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I sent a message out. us know where they thought we should be looking. and when we pressed them, why this is inspector ritchie of the should we be looking there? hayward police department. why should we be looking there? they finally said, well, you need to get ahold of me because that s where the cell right now. towers take us. yeah? i got the response within reporter: michelle le, it turns out, went on a strange several minutes saying that my journey on the evening of may phone is dying, i need to find a 27th, 2011. or at least her cell phone did. charger. i m having car trouble. the same sort of response in the two hours after michelle received by michelle s friends abruptly left a training session here at the kaiser hospital in and family who had now decided based on those weird text san francisco s east bay, that messages that michelle had been phone of hers left its indelible kidnapped. but as far as inspector ritchie footprints through the congested was concerned, ....
Keith morrison: ritchie listened to giselle s tone careen from aggrieved, to furious, to threatening all in less than a minute. this was far from the subdued woman he had met back in may. it was apparent that she was a violent person. did you ever have any concern about scott s safety? yes. and we advised scott that. if it is giselle, you have to be concerned for your safety as well. and he might well be a target. yeah. keith morrison: esteban, it was clear in the recording, had become fixated on her old friend was convinced michelle had somehow broken up her relationship with scott. and yet, as ritchie took pains to discover michelle and scott were nothing more than just friends. she had a boyfriend. scott was just one of the many friends that she had. but the only person in this world that seemed to think that there was more to it was giselle. keith morrison: prosecutor butch ford heard the audio too ....
That michelle would possibly be. keith morrison: but that didn t happen. not to say, though, her behavior wasn t suspicious. remember the vigil the le family held a week after michelle s disappearance? the one attended by giselle s ex-boyfriend, scott? it turned out, giselle was there too sort of. the tracking device showed giselle circling the block as michelle s family pleaded for help. and later, it showed her driving past scott s house. why? ritchie was all but sure now giselle had something to do with michelle s disappearance. the question now was, did she have some help? it was something that we had to look at. if so, who? yeah. dive into her life who s her friends? and who can we talk to that knows giselle? keith morrison: ritchie consulted an alameda county assistant da, now deputy district attorney, a guy named butch butch ford. ....
By entering this break room. and then at 5:30 in the evening, when the campus is closed, she gains access through the back door using that electronic key card. same swipe card. yes. throughout the campus, there are in the classrooms and in the hallways there s cameras. and it shows giselle walking around with a lab coat on, her glasses up, and she s going around turning on computers. keith morrison: weird. yeah. keith morrison: giselle can also be seen with a class roster stolen from an instructor s office. and you can see the class roster, because it has all the students photographs on there so it s not just typed. keith morrison: yeah. fraser ritchie: it s photographs, so you can see that it s a class roster. and it looks like she s walking around as if she s pretending to be an instructor, or something like that. she s in samuel merritt for an hour and a half, or so, and then she leaves. keith morrison: all of this, the night before michelle le disappeared. what was giselle doin ....
You re not going to tell us why. reporter: ritchie understood the family s anger. but as far as he was concerned, he had a murder investigation on his hands and that meant the family had to be kept in the dark. there s certain procedural things that we have to keep close to us, that we can t put out there. because we have to maintain evidence, we have to maintain the custody of certain information. and it s of evidentiary value to us that if we don t have the suspect in custody, that the only people that know about it is the suspect and us. reporter: so in the absence of official information, the le family, at least its younger members, decided the only option was massive publicity. an appeal to the public for whatever help they could offer. but that was the kids. the cousins. family elders were deeply reluctant to share their grief with strangers. they didn t want her story out there publicized like we had made it. they didn t why? well, it s it s very private. it was ....