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Disappearance of realtor dee dee keller, all of l.a.'s south bay seemed to be looking for her. and for her missing mercedes. leading the search was her best friend cindy and linda. >> reporter: a lot of times people disappear, like you get the immediate family working on it and then everybody else is like, well. >> not in this town. >> she had an army. >> reporter: dee dee's daughter julie rushed back to l.a. from a trip to mexico. >> it was the most surreal experience. >> reporter: only to be greeted by suspicion. l.a. sheriff's deputy jimmy gates discovered in the event of their mother's dea...

>> i didn't know at that point. i just knew something was very, very wrong. >> reporter: mike called his best friends linda and cindy. cindy who had last spoken to dee dee three days before as dee dee prepared for a date rushed to the house. >> you could tell just the dogs had been, you know, running around for days, but the way the tv was on and the way the shades were, i felt like thursday night had never ended. i felt like friday morning never came. >> reporter: cindy immediately phoned dee dee's new boyfriend car salesman bobby lowe. he reported they had dinner on thursday at a local resta...

Layover at l.a.x. >> i'll text you and have coffee and we laid over in los angeles. i didn't get a text. it was a little odd. but didn't think much of it. >> reporter: dee dee's son mike was beginning to worry, after he returned from a business trip to the san francisco area. >> when i called her cell phone, the voice mail was full and that had never happened with my mom and she prided herself on being responsive. >> reporter: so you go over to your mom's house? >> i went in the back gate, instantly, it was clear that she had not been there for a while. >> reporter: what made that clear? >> th...

>> it was frantic. it was hard breaking. >> reporter: and it was leading nowhere. at the same time, detective gates wondered who might have had a motive to have abducted dee dee from her home? those most common of motives -- love, money, jealousy are always the ones police hug first like old friends. detee made a lot of money being a realtor. >> she was successful, yes, sir. >> reporter: how much money did chef in the bank? >> i think it was over seven figures. >> seven figures? a lot of murders committed for a lot less than that. >> absolutely. >> reporter: who got that money in the event of ...