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night. >> reporter: but maybe an overly festive night. fran woke up sunday, sick as a dog. matt attended to her. >> he gave me a hot bath, brought me tea and a thermometer. >> reporter: he kind of showed you a tender side, huh? >> yeah. >> reporter: then matt, still playing nurse maid, phoned his mom. >> he goes, is there anything else i should be doing? no, it sounds like you were doing everything, matt. >> reporter: there were plans for a backyard barbecue later that afternoon for his parents. it would be a chance for fran to get to know matt's sister's boyfriend. >> he says, okay. he says, she's going to take a little nap. and then when she wakes up, we'll come over. and i told him -- told him like i tell all of my kids, i said, "i love you, matt." and he said, "i love you too, mom." >> reporter: matt offered to make a fast food run so fran would have something in her stomach, but she was
folding chairs and heavy metal. >> yeah, we don't belong here. >> not at all. >> reporter: the reviews were mixed. but, like most basement bands, they had dreams. >> we were just trying to write enough to get an album done. >> reporter: what was very fresh in matt's life was his first serious girlfriend, francesca, a waitress, and like matt, a lover of all things rock. >> the doors, the rolling stones, things like that. >> reporter: geyser rock? >> classic rock. >> reporter: music and movies. they devoured dvds, watching them over at friends' house. matt was the shy one. his girlfriend had to take the amorous initiative. >> i just kept inviting him over and he kept coming and one day he was like, "i might have to stay here." and i'm like "that's okay." >> reporter: doreen, did you know he had found a serious girlfriend? >> yeah. you know your kids. and when he would talk about fran, his face would just light
still hurting and waved him off. >> i was like, never mind, i'm not going to eat it anyway. >> reporter: as matt left to run some errands, fran snoozed, figuring matt would wake her in time for the barbecue. >> i woke up at 5:47 and i called him. he didn't answer, and i texted him staring at my phone waiting for him to refly and fell back asleep. >> reporter: she called him twice more. she remembers the exact times. 7:31 and 9:01 and got his voice mail. she was starting to freak. even six hours in, you thought something bad had happened. >> right because he always answers or calls me right back. so i started calling the police stations and hospitals. >> reporter: over at the landrys' barbecue, the salmon tasted great, but matt and fran were no-shows. still, no one thought twice about it. >> i knew she was running a fever, and you don't really feel like doing much, especially, you know, going over to parents' house. >> reporter: meanwhile, matt's friends were getting as worried as francesca. the band mates were used to texting and calling one another almost hourly, and matt had gone