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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

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bombs. obviously i am here to eat. director federico fognini's most famous son. it is his films that have given the world the iconic romantic image of italy. that persists today and casts italian as a fiery, passionate people driven by hearts and stomachs. >> child here was the inspiration for many of his dreamily surreal and unbearably sexy movies. i am meeting his niece, francesca. fognini's semiautobiographical

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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

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were tossed away that ended when police zapped the man from a taser gun like this one. when the jolts wore off and the man was back on his feet, lieutenant blarek recognized a familiar face, someone he had seen just recently on tv. >> he was standing right there, right in front of me in the walmart lot when i said, that's the bank robber. >> reporter: the same ice-cold bandit who had held a gun to 19-year-old sarah maynard's head and demanded money. >> give me $50,000 or i'll kill her. >> a violent suspect, involved in two things that we know of, and who knows how many others. >> reporter: could one of those other things be a missing person? just that day, the detective had become aware that doreen landry had reported her son missing to the police in roseville, where matt's girlfriend lived and he had last been seen. and lieutenant blarek knew something else. detroit police had just found the young man's car abandoned in a bad neighborhood. he wondered, did the walmart suspect now in his holding cell have an appetite for

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threatened at gunpoint. was there any connection? once again here's dennis murphy with "taken." bob and doreen, the parents of matt, the young man missing for the third day now, could only pray that he would walk in the door. the police told them, often kids go off like this, and it's something to do with drugs. the parents weren't buying it. >> didn't fit the pattern for matt. >> reporter: something innocent would explain matt's absence. >> i still had hope that it was something crazy. it was something, you know -- he'll show up. >> yes. something that we would laugh about. >> reporter: but just in case it wasn't that, matt's mother and girlfriend, after waiting the required 24 hours, went to matt's hometown police in chesterfield to get an official missing person case going. >> in the state here, just in case, we wanted to make sure someone was always here at the house. >> reporter: at first, chesterfield p.d. told the landrys it wasn't their case. they would need to go to the

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movie about a young boy living up fascist -- in the 1930s. and the tensions in and out of the home. >> he was very particular about his food. so that when he would come here in visit, he would ask -- >> to cook very specific things. of course. he'd taken the phone and said, "i'm just arriving "in a few hours in rimini, " and for my mommy, that was great! >> even when he became a world-famous director, fellini still craved the simple local dishes of his hometown. he said, "life is a combination of magic and pasta. " >> federico would adore this kind of place, this kind of restaurant. >> so, francesca is taking me to a local place where they

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and i found him in a basement tied up to one of those old-time heaters. >> reporter: five days in, a joint police task force had been formed to search those basements and burned-out homes on detroit's northeast side near where the car had been found. the same suburban police departments who initially couldn't agree on whose case it was now came together for one purpose, to find matt landry. from chesterfield, where matt lived, roseville, where he was last seen with francesca and where the walmart carjacking went down, and east point, where matt had been abducted at the quiznos. >> they're working with the gangs unit in detroit p.d. >> yes. >> reporter: and they had been going frustrating, block by block, finding not much of anything. >> right. >> reporter: and then there is thursday. >> yeah. then there's thursday. >> reporter: thursday, the task force was out in strength, 15 officers banging on doors,

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francesca, why did you start calling the hospitals and police stations as you did? >> because nobody has heard from him. i wanted to know, like, maybe if he had gotten in a car accident, maybe he got a flat tire on the side of the road. maybe he was in a ditch, i don't know what happened. >> the parents, bob and dorene landry, were getting more anxious by the minute, waiting by the phone that didn't ring. it was monday when they called their local police in chesterfield. an officer came to the house. >> now, cops get these kind of reports from families very often. and usually what they say is, he's a kid, give it some time, he's going to walk in the door. is that what he was telling you, dorene? >> yeah, he alluded to the fact that most of the time these kids end up at crack houses and crash there for a few days, and they eventually come home. i remember saying to him, i -- i pray to god you're right. i pray to god you're right. >> reporter: as the landrys worried inside their house on monday, a few miles south in

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i'm doing this right now, searching through dumpsters for my boyfriend. i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: as francesca moved south into detroit proper, she saw a crush of police cars flashing lights. she elbowed her way through the gawkers to see what everyone was looking at. it was matt's abandoned car. >> and i was like, yeah, that's his car. >> reporter: big development. >> yeah, huge development. >> reporter: francesca managed to put one of the police officers on her cell with doreen, matt's mom. did they tell you about anything they had found in the car at that point? >> he mentioned some maps. but matt delivered pizzas, so matt keeps maps in his car. >> reporter: by tuesday, august 11th, 2009, 21-year-old matt landry's disappearance had become a tv news story. >> family members have been busy during the last few days, handing out these flyers, hoping someone will help them find matt. >> reporter: in that same newscast, viewers were getting an update on that brazen bank stick-up the day before.

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interrupted. a talented drummer aiming for rock 'n' roll stardom suddenly disappeared. his parents immediately sensed he was in danger and they were forced into a race to find him in time. here's dennis murphy with "taken." >> reporter: matt landry from the detroit suburbs was just a regular guy. the kid who delivered the pizza you order. traveled his world on a skateboard, and cracked up his friends with "jackass" style stunts. >> with matt, it was never a dull moment. he was always thinking of something crazy to do. >> reporter: but if you wanted to know what made matt landry get out of bed in the morning, it was the music. to his new girlfriend, francesca, matt was first and foremost a rockin' dude. a ferocious drummer with a basement band of long-time buddies. ♪♪ >> so what kind of stuff did they play? >> stuff that's 200 beats per minute and up. >> and set the volume at 11. >> plus. ♪♪

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