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Friends, mortgage executive cindy ertman and real estate sales partner linda dondareo. >> reporter: she was good at her job. >> i loved working with her. ives she always wanted the best for everybody and her clients were very loyal over the years. >> reporter: dee dee was loyal too. not only to her clients but as a divorced mom to her children mike and julie. >> i remember my mom explaining to me when i was about 10 years old, as you get older we probably will not be as close and you won't like me quite as much. it never happened. if anything, we just got closer. >> reporter: did you dee dee k...

Disappearance of realtor dee dee keller, all of l.a.'s south bay seemed to be looking for her. and for her missing mercedes. leading the search was her best friend cindy and linda. >> reporter: a lot of times people disappear, like you get the immediate family working on it and then everybody else is like, well. >> not in this town. >> she had an army. >> reporter: dee dee's daughter julie rushed back to l.a. from a trip to mexico. >> it was the most surreal experience. >> reporter: only to be greeted by suspicion. l.a. sheriff's deputy jimmy gates discovered in the event of their mother's dea...

Successful himself and didn't have a lot of enemies. >> reporter: and then even as investigators looked at suspects, came the news that all who knew dee dee had, at once, hoped for and feared, dee dee's car had been found. not at lax two and a half hours down interstate 5 in san diego. that silver mercedes-benz had been parked on this downtown street in san diego for days and earning it several parking tickets. when the local pd ran the plate it came up alonging to a missing person and when the trunk was finally opened there was a body wrapped in sheets covered by a blanket which was, itself, ...

Graduated college, that's when she started replacing us with dogs. she never stopped being a mom. >> reporter: she never stopped loving anybody? >> she never did. she was ready to embrace and embrace you whenever you wanted it. >> reporter: there was unarea of her life in which dee dee keller's honesty and embrace had not caught hold. your mom was so lucky and life was so easy in so many ways. she couldn't quite make the man in her life thing come out right. >> she had a wonderful life, but no, i guess she had not found that person. >> reporter: she did have a long-term relationship but that e...

Because had he were starting to think at that point how long could this go on? >> hardest days of my lirve and one of the hardest days for my children and all of her friends and her family. >> reporter: dee dee keller was dead at age 54. an autopsy showed she had been asphyxiated and the clues that were or were not left in her car were about to take this case back in a familiar direction. >> coming up. just days before she was murdered, dee dee had a visit from a stalker. >> she said that she was in the shower, kind of pulled her out of shower and she had this huge altercation. he was calling ...