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Speaker 4 Can't even explain the motions.

Speaker 5 It's a pain.

Speaker 6 Our hearts break for this mother. People don't randomly disappear.

Speaker 7 She was a design original, Christina, the fashionista.

Speaker 10 The most fantastic wardrobe.

Speaker 6 She always was doing something funky, fresh.

Speaker 11 She was starting off her new career.

Speaker 7 It was news nationwide when she vanished.

Speaker 6 She went out to drinks with friends and never came home.

Speaker 12 I said something's wrong. We realized this is real.

Speaker 8 Who was the last to see her?

Speaker 13 I went to the car and she went her way. That's all I can tell you.

Speaker 7 And where was her ex-model boyfriend?

Speaker 14 He doesn't call when she's missing, and he won't say where he was.

Speaker 7 Someone had something to hide.

Speaker 12 He thought he was getting away with it.

Speaker 17 She was fighting for her life.

Speaker 12 All I can do is pray, with all that I have,

Speaker 12 tell me what happened that night.

Speaker 18 Here's Josh Mankiewicz with Frantic.

Speaker 21 Christina Morris was afraid of the dark.

Speaker 22 Up through even like, you know, grade school, you know, if she woke up in the middle of the night, we knew about it because she was in our bed.

Speaker 24 Yeah, you could hear the feet coming down the hallway.

Speaker 12 She's scared of the boogeyman. You know, boogeyman was going to get her one day.

Speaker 15 It was something she never really got over.

Speaker 6 23 years old was sleeping with a night light.

Speaker 10 Chloe, is the bathroom light on? Yeah.

Speaker 26 And it wasn't just the dark that scared Christina.

Speaker 27 It was what might happen in the dark.

Speaker 22 Christina had a fear her whole life that she would be taken.

Speaker 28 Taken?

Speaker 27 Abducted?

Speaker 22 Yes.

Speaker 29 Where'd this come from?

Speaker 22 I don't know, but her absolute worst fears is exactly what happened to her.

Speaker 22 How many people actually live their worst nightmare?

Speaker 26 From early childhood, Christina Morris's fears didn't slow her down.

Speaker 23 She's not one to sit in front of the TV and watch TV. She always has to be taking pictures or working on the computer.
She just always had to be going.

Speaker 26 Christina's parents divorced when she was a baby.

Speaker 32 She grew up in suburban Dallas with her dad, Mark, her stepmom, Anna, and a brother and sister.

Speaker 34 But she remained close to her mom, Johnny McElroy.

Speaker 12 She's the love of my life. The apple of my eye.
My heartbeat.

Speaker 12 She's my everything.

Speaker 15 It was almost like Christina had two moms and lots of friends.

Speaker 38 Sidney Robertson has known Christina since they were three years old.

Speaker 10 Her personality was definitely 10 times bigger than she was.

Speaker 10 And she gets so small, but she gives the biggest hugs.

Speaker 26 Kelly Lang met Christina just after high school.

Speaker 6 She was this animated, smart, beautiful fashionista. She was quirky and it drew people in no matter who you were.

Speaker 15 And all her life, Christina was drawn to two boys.

Speaker 23 She knew these two guys, Logan and Hunter, since third grade.

Speaker 4 Hunter Foster, Logan Prendergast,

Speaker 20 and Christina.

Speaker 22 The three musketeers, you know, and they knew everything about her.

Speaker 15 Logan and Christina went from buddies to high school sweethearts.

Speaker 2 Moving day.

Speaker 43 The relationship continued through college.

Speaker 19 Christina earned a degree in marketing and later moved in with Logan.

Speaker 4 When they broke up in 2013, Christina rebounded right into the waiting arms of Hunter Foster, the third musketeer.

Speaker 44 Almost as if, like, what, there were no other guys in the world?

Speaker 24 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Hunter has always been in love with Christina.

Speaker 45 Always.

Speaker 32 Hunter was a skateboarder and had pursued a modeling career in New York.

Speaker 20 Successful at first, it hadn't worked out and he was back in town without a job, but with plenty of free time.

Speaker 26 Christina's mom could see why her daughter was so connected to Hunter.

Speaker 12 He was a great skater and a dirt bike rider and good looking in her eyes. And he lived life on the edge and took chances.
That was her excitement too.

Speaker 26 By the summer of 2014, 23-year-old Christina was living with Hunter about an hour away from family and friends.

Speaker 15 She was working in marketing at a dating service and had just earned a promotion.

Speaker 36 Christina was moving up.

Speaker 23 She was very driven. She liked designing things.
She loved photography. She was making a business for

Speaker 23 her boyfriend at the time.

Speaker 15 Hunter had an idea to start his own clothing line.

Speaker 23 He had a dream of, you know, starting a business with skater gear and stuff like that.

Speaker 35 He may have had the dream, but Hunter didn't have the ambition or the money, relying on Christina to help him with his business and with the bills.

Speaker 23 She worked a full-time job and was manager. Her boyfriend didn't do anything.
She supported him.

Speaker 31 So she had a mom and a dad who worked, right?

Speaker 14 Where did she get this idea that it's like okay to be with a guy who doesn't do anything?

Speaker 22 Because that's our world, not her world.

Speaker 52 Okay.

Speaker 23 I know, I'm the same way. Trust me, it bugs the heck out of me.

Speaker 27 On the Friday of Labor Day weekend, Hunter decided to drive to Dallas and hang out with his friends, and not with Christina. She went back to her old neighborhood to see some high school pals.

Speaker 15 Stephen Nickerson, another of her childhood buddies, was surprised to see her.

Speaker 11 It was good because I hadn't seen her in probably like six to eight months and we caught up.

Speaker 15 The group met up at an apartment.

Speaker 11 And then around 11 or 11.30 we went down to the bars.

Speaker 54 The bars were in an upscale shopping mall in the town of Plano.

Speaker 24 It was hopping.

Speaker 19 The group headed to a bar called Henry's Tavern, then closed down another called Scruffy Duffy's.

Speaker 15 At about 2 a.m.

Speaker 9 Christina, Stephen, and a few others went back to the apartment where they'd started.

Speaker 31 How drunk was everybody?

Speaker 11 I mean, we were all pretty drunk. It was myself.
I probably had 10 to 12 shots and and a couple beers when I was out.

Speaker 26 Too drunk to drive.

Speaker 41 Stephen wanted to crash on the couch and sober up.

Speaker 26 But Christina hadn't had much to drink at all, and she just wanted to get home. It was now about 3.30 Saturday morning.

Speaker 11 She wanted me to take her home.

Speaker 14 She wants you to take her home. And you say, I can't.
I've had too much to drink. Why don't you stick around?

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 14 And she says, no, I want to go. I'm going to go.

Speaker 11 Yeah, she's stubborn. I'm not going to force her to stay there.

Speaker 27 Stephen says, Christina decided to drive herself home.

Speaker 11 I told her if she felt like when she got to her car that she couldn't drive to call me and I'd walk back and get her and we'd walk back and, you know, sleep there, sleep it off, or leave in a few hours and I'd take her to her place in Fort Worth.

Speaker 26 She left the party and just like that, Christina Morris vanished.

Speaker 7 Coming up.

Speaker 12 I immediately got a feeling in my stomach that I've never had before. I said something's wrong.

Speaker 7 The first clue to the mystery.

Speaker 23 They found Christina's car.

Speaker 16 She never got in it.

Speaker 6 People don't randomly disappear. That just doesn't happen.
Where is she?

Speaker 26 It was about 3.30 in the morning on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, 2014.

Speaker 29 The party was over.

Speaker 31 Christina Morris, who didn't like the dark, was walking to her car.

Speaker 42 Another guy at the party had offered to walk with her.

Speaker 39 Her buddy Stephen Nickerson called her to be sure she was okay.

Speaker 11 I said, hey, have you made it to your car yet? And she said, no, almost there.

Speaker 49 A few minutes later, Stephen texted Christina, but the messages were coming up green on his screen.

Speaker 55 Which means her phone's not on.

Speaker 11 Or out of service, yes.

Speaker 27 Stephen slept it off and drove home late Saturday morning.

Speaker 11 I shot her a text and say, you know, let me know if when you get home, whenever your phone charges or whatever it is.

Speaker 20 Three days later, on Tuesday afternoon, Christina's mom, Johnny, now living up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, got a text from one of Christina's friends.

Speaker 12 Asking me, have I heard from Christina?

Speaker 12 And I said, no. Why?

Speaker 12 And she sent me back a message. She goes, her boss called me and said she never showed up for work.

Speaker 30 She hadn't shown for her shifts on Saturday or Tuesday.

Speaker 12 I immediately got a feeling in my stomach that I've never had before. I knew something's wrong.
I sent Christina a message on her phone, and I sent Hunter a message.

Speaker 19 Hunter, Christina's live-in boyfriend.

Speaker 12 And he never called me back.

Speaker 36 Johnny called Christina's dad.

Speaker 12 I asked her father if he had heard from her. He said no.
And Anna had not heard from her. And I said, something's wrong.

Speaker 42 Mark, his wife Anna, and Christina's sister Sarah all started calling friends, including Hunter.

Speaker 57 So your oldest daughter ends up getting a hold of him, Sarah.

Speaker 55 And she says to Hunter, have you seen Christina?

Speaker 57 And he's like, well, no, I haven't since since Friday.

Speaker 23 Right. He figured she was with us or with her mom.

Speaker 29 Hunter, who's living with her,

Speaker 9 doesn't say anything, doesn't call you, doesn't sound the alarm, doesn't call anybody.

Speaker 23 Don't get me started.

Speaker 54 Mark and Anna continued to work the phones.

Speaker 36 eventually reaching Christina's pal, Stephen Nickerson.

Speaker 11 Her dad had asked me if

Speaker 11 if I had seen Christina or heard from Christina, and I said no. And the last time I talked to her was, you know, Saturday morning, and he asked me, like, who'd you leave with?

Speaker 11 And I told him it was Enrique.

Speaker 22 And I'm like, he's Enrique.

Speaker 23 Yeah, because we didn't know Enrique.

Speaker 43 Enrique Arochi was a guy Christina had known in school.

Speaker 27 He was the one who left the party at the same time and had offered to walk with her.

Speaker 31 How old did you know Enrique?

Speaker 11 I graduated high school with him, but I wasn't, I was acquaintances with him. I didn't really ever talk to him.

Speaker 36 And that was pretty much Christina's relationship with him, too, right?

Speaker 59 Yeah.

Speaker 19 Stephen chased down Enrique's number from other friends, and Anna called him.

Speaker 22 He told me we did leave together, but we went separate ways. And I said, you telling me you did not see her get into her car? And he said, no.

Speaker 22 And I told him, I said, well, no one has heard from her. I cannot find her.

Speaker 22 We're about to call the police.

Speaker 60 Mark couldn't dial fast enough.

Speaker 6 Communication, how may I help you?

Speaker 17 I'm trying to report a missing person. It's found my daughter.
She hasn't shown up from work. I'm just finding out about this.
Everybody's freaking out.

Speaker 46 Does she own a vehicle?

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 17 A 2001 Toyota Silicon

Speaker 19 Valley.

Speaker 32 About 30 minutes later, Mark got a call back.

Speaker 23 An officer called me and said they found Christina's car. It was still parked in the parking garage.
It never left.

Speaker 19 Just after midnight, Mark and Anna raced to the garage with a spare set of keys.

Speaker 23 I opened the door. I looked inside.
You know,

Speaker 23 the car was locked.

Speaker 23 Nobody, yeah, it was a mess that she keeps it.

Speaker 45 It's always a mess. It's always a mess.

Speaker 15 But no bag, no wallet, no cell phone.

Speaker 23 The car was locked and she never got in it.

Speaker 27 Now, police had to play catch-up.

Speaker 16 The Atlanta Police Department had a disadvantage with a four-day delay start.

Speaker 20 Zeke Fortenberry was a prosecutor in the Collin County District Attorney's Office.

Speaker 16 The Plano Police Department knew that it was four days she'd been missing already, and so that kind of raises a red flag that something serious might be going on.

Speaker 61 There is still no sign of a missing Fort Worth woman who vanished from a Plano parking garage.

Speaker 19 By this time, a lot of people in North Texas were hearing about Christina Morris.

Speaker 26 Lorraine Caceres covered the story for Telemundo Dallas.

Speaker 6 Christina Morris, people

Speaker 14 And if it is a random act, then it's really scary.

Speaker 6 It's very scary. Am I the next victim? And the unanswered question, where is she?

Speaker 7 Coming up.

Speaker 56 Questions for the friend who left the party with Christina.

Speaker 63 You don't mind if I look in your car?

Speaker 13 No, it's no problem.

Speaker 6 Very cooperative. Police were very adamant that this guy was not a suspect.

Speaker 7 If he weren't a suspect, then who was?

Speaker 14 That's like wearing a sandwich board saying, be suspicious of me.

Speaker 7 When dateline continues.

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Speaker 26 The stars at night were big and bright, but by dawn, deep in the heart of Texas, there was no trace of Christina Morris.

Speaker 12 I didn't sleep for 24 hours. I stayed up all night.

Speaker 27 By Wednesday morning, four days after Christina vanished from the fancy shopping center, her mom Johnny was growing frantic.

Speaker 12 I called every police department. I called every hospital because you never know.

Speaker 15 The calls led nowhere, and Johnny felt helpless in Oklahoma.

Speaker 37 So she and her husband packed their bags and drove the four hours down to Plano, straight to the parking garage where Christina's car had been found.

Speaker 66 You came straight here.

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 58 Even though this was the one place in Dallas where you can pretty much guarantee police had searched pretty thoroughly.

Speaker 56 Yes.

Speaker 30 But you're searching.

Speaker 57 You're walking all over the place.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 37 Johnny didn't find anything, but she hoped maybe someone in the neighboring apartments heard or saw something.

Speaker 15 How many doors you knock on total, do you think?

Speaker 4 Oh gosh.

Speaker 12 50, 100.

Speaker 26 Christina's friends were searching the shopping center too.

Speaker 6 We walked to restaurants, we talked to people, we walked the path that she possibly could have walked that night.

Speaker 15 And Plano police were also hitting the streets.

Speaker 16 They began to contact all of the friends who were at the party that night, who had been at the the bars and drinking with Christina.

Speaker 67 Including Enrique Orochi, the guy who left the party with Christina. The detective reached him at this sprint store where he worked as a manager.

Speaker 58 Hello.

Speaker 68 Hi, Enrique. This is Detective Kathy Stam, Atlanta Police Department.

Speaker 42 Enrique was more than willing to help.

Speaker 68 You said that you were leaving at the same time, same time as Christina, and you guys walked over to where your vehicles were parked. Is that right?

Speaker 13 Yeah, we walked separate ways. We walked until the end of the apartment complex, and after that, we just split up because I went to a different parking lot that she was.

Speaker 26 That afternoon, Enrique Oroce drove down to Plano PD for an interview.

Speaker 63 If you don't mind, I'm just going to.

Speaker 19 He never asked for an attorney and answered all their questions.

Speaker 63 And if you don't mind if I look in your car, that's great. And then I could say I did.
And I hope you understand. And thank you for being cooperative.

Speaker 13 No, it's no problem. And

Speaker 42 police took photos of Enrique's black Camaro and sent him on his way.

Speaker 32 Police also wanted to learn more about Christina's boyfriend, Hunter Foster.

Speaker 26 Her parents told police that relationship was rocky.

Speaker 12 She was planning on leaving him. I do know that for sure.
She was home alone a lot by herself because he'd go out partying with his friends and she was lonely.

Speaker 12 She was sad.

Speaker 19 And when police talked with Christina's friend Stephen, he told them she'd been texting Hunter that night, asking him to pick her up from the shopping center.

Speaker 11 She had texted him a few times, and then he stopped texting her back, and then she was tried calling him, and he didn't answer.

Speaker 26 As a result, Stephen said, Christina became more and more upset as the night wore on.

Speaker 11 I mean, yeah, they were in a fight.

Speaker 44 They were definitely fighting that last night.

Speaker 26 Police asked Hunter to come down to the station.

Speaker 43 Former prosecutor Zeke Fortin-Berry.

Speaker 27 What's he say about that fight that he and Christina were having?

Speaker 16 Hunter says he wasn't really aware of the fight. He said that he was out drinking, partying.
He wasn't paying attention to his phone.

Speaker 14 And yet it's the opinion of all her friends who heard her side of that conversation that they were.

Speaker 16 Oh, yeah. The friend said she was upset to the point of even crying sometimes.
She was so upset with Hunter that she was tearful and upset.

Speaker 26 Hunter told police he was out with friends in downtown Dallas the night Christina disappeared and 20 miles away from that mall in Plano.

Speaker 70 But when cops pressed him for details, he was vague.

Speaker 55 And there was one more thing.

Speaker 67 Hunter would not give up his cell phone.

Speaker 14 That's like wearing a sandwich board saying, be suspicious of me.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 14 So it's Friday night, but they're not going out together.

Speaker 26 And he doesn't call when she's missing.

Speaker 14 And he won't let you download his phone.

Speaker 16 Is that about right? That's all true.

Speaker 42 Christina's mom also found Hunter's behavior very odd and she confronted him about it.

Speaker 12 I need to know why you didn't call, why you didn't check on her. Yeah, I flipped out.
I get a little anxiety right now.

Speaker 27 Johnny kept pressing Hunter for details about that night.

Speaker 28 You kept in touch with him. You stayed in contact.

Speaker 40 Yes.

Speaker 12 If he was responsible,

Speaker 12 I'm going to keep that enemy closer. So I wasn't going to let him out of my sight.

Speaker 67 Johnny wasn't giving up.

Speaker 66 Neither was Christina's stepmom, Anna.

Speaker 22 Somebody's seen her. Something is somewhere.
We just need a little bit of information so that we can bring her home

Speaker 6 there were no witnesses and few leads but attention grew plano police were leading larger and larger search parties scouring the countryside there was a lot of people from the community that didn't know a family had no connection to christina and they were coming to support and

Speaker 6 dozens dozens of people in these searches just trying to find this girl days went by with no sign of christina or her belongings.

Speaker 41 More resources arrived, like a mounted search team

Speaker 15 and drones. Christina's family and friends were a constant presence.

Speaker 10 We were told to look for her items, for a phone, for a ring, for a hat, for a bando, for anything at all, because anything could be something.

Speaker 28 However, one person very close to Christina never showed.

Speaker 60 Hunter Foster.

Speaker 6 The only person missing in this entire process was her boyfriend, her live-in boyfriend, that she shared a roof with.

Speaker 19 Not searching. No.

Speaker 44 Not out there?

Speaker 45 No.

Speaker 6 So that was our next question.

Speaker 65 Who is this guy?

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Speaker 72 I'm not emotionally or mentally stable at all.

Speaker 5 Hunter Foster.

Speaker 7 Ghost public.

Speaker 6 So nervous.

Speaker 73 If I would have been there, none of this would have happened.

Speaker 6 He gets up, takes off his mic. I can't do this anymore.

Speaker 35 Reporters can smell a story, and soon they were all over this one.

Speaker 27 Christina Morris's face was everywhere, including on Dateline's own Missing in America series.

Speaker 4 Tips were pouring in.

Speaker 23 Everybody thinks they saw something. I seen this girl at Walmart, so you start getting these calls all the time.
And then you have psychics that call you.

Speaker 53 And some of these people are people who genuinely want to help,

Speaker 57 and some of them are just crazy.

Speaker 24 Right.

Speaker 26 But no matter how crazy, Plano Police checked out every tip, every sighting.

Speaker 33 And they didn't find anything. No.

Speaker 26 Reporters wanted to hear from Christina's boyfriend Hunter, who hadn't shown up for any of the searches.

Speaker 6 Why can't we ask him just a

Speaker 6 routine sound bite? How do you feel? What is your hope? And to much insistence, he decides to come down and be interviewed.

Speaker 27 But when he sat down with NBC5 Dallas, he was a wreck.

Speaker 72 Pretty clear that I'm not emotionally or mentally stable at all, barely enough to do this right now.

Speaker 72 I just want her to come home and be

Speaker 72 alive and safe.

Speaker 6 His body is trembling in a way I've never seen anybody shake before. His voice breaking up,

Speaker 6 so nervous.

Speaker 73 If I would have been there, none of this would have happened.

Speaker 72 And

Speaker 4 this is why I don't...

Speaker 4 I can't do this.

Speaker 4 I just, I don't, I'm done.

Speaker 13 Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 12 That's fine.

Speaker 6 And maybe two questions into the interview, he gets up and takes off his mic. I can't do this anymore.

Speaker 54 Was he traumatized because his girlfriend was missing?

Speaker 27 Or could it be something else? At the same time, investigators were pulling security footage to document Christina's movements that night.

Speaker 16 Plano Police Department were able to piece together videos and kind of create a timeline.

Speaker 32 Cameras captured the group of friends heading to Henry's tavern.

Speaker 19 That's Christina walking in front of the group.

Speaker 26 Then, early Saturday morning, an 8 TM camera caught Christina and Enrique heading toward their cars.

Speaker 42 Remember, they'd left the party together.

Speaker 50 The videos are blurry, but then police found found this one, a clear shot of Christina and Enrique.

Speaker 16 Neither of them appear to be intoxicated. They're walking normally, and it appears to be friendly.

Speaker 53 But that video was a big red flag for police.

Speaker 25 It shows Christina and Enrique walking into the same parking garage where her car was found.

Speaker 15 That contradicted what Enrique had told police previously.

Speaker 40 that they had parted ways long before that.

Speaker 15 He had also said he parked in a different garage.

Speaker 37 So they invited him back down to the Plano PD and showed him a frame of that video.

Speaker 13 Possibly I could have gone though and then to the other parking garage.

Speaker 63 So you're thinking it might be a possibility that y'all could have walked through this garage?

Speaker 60 Possibly, I mean,

Speaker 13 I wasn't sober at the time, man.

Speaker 16 She says he must have walked through that parking garage and he just was mistaken. But he continues to insist that he didn't park in the same parking garage as Christina.

Speaker 60 Plausible.

Speaker 20 Except police had another video.

Speaker 26 Just three minutes after Christina and Enrique are seen entering that garage, this black car leaves.

Speaker 63 Is that your car?

Speaker 63 Yep.

Speaker 63 Something's wrong in Enrique.

Speaker 63 This picture is in that garage. That picture is taken of you walking in that garage with Christina, and that's your car coming out of that same garage.
I'm guessing I parked there.

Speaker 13 I went to the car and she went her way. I mean, that's

Speaker 13 all I can tell you. I don't really pay attention to where people go usually.

Speaker 13 Can't you stay there and watch where she went? Yeah, I should have done that.

Speaker 19 Poor manners, maybe, but not criminal.

Speaker 28 Detectives kept pressing.

Speaker 63 Was she in your car at all that night? Did you give her a ride, like when you guys moved the car park?

Speaker 63 Has she ever been in your car?

Speaker 63 Not at all.

Speaker 69 Later, police enhanced the video of Enrique's car.

Speaker 14 Can you tell if anybody's in it?

Speaker 16 No, the windows are tinted. There's a reflection on them.
You can't tell who's driving the car and you can't tell if anyone's in the passenger seat.

Speaker 15 Police searched his car again.

Speaker 26 They used a special forensic light on the inside of the Camaro.

Speaker 41 looking for bodily fluids.

Speaker 34 But they found nothing.

Speaker 15 And no blood, no hair, fibers, or fingerprints.

Speaker 16 It was very clean. The detectives note they could see vacuum marks in the floorboard.

Speaker 31 Sometimes a spotless car can seem suspicious.

Speaker 56 But if the driver is Enrique, maybe not.

Speaker 47 Mr.

Speaker 51 Roche is one of these guys who spends a lot of time with his car.

Speaker 16 He was a car guy. Everyone said that he loved his car.
He washed his car, cleaned his car. His car was his prized possession.

Speaker 37 Investigators turned their sights back to Christina's boyfriend, Hunter.

Speaker 70 A week after she disappeared, Hunter finally brought his phone into Plano PD.

Speaker 24 But when forensic experts went through it, the questions for Hunter did not fade away.

Speaker 16 Some things have been erased. Text messages, conversations, things like that have been erased.

Speaker 14 Could you tell what he'd erased?

Speaker 16 We know that he erased part of the conversation with him and Christina, that that conversation was gone.

Speaker 32 Police knew little for sure, but they strongly believed one or maybe both of these men was lying.

Speaker 26 The question was,

Speaker 52 about what?

Speaker 7 Coming up, a new piece of evidence, a new piece of video, and a new crime miles away that just might help police crack this case.

Speaker 6 We didn't know that there was something there that might be connected to Christina.

Speaker 7 When Dateline continues.

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Speaker 70 23-year-old Christina Morris had somehow stepped out of this life and maybe into history.

Speaker 59 Two weeks in, her family wasn't giving up, hoping to find her alive.

Speaker 66 Her mother was forbidding herself to think the worst.

Speaker 41 What are those searches like?

Speaker 4 They're rough.

Speaker 12 You never know what you're going to come across. I now can understand the difference between

Speaker 12 human bones and animal bones.

Speaker 12 Still scares the hell out of you.

Speaker 42 Christina's boyfriend Hunter told police he was in Dallas with friends the night she disappeared.

Speaker 53 But he'd been stingy with the details.

Speaker 26 He had erased conversations on his phone between himself and Christina.

Speaker 26 Investigators were also trying to check Enrique's story, that he was alone when he drove out of the garage early that Saturday morning.

Speaker 20 You know what we're working on, right?

Speaker 63 What we're trying to do, and what you're being very helpful with is being able to figure out the last place she's seen because that way we can focus our efforts searching in this area.

Speaker 38 Though his memory seemed fuzzy, Enrique had been cooperative, speaking with detectives down at headquarters without an attorney, and police found no trace of Christina inside his car.

Speaker 28 But since Enrique was the last person seen with Christina, Police kept digging, even digging through the trash outside of Enrique's home.

Speaker 2 What did they get out of that?

Speaker 16 They saw several cleaning bottles that were empty, odor-removing chemicals, bottles of that that were empty.

Speaker 4 Which could have been used by him on his car or somebody in the house.

Speaker 16 Yeah, they're normal household cleaners, but the timing might be a bit suspicious.

Speaker 26 The trash runs continued.

Speaker 38 Then in late September, more than three weeks after Christina disappeared, They found this.

Speaker 16 A post-it note written in Spanish that's in the trash can.

Speaker 51 What's on the post-it note?

Speaker 16 The post-it note is a list of three or four things. It says in Spanish a black shirt, text messages from August 29th, and bank and cell phone bills.

Speaker 26 August 29th was the night Christina went missing.

Speaker 46 Police thought this might be a list of things to get rid of.

Speaker 14 Enrique was wearing a black shirt that night.

Speaker 16 The video clearly shows him wearing a black shirt the whole night.

Speaker 14 And bank and cell phone records might explain where he was, what he was doing.

Speaker 27 Right.

Speaker 39 Plano detectives were already looking at Enrique's cell phone records.

Speaker 40 Now they took a close look at his bank records.

Speaker 34 And they found this transaction at 10.15 Saturday morning, about six hours after Christina was last seen on that garage camera.

Speaker 19 What did he buy the morning that she went missing?

Speaker 16 He got gassed at a local grocery store with a gas station attached to it.

Speaker 26 This video from the gas pumps shows Enrique filling up his Camaro.

Speaker 16 And while he was getting gassed, he washes the back of his car where the trunk is at.

Speaker 57 Okay, he's washing the back of his car.

Speaker 41 He's a car guy.

Speaker 16 It's a bit odd. It's the squeegee you would use on your windshield, and he's washing the trunk area where the license plate's at.

Speaker 26 Remember, police had already searched the interior of Enrique's Camaro. Now they thought he might inadvertently be pointing them in a new direction.

Speaker 9 Police obtained a search warrant.

Speaker 27 and brought the car down to the crime lab garage. And they showed that gas station video to the CSI techs.

Speaker 16 And one of the CSI investigators thought to herself, where is a likely place that would have DNA that's hard to clean?

Speaker 16 And she said her gut told her to swab the weather stripping, the rubber portion of the trunk at the seal.

Speaker 32 It's that black rubber gasket that lines the opening of the trunk.

Speaker 16 They swab it and send it off to the laboratory for confirmatory tests.

Speaker 37 As you can imagine, detectives weren't saying much about the case, not even to Christina's parents.

Speaker 14 They're not giving you the play-by-play.

Speaker 45 Right.

Speaker 22 And we understand they can't, but, you know, we had to ask questions. We couldn't just sit and wait.

Speaker 49 They also had questions for Enrique.

Speaker 38 Maybe he knew more than he was telling.

Speaker 53 From the beginning, they'd been suspicious of his story.

Speaker 35 And given Christina's fear of being taken, Anna and Mark thought their daughter would never have let him leave her alone.

Speaker 15 on the walk to the car.

Speaker 22 She would have grabbed hold of his leg and screamed bloody murder, or she would would have run back into the apartment and got Stephen.

Speaker 47 She would not have walked to her car alone

Speaker 55 at three in the morning.

Speaker 24 Never.

Speaker 66 Now Christina's family wanted to speak with Enrique.

Speaker 56 He refused.

Speaker 69 So they began protesting in front of his house.

Speaker 31 For maximum impact, they gathered in the evenings when most people were home from work.

Speaker 12 And it worked. He didn't like it.

Speaker 21 Enrique started talking, making the interview rounds.

Speaker 15 This one with Telemundo Dallas.

Speaker 75 Are you afraid for your life?

Speaker 76 I am afraid for my life because of all the threats.

Speaker 75 Enrique, do you have anything to do with Christina's disappearance?

Speaker 76 No, I do not. I have nothing to do with her disappearance.

Speaker 75 Did you harm her at any way?

Speaker 76 No, I didn't. I wouldn't harm her anything, not even an animal, a fly, nothing.

Speaker 20 What happened?

Speaker 76 I have no idea. I wish I knew.

Speaker 15 Denials from Enrique and no concrete evidence that he, Hunter Foster, or anyone else was responsible for Christina's disappearance.

Speaker 40 Her family was losing hope.

Speaker 20 But in early December, about three months after Christina disappeared.

Speaker 61 Breaking news late tonight, we learned that Christina Morris's boyfriend is charged as part of a massive drug bust.

Speaker 42 Officially, Dallas police said Hunter Foster's arrest was not related to Christina's disappearance.

Speaker 19 Still, reporters wondered if police were telling the whole story.

Speaker 6 We didn't know if he was being maybe arrested for that federal drug charge and there was something there that might be connected to Christina.

Speaker 14 Just to get him into custody.

Speaker 6 Just to get him into custody? We had no clue.

Speaker 7 Coming up.

Speaker 16 She was fighting for her life.

Speaker 8 What happened to Christina Morris and who was behind it?

Speaker 7 New revelations in court.

Speaker 12 I can't even explain the motions in the pain.

Speaker 66 By early December 2014, Christina Morris had been missing for three months.

Speaker 30 Police had arrested her boyfriend, Hunter Foster, on drug charges.

Speaker 66 Investigators had thought he might have something to do with Christina's disappearance.

Speaker 27 But when they looked at cell tower and tollway records, they realized Hunter's alibi was rock solid.

Speaker 16 His cell phone is down in Dallas.

Speaker 16 His toll tag shows that he came back to Dallas that evening.

Speaker 16 Everything indicates he's in Dallas.

Speaker 14 Which is not anywhere near where she was getting into her car.

Speaker 16 20, 25 miles away.

Speaker 26 And the reason Hunter was so reluctant to give up his phone? Well, it had nothing to do with Christina.

Speaker 27 Hunter was dealing drugs that night.

Speaker 42 And the proof?

Speaker 20 One of his customers.

Speaker 44 was a narc.

Speaker 16 Hunter Foster actually dealt to an undercover agent.

Speaker 35 So on the night Christina vanishes, Hunter is selling drugs to an undercover officer.

Speaker 16 Yes, sir.

Speaker 27 Then, less than a week after Hunter's arrest, police had something else to announce.

Speaker 36 Enrique Oroce was under arrest for kidnapping Christina Morris, though police believed he had murdered her.

Speaker 12 I can't even explain the motions in the pain.

Speaker 4 My whole world was turned upside down.

Speaker 71 You knew she was gone then. Yeah.

Speaker 19 In September of 2016, almost two years to the day since Christina had vanished, Enrique Oroce went on trial at the Collin County Courthouse, charged with aggravated kidnapping.

Speaker 51 Zeke Fortenberry was the lead prosecutor.

Speaker 21 Why not prosecute him for murder?

Speaker 16 We thought about that, and I believe he did murder her. The problem is, is we didn't have a body to show that, and we didn't have a crime scene to show murder.

Speaker 26 The prosecutor showed the jury those those interviews Enrique gave police and pointed out his changing stories.

Speaker 16 Why did he lie again and again and again?

Speaker 26 He told the jury that even though she can't be seen here, Christina was probably in the passenger seat of Enrique's car.

Speaker 16 So why did Christina get in the car? My guess says he lied to her.

Speaker 68 Maybe he told her, I'll take you home to Fort Worth.

Speaker 29 Fortenberry pointed to records from cell phone towers that he said proved she was in the car.

Speaker 59 He said Christina's phone battery was almost drained as she and Enrique approached the garage that night.

Speaker 66 Not surprisingly, their phones were pinging near each other.

Speaker 70 Then it gets a bit murky.

Speaker 55 The prosecutor explained that after the Camaro left the garage, it passed through a toll station, heading north on the highway.

Speaker 31 But about 10 minutes later, Christina's phone pinged off a tower back near the shopping mall.

Speaker 53 And then, so did Enrique's.

Speaker 56 Almost as if they'd made a U-turn.

Speaker 16 And I think something changed. I think maybe he put the moves on her and started making sexual advances towards her, and she was not okay with that.
And then maybe it's when the altercation began.

Speaker 26 Detectives testified they'd seen injuries on Enrique's arms and hands.

Speaker 16 Because as Detective Busby said, there was a fight.

Speaker 16 It was between Enrique and Christina, and she was fighting for her life.

Speaker 66 Finally, the state presented its strongest evidence.

Speaker 69 CSI techs testified they did find Christina's DNA, a lot of it, in that rubber gasket lining the trunk of Enriquez Camaro.

Speaker 56 What they found was probably blood, said experts, but they weren't 100%

Speaker 71 sure.

Speaker 26 They were sure that it belonged to Christina.

Speaker 59 And that's not all.

Speaker 16 We also found two other places on the trunk mat that also came back with Christina's DNA.

Speaker 68 Where is Christina Morris?

Speaker 16 I told you at the beginning of this case, I wouldn't be able to answer that question.

Speaker 68 Where was Christina Morris?

Speaker 16 In the defendant's trunk.

Speaker 14 Do you think she was alive when she was in the trunk?

Speaker 16 I think she was dying or dead. Tell the defendant, you got your day at court,

Speaker 16 and you're guilty.

Speaker 66 But Enrique Arochi had maintained his innocence throughout the investigation.

Speaker 56 Now his defense attorney, Keith Gore, was going to try to pick apart the case against him.

Speaker 33 The only thing that matters in a criminal case is: can the prosecution prove the words in the indictment?

Speaker 19 Lorraine Caceres covered the trial.

Speaker 6 The defense concentrated on the fact there was no body. They concentrated on the fact there was no video of Christina getting into the suspect's car.

Speaker 48 Gore told the jury Enrique had been cooperative.

Speaker 26 And as for the injuries on his arms and hands, Enrique told detectives he'd been working on his car.

Speaker 13 When the tire landed on me, because I took it off, he was too heavy, so he just landed right.

Speaker 63 Oh, oh, okay.

Speaker 13 Okay. That makes sense.

Speaker 63 Okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 72 All right.

Speaker 37 And Christina's DNA in the trunk.

Speaker 36 Gore pointed out, Enrique's Camaro and Christina's Toyota were both processed at the same police garage.

Speaker 77 This is a one bay, one garage, and you've got all these cars coming in and out. Nobody needs to tell you this.
This is how cross-contamination occurs.

Speaker 77 The evidence is not there beyond a reasonable doubt. And I would ask for your verdict of not guilty.

Speaker 43 Enrique did not testify, and the jury got the case.

Speaker 19 Deliberations dragged on for two days.

Speaker 4 And then a verdict.

Speaker 73 We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of aggravated kidnapping as charged in the indictment.

Speaker 12 They saw that evidence.

Speaker 12 The right thing

Speaker 12 was done that day.

Speaker 48 The judge gave Enrique the maximum life in prison.

Speaker 78 She put her trust in you to walk her to her car.

Speaker 26 Christina's family finally got to confront Enrique in court.

Speaker 79 How can you sit there and not tell us what happened to our girl?

Speaker 12 I will make sure

Speaker 12 till I take my last dying breath that she is remembered with dignity, dignity, respect, integrity, everything you are not, Enrique.

Speaker 71 Christina's family and friends continued to search for her every weekend.

Speaker 66 Then in March 2018, about 25 miles north of the garage where she disappeared, construction workers clearing brush discovered human remains.

Speaker 80 The Collin County Medical Examiner's Office has examined the recovered remains and this morning has positively identified the remains as those of Christina Morris.

Speaker 34 It had been 42 months since she went missing, and now Christina's family finally had an answer.

Speaker 42 Enrique Orochi has exhausted all his appeals and will serve 30 years in prison before he's eligible for parole.

Speaker 7 That's all for now. I'm Lester Holt.
Thanks for joining us.

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