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♪ >> narrator: her daughter was missing. nancy ekelund began handing out flyers and counting the days without lindsay, ticking them off on little post-it notes. she went to talk with the detective of the plascencia police department. nancy wanted carinne to know about her lindsay, how nancy always knew where she was, how they were best friends. it was a speech she had heard before. >> it is typical with a lot of parents or family members when they report a missing person, sometimes they give you the idea that it is an idyllic family life because i think there's a fear if they don't paint a r...

♪ it was october of 2010, nine years after her daughter disappeared. nancy ekelund was still waiting and doing what she could. she was now at 3,535 days without lynsie. miles away larry montgomery was tightening the noose around chris mcamis. larry had recruited a motorcycle cop from a nearby town to go undercover. >> they needed a police officer who looked like a college student and didn't have the mannerisms of a police officer. >> spring sandelli was that officer. >> how were you dressed? >> jeans on and just a little shirt. something that a college student would wear. >> were you armed...

>> i don't know. >> but you put it aside. >> mm-hm. >> of course nancy was used to things feeling wrong. she'd spent so many years worrying about lindsay. it was a struggle to let go, but she did. >> the last thing i said to her was remember your seat belt. and she looks over her shoulder and says back at you, mom, love you. that's the last thing she said to me. >> nancy locked up the house and went to bed. the next day, lindsay was supposed to call after she was done tutoring two girls from the neighborhood. but when the call never came, nancy drove over and found out lindsay never showed up ...

And we have enough to prove the crime. >> and knowing about chris' anger issues with previous girlfriends, larry summoned up a little empathy to draw chris in. >> i know you have that ability to get angry, but i don't know what she could have done. >> chris didn't say much until a little body language revealed that larry was on the right track. >> was it a premeditated thing? >> i didn't think it was. so what did she do? larry finished talking. he was hoping chris would give it up. >> i think i need a lawyer to talk to you about this with me. >> it's up to you. >> the supreme court has made it...

And by the time she was 20, after so many years of mom and daughter being each other's best friends and confidantes, lindsay began to keep some things to herself, like where she was really headed one night in february 2001. >> does it make any sense that she would lie to you about what she was going to do that night? >> i've never known her to lie to me, but, you don't know what you don't know. >> it was a friday night. lindsay was in college part time and working but still living at home. she told her mom that instead of their usual friday night dinner she was staying the night with a girlfri...