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>> reporter: just after midnight, mark and anna raced to the garage with a spare set of keys. >> i opened the door, i looked inside, you know, the car was locked -- >> and it was just a mess. >> and it was a mess, just like she keeps it. >> reporter: but no bag, no wallet, no cell phone. >> the car was locked. and she never got in it. >> reporter: now, police had to play catch up. >> the plano police department had a disadvantage with the four-day delay start. >> reporter: zeke fortenberry was a prosecutor in the collin county district attorney's office. >> plano police department knew that it...

>> anything concerning the missing person case is obviously a plano case and so we are certainly here to help them in any way we possibly can. >> reporter: still, reporters wondered if police were telling the whole story. >> we didn't know if he was being maybe arrested for that federal drug charge and there was something there that might be connected to christina. >> just to get him into custody. >> just to get him into custody? we had no clue. coming up, investigators were starting to think they knew what happened to christina morris, but could they prove it? >> she was fighting for her li...

Bars. >> the bars were in an upscale shopping mall in plano. it was hopping. the group headed to the bar called henry's tavern and closed down another a called scruffy duffy. >> we were all pretty drunk. a couple of shots and beers. >> steven wanted to crash on the couch and sober up. but christina wanted to get home. it was now about 3:30 saturday morning. >> she wanted me to take her home. >> she wanted you to take her home. you say i can't. i had too much to drink. she said i want to go. >> she is stubborn. i'm not going to force her to stay. >> he said christina decided to drive herself ho...

>> yes. as a mom, i just couldn't believe that there's no way that -- there's no evidence that she didn't come out of this parking garage, that she had to still be here. >> reporter: jonni didn't find anything but she hoped maybe someone in the neighboring apartments heard or saw something. >> how many doors you knock on total do you think? >> oh gosh. 50, 100. >> reporter: christina's friends were searching the shopping center too. we walked the path that she possibly could've walked that night. >> reporter: and plano police were also hitting the streets. >> they began to contact all of the -...

Hunter for details about that night. >> you kept in touch with him. you stayed in contact. >>yes. if he was responsible, i'm going to keep that enemy closer, so i wasn't going to let him out of my sight. >> reporter: jonni wasn't giving up. neither was christina's stepmom anna. >> somebody's seen her. something is somewhere. we just need that little bit of information so we can bring her home. >> reporter: there were no witnesses and few leads but attention grew. plano police were leading larger and larger search parties, scouring the countryside. >> there was a lot of people from the communit...