suspected me. i didn t know what even a search warrant was. the house nancy and lynsie had once shared was torn apart. how much of a suspect was nancy? i don t know that nancy was on the radar for a long time. she was on the radar long enough to be able to set her aside. narrator: after that search they did just that. they believed this anguished mother had nothing to do with the diss appearanappearance of daughter, so they took nancy off the list. they also took off the boyfriend, matthew. he had an alibi that held up, putting him somewhere else at the time that lynsie went missing. so that left just two. i haven t seen her since that day. marty, whom police didn t trust because of his secret relationship with lynsie and because he had lied about his identity, and the man who dropped lynsie off at that corner, the last person to see her before she vanished, chris mcamis. going in here, grab a seat
remained convinced her daughter would one day just come home. you thought one day she would walk back through the door? yes. narrator: she believed it because she wanted to, and because over the years several people had told her they had seen lynsie. they never saw the front of her face. they always saw the back of her, and i held on to every word they said. narrator: it was torture for nancy, no matter what version of veen version of events you believed and police still weren t telling her anything. nancy during all of this time feels like she has been sort of cut out of the loop? yes. nancy was pretty angry. we worked this case diligently for a long time. at some point you hit the wall. narrator: at the time there were nine detectives in plascencia working everything, drugs, gangs, rapes, murder and cold cases. by 2008 it was clear plascencia pd had hit that wall. they would need help on this
actually proved chris wasn t there. it wasn t your truck, but for years it was thought of that it was your truck. it is not. matter of fact, your truck did not go by that night. it wasn t there. he told chris about the credit card statement and how he found someone who remembered chris working on the job site. all of a sudden big red flags, you know. you are working, you are up there when you said you were not, but he said you guys don t work on saturday. lynsie disappeared on a saturday morning. none of your credit card usage up there is on any weekend, all of it is on weekdays except for the day lynsie disappeared. so you re not up there working that day. he told chris the lie about lynsie being found. we went recently and got dna from mother and dad of lynsie and had that checked against the body and it is lynsie. so now we ve got lynsie up there right in the area where you were, right at the time when you
anyone realized she was even missing. chris says he then drove up to the work site and used a skip loader to dig a hole. he held on to lynsie s body for a few days, and then when no one was around, he buried her. does it feel any better to finally know? no, because i was really devastated. there was a relief. but i wasn t any happier because of it. after the confession, detectives left chris in the interview room with another detective to watch him, and chris simply could not stop talking. unbelievable. it s been so long. finally, you know, it feels better when you finally just say what you were supposed to say, you know. i know my life is ruined now,
lynsie up at the construction location where chris had worked and he had gotten some interest from cadaver dogs, but nothing more. just down the street from chris s house, bryce angel of the plascencia pd who had been assigned to work with larry was listening and keeping an eye on the action. so you are watching him while this interview happens on his front doorstep? yes, i was sitting, you know, ten houses down watching the reporter or undercover officer. once she left the area we were in business. what happens? later that night she was seen coming out of his house and going into the garage, lights go on. we are talking like 3:00 in the morning. it was clearly a sign of somebody who couldn t sleep. detectives were sure that they had rattled their suspect. the next day they trailed chris when he left his house. at some point it became apparent that he knew that we were following him. they broke off surveillance and brought chris in.