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Welcome back to "dateline" extra. detectives looking into the disappearance of larry and elisa mcnabney had made a startling find. a friend of larry's claimed elisa had ripped her husband off for more than 100 grand, and it appeared he wasn't her first mark. the young woman was a felon with a long criminal history of theft and fraud. but was she capable of even darker crimes? here, again, is keith morrison. >> it was february 2002, a remote vineyard up in the northern end of california's central valley, a farm worker checking the outer reaches of a giant field of grape couldn't help but see th...

His pen was always in the same spot. >> larry's daughter was crazy about him in awe of his type a personality, his joy of life, his courtroom presence. >> i loved to go to the courtroom and watch my dad. it was mesmerizing to me. >> he commanded the place. >> he was completely confident, not an ounce of shyness. he commanded the courtroom. >> i've been a trial lawyer for over 20 years. >> larry's longtime friend, fred atchison. >> he could open 50 files a month in personal injury litigation, which made him a rich man. >> but nobody's perfect, of course. and for all of larry's unquestioned tale...

Thanksgiving. then december he was always with his family on his birthday, but still no sign of larry mcnabney. >> i didn't get a good feeling. and what i worried about was had something gone wrong and dad was scared and he took off? >> had larry offended the wrong person? tavia had a friend in law enforcement who told her -- >> you have to look at it two-way. if he's in hiegsd, he's not going to be happy you found him because obviously he's hiding for a reason. or something's happened to him. >> meanwhile back at the office, ginger was hearing things, worrisome things, until she just couldn't...

Spouses are deep down. and he said, no, i don't even know if this is who she is, if her name is what she says it is or anything. >> by then, said fred, larry had discovered ample reason to stop trusting elisa. >> he couldn't keep his wallet in his pants. >> he told you that? >> yeah. she would steal money out of his wallet. he had to hide his wallet in his own house. >> turned out she was also stealing from the law firm. >> she had ripped him off. >> for how much? any idea? >> over $100,000. >> larry told fred all about his troubles with elisa, and yet he kept her around, not like he hasn't di...

>> elisa, 17 years younger than larry, and he was in love. >> and he said she's just fun and vivacious. she's young and it's just -- we have a good time. >> tavia didn't stand in the way. she wanted her dad to be happy. >> we welcomed the new person in. it's my dad, so i didn't want anything that would inhibit me from spending time with him. >> and he and really cared for this woman? >> he did. >> larry and elisa thrived both personally and professionally. they got married. elisa became his office manager. they opened up a firm in sacramento, california, another big success. so they hired a yo...