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A possibly violent altercation. if that was the case, how had danielle's body ended up here? the river was about thirty minutes away from the creek in a remote part of the county. and the river and the creek aren't even connected. the body was disposed of there. >> body was disposed of. >> reporter: the spot had been chosen to conceal danielle's body but by whom? all detectives had to do was look around. maybe the answer was very near by. >> it was so close that -- i mean, if you dropped a pin on where his house was, the river's right there. >> reporter: coming up -- police are about to circle...

I have a little girl myself. if something happened to her would -- would be devastating. >> reporter: all the not knowing was torture for danielle's mom. >> your mind is just -- you're going crazy. i mean, you're -- you're thinking of -- i mean, even some of the worst and the craziest stuff. >> reporter: by now, danielle's disappearance wasn't just a hope mills story. she was featured in dateline's "missing in america" series. her story was national news. >> the name of the missing 15-year-old is danielle locklear. >> her face is blown up all over the billboards. every time i'd hit a stop ligh...

This is not your regular route to home? >> no, sir, it's not. >> reporter: veteran homicide detective adam brinkley had been helping out on the locklear case. he'd interviewed some of the high school kids in danielle's circle. now, he was off duty, driving the back roads towards a river he knew very well. you're a fisherman? >> i'm a fisherman, yes. >> reporter: is that one of your fishin' holes? >> that's one of my fishin' holes. >> reporter: it was shad season. and as chance would have it, he was wearing a special pair of polarized fishing glasses. these ones that are on your lanyard, huh? >...

>> we identified a boy named angel from the school. so how do you hook danielle who's messing with his boy angel. >> we got information from other boys that they were making. out >> and remember, danielle and her serious boyfriend under split up. >> she's available, she's very. cute >> that's. right >> billy watts is the cumberland county district court attorney. he was brought on early in the case when angel murders as a person of interest. >> he had a girlfriend, but we knew daniel was a single, her relationship had recently ended with je'michael malloy, and some of the kids were telling us ...

Miles away. that night, but at 10:40 pm it suddenly started pinging off a tower miles away. the phone, and presumably danielle, were on the move. >> we get a pin drop that pretty much puts it on i-95, but in that pin out is a certain amount of area that the phone could be in. >> so helpful as phones are, it doesn't give you x marks the spot. >> reporter: not in this case. the last ping came from that spot near the highway. a worry in itself because i-95 is a big ribbon of opportunities from miami to the state of maine. was danielle a runaway? had she been abducted? no one knew, but the records...