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Upscale shopping mall in the town of plano. it was hopping. the group headed to a bar called henry's tavern, then closed down another called scruffy duffy's. at about 2 am, christina, steven, and a few others went back to the apartment where they'd started. >> reporter: how drunk was everybody? >> i mean, we were all pretty drunk. it was myself, i probably had ten to 12 shots and a couple beers when i was out. >> reporter: too drunk to drive, steven wanted to crash on the couch and sober up. but christina hadn't had much to drink at all and she just wanted to get home. it was now about 3:30 sa...

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...

People are people who genuinely want to help. >> there are. >> right. >> reporter: and some of them are just crazy. >> right. >> reporter: but no matter how crazy plano police checked out every tip every sighting. and they didn't find anything? >> no. >> reporter: reporters wanted to hear from christina's boyfriend hunter, who hadn't shown up for any of the searches. >> why can't we ask him just a routine sound byte? how do you feel? what is your hope? and to much insistence, he decides to come down and be interviewed. >> reporter: but when he sat down with nbc 5 dallas, he was a wreck. >> pre...

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 to restaurants. we talked to people. we walked the path that she possibly could've walked that night. >> reporter: and plano police were also hitting the streets. >> they began to cont...

>> 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. >> reporter: by early december investigators had thought he might have something to do with