a News Conference where she begged for help from anyone who would listen. Were heart broken and extremely concerned for her well being. Any sisterer would be frantic with worry but they were closer than most, despite their gap in age. She was how much older . She was nine years older than me. And so she was a surrogate mom when your mom wasnt around . Yeah, almost like having nuthinger mom because my mom was a single mom and worked double shifts and leslie was in charge of us. She was a mama bear. Leslie always wanted thing as certain way, her way. She was definitely type a. Everyone knew if leslie was in charge, everything was just right. Even when you were younger, she would take me on dates with with her. Im sure they love that. But thats who she was. She made sure we were taken care of. She never stopped feeling responsible for aasha. And so a few months after aasha moved west, leslie followed. She found her sl an office job some ous would find boring but in it leslie found material for stories that kept her sisterer laughing. Shes so charismatic and a great story teller. She could take a tape dispenseer and create an amaze story. Right. The move west had been good for both sisters, especially for leslie after she met the right guy in an unlikely place, the 99b sent arer store. By the time we were ecwhiching out, he was giving her his number and i think they went to the movies afterwards. They were inseparable after that. His name was lisle hairing rr and he had a good job as recruit caner at a local university. His wooing of leslie was spent introducing her to hert new city. A court ship at warp speed. She called and said do you want do be a witness at my wedding . Im like youre getting married . And shes like wrau. Married less than a year after they met, they were happy together. They seemed a petty good match . Yes. She thought her oldest daughter had found, for her, the perfect man. They even dressed alike. The same jackets, sweaters, caps. And they were together all the time. All the time. It was funny about lisle. After the marriage, he became closer to leslies family than his own. Vivian felt it. He always told me he loved me more than his own mother and told me my family was better than his own family. You loved him like a son . I loved him like a son. As for leslie she was the mama bear first to aasha and then to her husband lisle. But it it was her own mother who lived across the country to whom leslie turned to comfort. And you talked to her almost every day . Every day. Quarter of 11 00 every morning on her way to work. And sometimes in the afternoon. How old was she . 45. And shes still calling her mom every day . In the morning so we could pray together. The shared daily prayers and they shared confidences. In fact leslie would talk to only her mother during those rare times when she was ticked off at lisle. Whenever she was unhappy, i would say to her, well, what do you expect . You met him in the 99 cent store. Soon enough aasha was married and in 2008 she and her husband jesse found out she was pregnantb with a boy. Leslie was so pited to have a nephew and she was so supportive. She threw my baby shower. She was go to get to see her little sister become a mom. The little boy joined the family in january 2009. And though aunt leslie was sick with a cold, she couldnt resist coming back to look in the window at her brand new nephew. Those should have been happy times a time of the family bonding with its newest member. But then aasha got a phone call from leslies boss that changed everything. Said leslie didnt show up for work yesterday and shes not here today, instantly felt wrong. The joy of new motherhood melted away. Tuesday, february 10th. Leslie missed two days of work and she hadnt called in sick. It was completely out of character for the always responsible leslie. I instantly called the two people who would know where shes at and thats lisle herring and my mom who she talks to twice a day. It her mom hadnt heard from leslie and now they realized lisled cannant be found either. 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Like you, your cells get hungry. Feed them. With centrum® multigummies. So you can be unstoppable. Now improved better tasting feed your cells today. When someone you love disappears, its hard to know what to do. There are no drills like for fires or earthquakes. No how to books. Aasha davis had a million questions and almost no answers. We were wondering if we needed to file a missing persons for both of them. We were nurbs what we would find in the apartment . What if they got robbed . They were always together during their marriage and now theyre both suddenly gone. Tid you think wherever they were they were together . Yes. They grabbed their new born son and headed to the Hollywood Hills to see what if anything they could find there. Leslies car is there in the assigned parking spot. All the sudden youre like shes here and not answering the phone. They went to the building to knock on lisle and leslies front door. She wondered if she might be sick inside but their knocking got no response. They waitd and they waited. They returned to the garage where they saw a man parking in the spot next to leslies we said hey, have you seen the woman who owns this arand says i havent seen her but i saw her husband yesterday. That was strange so they waited in their car by the front gate because if that neighbor was right, maybe theyd find lisle when he came home from work. I remember a few cars coming in and all the sudden a car that matched his description came in. But then the car turned away from lisle and leslies building. And we said i guess its not him. Aasha and jesse probably would have waited all night but they had a new baby with them so they headed home. Not first time she would have to balance being a sisterer andbying a parent. While all this is going on you have a brand new baby. Im thinking this may be just about impossible. I did not sleep at all. It was such an amalgamation of sadness and excitement. Its what kept us going is him. And they called the l. A. P. D. Aasha and jesse couldant get can into the condo but they could. Officers went inside and found nothing unusual and no lisle and no leslie. Aasha worked the phones. Friends and relatives knew nothing and she talked to lisles boss who said he thought hed seen lisle tuesday. Aasha decided it was time to nile missing persons report. We went to the Police Station and gave them a picture of leslie and the guy said thank you and put her picture can on a pile and it i mean in california im sure i dont know howmany people go missing, especially hollywood, in a day. A lot of people come here from somewhere else but their dreams dont always make out. They can lose touch with their families and suddenly the folks back home are calling the ops thinking theyre missing when theyre just lost in the meat grinder that is hollywood. Aasha desperately needed something that would make leslies case stand out. We went back to the arand thought i dont know where to go from here and the phone rang. And it was malcolm thomas. Malcolm thomas is lisle herring can cousin. He wanted to talk about a distraught lisle who he had also seen in the days after leslie missed work and said he almost seemed suicidal. He said dont bring up her name anymore. He doesnt want to hear about her anymore. Dud you think it was because she dump deed him or they were having a fight . I thought maybe there was a disagreement. People have disagreements. People split up for short period oz of time and get back together. And i said maybe shes just upset about something. Lisle thread way in his suv. Youre following lisle to his house. But he doesnt go straight to it his house, does he . No. As soon as we pulled in the driveway, he made a sharp left turn and that was different. Away from his home. They ended up in a remote garage underneath apartment complex. He opens up my back passenger side door. He got in the backseat, lows the door, slides down in the seat of the car and pulls my suit coat over his head. Hes hide sng. Hes hiding. I said dont to that in my car. Whats going on . And he said there are people at the end thodriveway he doesnt want to see or have them see us. And aasha suddenly realized. Thats you. It was us. And so we ran back the to the Police Station to and went back in and said we just talked to my sisters husbands cousin and he had a really frantic interaction with him. The policeman said wait a second. Im go doing ing to gt you guy db. Detective. Missing persons cases arent usually your department but this was different . This was different. A strange clue buried in a closet and inside their marriage something buried there too. She foundout about that. Yes. She was furious. She was furious. Yeah, yeah when accidents happen, resolve them. 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Asking police throughout sugt p Southern California to look for leslie and lisle. And he brought cousin in. Most are telling you the relationship is terrific. Malcolm is it the only one that sends up a red flag. Based on the conversation in the days after she was missing, yes. Whatever happened was beginning toing feel like foul play. And so at 3 00 a. M. , some 11 hours after first meeting aasha, they were in the condo, search warrant in hand. The paurmt was real telling to me about the two people that lived there. We didnt know much about them but it was almost like an apartment divided. Part thof apartment that was leslies, for example was very orderly, put together. And then there was a room that was lisles and it was like a tornado had been through it. But still no sign of a struggle . No. No blood . No visible blood. The only thing that caught my attention is a large amount of towels over the showers of both bathrooms and i made note i thought there was a flood or something they sauped up. Inside the apartment they saw spilled candle wax. If the ocd intenseb leslie had seen that, she would have cleaned it up right away. So did it happen after she left . And they found Something Else . A receipt from starbucks dated february 9th at 9 17 p. M. Flp that was the it first day leslie missed work. That receipt was in a purse in leslies purse inside of her closet. So presumably leslie who went toob starbaucks . Exactly. Night turned to day in hollywood. And it dawned on the detectives this may not have been a home oa happy couple. A visit with it it leslies mother vivian. That weekend they were feuding. Lisle had food and put a certain spice in the food. She asked what spice and he couldnt tell her. Vivian knew that certain spices triggered leslies debilitating migraines and leslie knew that this fight over spices was just the symptom oso much that was going on between mr. And mrs. Lisle herring. Things have not been good between your daughter and lisle . No, they had financial problems. To see these were financial problems is to understate what had been happenbing. Leslie told her that lisle needed cash badly, so badly that he had committed Identity Theft against his own wife. He forged her signature and took money from her credit cards. And she found out . She was furious. It turned out that for months leslie had been telling her mother she was nearing the end of her rope. Vivian cautioned leslie not to tell lisle she was think ogleaving. I said if you want to leeb, you cannot let him know what your plans are. Just leave. So dont tell him in advance . No. Dont leave a note . 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Had leslie simply hefleft her husband without a word to anyone . It seemed unlikely but then aasha was still in the process olearning about leslies marriage, how bad it really was, things leslie was apparently telling only her mother. I think she really wanted people to thing she had it together so she wouldnt tell us about the problems she had with lisle. Sglrs she always had taken care of you and on tv doing great and maybe she thought im not going to break her consen fragz a moment . Definitely. Out of protection, a little bit of of pride. So perhaps leslie was still alive somewhere and just keeping her head down. Its what vivian was hoping. I believed that leslie would go home. I went to sleep every night and imagine i could hear the door bell ring. I could imagine there were knocks at the door. I would imagine the phone would ring. She believed it because vivian knew something aasha didnt know, something she didnt tell the detectives right away that she had spoken earlier about some people who could help her just vanish. An underground. She mentioned going underground . Yes, she did. It d did she seem serious . Yes, she wanted to leave. As much as he kne