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Believe the police? no. they simply wouldn't accept what the cops had to say. >> it was horrible. we were really angry. because, okay. you want to make it homicide. 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 val...

>> the same sort of response received by michelle's friends and family, who had now decided based on those weird text messages that michelle had been kidnapped. but as far as inspector ritchie was concerned, just about anything was possible. >> i kept an open mind. i didn't know whether michelle voluntarily went missing for whatever personal reasons she had or if this was a stranger abduction or if this was an abduction from somebody that she knew or she just left with a friend. >> did anybody say she would have just flipped out and, you know, stressed out and just left? >> i asked is it possi...

Who had abducted michelle, and so their mission was now clear. michelle didn't just need to be found. michelle needed to be rescued. >> it's a time-critical situation. every second you that waste is a second that she's hurting. we had to find her. >> reporter: saturday afternoon, 18 hours after michelle vanished, michael and a group of michelle's friends met with inspector fraser richie at the hayward police department. >> we had about 10 or 15 family members and classmates and friends at the police department. they were all talking about how responsible she was, how out of character this woul...

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...

This is what inspector ritchie found-- a crime scene. once we get the car opened, you can see there's blood wiped across here in the plastic-- a little bit on the floor mats. and then, as you can see, there's more droplets-- or blood dropping down, going in a straight down pattern. keith morrison: police also found some blood smeared on the floor of the garage where michelle's car had been parked. were you able to make a judgment about what would have happened when she got to her car? she was attacked, most likely here-- because from the looks of it, it looks like she ended up being placed in ...