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reporter: a trail dotted with chilling discoveries. come take a look at this! i reached down and i noticed some rope sticking out of the ground. there s blood wiped across here. reporter: and a threat you had to hear to believe. you deserve to die for your lies. it s your last and final warning. reporter: this is a very disturbed individual. yes. reporter: who was on that tape? and where was michelle? this case is not over and it s not going to be over until we get her home. reporter: they re watching us. they know where we are. how we shop. how we play. what we do. who we love. electronic eyes, the sticky-pixeled fingerprints follow us almost everywhere. and the weird, fractured personal diary they write remains forever. of course it s meaningless, most of it. meaningless, that is, until it s not. until it s terrifying. the san francisco bay. may 27, 2011. 6:55 p.m. a young nursing student named michelle le walks across a footbridge from her train ....
of course, it s meaningless, most of it. meaningless, that is, until it s not. until it s terrifying. the san francisco bay, may 27, 2011. 6:55 p.m. a young nursing student named michelle le walked across the foot bridge from her training hospital to the parking lot. she is not supposed to be here. for reasons unknown and without permission she has left her post at the hospital. here she walks to a white honda cr-v just out of camera range. then 7:17 p.m. here is michelle s honda leaving the garage, but why? why then just an hour or two before the end of her shift? good questions. questions about to engulf a whole family. why that day couldn t she have stepped out and gone to another campus that day and avoided this whole thing? why did it have to have to our family? why did it have to happen to michelle? but it did. much of it recorded, as you will see by those electronic beep, bites and pixels. just enough to make it a truly puzzling mystery, enough to not quite k ....
rage. you deserve to die for your lies. it s your last and final warning. what happened to michelle? this case is not going to be over. a threat a voice seegting with heat and rage. what happened to michelle? this case is not going to be over until we get her home. i m lester holt and this is dateline. they re watching us. they know where we are. how we shop, how we play, what we do. electronic eyes. they follow us almost everywhere. and the weird fractured personal diary they write remains forever. of course, it s meaningless, most of it. meaningful, that is, until it s not. until it s terrifying. the san francisco bay, may 27th, 2011. 6:55 p.m. a young nursing student named michelle le walks across a foot bridge to her parking lot. she is not supposed to be here. for reasons unknown and without permission, she has left her post at the hospital. she walks to her honda crv, just out of camera range. 7:17 p.m., here is michelle s honda leaving the garage. ....
her. they were able to do what a lot of other families have never been able to do. next messages, security monsters, surveillance video. were they signs she was trapped, reaching out for help? one of the things i was so angry about was that nothing made sense. moment by moment, dateline was there for every turn. there s blood wiped across here. was she missing or murdered? was this the key? i will take your life and hers. a threat, a voice seething will hate and rage. you deserve to die for your lies. it s your last and final warning. what happened to michelle? this case is not going to be over until we get her home. vanished. hello, i m craig melvin. walking out of her shift was so unlike michelle. investigators followed an electronic trail of chilling clues but someone kept putting up digital roadblocks. here here s keith morrison. they re watching us. they know where we are. how we shop, how we play, what we do. electronic eyes. they fol ....
lester holt (voiceover): moment by moment come take a look at this? lester holt (voiceover): dateline was there for every turn. there s blood wiped across here. was she missing, or murdered? lester holt (voiceover): was this the key? (recorded) i will take your life and hers. lester holt (voiceover): a threat, a voice seething with hate and rage. (recorded) you deserve to die for your lies. it s your last and final warning. lester holt (voiceover): what happened to michelle? christine: this case is not going to be over until we get her home. i m lester holt, and this is dateline. [theme music] narrator: they re watching us. they know where we are, how we shop, how we play, what we do, who we love. electronic eyes; the sticky pixel fingerprints follow us almost everywhere. and the weird, fractured, personal diary they write remains forever. of course, it s meaningless, most of it. meaningless, that is, until it s not, until it s terrifying. the san francisco bay, may 2 ....