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And months in which the family had been searching for a living woman, a police murder investigation had been very active indeed. and now, in the last days of august, the hayward county inspector at the time, fraser ritchie, was in fact closing in on a very hot target. but to understand how he got there, we need to go back almost to the beginning. it was minutes before midnight, may 28, 2011-- 29 hours after michelle le disappeared. ritchie had gone to pay a midnight visit to michelle's old high school friend, giselle esteban. keith morrison: so clearly there was some animosity between giselle ...

Of persons of interest. lester holt: coming up-- the strange video trail of giselle esteban the day before michelle disappeared. fraser ritchie: it shows giselle walking around with a lab coat on pretending to be an instructor. keith morrison: weird. yeah. lester holt: what was she up to? when "dateline" continues. [music playing] who's already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] -oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. saved me a ton of money. -love you, gary! -you don't have to buzz in...

But they didn't know how she did it, or when she did, or where she is-- or, more important, what she did with the body. if you don't have a body, it makes the case more difficult. keith morrison: and so, ritchie and the other investigators with the hayward pd continue the tedious work of building a murder case without a body. they ran fingerprints, they sent dna out for testing, they interviewed witnesses-- all quietly, out of sight of the family and press. they tested a strand of hair found in michelle's car-- it turned out to be giselle's. some of her touch dna on the turn signal too. but si...

Yes. keith morrison: the eavesdropping electronics was closing in. here was surveillance video showing giselle trying to access the nursing school's computers the night before michelle's disappearance. and here, the scene of the apple store the day after michelle vanished. esteban, getting michelle's iphone unlocked. and later, using it have the chuck e. cheese. but still, it wasn't enough-- until the lab results finally came back, from evidence seized that very first night in giselle esteban's apartment. specifically, from her shoes. those tests uncovered a trace amount of blood. blood that b...

Keith morrison: strong feelings. but giselle esteban, herself, was not so strong-- tiny and pregnant. hardly seemed physically capable of overpowering and murdering the larger michelle le, let alone finding a way of disposing her body. so they sent her home, and later that afternoon finally got a look inside michelle's car-- as we did much later, when the detective showed it to us. nothing had changed, nothing was touched. here, the morbid sense we were somehow violating a sad and very personal space. this is what inspector ritchie found-- a crime scene. once we get the car opened, you can see...