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at school. >> i called all the girlfriends. >> the clues an email to her husband and a secret she was reluctant to share. >> kind of a bombshell, heather was possibly seeing another man. >> what was really behind her sudden disappearance? that would be the most mind-blowing twist of all. >> do you think that heather would still be alive? if she hadn't gone through this transformation? >> gosh. welcome to dateline, heather, took -- a motivational teacher, had shed pounds and her past. she was starting to live the life of what she dreamed. and suddenly she vanished. here is andrea cann...

>> did you hide her? >> i wish. >> did you drive to see heather that night? >> no. >> were you with heather that night? >> no. >> did you have anything to do with her disappearance? >> no. >> ed told police he was at home, far away in eastern tennessee. and revealed that despite those steamy spect e texts, he and heather hadn't actually seen each other in person if years. >> we had discussed seeing each other. i guess it would have been well about another month. >> ed insisted to police he had into idea where heather was, but he did give them a big clue. he told investigators, in fact, he spok...

>> i called her, she answered. and immediately i could hear kind of arguing. >> ed said he we heard a man's voice in the background during that call. but who's voice was it? he's been acting more and more like his dad. come on, guys! jump in! the water's fine! tom pritchard. how we doin'? hi, there. tom pritchard.

Relationship with heather went back decades, long before heather married krichls ed says he and letter met in 1993 when they were both teens living in florida. ed remembers they fell fast for each other. >> it was young love. they say you don't know what love is. but i do. >> ed said they dated for two years before he moved away. but that puppy love was something he never got over, even after heather married. >> were you still carrying that torch? >> yeah. but i didn't really let it show. i respected heather too much. >> around heather's birthday in the spring of 2013, after she had lost all t...

Never made that call and there was more. ed told detectives he was surprised by the first question he was asked when initially contacted be i by the police. >> detective kemp, he said, is your girlfriend there? and i said, yes, she's in the back yard. he said, good, okay, so heather's okay? i said heather's not my girlfriend, she's a friend of mine. we've been friend for 20 years. >> if heather and ed weren't an item, what was going on? >> the detective wanted to hear from you immediately once they learned the name? >> yes, oh, yeah, with understand they knew who i was. >> you were an importan...