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>> and yet it's the opinion of all her friends who heard her side of that conversation that they were? >> oh, yeah. the friends said she was upset to the point of even crying sometimes. she was so upset with hunter that she was tearful and upset. >> reporter: hunter told police he was out with friends in downtown dallas the night christina disappeared and 20 miles away from that mall in plano. but when cops pressed him for details, he was vague. and there was one more thing. hunter would not give up his cell phone. >> that's like wearing a sandwich board saying, "be suspicious of me." >> so it...

But since enrique was the last person seen with christina, police kept digging, even digging through the trash outside of enrique's home. >> what'd they get out of that? >> they saw several cleaning bottles that were empty, odor removing chemicals, bottles of that were empty. >> which could've been used by him on his car or somebody in the house. >> yeah. they're normal household cleaners, but the timing might be a bit suspicious. >> reporter: the trash runs continued. then in late september more than three weeks after christina disappeared, they found this. >> a post-it note written in spanis...

>> right. he figured she was with us or with her mom. >> reporter: hunter, who's living with her, doesn't say anything, doesn't call you? doesn't sound the alarm and call anybody? >> don't get me started. >> reporter: mark and anna continued to work the phones. eventually reaching christina's pal, steven nickerson. >> her dad had asked me if he had seen -- if i had seen christina or heard from christina. and i said, "no, and the last time i talked to her was, you know, saturday morning." and he asked me, like "who'd she leave with, and i told him it was enrique. >> and i'm like, "who's enrique...

>> reporter: investigators turned their sights back to christina's boyfriend, hunter. a week after she disappeared, hunter finally brought his phone into plano pd. but when forensic experts went through it, the questions for hunter did not fade away. >> some things had been erased. text messages, conversations, things like that have been erased. >> reporter: could you tell what he'd erased? >> we know he erased part of the conversation with him and christina, that that conversation was gone. >> reporter: police knew little for sure, but they strongly believed one or maybe both of these men was...

Down. >> you knew she was gone then? >> yeah. >> reporter: in september of 2016, almost two years to the day since christina had vanished, enrique arochi went on trial at the collin county courthouse charged with aggravated kidnapping. zeke fortenberry was the lead prosecutor. >> why not prosecute him for murder? >> we thought about that, and i believe he did murder her. the problem is we didn't have a body to show that and we didn't have a crime scene to show murder. it's probably the most difficult case i've ever tried. >> i'm here to give you the facts. and to tell you that on aug. 30th thi...