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person. >> then she vanished. >> i called the police. something is wrong. >> and something was. >> days passed, then months, no leads, no clues, no progress. >> we've got to get going. we've got to get moving on this. >> enter the a-team. a band of tough guy privatize. >> yes something to hide. >> a brief encounter with the mysterious stranger. >> on the train coming home, she had met this woman. >> did that hold the answer? >> she's talking about how someone is trying to assume her identity. >> a chilling case of a daughter in danger. >> somebody was after her. >> welcome to dateline. i'm lester holt. she was beautiful, talented, trusting, and sometimes troubled. a young woman from a prominent family finally grabbing the promise and life right up to the day she vanished. when the police seemed unable to find her, her family had to plan, and the usual strategy to solve the mystery. here is keith morrison. >> it began on the bright morning in may. slipped from its platform in washington station and eased out into an eight-hour run down the eastern seaboard charleston, south carolina. on board was a beautiful, tall, and feisty red named kate waring. the daughter of the south of a fine southern family that often traveled young woman who sitting on the strain is finally on the brink of something very good. and what is it about trains? the ease there in that enclosed space of finding perfect strangers.

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where it was located. >> they found kates jewelry at a pawn shop. and behind the dresser in their tiny apartment, kate's key chain. the one that she had gotten in moscow. ethan, said, heather took it from kate's purse as a memento. she was telling them the truth. so they decided the next morning and first night. armed with google mail and more detail from heather. that they would return to the island. >> all that we were believing was now coming to fruition. all of our suspicions had activity. at that point we knew that we had the right people. >> once they. they would be going without the police. good idea? maybe not. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> coming up, the a-team. under arrest? >> you mean you are arrested? >> we were -- we couldn't leave because they -- >> this was a twist that even they did not see coming. when dateline continues. >> they early son had cuts the mist off the marshes island, now the still air was heating up to another dripping hot day. bobby and jean frazier shared a car from the city and wrote in silence most of the way. confident that the directions

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planned to come back. and she had left her medicine. she never went anywhere without her medicine. >> and on sunday, we came by the house also. no sign of her. >> now there was dred. was it possible that kate had slipped back into that old destructive life? >> we called police station. we called the detention center. >> wow, and this is by the end of the weekend? >> nobody had a jane doe in the hospital. nobody had been brought in. we called some of her friends, and nobody had heard from her. >> what to do? kate was 28, and though she lived at home, she was an adult her decision bad or good. for hers, they elected to give it one more day if she wasn't back by monday they called the police. then, when monday came, there was word.

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these were men and women all over the country. she would say that she was pregnant she. would say that her children had died of leukemia. that man had beat her. >> her scam? control the internet for men and move in, and police, him and leave him with a mountain of debt. all the while pretending to be the doctor, the heiress, or the daughter of a mafia style drug family. >> that was probably the worst whirlwind that i've ever been through. seen. done. in my entire life. >> there was chris beard for example. in pennsylvania. >> just being around her made me feel better. because that is what i wanted. i wanted to be loved. >> he found her on the internet. in less than two months they were engaged. and she said that she was pregnant. >> at the time that i had met her i had no credit cards to my

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happened to my family. and so that's why i want to be out here and try to help as much as i can. there were massive searches in town. thousands of people showed up to comb the woods looking for her. it was clear very early on that this was unusual for her. she would not have gotten in the car with someone. she just was not the person who would have disappeared. dennis murphy (voiceover): jennifer portman was a senior writer for the "tallahassee democrat." jennifer portman: we're talking about north florida in the panhandle area. people are bound by their schools, by their family, by their churches. and sunday school teachers with children and a grandchild don't go missing. that's exactly right. dennis murphy (voiceover): her friends and family were as baffled as the police by cheryl's disappearance. law enforcement was trying to put the pieces together. when they looked into cheryl's background, nothing jumped out at them. two sons, a long settled divorce, no boyfriends. then, on tuesday, four days after she was last seen, the cops got her bank records. something was up. we found where some atm activity had occurred in leon county.

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>> police. >> where is the address? >> there is no i address. it's in the words. >> you believe that you found the body of kate? >> yes. >> in the woods? >> yes. >> but listen to what happens after bobby hangs up, the 9-1-1 recording continues. you can hear the operator spreading the body around a bit skeptical that the mystery is finally solved. >> hey. sergeant. you ready for this? this guy says he found kate wearing off the words off of poly-point road. on the island. >> all right. >> he says he knows he has her. >> of poly point roads the cobbs instinctively reverted to long practice procedure. >> we said okay let's see here the crime scene and back out before lawton forsman gets here. >> so far so good. but what happened next was quite a surprise. >> the first officer was a deputy. and pretty much said we are going to show you where the remains are. but it's your crime scene now. and we are backing off. and that's what we did. >> but that wasn't the end of

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she was working. she was working at the local gas station. >> i walked into the gas station and bought a pepsi. paid for it and walked out. and the police officer in uniform had pulled up and was peeping around the corner of the building. and i said that is her inside. >> ethan and hair or wear charged with forgery and obstruction of justice. what a merger charge follow shortly? >> we get a call from someone at the police department. we got a call and say hey, the police are searching. the island for kate body. >> the island? wild. beautiful. isolated. and 20 miles from kates home. >> so i got in the car and i drove out to the island. >> and there were police. a serious search going on. >> so i sat there in the shade and watch them all afternoon. didn't attempt to interfere. >> watch the police to see what they were doing? >> just watched. a lot of officers and cadaver dogs. >> a ton of folks out there.

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wearing. and he who tried to catch it two days after kate disappeared. they were sure that police would swoop in and arrest them both. but here is something that you should know about the way that it worked between the a-team and their former colleagues, the cops. the deal was entirely one-way. that is to say the a-team told the cops everything that they uncovered. and the cops told the a-team nothing. so they kept their ears to the ground and waited for something to happen. but they did not have to wait for long. >> we knew something was up. so the first thing that we did was we got the gps off the car because we did not want the police to see that car and have our gps. >> ethan was easy enough for the charleston police to find. they arrested him at his hotel job. but they did not seem to know whether to find heather. so. >> we had to tell them where she was working. obviously they did not have a surveillance on her. >> and you can tell them that? >> >> yes we told them where

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marsh. you will see a -- running down to the water. and she says that after you do that. you look to your left over here. on my right and left. and she said you will see some under brush growing. and she said that case remains, or the body, is five feet from this path. from this roadway. >> incredibly detailed. just the sort of place to leave a body. but? just like the police. the team found nothing. >> i was very disturbed. why are we not finding her? because we were super convinced that she was here. >> they searched until darkness. finally forcing them out of the marsh. and then they called andy savage who was out of town on business. >> they are on the cell phone from where they are. i am in the hotel in boston. i punch of the address from google earth. and i'm looking at the satellite imagery of where they

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>> they had brought heather out here to lead them to kate's body. >> there were a couple of detectives that i did ask them if they had any luck. and they just said no. and continue driving on. >> police called off the search. drove heather back to jail. had she intentionally given them bad information? perhaps no one would find cates. not the police. not the a-team. and then? >> we got a terrific break by the criminal justice system. mac and camp both came to the bond hearing and it is done by video. at the bond hearing mac shows up with his family. who are all there to support him. and, not only a public defender.

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