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he seemed very concerned. very distraught over mona and lindsey's disappearance. and very helpful. i mean, he was very gracious and whatever we wanted. >> so, thank goodness we have lou at the helm here? >> exactly. he seemed to have plenty of time. he seemed to know everybody. they knew him. we were grateful that there was somebody that was -- had taken control. and was keeping us in the loop also. >> at a gathering of lindsey's school friends in support of the search, lou seemed especially popular with all the girls. >> oh, they were mesmerized by him. >> was he telling them stories? jokes? >> yes, laughing. he knew them all. quite well, we could tell. >> was there something a little creepy about it? i don't want to plant an idea here that didn't exist. >> they all knew lou but they didn't know lindsey's mom.

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secrets of her past. do you think nobody could have these dark stories in your life. but you just had awful, awful things to tell. >> yes. >> was sara still in touch with the family commune, now living in tennessee. and daniel wanted to know more about this lou character, sara was telling him about. >> i did some research in all these dust trying to figure out how much of it was related to this individual. >> which is exactly what law enforcement was doing on the outside of all this. trying to look in and figure out where the puzzle lay. what did you feel about the stories? >> a lot of mixed emotions. i didn't know how to handle a lot that stuff at this time. because was all very fresh, very new to me. and just stuck with her, and decided, let's try to make things right. >> and secretly, daniel decided to take action. >> you put together a remarkable letter for the fbi? >> yes. >> it took some guts to do it. >> i was pretty much just tired of me carrying that information myself.

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rapid city to make a new start with their moms free living, free spending friends in their wichita, kansas, the two sisters emily, 11 and sara, 17, we're still living in the family commune called angel's landing. lou who had money and lots of spare time, was the patriarch. and trish, who is married to brian and had a baby daughter, took care of the home. >> trish was the one that would be there before you went to school and after we went to school. because my mom had to work. >> did you like her? >> i loved her. i loved trish. >> so what happened in june, 2003, angel's landing, came as a sudden, life altering shock. the day began normally enough for the sisters. >> we all had gone to lunch. trish and her daughter, a friend of mine and her baby, and then lou and my sister. and then we came back to the house after lunch and trish and emily and the baby were going

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yorkie, and for the past couple weeks she had been happy. >> what did the accident investigators make of that? >> they said it was in an accident. >> meanwhile, the investigators, goodwyn snyder and sullivan, couldn't ignore that jennifer's head on highway death was the six in eight years from the same family commune. does that change your interest in the case? are you amped up a little bit more? >> i think we all were. what we saw was a pattern. >> approximately every two and a half years, there was a mysterious death. deemed each time to be an accident. and while the officers suspected lou castro was somehow involved, they had no hard evidence on which to arrest him. they had to just wait. >> it's not that easy. we did not want to tip off what we were looking at. and if you knew we were looking at him, he could get a big move. he could change the way he does because. >> and you still don't know who he is. >> and we still did not know who he was? >> a year later, in 2009, lou castro did exactly what they feared. he took off.

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>> we would go fishing together. she would take me to the pool every day during the summer. things like that. when we were close, but we fought like siblings. >> sara with 16, emily just nine, and a star student. >> i was teachers pet. i was usually one of the top of my class. >> so you are always prepared? >> yeah, i was a suck up. [laughs] >> you said that, i did. it [laughs] >> totally was, i didn't know it then. but i was. >> everything was easy sailing for the girls until their parents lives went in different directions. >> i knew that my parents were getting divorced. i didn't know why. they never fought in front of us or anything. >> that's always tough. orchids that's summer, 2001, their mom jennifer was showing houses to a new client. a man named lou castro, who with his long hair and western hat, looks like a well-heeled young cowboy. >> he seemed really charismatic and outgoing and friendly.

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to clean the pool. >> that was the plan for the afternoon? >> right. and lou and i were going to go to davis moore. >> car dealership? >> right. >> so you go to the car dealership with lou? >> yes. >> back at the swimming pool, something truly awful had happened. >> i called 9-1-1. >> she told the operator that trish's toddler had fallen into the pool. and when trish had tried to save her little girl, she had slip backwards. >> she had slipped and fell and hit the concrete? >> she fell and hit her head and drowned. >> the baby was in trouble in the pool? >> right. >> you rescued the baby but you couldn't help? >> right. >> emily got the baby out of the pool. but because she was just a whisper of a thing, try as she might, emily could not lift trish's body out of the water. hopeless. across town, sara and lou we're checking out cars at the dealership when sara's phone rang. >> i received a phone call from emily as she says that trish fell in the pool, i need you to

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call me the while we're here? >> i think because he did not have the proper identification to actually get legitimately established as lou, so he needed an actual social security card, an actual drivers license. >> investigators back in wichita found out that lou was now going by the name joe. they believed that he had committed identity fraud, which gave them what they needed to make an arrest. >> we went to the front of the residents, knocked on the door, and mr. castro and his common law wife answered the door. >> we actually approached him as joe manages. we called him joe monogamist to his face when we talk to him. he corrected us and colten, lou castro. so he went back to his old identity. >> was he shaky to see law enforcement is front or? >> i didn't think so. >> he was confident that he was going to be able to explain away why we were there. >> the officers arrested him, charged him, and searched the

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announced a moved to tennessee. how is that approach to the family? we're out of here? moving to tennessee? >> he said we really needed to go. i was really angry with him from wanting to move. i did want to go, i wanted to stay. and lou said, emily we're doing this for you. >> for you? >> yes, he said that we were going to be closer to vanderbilt, which was the college that i wanted to go to. and he said, this whole move was for me. >> it was kind of flattering to hear? >> yeah, and also, how do you say no when the entire thing is about you. >> so, you are still the princess? >> right. >> emily was 17 but sara was nearly 24 and inching away from the smothering-ness. >> i moved out. >> how did you do that? that's a huge step. >> he really wanted to move to tennessee and i didn't want to go. and i had just lost my mom and i couldn't stand the thought of losing my dad.

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died several times, but this just the one that i am right. now >> what did you do? >> it seemed really cool. you know, it was like being so special, and being around this thing that nobody else gets to do. >> your very own angel. >> it is like seeing santa claus. you get really excited when you're ten years old. he was saying that he would keep take care of us, that he would always make sure that we were safe. >> but safety meant that lou needed to control. >> he was the one that told everybody what they were going to do, and when they were going to do it, how they were going to do that. >> it really bossy guy, my way or the highway? >> kind of. he was very good at manipulating you, i guess you could say. >> was your mom vulnerable? he seemed to know where people's buttons were? >> very much so. >> he was stepping in like the, boss? >> he acted like he was my dad. >> what do you think it was

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deep in the countryside, outside of nashville tennessee. and in 2010, this is where lou castro's house would be. there was lou, his fiancée and their daughter. emily was there to, and other commune members. based on information service boyfriend daniel had supplied to the three determined investigators, the fbi was now burgaw getting the property. but, inside, emily and the other occupants were -- >> so tennessee, the house is very nice, you are not happy about leaving your classmates in life in wichita, but were you pleased with tennessee? >> i was, but it was really hard going to school there and things. but i just started focusing on getting to college and things like that. >> emily recalls that there had been so many changes, and one change in particular it was unusual. lose name, lou, now wants to be called joe. >> how did he explain that to you? i'm not going to be lou, don't

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