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Tonight, new details about the surprising tactic used by police and her parents, led to the arrest of laura wallens boyfriend. Heres abcs linsey davis. Havent slept, we havent eaten, were just looking. Were praying that your safe. Reporter a boyfriends tearful plea for the return of his girlfriend, four months pregnant with his child. I dont know where she is. Thats all. I dont know. Reporter one week earlier, 31yearold laura wallen, a beloved High School Social studies teacher, had gone missing. Laura, if youre listening, doesnt matter what type of trouble. Theres nothing we cant fix together. Reporter what tissier didnt know is Maryland Police suspected laura was already dead and he might be the killer. Police staged the press conference on monday hoping tessier might give away revealing details. It was a very calculated decision to ask him to be a part of that press event. Reporter in on the setup, lauras own family. Her mother even holding tessiers hand. He is a monster. He is a liar. It was absolutely the hardest thing that my wife could do, to sit next to him and hold his hand. Reporter two days later, police would find lauras body buried in a shallow grave in a field belonging to a friend of tessiers. Autopsy was done on the victims body and it was determined that she had, in fact, been shot in the back of the head. Reporter and just hours later at 5 30 p. M. This afternoon, tyler tessier, mrs. Wallens boyfriend, was arrested for her murder. Since ms. Wallen was reported missing by her family nine days ago, weve determined that mr. Tessier was the last person known to have been with the victim. Reporter according to the police investigation, laura was last seen alive on september 2nd at a Grocery Store near her home with tessier. Texts she sent helped police piece together other crucial details about just what happened on that day. Tyler has me on an adventure in the country, dont know why im here but its for something, im waiting in a field. Lauras sister texted her to take a picture. Two Days Later Police say lauras sister got suspicious Text Messages from lauras home. Im like 95 sure tyler is not the father, im going to try and get a hold of atoine. Her sister says laura hadnt spoken with her exboyfriend antoine in two years. And that his name was spelled incorrectly. Certainly laura knew how to spell the name. The text spelled the name wrong. Jimmy stranger still, lauras family says from the beginning of her pregnancy she said tessier think it was the father. Police now think it was he who sent those texts, not laura. Its pretty unlikely a woman is going to send out Text Messages describing the fact that she really doesnt have any idea who the babys father is. And thats going to resonate with females on the jury. The fact that he was trying to text her to give the family some indication that she was okay, certainly was an indication to us that he was trying to take us off the track of this investigation. Reporter according to t eche tessiers arrest warrant, the same morning of those texts lauras drivers license turned up near the dumpster of an apartment complex parking lot. Three days later the property manager contacted the police after recognizing the photo from a missing person post on facebook. Police then found lauras 2011 ford escape in that same parking lot. This footage captured by cbs station w jayz. But the front license plate was missing. Somebody wanted her trail to go cold. Someone did not want her car to be identified or found. Someone wanted to hide evidence. Reporter throughout the week, tessier was questioned several times, always sticking to his story he last saw her alive on september 4th. Police say he provided conflicting statements about other details and during the last interview, police say he made several critical admissions. One was the fact that he, in fact, took the front license plate off of her car. He admitted that he threw her drivers license and her cell phone in a dumpster. He gave us an excuse that he was trying to help her because he said that she was going up to confront an exboyfriend, which was a lie. Reporter with suspicion growing, the police stage that press conference. Theres so many people, so many people that miss you. You put the suspect in front of a camera because hes going to talk. And he may inadvertently Say Something or present something in a way that you know is not true. Reporter but it was lauras last text to her sister that helped lead police to this field. Tessier also told police he visited multiple times since laura went missing. Our search team did search the perimeter of those entire woods and at some point noticed tire tracks that went into an area of the woods and follow and thats what led them to the area where we recovered her body. Reporter police say they still dont know tessiers motive but there may have been another woman in his life that laura may have known about. Days before she went missing, she texted the alleged other woman saying, in part, i would imagine if you were in my position youd want some answers as well. Just looking for an explanation woman to woman. The story of a possible love triangle gone tragically wrong. Strikingly similar to Laci Petersons murder in 2002. The 27yearold, 7 1 2 months pregnant, went missing on Christmas Eve and made National News headlines. A california man is anxiously waiting to hear word on the mysterious Christmas Eve disappearance of his pregnant wife. Reporter her husband scott quickly became a person of interest, giving this interview to abcs diane sawyer. Are you Afraid Police will arrest you . No. I know there is theres no basis. I mean, i had nothing to do with her disappearance. So theres no possible evidence or anything like that. Reporter soon scotts girlfriend, amber frey, comes forward. Scott told me he was not married. We did vroman tick relationship. Reporter Scott Peterson was given the death penalty. And is currently appealing his sentence. Tyler tessier is now also behind bars, arrested wednesday. Hes charged with lauras murder, destruction of evidence, and providing false information. His bond has been denied. And hes not yet entered a plea. In this jurisdiction, it will all boil down to, was the baby viable . At the time of the homicide . If the baby was viable, this is a double murder. If not, just one premeditated malice murder. Reporter tessiers public defender did not return requests for comment. As for lauras family, theyre now left mourning the loss of two lives. God did not give us the miracle that i asked for. But he did give us a miracle nonetheless. We have our daughter back. Reporter for nightline, im linsey davis in new york. 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I think for any country its important to understand what your past, and cambodia has a beautiful, ancient, thousands year old glorious past, but also a past that has war and genocide. And so i felt that it was really important, this country i love so much, to discuss. Reporter the film a passion project nearly two decades in the making. She first visited cambodia while filming lara croft tomb raider. Thats when she stumbled on a memoir by luang ang. 17 years later shes teaming up with a cambodian producer to bring the story to life. A heartwrenching account of one of the darkest chapters of cambodias history. Over four years of terror under the khmer rouge. Families forced into labor camps. Millions displaced. Onequarter of the population died. The genocide considered one of the worst mass killings of the 20th century. The most vulnerable at the heart of this film. Why is it helpful to see this through the eyes of a child . Through your eyes . I think people sometimes, when they talk about genocide and crimes against humanity and war, they forget that the most vulnerable victims in all of this are the children. Reporter the perils of war front and center. The level of sacrifice that a mother, a parent, is willing to make. I take it that speaks to you . So many people have experiences like that. They do thins for their kids, they sacrifice for their children, they sacrifice for those they love. Those people may never understand the sacrifice. Reporter a mothers love also manifesting itself behind the cameras. I was blown away by maddoxs role in this. I didnt realize he speaks multiple languages. Hes learning all those things. Hes learning. Yes, languages is something hes surprisingly good at. He speaks french with him, not with me. Reporter the 42yearold actress and humanitarian adopted her oldest son maddox from cambodia. The 16yearold also served as an executive producer on the project. When i see him on set working with everybody, when he says to me, well, mom, its because im cambodian. I say, are you proud . He says, im very proud to be cambodian. You talk about adopting. Its more than adopting. Angelina jolie did not come to see us, she come to be with us. Youre getting emotional. Yeah. Its enough. You began your family there. I met maddox, i felt connected to the country. When i saw his eyes are imy i met him. Hes quoted as saying youre a wonder mom. He is. Hes you know. You just love your children so much. And youre just happy that they think youre doing an okay job. Reporter and like most moms, shes been juggling a lot. Four years after going public about her voluntary mastectomy and hysterectomy, she recently reveal the she struggled with hypertension, early menopause, and bells palsy. Part of the reason why you have fans in so many sectors of the world is youre so approachable. Youve been very open about your health issues. This is where you swing to the personal . This is a segue . Just a little bit. Its also true, people are concerned about your health issues. How are you doing . How is the recovery . Im fine right now. You are . Yeah, im fine right now. My children are healthy, im healthy. And thank you. Reporter jolie refusing to go deeper. Choosing instead to focus on the film. Youve done a number of movies about war. Am i a prisoner . In the land of blood and honey. Unbroken. Dont look at me. What have they taught you, if anything, about the human cost of war . I think its important to understand history. When you direct a film, you spend years understanding, analyzing. I want to know what happens. I want to know how people get to a place where they do such harm to each other. Reporter the human toll of those bloody conflicts, she says, now morrell than ever. This is not 40 years ago, this is today. We have 45 Million People displaced today. We have so many ongoing wars. Were seeing ethnic cleansing. What is worse is then we could say, if we knew. If we knew, we would have done so much. We know. If anything, we see people more divided, see people encouraged to board up and roll up and divide more. We do not see people coming together. Reporter shes hoping this film will help remind us all to never forget those lessons of history or the resilience to move beyond. For nightline im juju chang in new york. And next, the catcher in the rye is an american classic. But who was j. D. Salinger, the man behind the masterpiece . Endless shrimp is back at red lobster. And we went all out to bring you even more incredible shrimp and new flavors. Like new Nashville Hot shrimp, drizzled with sweet amber honey, and new grilled mediterranean shrimp finished with a savory blend of green onions, tomatoes, and herbs. Feeling hungry yet . Good, cause theres plenty more where these came from. Like garlic shrimp scampi, and other classics you love. 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Reporter the catcher in the rye, considered by so many to be an american masterpiece, has sold over 65 million copies. Yet the man behind it is still an enigma. Inspired by salingers perseverance after world war ii, actor, writer, and cocreator of the hit show empire, danny strong, making his directorial debut, found surprising revelations in his subject. I didnt know salinger had gone to war. I didnt know about his religious awakening. Reporter the film chronicles salingers struggle with ptsd after the war, leading him to discover meditation. That was a huge part of him being able to write again, also trying to find peace from all the horrors he saw in war. Reporter nicholas hoult, at 12 in about a boy, ploys the tortured writer. I write short stories. Really. Have you been published . What surprised you the most . The war part of his life i knew nothing about. Landing on dday. Him coming back and finding religion. The thing i found most inspiring was his dedication to his art and his willingness to write. Are you willing to devote your life to telling the stories, knowing that you may get nothing in return . Reporter kevin spacey plays salingers writing teacher here at Columbia University in new york city where salinger found inspiration and stability. Did he have a good experience here . Yeah, he had a great experience here. It was really transformative for him. He was a troubled student. Dropped out of multiple colleges. Then when he got here, his instructor after a semester started to transform him. Holden caulfield deserves an entire book. All on his own. Reporter salingers creation, holden caulfield, would go on to become one of the most iconic characters in literary history. But the intense public scrutiny brought on by the success of the catcher in the rye pushed salinger further into a reclusive state. After having inhabited this role, do you have a sense of why he took himself out of the mix so thoroughly for the last 50 years of his life . I mean, its big speculation, again. I think to be able to walk away when youve reached a level of success like that is extremely bold and noble thing in many ways. How do you think hes feel about this movie . Hed hate this movie. Hed never want to make a movie out of him and hed have sued the hell out of me. But i think hes a major historical figure. His life is worthy to be explored. Reporter for nightline, im dan harris in new york. Rebel in the rye is in theaters now. It was benjamin frankly who said, either write something worth read organize do something worth writing. Thanks for watching abc news. As always wore online at abcnews. Com and our youre about to watch some folks experience what could be the most important halfhour of their lives. Will they rise to the occasion and leave here filthy rich . 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