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A singularly stunning shore line with hermosa, rah donned dough and sand box. >> no one thinks this part exists but it does. >> reporter: this seaside playground is lined with beach-front properties worth millions and nestled among these small beach towns is an oasis. >> it's main street usa. >> a great place to raise kids. >> and in 2003 one of the rainmakers in the real estate business selling those beautiful homes in that area and the south bay was julia keller known as dee dee. >> she really just embraced everyone that came into her path. >> reporter: dee dee's best

She had begun dating a well-known south bay car salesman named bobby lowe. that new relationship was going so well that on the evening of thursday, july 8th, bobby lowe took dee dee out to dinner at this restaurant to meet his father. >> i talked to her before her date. >> reporter: any sign that she was nervous about anything? >> she was in a happy state when i talked to her and we had made plans to hopefully, get together the following night and so i could get an update on the date. >> reporter: but that conversation never took place. >> i called her on friday and she didn't call me back, wh...

Looked closely at the way dee dee's body had been placed in that car. >> someone took great care to place her in that car and that indicated to us that someone cared deeply about her. >> reporter: so part of this is professional and part of this is somebody who knew her? >> exactly correct. >> reporter: the suspicions that said professional soon fell away in favor of those that said someone who nup hknew her. not her children but someone who re-enter dee dee's life the months before her death. her ex-husband erwin howard. >> reporter: do you ever think of him as violent or dangerous? right. no...

Enterprise makes it easy. on a sun-splashed sunday in l.a.'s south bay, clouds were rolling in over one household. it was july 2004. elsa real estate agent keller known to the world as dee dee was missing. her son mike had gone to her home when he had not heard from her for three days. the biggest red flag? dee dee's beloved dogs left without food or water. what did you think it happened?

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...