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30 seconds here and then it hangs up. immediately one of them calls the other back. sometimes the call is ignored. sometimes chris s phone is blocked. what do you think is going on? it looks like a fight. it looks like they re yelling at each other and hanging up on each other. chris had no criminal record, and no eyewitness put him at the scene. and there was still the mysterious l.j., annie s reported boyfriend whom police could never find. not in any police database, not anywhere. that is, until jaclyn knocked on one more door. hey. how s it going? hi. are you jack? yes. i m detective moore. this is detective johnson. her close buddy and predecessor derrick johnson was by her side when she went to interview annie s friend jackson. he told them the same story that they d been hearing all along, annie telling friends she was pregnant. nothing new. but then they asked jackson if he knew who l.j. was. ....
This guy as l.j., and i asked her, well, what s his real name? and she said chris. a stunning revelation. was l.j., all along, just annie s nickname for chris bagshaw? coming up a death on the road and a body blow to jaclyn s case. i lost any information i had on that case. when dateline continues. ha when dateline continues sto. selfie-ing. and whatever this is. available to the public. never. smartdogs are not the answer. but geico has a simple tip. turn on do not disturb while driving mode. brought to you by geico. ....
did she have an interest in gangs or not that she didn t really tell me. i m just maybe she does because of some person named l.j. that i have no idea who it is. all i know is she told me he was in a gang. i don t know for sure. reporter: before he left the interview, spencer shared one more thing with police. she said that l.j. has killed someone before. she never gave me the name, but she said that, she knows that or something like that. that s why she was scared when apparently l.j. threatened chris to come kill him. reporter: you thought l.j. was your killer? we thought l.j. was involved. reporter: did boy-crazy annie fall for a gang member? in her room, police found this poem she had written to l.j. and with it, for the first time, a name, leyton jendon. but police couldn t track him down. not showing up on social media and kid stuff? nothing. not even on any driver s license database. and he immediately tensed up, clenched his fists. his eyes got big. ....
pants and shoes and a shirt like a white/red. the shirt was white and red? yeah. her shoes. shoes had white laces, and we were tying them. reporter: then, joanna said, daniel, l.j. and v wrapped the unconscious girl in a blue tarp, put her in a white suburban and took off. and when they came back hours later, she said daniel was covered in blood and the girl was not with him. i asked daniel where she was, and he said that she went swimming. he said, she put up one hell of a fight once we got there. reporter: joanna s story rang true, leading derek johnson to believe the mystery girl was annie and daniel ferry was her killer. did you see blood on the carpet? yeah. was it carpet or hard floor? it was carpet. okay. i m positive it was carpet. reporter: now the search team found the carpet in ferry s house had been ripped up and the walls were freshly painted. ....
You ve got signs of a cover-up? yeah, it s looking more and more like this is actually true, all this information that we re receiving. reporter: did you find blood-like splotches on the wall? we found indications that there would be blood on the wall. reporter: they swabbed those areas and then went looking for daniel. they found him at an apartment complex, arrested him, and brought him in. do you want to talk to us without counsel? yeah, whatever. but what s it about? let me ask you that. what do you think? i got no clue. reporter: it was, the detectives thought, the typical bad-guy response. they were sure daniel knew something. they asked him about l.j. who the hell s l.j.? that s what i m asking you. dude, i don t know no l.j. reporter: and then about annie. tell me about annie. tell me about annie. annie who? annie. who the [ bleep ] is annie? annie is a girl that was at your house for a party last weekend. dude, i have no idea who annie is. ....