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'cause that wasn't usual. so that's when i had called keith. >> reporter: "keith" was keith mcphillips, her mom's fiance. he was just leaving work, told veronica he was thinking of stopping for coffee with a friend on his way home. then veronica told him about tara, that her purse was home, but she wasn't. what did you think when she told you that? >> well, just something wasn't right. because if tara was gonna go somewhere, i knew she wouldn't leave her stuff or her car. she woulda said, "i won't be here when the kids get here." that's how responsible she was. >> sure. >> reporter: keith canc...

>> reporter: "keith" was keith mcphillips, her mom's fiancã . he was just leaving work, told veronica he was thinking of stopping for coffee with a friend on his way home. then veronica told him about tara, that her purse was home, but she wasn't. >> what did you think when she told you that? >> well, just something wasn't right. because if tara was gonna go somewhere, i knew she wouldn't leave her stuff or her car. she woulda said, "i won't be here when the kids get here." that's how responsible she was. >> sure. >> reporter: keith canceled the coffee plan, drove straight home. >> as soon as...

So that's when i had called keith. >> reporter: "keith" was keith mcphillips, her mom's fiancã . he was just leaving work, told veronica he was thinking of stopping for coffee with a friend on his way home. then veronica told him about tara, that her purse was home, but she wasn't. >> what did you think when she told you that? >> well, just something wasn't right. because if tara was gonna go somewhere, i knew she wouldn't leave her stuff or her car. she woulda said, "i won't be here when the kids get here." that's how responsible she was. >> sure. >> reporter: keith canceled the coffee plan,...

Dresser. so then, i'm like, where would she be without her purse? 'cause that wasn't usual. so that's when i had called keith. >> reporter: "keith" was keith mcphillips, her mom's fiance. he was just leaving work, told veronica he was thinking of stopping for coffee with a friend on his way home. then veronica told him about tara, that her purse was home, but she wasn't. >> what did you think when she told you that? >> well, just something wasn't right. because if tara was gonna go somewhere, i knew she wouldn't leave her stuff or her car. she woulda said, "i won't be here when the kids get he...

>> i went and looked in the bathroom and then i went in our bedroom and i'd seen her purse and everything on top of her dresser. so then, i'm like, where would she be without her purse? 'cause that wasn't usual. so that's when i had called keith. >> reporter: "keith" was keith mcphillips, her mom's fiancã . he was just leaving work, told veronica he was thinking of stopping for coffee with a friend on his way home. then veronica told him about tara, that her purse was home, but she wasn't. >> what did you think when she told you that? >> well, just something wasn't right. because if tara was ...