1 00:00:08,108 --> 00:00:09,809 [Diana] He had lots of girlfriends. 2 00:00:09,843 --> 00:00:11,444 All the girls loved Harvey. 3 00:00:11,478 --> 00:00:13,079 [Dora] Then he met Melissa 4 00:00:13,113 --> 00:00:15,882 and he only had eyes for her. 5 00:00:17,217 --> 00:00:20,020 [Faith] They fell hard and they fell fast. 6 00:00:20,053 --> 00:00:21,521 [Diana] And they were kind of like 7 00:00:21,554 --> 00:00:22,956 attached at the hip. 8 00:00:22,989 --> 00:00:25,725 [Faith] But when Harvey Huber disappears. 9 00:00:26,159 --> 00:00:28,094 [Dora] I called Melissa, I said, 10 00:00:28,128 --> 00:00:30,263 "What do you mean Harvey is missing?" 11 00:00:31,131 --> 00:00:33,600 [Faith] The cracks are exposed for all to see. 12 00:00:33,633 --> 00:00:37,270 [Rex] Nobody knew that there was anything wrong. 13 00:00:45,478 --> 00:00:49,249 [Reid] Right away, things didn't seem right. 14 00:00:49,749 --> 00:00:50,817 [Kirby] Did she say something? 15 00:00:50,850 --> 00:00:52,385 Did she help plan this? 16 00:00:59,659 --> 00:01:01,127 [Faith] With multiple suspects, 17 00:01:01,161 --> 00:01:03,963 will investigators manage to unearth the truth? 18 00:01:04,931 --> 00:01:07,967 [Reid] I may have found something in this tunnel. 19 00:01:09,502 --> 00:01:11,538 [Faith] Of this killer relationship. 20 00:01:12,806 --> 00:01:14,207 - It was horrible. 21 00:01:15,275 --> 00:01:27,087 [dramatic music] 22 00:01:27,954 --> 00:01:29,889 - In the movies, high school sweethearts 23 00:01:29,923 --> 00:01:32,926 almost always live happily ever after. 24 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:33,960 But in real life, 25 00:01:33,993 --> 00:01:37,831 fewer than 2% of teenage romances actually last. 26 00:01:38,398 --> 00:01:41,101 Which is why the story of Harvey and Melissa Huber 27 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:42,836 is so extraordinary. 28 00:01:42,869 --> 00:01:47,774 After high school, they go on to enjoy a 30-year marriage, 29 00:01:47,807 --> 00:01:50,276 two children, five grandchildren, 30 00:01:50,310 --> 00:01:53,680 and a thriving business they built from the ground up. 31 00:01:53,713 --> 00:01:55,548 So with such a strong foundation, 32 00:01:55,582 --> 00:01:58,918 how did this fairytale romance lead to such a heartbreaking 33 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:00,453 and violent end? 34 00:02:00,487 --> 00:02:04,624 [eerie music] 35 00:02:04,657 --> 00:02:10,964 [upbeat country music] 36 00:02:11,064 --> 00:02:13,199 [Dora] Harvey was born in Austin, Texas. 37 00:02:13,233 --> 00:02:16,936 He was the only boy with five sisters. 38 00:02:16,970 --> 00:02:18,705 Oh my gosh. 39 00:02:18,738 --> 00:02:20,206 He was spoiled rotten 40 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,175 and he was so cute. 41 00:02:22,609 --> 00:02:25,712 [Rick] He was probably four years old 42 00:02:25,745 --> 00:02:27,580 when we moved out to Liberty Hill. 43 00:02:28,682 --> 00:02:30,517 His mom and daddy were divorced. 44 00:02:31,117 --> 00:02:32,652 He wanted to be with us. 45 00:02:33,486 --> 00:02:36,189 He was like a little brother slash son to me. 46 00:02:36,222 --> 00:02:37,190 I taught him how to fish. 47 00:02:37,223 --> 00:02:38,224 I taught him how to hunt. 48 00:02:38,258 --> 00:02:39,859 I taught him how to be a mechanic. 49 00:02:39,893 --> 00:02:41,861 Everything that he'd done as a man, 50 00:02:41,895 --> 00:02:43,430 I taught him how to do. 51 00:02:43,463 --> 00:02:46,700 [gentle music] 52 00:02:46,733 --> 00:02:48,902 [Diana] There were kids that we went to school with 53 00:02:48,935 --> 00:02:51,971 that were terribly picked on because they didn't have water. 54 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:53,473 They had to take baths in the river 55 00:02:53,506 --> 00:02:55,909 and people wouldn't let 'em sit with us on the bus 56 00:02:55,942 --> 00:02:58,678 and Harvey would stand up for these people 57 00:02:58,712 --> 00:03:01,047 and he had the underdogs' back. 58 00:03:01,047 --> 00:03:04,050 He was just all around kind that way. 59 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:07,887 - Harvey, when he was in high school, he was very popular. 60 00:03:07,921 --> 00:03:09,689 [upbeat music] 61 00:03:09,723 --> 00:03:11,057 Everybody liked him. 62 00:03:11,057 --> 00:03:12,892 The girls really liked him a lot. 63 00:03:13,493 --> 00:03:16,629 [Dora] But he only had eyes for Melissa at that point. 64 00:03:16,663 --> 00:03:18,064 [Diana] Harvey and Melissa lived a couple blocks 65 00:03:18,064 --> 00:03:19,632 away from each other 66 00:03:19,666 --> 00:03:24,971 and they met probably when Harvey was about 18 67 00:03:25,071 --> 00:03:26,272 and they were kind of like 68 00:03:26,306 --> 00:03:27,540 attached at the hip. 69 00:03:28,541 --> 00:03:30,176 [Rick] They used to like to go dancing and stuff 70 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:32,212 and they went to the movie some, 71 00:03:32,245 --> 00:03:35,081 they went to the rodeos and the stuff you do here in Texas. 72 00:03:35,248 --> 00:03:37,584 [Dora] Harvey was so outgoing 73 00:03:37,617 --> 00:03:40,153 and he was so goofy, 74 00:03:40,186 --> 00:03:42,756 but I think that's what Melissa liked in him, 75 00:03:42,789 --> 00:03:44,758 plus, he was a good-looking guy. 76 00:03:45,091 --> 00:03:46,092 [Diana] She was really pretty. 77 00:03:46,092 --> 00:03:49,162 She looked like Trisha Yearwood back in the day. 78 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:52,332 [Dora] I think it was a little bit after high school. 79 00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:55,201 Melissa got pregnant with Shelby. 80 00:03:55,702 --> 00:03:57,103 [Diana] Harvey and Melissa's daughter, Shelby, 81 00:03:57,103 --> 00:03:59,673 was born in 1989. 82 00:03:59,706 --> 00:04:03,043 And then Harvey and Melissa got married in 1990, 83 00:04:03,043 --> 00:04:05,245 a year after Shelby Anna was born. 84 00:04:05,278 --> 00:04:07,180 [Dora] Harvey and Melissa 85 00:04:07,213 --> 00:04:09,049 were having a hard time making it, 86 00:04:09,049 --> 00:04:10,383 making ends meet 87 00:04:10,417 --> 00:04:14,054 because jobs were hard back then for everybody. 88 00:04:14,054 --> 00:04:17,390 [gentle music] 89 00:04:17,424 --> 00:04:20,093 - The young couple settled just 30 or so miles from Austin 90 00:04:20,126 --> 00:04:21,828 in Liberty Hill. 91 00:04:21,861 --> 00:04:23,363 Today it's a booming suburb, 92 00:04:23,396 --> 00:04:25,298 but back in the early '90s, 93 00:04:25,331 --> 00:04:28,068 this was as remote as it gets. 94 00:04:28,068 --> 00:04:30,203 There simply weren't many opportunities. 95 00:04:30,236 --> 00:04:33,506 But Harvey perseveres and he eventually lands a job 96 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:34,774 as a mechanic. 97 00:04:34,808 --> 00:04:37,677 [upbeat country music] 98 00:04:37,711 --> 00:04:40,947 [Rex] Harvey's dream was always to have his own shop, 99 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:42,816 to have his own place. 100 00:04:42,849 --> 00:04:44,084 - Harvey loved working on cars. 101 00:04:44,117 --> 00:04:45,985 Oh my gosh, every time we went over there, 102 00:04:46,086 --> 00:04:48,555 he was greasy and he had no fingernails 103 00:04:48,588 --> 00:04:51,157 'cause he had to cut 'em back so far. 104 00:04:53,426 --> 00:04:56,830 [Rick] In 1997, they had Phillip, their son, 105 00:04:56,863 --> 00:04:59,766 and Harvey was very excited to have a son. 106 00:04:59,799 --> 00:05:01,901 It was probably one of the biggest days of Harvey's life. 107 00:05:03,269 --> 00:05:05,839 [Dora] Harvey got those kids anything they wanted. 108 00:05:05,872 --> 00:05:08,475 Harvey had to go without, 109 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:10,110 but his children 110 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:11,678 never went without. 111 00:05:13,346 --> 00:05:16,249 [Faith] In 2000, Harvey's dream becomes a reality 112 00:05:16,282 --> 00:05:19,119 with the opening of Huber Auto Repair in Georgetown, 113 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:22,088 the larger city right next door to Liberty Hill. 114 00:05:22,122 --> 00:05:24,057 - When Harvey first started his shop, 115 00:05:24,057 --> 00:05:26,159 he was working seven days a week. 116 00:05:26,192 --> 00:05:28,661 And I mean he grew, he grew really fast. 117 00:05:28,695 --> 00:05:32,165 [Dora] He got to the point where he had built it so much, 118 00:05:32,198 --> 00:05:35,435 he couldn't keep up with the phones. 119 00:05:35,468 --> 00:05:39,139 So Melissa started answering the phones. 120 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:41,374 That helped out tremendously. 121 00:05:42,175 --> 00:05:44,077 - Melissa, I give her credit, 122 00:05:44,110 --> 00:05:46,813 she did help get that business on its feet 123 00:05:46,846 --> 00:05:50,083 and started running it right. 124 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:53,319 [Dora] And the marriage seemed to get stronger 125 00:05:53,353 --> 00:05:55,422 when Melissa came there. 126 00:05:57,557 --> 00:05:58,858 [Faith] Harvey has come a long way 127 00:05:58,892 --> 00:06:00,360 from his humble beginnings 128 00:06:00,393 --> 00:06:01,728 and though so much has changed 129 00:06:01,761 --> 00:06:04,197 since he was a little boy in Liberty Hill, 130 00:06:04,230 --> 00:06:06,399 one thing remains, 131 00:06:06,433 --> 00:06:09,035 Harvey still looks out for the underdog. 132 00:06:09,035 --> 00:06:11,171 [upbeat country music] 133 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:12,238 [Rick] People would come to his shop 134 00:06:12,272 --> 00:06:14,774 and he would fix their cars and they would say, 135 00:06:14,808 --> 00:06:15,909 "Harvey, I can't pay you." 136 00:06:15,942 --> 00:06:18,745 It's okay, just take your car and pay me when you can. 137 00:06:19,412 --> 00:06:21,348 He thought he could fix anybody. 138 00:06:21,381 --> 00:06:23,316 [Faith] Harvey's inclination to help others 139 00:06:23,350 --> 00:06:26,653 draws many to him and they know where to find him. 140 00:06:26,686 --> 00:06:29,055 Huber Auto is not only a workplace, 141 00:06:29,089 --> 00:06:30,390 but a gathering place, 142 00:06:30,423 --> 00:06:31,858 and all are welcome. 143 00:06:31,891 --> 00:06:34,761 [Rick] Harvey, he loved to be surrounded by friends. 144 00:06:34,794 --> 00:06:35,662 At the end of the day, 145 00:06:35,695 --> 00:06:37,430 he'd go get a case of beer or whatever 146 00:06:37,464 --> 00:06:39,966 and then all his buddies would show up, 147 00:06:40,066 --> 00:06:42,502 and even his workers would stay 148 00:06:42,535 --> 00:06:43,870 and have a few beers with him, 149 00:06:43,903 --> 00:06:46,473 and it was almost a daily thing. 150 00:06:46,973 --> 00:06:48,174 He liked his beer 151 00:06:48,208 --> 00:06:50,377 and he liked to drink a little whiskey there now and then. 152 00:06:50,877 --> 00:06:53,413 [Dora] Harvey did drink and, you know, 153 00:06:53,446 --> 00:06:56,349 he could be excessive to say the least. 154 00:06:56,383 --> 00:06:57,584 - Did he drink too much? 155 00:06:57,617 --> 00:06:58,585 Maybe. 156 00:06:58,618 --> 00:07:02,589 [somber music] 157 00:07:02,622 --> 00:07:04,791 Sometime Harvey's drinking bugged Melissa 158 00:07:04,824 --> 00:07:08,028 because it would make him stay at the shop all night 159 00:07:08,028 --> 00:07:11,197 'cause he wouldn't drive after he got to drinking, you know? 160 00:07:11,531 --> 00:07:13,199 [Dora] I don't know what they would fight about, 161 00:07:13,233 --> 00:07:15,902 for real, I don't, 162 00:07:15,935 --> 00:07:17,337 but they did fight. 163 00:07:18,571 --> 00:07:21,041 - I think they kept that part behind closed doors a lot. 164 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:24,844 - Nobody, 165 00:07:24,878 --> 00:07:28,548 nobody knew that there was anything wrong. 166 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:32,786 [ominous music] 167 00:07:32,819 --> 00:07:36,489 [Dora] February the 26th of 2020, 168 00:07:36,523 --> 00:07:40,660 Rick gets a phone call from little Phillip, Harvey's son, 169 00:07:40,694 --> 00:07:43,663 and he says, "My dad is missing." 170 00:07:43,697 --> 00:07:47,167 [Rick] And I said, "Well, did you check around?" 171 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:48,935 He said, "Yeah, we looked everywhere, 172 00:07:48,968 --> 00:07:50,103 we can't find him." 173 00:07:50,770 --> 00:07:53,573 [Dora] So I called Melissa, I said, 174 00:07:53,606 --> 00:07:55,809 "What do you mean Harvey is missing?" 175 00:07:55,842 --> 00:07:59,913 She said something in the order of, "I can't do this." 176 00:08:00,013 --> 00:08:02,248 And she handed the phone to Shelby and I said, 177 00:08:02,282 --> 00:08:04,484 "Shelby, where's your daddy?" 178 00:08:04,517 --> 00:08:06,286 And she said, "We don't know where he is." 179 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:09,756 I said, "What do you mean you don't know where he is?" 180 00:08:09,789 --> 00:08:11,658 And she said, "He didn't come home." 181 00:08:12,759 --> 00:08:14,761 And I said, "Did you call the cops?" 182 00:08:14,794 --> 00:08:17,030 And she said, "We haven't called 'em yet." 183 00:08:17,063 --> 00:08:20,200 And I said, "Y'all need to call the cops." 184 00:08:20,233 --> 00:08:22,836 [dramatic music] 185 00:08:23,770 --> 00:08:25,205 [Diana] Melissa didn't search. 186 00:08:25,238 --> 00:08:27,240 She was there, but she didn't go. 187 00:08:27,741 --> 00:08:30,110 [Kirby] The argument gets really heated. 188 00:08:30,143 --> 00:08:31,778 He was the last one to see Harvey. 189 00:08:32,045 --> 00:08:33,313 [Reid] It's pitch black. 190 00:08:33,346 --> 00:08:35,482 I get my rifle, 191 00:08:35,515 --> 00:08:36,716 I go down into this tunnel. 192 00:08:57,137 --> 00:08:58,271 - You can usually set a clock 193 00:08:58,304 --> 00:09:00,573 by Harvey Huber's daily routine. 194 00:09:00,607 --> 00:09:02,308 Every morning without fail, 195 00:09:02,342 --> 00:09:05,278 Harvey opens his shop by 7:30 AM. 196 00:09:05,311 --> 00:09:07,781 But on Wednesday, February 26th, 197 00:09:07,814 --> 00:09:09,549 he never shows up for work. 198 00:09:10,150 --> 00:09:12,485 In fact, his family hasn't heard a word from him 199 00:09:12,519 --> 00:09:14,354 since Tuesday night. 200 00:09:14,387 --> 00:09:16,756 By the afternoon, Harvey's wife, Melissa, 201 00:09:16,790 --> 00:09:19,025 is worried enough to call the police. 202 00:09:19,025 --> 00:09:22,395 [dramatic music] 203 00:09:22,429 --> 00:09:24,330 - On February 26th, 2020, 204 00:09:24,364 --> 00:09:25,665 I was notified of a 205 00:09:25,699 --> 00:09:27,400 missing person's case 206 00:09:27,434 --> 00:09:29,803 down at Huber Automotive. 207 00:09:29,836 --> 00:09:32,372 Melissa explained to me that Harvey was last seen 208 00:09:32,405 --> 00:09:34,507 the night before at his shop. 209 00:09:40,046 --> 00:09:42,849 - When the mechanics arrived for work, 210 00:09:42,882 --> 00:09:44,751 they noticed that front door was broken. 211 00:09:49,756 --> 00:09:51,191 - The truck was there, 212 00:09:51,224 --> 00:09:52,492 his keys and wallet were there. 213 00:10:01,668 --> 00:10:03,536 - So if something happened to him, 214 00:10:03,570 --> 00:10:05,338 it wasn't a robbery. 215 00:10:05,372 --> 00:10:07,841 In the shop, they found his keys, 216 00:10:07,874 --> 00:10:09,776 his cigarettes and his cell phone. 217 00:10:10,210 --> 00:10:12,078 And I learned that Harvey had made several phone calls 218 00:10:12,112 --> 00:10:14,047 to Melissa the night before. 219 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,827 - She said there are times that 220 00:10:27,861 --> 00:10:30,463 he does get intoxicated at his shop. 221 00:10:30,497 --> 00:10:32,632 And he's been known to walk home 222 00:10:32,665 --> 00:10:35,135 about 20 miles to Bartlett, Texas. 223 00:10:36,102 --> 00:10:37,303 People do strange things. 224 00:10:50,450 --> 00:10:52,952 - Speaking to Melissa, she was concerned. 225 00:10:53,353 --> 00:10:55,655 [dramatic music] 226 00:10:55,689 --> 00:10:57,791 I did not see any blood, 227 00:10:57,824 --> 00:11:00,360 did not see any other damage. 228 00:11:00,393 --> 00:11:03,697 So it was hard to say that something had 229 00:11:03,730 --> 00:11:05,065 happened to Harvey. 230 00:11:05,065 --> 00:11:08,468 My initial feeling was that we would find Harvey 231 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:11,638 sleeping it off alongside the road alive, 232 00:11:11,671 --> 00:11:12,739 that's what we were hoping. 233 00:11:18,178 --> 00:11:21,414 - Huber Automotive is a good-size piece of property 234 00:11:21,448 --> 00:11:22,482 with the shop up front 235 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:24,417 and storage for vehicles in the back. 236 00:11:24,718 --> 00:11:27,354 Officers walked the perimeter of the fence 237 00:11:27,387 --> 00:11:29,823 and they checked the vehicles. 238 00:11:29,856 --> 00:11:32,659 Harvey wasn't on the property, but. 239 00:11:46,673 --> 00:11:48,508 - When I was told about the tarp missing, 240 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:50,276 I did have two different feelings. 241 00:11:50,310 --> 00:11:53,513 I said, "It could be Harvey took the tarp with him 242 00:11:53,546 --> 00:11:55,715 as a windbreaker to walk home, 243 00:11:55,749 --> 00:11:57,150 or maybe this is a sign 244 00:11:57,183 --> 00:11:59,919 that something more ominous has happened. 245 00:12:02,522 --> 00:12:04,257 So we were speaking with everybody, 246 00:12:04,290 --> 00:12:06,459 trying to find any information, 247 00:12:06,493 --> 00:12:08,061 any clues on what could have happened. 248 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:16,803 - And it was explained to me 249 00:12:16,836 --> 00:12:19,873 that it was a normal Tuesday afternoon. 250 00:12:19,906 --> 00:12:22,142 Friends come over at the end of the day, 251 00:12:22,175 --> 00:12:26,546 they drink a little beer or whiskey and just talk shop 252 00:12:26,579 --> 00:12:30,083 until Josh got into an argument with Harvey. 253 00:12:38,391 --> 00:12:40,160 - People started to go home. 254 00:12:40,193 --> 00:12:41,094 Once everybody left, 255 00:12:41,127 --> 00:12:43,697 it was just Josh and Harvey at the shop. 256 00:12:50,537 --> 00:12:52,305 [Kirby] The argument gets heated. 257 00:12:52,339 --> 00:12:53,239 From my understanding, 258 00:12:53,273 --> 00:12:55,375 Harvey was trying to get Josh to do more, 259 00:12:55,408 --> 00:12:57,877 to get more certifications so he can support himself 260 00:12:57,911 --> 00:13:00,413 to make something out of himself. 261 00:13:15,061 --> 00:13:17,197 [Kirby] And so that left Harvey at the shop by himself. 262 00:13:17,230 --> 00:13:20,066 So Josh was the last one to see Harvey. 263 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:21,434 So we learned that 264 00:13:21,468 --> 00:13:24,204 Josh Northcutt is a 25-year-old male 265 00:13:24,237 --> 00:13:25,605 who works for Harvey. 266 00:13:25,638 --> 00:13:28,074 Harvey and Melissa were like his parents. 267 00:13:34,314 --> 00:13:35,281 [Kirby] Well, in the moment, 268 00:13:35,315 --> 00:13:37,384 I believed that Josh was telling me the truth. 269 00:13:37,417 --> 00:13:38,618 But I told him, I said, 270 00:13:38,651 --> 00:13:40,987 "Hey, we need to have a little bit more of a conversation." 271 00:13:41,388 --> 00:13:43,289 [Faith] Detective Shoemake also wants to speak 272 00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:46,126 with any other friends who dropped by the shop 273 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:47,560 the night before, 274 00:13:47,594 --> 00:13:50,230 including frequent customer, Dan Adams, 275 00:13:50,263 --> 00:13:53,099 and tow truck driver, Jimmy Tschoerner. 276 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:55,635 [Kirby] We learned Jimmy was the last person 277 00:13:55,669 --> 00:13:58,905 to see the argument between Harvey and Josh. 278 00:13:58,938 --> 00:13:59,906 And I told him, I said, 279 00:13:59,939 --> 00:14:02,342 "I'm gonna probably wanna talk to you later." 280 00:14:03,343 --> 00:14:04,577 We don't have a time period 281 00:14:04,611 --> 00:14:06,246 on when somebody has to be missing. 282 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:09,049 When the report is filed, the investigation begins. 283 00:14:09,049 --> 00:14:11,818 So once I did the initial interviews, 284 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:14,354 we listed Harvey as a missing person. 285 00:14:17,424 --> 00:14:20,560 - Statistics will tell you that most adults who go missing 286 00:14:20,593 --> 00:14:22,629 show up within a day or two. 287 00:14:22,662 --> 00:14:24,931 Sometimes they just wanna take a break. 288 00:14:24,964 --> 00:14:26,199 But that's cold comfort 289 00:14:26,232 --> 00:14:28,902 for the loved ones left behind to worry. 290 00:14:28,935 --> 00:14:31,838 As the sun sets on the first 24 hours 291 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:33,673 of Harvey's disappearance, 292 00:14:33,707 --> 00:14:36,443 his increasingly frantic family calls a meeting 293 00:14:36,476 --> 00:14:37,811 at Huber Auto. 294 00:14:37,844 --> 00:14:39,879 They need a plan to find him. 295 00:14:40,980 --> 00:14:44,284 [Reva] We were like, "Okay, Harvey, where are you?" 296 00:14:44,317 --> 00:14:47,687 And Melissa kept saying, "Oh, sometimes he's walked home." 297 00:14:47,721 --> 00:14:48,888 [Rick] I didn't know what to think. 298 00:14:48,922 --> 00:14:51,891 It was cold and he could be out there freezing to death. 299 00:14:51,925 --> 00:14:54,894 - Okay, so let's make a posse. 300 00:14:54,928 --> 00:14:56,162 And it was getting dark. 301 00:14:56,196 --> 00:14:58,965 So we grabbed what flashlights we could. 302 00:15:00,367 --> 00:15:03,503 [Rick] We looked in every pipe, under every bridge. 303 00:15:03,536 --> 00:15:05,338 We looked in every barn, 304 00:15:05,372 --> 00:15:07,941 everything that we came up on from Georgetown 305 00:15:08,041 --> 00:15:10,043 to Bartlett, Texas looking for Harvey. 306 00:15:11,111 --> 00:15:12,879 [Dora] I'm thinking maybe Harvey fell 307 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:14,481 and he broke his leg really bad, 308 00:15:14,514 --> 00:15:18,284 so I started screaming for him everywhere we were walking. 309 00:15:18,318 --> 00:15:23,423 - All we could do was walk and look and cry and wonder, 310 00:15:23,456 --> 00:15:24,290 "Where is he?" 311 00:15:25,225 --> 00:15:26,459 [Faith] The desperate search for Harvey 312 00:15:26,493 --> 00:15:28,228 lasts deep into the night. 313 00:15:28,261 --> 00:15:32,065 But there's one family member conspicuously absent. 314 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:35,368 [Diana] Melissa didn't search. 315 00:15:35,402 --> 00:15:37,570 She was there at the shop, 316 00:15:37,604 --> 00:15:39,072 but she didn't go. 317 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:42,342 [Reva] She never looked. 318 00:15:42,375 --> 00:15:44,077 I was like, 319 00:15:44,077 --> 00:15:46,079 "Why? I mean, this is your husband." 320 00:15:47,213 --> 00:15:48,515 [Dora] She said, "Harvey wouldn't want me 321 00:15:48,548 --> 00:15:49,949 to leave the shop." 322 00:15:49,983 --> 00:15:53,386 And about that time, 323 00:15:53,420 --> 00:15:55,155 Shelby Anna got there 324 00:15:55,188 --> 00:15:58,091 and she said, "Is our pizza here yet?" 325 00:15:58,525 --> 00:16:01,061 And I said, 326 00:16:01,795 --> 00:16:03,196 "Pizza?!" 327 00:16:04,831 --> 00:16:07,033 And we left. 328 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:10,070 It was horrible. 329 00:16:12,272 --> 00:16:16,343 And we hollered and we walked 330 00:16:16,376 --> 00:16:18,478 and they stayed there and ate pizza. 331 00:16:18,511 --> 00:16:20,413 [dramatic music] 332 00:16:20,447 --> 00:16:21,681 [Rex] Where, where is he? 333 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:24,250 Is he in the sand and gravel pit? 334 00:16:24,951 --> 00:16:26,553 Is he in a shallow grave? 335 00:16:27,220 --> 00:16:29,356 Something is horribly wrong. 336 00:16:34,694 --> 00:16:37,630 [eerie music] 337 00:16:37,664 --> 00:16:39,966 - By Thursday, February 27th, 338 00:16:40,066 --> 00:16:43,236 Harvey Huber has been missing for 36 hours. 339 00:16:43,269 --> 00:16:46,573 His friends and family continue their harrowing search. 340 00:16:46,606 --> 00:16:48,742 But one person stays behind, 341 00:16:48,775 --> 00:16:50,510 Harvey's wife, Melissa. 342 00:16:50,543 --> 00:16:52,712 Maybe she's in denial about the seriousness 343 00:16:52,746 --> 00:16:54,247 of the situation, 344 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,183 or maybe she knows more than she's letting on. 345 00:16:57,650 --> 00:17:01,187 After all, if Harvey is the victim of a crime, 346 00:17:01,221 --> 00:17:03,256 the significant other is almost always 347 00:17:03,289 --> 00:17:04,858 the first potential suspect. 348 00:17:05,625 --> 00:17:07,894 [Diana] Everybody deals with things differently. 349 00:17:07,927 --> 00:17:10,397 But if it were me, I would've been looking. 350 00:17:12,032 --> 00:17:14,034 [Kirby] Melissa wasn't out looking for Harvey. 351 00:17:14,034 --> 00:17:15,835 It was almost like she had already known 352 00:17:15,869 --> 00:17:17,303 what had happened to him. 353 00:17:18,772 --> 00:17:20,707 When we asked for an interview, 354 00:17:20,740 --> 00:17:22,709 "Melissa, you asked for a lawyer. 355 00:17:22,742 --> 00:17:26,646 It is not common for a spouse to hire an attorney 356 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,750 for a missing person if they're trying to help find them, 357 00:17:30,784 --> 00:17:32,485 and that's all we were trying to do." 358 00:17:33,053 --> 00:17:34,954 We just wanted basic information 359 00:17:35,055 --> 00:17:37,090 and yet she didn't wanna speak to us. 360 00:17:38,191 --> 00:17:40,794 [Faith] So Detective Shoemake heads back to Huber Auto 361 00:17:40,827 --> 00:17:42,362 to speak with Josh Northcutt, 362 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:45,298 the last person to lay eyes on Harvey. 363 00:17:46,833 --> 00:17:49,069 [Kirby] So we talked to Josh again 364 00:17:49,102 --> 00:17:51,338 and his story was still the same. 365 00:17:52,505 --> 00:17:56,142 At around 9:00 PM, Josh got into an argument with Harvey 366 00:17:56,176 --> 00:17:59,179 and that is when Harvey tells Josh to leave. 367 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,317 I asked Josh where he went after he left. 368 00:18:04,351 --> 00:18:07,687 He decided to walk to his friend's shop, Dan Adams, 369 00:18:07,721 --> 00:18:12,859 which is not but maybe 100 yards from Huber Automotive. 370 00:18:13,393 --> 00:18:16,529 Josh stayed the night at the shop with Dan. 371 00:18:16,563 --> 00:18:18,231 Dan confirmed this. 372 00:18:19,332 --> 00:18:21,735 [Faith] Though Dan corroborates Josh's story, 373 00:18:21,768 --> 00:18:25,171 Detective Shoemake wants digital proof of his whereabouts 374 00:18:25,205 --> 00:18:28,341 in order to clear him as a person of interest. 375 00:18:29,209 --> 00:18:32,212 [Kirby] One way to find out where people go now 376 00:18:32,245 --> 00:18:34,681 is you ask for their cell phone. 377 00:18:34,714 --> 00:18:36,216 Cell phone knows all. 378 00:18:37,384 --> 00:18:40,120 [Faith] The 25-year-old agrees to release his phone, 379 00:18:40,153 --> 00:18:42,655 but processing his cell data could take days. 380 00:18:43,623 --> 00:18:46,192 While he waits, Detective Shoemake wants 381 00:18:46,226 --> 00:18:48,661 to question the man who witnessed the argument 382 00:18:48,695 --> 00:18:50,663 between Harvey and Josh, 383 00:18:50,697 --> 00:18:53,533 47-year-old Jimmy Tschoerner. 384 00:18:54,567 --> 00:18:56,136 [dramatic music] 385 00:18:56,169 --> 00:18:57,704 [Kirby] I was told it's not unusual 386 00:18:57,737 --> 00:18:59,739 to see Jimmy at Huber Automotive 387 00:18:59,773 --> 00:19:02,442 because Harvey's the one that gave him a chance. 388 00:19:03,443 --> 00:19:05,211 [Rick] He was living on the street. 389 00:19:05,245 --> 00:19:08,248 He came by Harvey's shop looking for work, 390 00:19:08,281 --> 00:19:10,283 told Harvey his situation. 391 00:19:10,316 --> 00:19:12,252 He took Jimmy in and gave him whatever he needed. 392 00:19:12,285 --> 00:19:13,319 He even got him a job 393 00:19:13,353 --> 00:19:16,489 working for a towing company there in Georgetown. 394 00:19:18,491 --> 00:19:21,127 [Kirby] So during the interview with Jimmy, 395 00:19:21,161 --> 00:19:23,697 he explained that on the night that Harvey went missing, 396 00:19:23,730 --> 00:19:27,067 Jimmy was on call for Tip Tow, 397 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:28,368 the tow truck company. 398 00:19:28,935 --> 00:19:30,337 He said he was at Huber Automotive 399 00:19:30,370 --> 00:19:32,105 hanging out with everybody. 400 00:19:32,138 --> 00:19:35,208 Jimmy saw Josh get into an argument with Harvey. 401 00:19:35,241 --> 00:19:37,510 The argument gets real heated, 402 00:19:37,544 --> 00:19:39,779 and that is when Jimmy said he left. 403 00:19:41,448 --> 00:19:43,416 [Faith] But what Jimmy says next 404 00:19:43,450 --> 00:19:47,587 turns the investigation timeline upside down. 405 00:19:47,620 --> 00:19:51,591 [dramatic music] 406 00:19:51,624 --> 00:19:54,160 [Kirby] Jimmy told me that he returned to Huber Automotive 407 00:19:54,194 --> 00:19:56,496 after Josh had left. 408 00:19:57,464 --> 00:19:59,866 He came back to the shop to check on Harvey 409 00:19:59,899 --> 00:20:03,103 because he knew he was intoxicated, 410 00:20:03,136 --> 00:20:06,239 but Harvey just yelled at him through the door, 411 00:20:06,272 --> 00:20:09,409 so he just left at around 10 o'clock. 412 00:20:11,011 --> 00:20:13,680 So, now we knew Jimmy was the last person 413 00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:15,348 to see Harvey alive, 414 00:20:15,382 --> 00:20:18,251 but it still didn't rule Josh out. 415 00:20:18,284 --> 00:20:21,821 And Melissa wasn't ruled out as a suspect. 416 00:20:22,022 --> 00:20:24,391 [Faith] Jimmy hasn't been ruled out either. 417 00:20:24,424 --> 00:20:27,293 Before Detective Shoemake is done speaking with him, 418 00:20:27,327 --> 00:20:29,396 he wants to verify Jimmy's movements 419 00:20:29,429 --> 00:20:31,464 on the night Harvey went missing. 420 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:36,136 [Kirby] I ask Jimmy if his truck was equipped with GPS, 421 00:20:36,169 --> 00:20:38,304 and he says it was. 422 00:20:38,338 --> 00:20:41,641 So I called Trey, the owner of Tip Tow, 423 00:20:41,675 --> 00:20:44,444 and he said he didn't have the GPS information. 424 00:20:44,477 --> 00:20:46,980 And I'm just thinking that's just my luck, 425 00:20:47,013 --> 00:20:48,548 it's just the way it goes. 426 00:20:48,581 --> 00:20:51,818 So Trey said, "Hey, but the truck's here at our shop 427 00:20:51,851 --> 00:20:53,286 if you wanna come look at it." 428 00:20:53,953 --> 00:20:55,989 [Faith] Detective Shoemake may not have been lucky 429 00:20:56,022 --> 00:20:57,857 with the GPS information, 430 00:20:57,891 --> 00:21:01,461 but when he arrives at Tip Tow around 6:00 PM, 431 00:21:01,494 --> 00:21:04,931 he discovers something even more compelling. 432 00:21:06,332 --> 00:21:08,501 [Kirby] We get around to the bed, 433 00:21:08,535 --> 00:21:12,472 Trey looks at the bed of the tow truck and said, 434 00:21:12,505 --> 00:21:14,074 "The fluid on the bed of the tow truck, 435 00:21:14,074 --> 00:21:16,943 that's not oil or hydraulic fluid, 436 00:21:16,976 --> 00:21:18,178 that's not supposed to be there." 437 00:21:18,211 --> 00:21:20,213 [ominous music] 438 00:21:20,246 --> 00:21:23,183 And we looked at it closer, 439 00:21:23,216 --> 00:21:25,085 and it appeared to be blood. 440 00:21:25,085 --> 00:21:27,587 [ominous music] 441 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:32,759 So we called out a crime scene unit to test the fluid 442 00:21:32,792 --> 00:21:36,529 and it was a preliminary positive test for human blood. 443 00:21:38,298 --> 00:21:42,102 So we're like, "Okay, now we're truly looking 444 00:21:42,135 --> 00:21:44,371 at possible homicide at this point." 445 00:21:45,705 --> 00:21:49,109 [Faith] It's human blood, but is it Harvey's blood? 446 00:21:49,509 --> 00:21:52,112 To be sure, investigators send a sample to the lab 447 00:21:52,112 --> 00:21:53,580 for DNA testing, 448 00:21:53,613 --> 00:21:55,915 but results could take weeks. 449 00:21:55,949 --> 00:21:59,552 This dark turn in Harvey's story is a big deal 450 00:21:59,586 --> 00:22:02,722 for a small police force with one lone detective 451 00:22:02,756 --> 00:22:03,857 working the case. 452 00:22:04,958 --> 00:22:07,694 And in Texas, that usually means only one thing. 453 00:22:09,562 --> 00:22:12,532 [Kirby] This was my first homicide and I needed help. 454 00:22:13,066 --> 00:22:16,903 So we contacted Texas Rangers to come in and assist. 455 00:22:16,936 --> 00:22:20,573 [dramatic music] 456 00:22:20,607 --> 00:22:22,676 [Reid] Texas Rangers are tasked 457 00:22:22,709 --> 00:22:25,979 with investigating violent crimes, 458 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:29,082 heinous crimes against people. 459 00:22:29,115 --> 00:22:31,818 [dramatic music] 460 00:22:31,851 --> 00:22:34,120 I received the call, 461 00:22:34,154 --> 00:22:37,424 and at 12:06 AM 462 00:22:37,457 --> 00:22:39,592 on February 28th, 463 00:22:39,626 --> 00:22:41,828 I sit down with Jimmy for an interview. 464 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,311 - And right away, things didn't seem right. 465 00:23:05,552 --> 00:23:09,589 - I learned that he is not your average person. 466 00:23:17,130 --> 00:23:18,665 [Reid] He doesn't live in a home, 467 00:23:18,698 --> 00:23:20,567 he doesn't have an apartment. 468 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,869 He sleeps in trucks and tunnels 469 00:23:22,902 --> 00:23:24,337 and he was a free spirit. 470 00:23:38,551 --> 00:23:41,488 - Jimmy was insistent 471 00:23:41,521 --> 00:23:44,758 that he had nothing to do with Harvey's disappearance. 472 00:23:45,525 --> 00:23:49,696 So, I questioned Jimmy about the evening hours 473 00:23:49,729 --> 00:23:52,198 of February 25th, 474 00:23:52,232 --> 00:23:54,100 but Jimmy would not tell me where he went. 475 00:24:08,248 --> 00:24:11,918 Jimmy consented to his phone being searched 476 00:24:11,951 --> 00:24:15,622 and his phone was collected for processing 477 00:24:15,655 --> 00:24:17,924 to help us determine where he went 478 00:24:17,957 --> 00:24:19,893 after he left Harvey's shop. 479 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,495 [Faith] Ranger Rackley questions Jimmy 480 00:24:22,529 --> 00:24:24,497 for a little more than an hour, 481 00:24:24,531 --> 00:24:26,533 but just as the interview is wrapping up, 482 00:24:26,566 --> 00:24:29,069 he throws out one more question, 483 00:24:29,069 --> 00:24:32,505 and what he gets back shocks even this seasoned veteran. 484 00:25:02,936 --> 00:25:05,271 [ominous music] 485 00:25:12,379 --> 00:25:15,682 - It's been more than two days since Harvey Huber went missing. 486 00:25:15,715 --> 00:25:19,619 And Texas Ranger Reid Rackley is stunned to learn 487 00:25:19,652 --> 00:25:21,855 that Harvey's friend, Jimmy Tschoerner, 488 00:25:21,888 --> 00:25:25,291 has been having an affair with Harvey's wife, Melissa. 489 00:25:25,792 --> 00:25:28,695 That, along with the blood found on his truck bed, 490 00:25:28,728 --> 00:25:31,398 makes Jimmy suspect number one. 491 00:25:31,765 --> 00:25:34,567 Is it possible that Jimmy killed for love? 492 00:25:34,601 --> 00:25:37,337 And is it possible Melissa was in on it? 493 00:25:38,972 --> 00:25:40,373 [Reid] It had to be considered 494 00:25:40,407 --> 00:25:44,678 that Jimmy saw Harvey as an obstacle. 495 00:25:45,578 --> 00:25:48,281 And so we definitely considered that as a motive. 496 00:25:49,582 --> 00:25:50,817 [Kirby] Now we had to determine 497 00:25:50,850 --> 00:25:52,652 if Melissa had any involvement 498 00:25:52,686 --> 00:25:54,320 in the disappearance of Harvey. 499 00:25:54,354 --> 00:25:56,389 [dramatic music] 500 00:25:56,423 --> 00:25:58,858 We ended the interview about 4:00 AM. 501 00:25:58,892 --> 00:26:01,294 I just didn't have any probable cause to arrest him. 502 00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:05,098 So I released him. 503 00:26:06,032 --> 00:26:07,834 [Faith] With Jimmy now officially a suspect, 504 00:26:07,867 --> 00:26:09,703 he's put under surveillance, 505 00:26:09,736 --> 00:26:12,906 and just a few hours later, at 8:45 AM, 506 00:26:12,939 --> 00:26:15,342 it's Melissa who's in the hot seat. 507 00:26:16,042 --> 00:26:17,811 Although she was previously reluctant 508 00:26:17,844 --> 00:26:19,713 to talk to investigators, 509 00:26:19,746 --> 00:26:22,682 at this point, she and her lawyer consent to an interview 510 00:26:22,716 --> 00:26:23,883 with Ranger Rackley 511 00:26:23,917 --> 00:26:26,886 and his colleague Ranger Veronica Gideon. 512 00:26:29,356 --> 00:26:31,825 - Melissa is calm, she's collected. 513 00:27:39,192 --> 00:27:40,960 [dramatic music] 514 00:27:41,061 --> 00:27:44,164 - Did Melissa conspire with Jimmy 515 00:27:44,197 --> 00:27:46,299 to get rid of Harvey? 516 00:27:47,233 --> 00:27:49,069 That's something that we had to consider. 517 00:27:50,070 --> 00:27:54,808 So we asked Melissa for her phone to look for location data 518 00:27:54,841 --> 00:27:59,179 and Melissa allowed us to search her phone, 519 00:27:59,212 --> 00:28:01,815 but it takes time for processing. 520 00:28:02,382 --> 00:28:04,050 So Melissa was free to leave. 521 00:28:05,018 --> 00:28:07,120 [Diana] Why she had the affair with Jimmy? 522 00:28:07,153 --> 00:28:08,355 I don't know. 523 00:28:09,456 --> 00:28:13,026 We were shocked because we didn't see that coming. 524 00:28:13,059 --> 00:28:17,330 - I just said, "No, there's no way," you know? 525 00:28:18,031 --> 00:28:20,033 Because you don't wanna believe that. 526 00:28:20,066 --> 00:28:23,069 Why would she go with someone like that when she has Harvey? 527 00:28:23,803 --> 00:28:25,038 [Faith] With police keeping a tail 528 00:28:25,038 --> 00:28:27,273 on their lead suspect, Jimmy Tschoerner, 529 00:28:27,307 --> 00:28:29,309 and serious questions still hovering 530 00:28:29,342 --> 00:28:32,112 over Melissa Huber and Josh Northcutt, 531 00:28:32,145 --> 00:28:35,081 the agonizing search for Harvey continues. 532 00:28:36,750 --> 00:28:38,551 [Diana] With each hour, each minute, 533 00:28:38,585 --> 00:28:40,220 you just feel like we've gotta find him. 534 00:28:40,253 --> 00:28:42,689 I mean it's just the sickest feeling in your gut. 535 00:28:42,722 --> 00:28:44,924 [somber music] 536 00:28:44,958 --> 00:28:48,428 - Searching for Harvey was almost like living a nightmare. 537 00:28:49,095 --> 00:28:51,798 How do you prepare yourself to lift up a board or something 538 00:28:51,831 --> 00:28:53,433 and there's a dead body? 539 00:28:53,466 --> 00:28:54,801 [helicopter whirring] 540 00:28:54,834 --> 00:28:56,603 [Dora] Did someone hurt him? 541 00:28:56,636 --> 00:29:01,541 You can't sleep because you start thinking of another part 542 00:29:01,574 --> 00:29:03,410 that might have happened. 543 00:29:04,611 --> 00:29:08,782 - By Sunday, five days have passed since Harvey vanished. 544 00:29:08,815 --> 00:29:12,018 His distraught family is trying to hold onto hope, 545 00:29:12,052 --> 00:29:16,423 but law enforcement still has no clue where he is. 546 00:29:17,123 --> 00:29:19,459 [Reid] We were working 20-hour days. 547 00:29:19,492 --> 00:29:21,161 I'm just searching for something 548 00:29:21,194 --> 00:29:23,530 that would help me find Harvey. 549 00:29:24,497 --> 00:29:28,468 Then, I received the download 550 00:29:28,501 --> 00:29:29,736 from Jimmy's phone... 551 00:29:29,769 --> 00:29:32,205 [dramatic music] 552 00:29:32,238 --> 00:29:34,607 and this data 553 00:29:34,641 --> 00:29:36,609 is voluminous. 554 00:29:36,643 --> 00:29:39,946 It's safe to say that there's 100,000 folders to go through. 555 00:29:41,047 --> 00:29:42,282 [Faith] While Rackley and his team 556 00:29:42,315 --> 00:29:46,286 begin the painstaking process of analyzing Jimmy's data, 557 00:29:46,319 --> 00:29:49,956 they also get back cell phone records for Josh Northcutt, 558 00:29:50,056 --> 00:29:52,859 the family friend who got into an argument with Harvey 559 00:29:52,892 --> 00:29:54,494 the night of his disappearance. 560 00:29:56,229 --> 00:29:59,532 [Reid] When we further analyzed 561 00:29:59,566 --> 00:30:03,003 the location data from Josh's phone, 562 00:30:03,036 --> 00:30:07,440 it confirmed that he hadn't left Dan's shop. 563 00:30:09,175 --> 00:30:11,644 [Kirby] We believed he told us the truth the whole time. 564 00:30:11,678 --> 00:30:14,014 So Josh was no longer a suspect. 565 00:30:16,850 --> 00:30:20,353 [Reid] I went home very late. 566 00:30:20,387 --> 00:30:22,122 I couldn't sleep. 567 00:30:22,155 --> 00:30:27,127 So I'm going through the data on Jimmy's phone. 568 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:32,032 I'm reviewing text messages between Melissa and Jimmy. 569 00:30:33,066 --> 00:30:35,368 Jimmy is referencing a tunnel. 570 00:30:36,736 --> 00:30:38,705 Jimmy had mentioned to me 571 00:30:38,738 --> 00:30:41,708 that he had slept in tunnels previously. 572 00:30:42,208 --> 00:30:44,511 What tunnel could he be talking about? 573 00:30:44,544 --> 00:30:46,680 [dramatic music] 574 00:30:46,713 --> 00:30:52,018 Earlier, we had gone out and searched along Interstate 35 575 00:30:52,052 --> 00:30:54,054 within this large radius. 576 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,956 And I did see a drainage tunnel. 577 00:30:58,291 --> 00:31:02,295 I figured this is the best information we have. 578 00:31:03,630 --> 00:31:04,931 So, 579 00:31:04,964 --> 00:31:06,633 I drove to this tunnel. 580 00:31:08,335 --> 00:31:12,439 It was about 3:00 AM 581 00:31:12,472 --> 00:31:14,407 and I'm by myself. 582 00:31:15,742 --> 00:31:17,977 It's pitch black. 583 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,915 I get my rifle. 584 00:31:21,948 --> 00:31:24,184 I sling it across my chest. 585 00:31:25,085 --> 00:31:27,554 I get my flashlight 586 00:31:27,587 --> 00:31:29,556 and I go down into this tunnel. 587 00:31:29,589 --> 00:31:34,394 [eerie music] 588 00:31:34,427 --> 00:31:36,730 I walk up and down, 589 00:31:36,763 --> 00:31:41,735 and it's long, it's three, 400 yards, 590 00:31:41,768 --> 00:31:43,937 and I don't find Harvey. 591 00:31:44,804 --> 00:31:48,441 So I started heading back to my unit. 592 00:31:49,009 --> 00:31:53,747 And as I got towards the entrance of the tunnel, 593 00:31:53,780 --> 00:31:56,216 about 10 feet inside, 594 00:31:56,249 --> 00:32:01,054 I noticed that discoloration in the dirt 595 00:32:01,054 --> 00:32:02,422 on the ground. 596 00:32:02,455 --> 00:32:07,460 [dramatic music] 597 00:32:07,494 --> 00:32:10,063 [Kirby] The bone fragments were from a human skull. 598 00:32:13,566 --> 00:32:14,501 - It just hurts. 599 00:32:14,534 --> 00:32:16,302 It hurts your heart so bad. 600 00:32:23,076 --> 00:32:24,711 [crickets chirp] 601 00:32:24,744 --> 00:32:26,246 [Faith] Harvey Huber's family, 602 00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:28,948 along with multiple law enforcement agencies, 603 00:32:28,982 --> 00:32:29,783 has been searching for the 604 00:32:29,816 --> 00:32:32,285 50-year-old father and grandfather 605 00:32:32,318 --> 00:32:34,854 for nearly a week with no sign of him. 606 00:32:35,121 --> 00:32:37,991 On Monday, March 2nd, 2020, 607 00:32:38,091 --> 00:32:41,795 Texas Ranger Reid Rackley races to a drainage tunnel 608 00:32:41,828 --> 00:32:44,898 off Interstate 35 in Georgetown, Texas. 609 00:32:45,432 --> 00:32:48,335 He has an early morning hunch and needs to find out 610 00:32:48,368 --> 00:32:51,538 if his instincts will lead to Harvey's body. 611 00:32:51,571 --> 00:32:54,407 [ominous music] 612 00:32:54,441 --> 00:32:55,141 - It was dark. 613 00:32:55,175 --> 00:32:56,643 I had a flashlight. 614 00:32:57,844 --> 00:32:59,779 But it's still hard to see. 615 00:33:02,115 --> 00:33:05,752 And about 10 feet inside, 616 00:33:05,785 --> 00:33:09,055 I noticed this large brownish, 617 00:33:09,055 --> 00:33:12,959 reddish stain in the dirt 618 00:33:13,059 --> 00:33:16,229 like someone had spilled something on the ground. 619 00:33:17,263 --> 00:33:20,533 So I headed over to Georgetown PD 620 00:33:20,567 --> 00:33:25,238 and I gathered everybody together and I said, 621 00:33:25,271 --> 00:33:28,708 "Guys, we may have found something in this tunnel." 622 00:33:30,276 --> 00:33:32,078 - It was huge news to us. 623 00:33:32,112 --> 00:33:34,748 So we responded out to the tunnel. 624 00:33:34,781 --> 00:33:38,084 We had crime scene technicians test the spot on the ground 625 00:33:38,084 --> 00:33:40,520 that we had believed was blood 626 00:33:40,553 --> 00:33:44,224 and we had a presumptive positive test for human blood. 627 00:33:47,127 --> 00:33:50,230 - By this time, the sun was coming up. 628 00:33:50,263 --> 00:33:53,433 We found more bloodstains 629 00:33:54,634 --> 00:33:58,738 And we also found indentions in the dirt 630 00:33:58,772 --> 00:34:02,509 that were consistent with an edged object hitting the dirt. 631 00:34:03,143 --> 00:34:05,779 - It was little chips, it could have been an ax, 632 00:34:05,812 --> 00:34:08,048 a hatchet, a saw. 633 00:34:08,381 --> 00:34:10,483 [Reid] It indicated to us that 634 00:34:10,517 --> 00:34:12,452 someone could have been dismembered. 635 00:34:13,620 --> 00:34:18,224 And then we found what we thought was bone. 636 00:34:18,925 --> 00:34:22,495 The biggest piece was about the size of a silver dollar. 637 00:34:23,430 --> 00:34:25,565 [Kirby] We collected the bone fragments from the scene 638 00:34:25,598 --> 00:34:28,134 and had them taken to Texas State University 639 00:34:28,168 --> 00:34:29,903 where they were examined by an expert 640 00:34:29,936 --> 00:34:33,139 who told us the bone fragments were from a human skull. 641 00:34:34,341 --> 00:34:36,543 We don't know it's Harvey at that time. 642 00:34:36,576 --> 00:34:39,079 We had to prove that through DNA. 643 00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:42,282 [suspenseful music] 644 00:34:42,315 --> 00:34:43,683 [Faith] On Wednesday morning, 645 00:34:43,717 --> 00:34:47,454 armed with the fully analyzed GPS data from Jimmy's phone, 646 00:34:47,487 --> 00:34:50,523 the investigators go hunting for surveillance video. 647 00:34:51,458 --> 00:34:53,426 [Kirby] We're gonna collect video 648 00:34:53,460 --> 00:34:55,829 where the GPS says where Jimmy went. 649 00:34:56,963 --> 00:35:00,300 [Reid] We found incredible evidence 650 00:35:00,333 --> 00:35:03,803 showing Jimmy driving his wrecker 651 00:35:03,837 --> 00:35:05,405 at the time that he was working 652 00:35:05,438 --> 00:35:07,374 with an object on the back. 653 00:35:08,375 --> 00:35:11,311 And there there's a tarp covering this object... 654 00:35:12,212 --> 00:35:15,315 the missing tarp that we couldn't find 655 00:35:15,348 --> 00:35:17,417 at Huber Automotive. 656 00:35:17,450 --> 00:35:20,320 [beeping] 657 00:35:20,353 --> 00:35:24,157 This object is in the same location where we had found 658 00:35:24,190 --> 00:35:27,060 the blood on the back of his truck. 659 00:35:27,961 --> 00:35:31,664 So the pieces of the puzzle were definitely coming together. 660 00:35:31,698 --> 00:35:34,300 [dramatic music] 661 00:35:34,334 --> 00:35:35,969 [Faith] On Wednesday, March 4th, 662 00:35:36,069 --> 00:35:38,505 eight days after Harvey went missing, 663 00:35:38,538 --> 00:35:40,740 Jimmy Tschoerner is taken into custody 664 00:35:40,774 --> 00:35:43,243 and charged with tampering with a human corpse. 665 00:35:44,911 --> 00:35:48,381 - And Jimmy's phone showed within a matter of feet, 666 00:35:48,415 --> 00:35:50,784 that he was in the tunnel 667 00:35:50,817 --> 00:35:53,687 at the exact location of the dismemberment. 668 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:56,856 [dramatic music] 669 00:35:56,890 --> 00:35:58,358 [somber music] 670 00:35:58,391 --> 00:36:00,193 [Rex] For one person 671 00:36:00,226 --> 00:36:04,297 to come up and think to do that to another person. 672 00:36:04,330 --> 00:36:07,400 I mean, who can do this? 673 00:36:07,434 --> 00:36:08,568 Who? 674 00:36:10,036 --> 00:36:12,038 [Diana] Now we knew Harvey was dead. 675 00:36:12,072 --> 00:36:13,907 We still wanted, you know, 676 00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:16,810 in the back of your mind, him to walk through the door. 677 00:36:18,044 --> 00:36:20,680 But Uncle Harvey was 678 00:36:20,714 --> 00:36:21,848 gone. 679 00:36:24,818 --> 00:36:26,453 [Kirby] Jimmy wasn't charged with murder yet 680 00:36:26,486 --> 00:36:31,224 because we had to prove that the blood and skull fragments 681 00:36:31,257 --> 00:36:33,059 belonged to Harvey, 682 00:36:33,059 --> 00:36:35,762 and we had to do that through DNA. 683 00:36:37,797 --> 00:36:38,898 - With Jimmy locked away 684 00:36:38,932 --> 00:36:42,369 in the Williamson County Jail until his trial date, 685 00:36:42,402 --> 00:36:45,438 investigators still don't have all the answers. 686 00:36:45,472 --> 00:36:48,975 For one thing, if Harvey wasn't murdered in the tunnel, 687 00:36:49,075 --> 00:36:51,411 where exactly was he killed? 688 00:36:53,346 --> 00:36:55,882 [Reid] We believed that when Harvey was on the back 689 00:36:55,915 --> 00:36:57,250 of that tow truck, 690 00:36:57,283 --> 00:36:58,785 that Harvey was already dead. 691 00:36:59,552 --> 00:37:02,122 So there had to be another crime scene. 692 00:37:02,689 --> 00:37:06,893 And after we got back the data analysis 693 00:37:06,926 --> 00:37:08,261 from Jimmy's phone, 694 00:37:08,294 --> 00:37:11,431 we found on the night that Harvey went missing, 695 00:37:11,464 --> 00:37:17,303 Jimmy was actively walking around Huber Automotive. 696 00:37:18,338 --> 00:37:21,474 [Kirby] We had obtained GPS plots 697 00:37:21,508 --> 00:37:25,045 that concentrated in a certain area near the RV. 698 00:37:25,912 --> 00:37:27,647 Once we got to the RV area, 699 00:37:27,681 --> 00:37:29,516 I looked down and I saw some 700 00:37:29,549 --> 00:37:32,819 metal tin on the ground by the door to the RV. 701 00:37:33,753 --> 00:37:36,089 It was weird that we missed that before, 702 00:37:36,122 --> 00:37:37,357 but we did. 703 00:37:38,591 --> 00:37:41,628 [Reid] So Detective Shoemake 704 00:37:41,661 --> 00:37:44,097 lifted up some of those panels 705 00:37:44,130 --> 00:37:47,834 and found a large area on the ground 706 00:37:47,867 --> 00:37:51,338 stained with what we later discovered was blood. 707 00:37:51,371 --> 00:37:54,708 [suspenseful music] 708 00:37:54,741 --> 00:37:57,344 [Kirby] So we now had the location 709 00:37:57,377 --> 00:37:59,079 that we believe Harvey was killed. 710 00:37:59,112 --> 00:38:03,616 [dramatic music] 711 00:38:03,650 --> 00:38:05,452 [Faith] And with that, all that's left 712 00:38:05,485 --> 00:38:07,387 is the burning question. 713 00:38:07,420 --> 00:38:10,523 Did Melissa play a part in Harvey's disappearance? 714 00:38:12,025 --> 00:38:13,126 [Kirby] Did she say something? 715 00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:14,627 Did she help plan this? 716 00:38:14,661 --> 00:38:17,030 Did she have any other information 717 00:38:17,063 --> 00:38:20,166 about what Jimmy did to Harvey? 718 00:38:20,934 --> 00:38:24,637 [Faith] On March 12th, one week after Jimmy's arrest, 719 00:38:24,671 --> 00:38:28,408 Melissa Huber sits down for a follow-up interview. 720 00:38:50,063 --> 00:38:52,732 [dramatic music] 721 00:38:56,870 --> 00:38:59,839 [eerie music] 722 00:38:59,873 --> 00:39:02,776 - More than two weeks after Harvey Huber disappears, 723 00:39:02,809 --> 00:39:05,545 his good friend, Jimmy Tschoerner, 724 00:39:05,578 --> 00:39:08,548 hasn't yet been charged with Harvey's murder, 725 00:39:08,581 --> 00:39:12,719 but he is in custody for tampering with a human corpse. 726 00:39:12,752 --> 00:39:16,389 What remains unclear is if Jimmy acted alone, 727 00:39:16,423 --> 00:39:18,525 or is Harvey's wife Melissa, 728 00:39:18,558 --> 00:39:21,061 Jimmy's lover, somehow involved? 729 00:39:21,728 --> 00:39:24,931 At the station, Ranger Rackley confronts Melissa 730 00:39:25,031 --> 00:39:26,733 about what she told Jimmy 731 00:39:26,766 --> 00:39:28,568 the night Harvey went missing. 732 00:40:06,473 --> 00:40:09,109 - Although the optics might look bad, 733 00:40:09,142 --> 00:40:11,144 the facts are what matter. 734 00:40:11,177 --> 00:40:14,180 And the cell phone data showed that Melissa was at home 735 00:40:14,214 --> 00:40:16,783 on the night of the murder. 736 00:40:17,650 --> 00:40:22,622 There was no evidence that Melissa planned or asked Jimmy 737 00:40:22,655 --> 00:40:23,923 to commit this crime. 738 00:40:33,199 --> 00:40:35,769 [Faith] With Melissa officially cleared as a suspect, 739 00:40:35,802 --> 00:40:37,203 investigators are confident 740 00:40:37,237 --> 00:40:39,205 that Jimmy and Jimmy alone 741 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:40,740 killed Harvey. 742 00:40:40,774 --> 00:40:43,810 By September, 2020, they believe they've collected 743 00:40:43,843 --> 00:40:46,613 enough circumstantial evidence to convince a jury, 744 00:40:46,646 --> 00:40:48,481 especially once they received 745 00:40:48,515 --> 00:40:50,583 the most crucial evidence of all. 746 00:40:51,518 --> 00:40:53,753 - The results from the DNA lab 747 00:40:53,787 --> 00:40:57,857 showed that the blood from Jimmy's tow truck 748 00:40:57,891 --> 00:41:00,427 and skull fragments we collected 749 00:41:00,460 --> 00:41:01,828 were Harvey's. 750 00:41:03,263 --> 00:41:04,764 [Faith] On September 11th, 751 00:41:04,798 --> 00:41:07,901 six-and-a-half months after Harvey Huber vanished, 752 00:41:07,934 --> 00:41:11,438 Jimmy Tschoerner is charged with first-degree murder. 753 00:41:11,838 --> 00:41:14,874 The trial is set for the spring of 2022, 754 00:41:14,908 --> 00:41:17,677 but days before opening arguments commence, 755 00:41:17,711 --> 00:41:19,379 Jimmy takes a deal. 756 00:41:19,412 --> 00:41:20,547 He's facing life, 757 00:41:20,580 --> 00:41:24,084 but pleads guilty in exchange for a 60-year sentence. 758 00:41:24,584 --> 00:41:27,220 - Jimmy agreed to take a plea bargain. 759 00:41:27,253 --> 00:41:31,558 And part of the plea bargain is, is he had to say what happened. 760 00:41:31,591 --> 00:41:34,160 - Jimmy had written a confession letter 761 00:41:34,194 --> 00:41:36,096 and submitted it to the judge. 762 00:41:37,263 --> 00:41:38,264 [Rick] In the confession letter, 763 00:41:38,298 --> 00:41:40,667 Jimmy said that he got an axe. 764 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:42,869 And he goes back to Harvey's shop and said, 765 00:41:42,902 --> 00:41:46,139 "Hey Harvey, somebody's breaking into the cars back there." 766 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,676 And he said Harvey jumps up and runs back there to catch 'em 767 00:41:49,709 --> 00:41:50,877 and he follows him back there. 768 00:41:50,910 --> 00:41:54,114 And he said, "They're hiding under this motor home here." 769 00:41:54,581 --> 00:41:56,116 And this is his exact word. 770 00:41:56,149 --> 00:41:59,652 He said, "Harvey bends over to look under the motor home." 771 00:41:59,686 --> 00:42:01,154 He said, "I chopped him in the head three times 772 00:42:01,187 --> 00:42:02,589 and he was dead." 773 00:42:06,059 --> 00:42:08,828 [Reid] That letter also provides some more details 774 00:42:08,862 --> 00:42:12,065 about what he did with Harvey's body, 775 00:42:12,065 --> 00:42:15,402 where he disposed of him in various dumpsters 776 00:42:15,435 --> 00:42:17,904 around the city of Georgetown. 777 00:42:18,605 --> 00:42:21,074 Now his body is in the landfill 778 00:42:21,074 --> 00:42:24,944 and we will never be able to recover Harvey. 779 00:42:24,978 --> 00:42:29,749 [somber music] 780 00:42:29,783 --> 00:42:32,118 [Diana] I think that deep down in Jimmy's heart, 781 00:42:32,152 --> 00:42:34,688 he thought he was gonna be able to be with Melissa. 782 00:42:35,188 --> 00:42:36,990 He wanted to have Melissa and he felt 783 00:42:37,090 --> 00:42:38,792 like they could run that business together 784 00:42:38,825 --> 00:42:41,661 and his world would be perfect. 785 00:42:43,096 --> 00:42:43,730 - It just hurts. 786 00:42:43,763 --> 00:42:46,232 It hurts your heart so bad. 787 00:42:46,266 --> 00:42:51,338 Someone that he helped so much 788 00:42:51,371 --> 00:42:53,139 would do something like that to him. 789 00:42:54,507 --> 00:42:55,642 [Diana] I'll miss hugging him. 790 00:42:55,675 --> 00:42:57,777 He gave really good hugs. 791 00:42:57,811 --> 00:43:03,049 And if I would've known that the last time, 792 00:43:03,049 --> 00:43:04,851 I would've- 793 00:43:04,884 --> 00:43:06,853 would've hugged him harder. 794 00:43:08,922 --> 00:43:12,125 - For his caring ways and for the goodness 795 00:43:12,158 --> 00:43:13,927 that he showed people, 796 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,463 that's how I want Harvey to be remembered. 797 00:43:16,730 --> 00:43:18,298 He's a good person. 798 00:43:21,134 --> 00:43:24,537 - Harvey Huber was a warm, sweet soul 799 00:43:24,571 --> 00:43:27,507 who was passionate about his friends, his family, 800 00:43:27,540 --> 00:43:31,511 and most of all, the woman he fell for back in high school. 801 00:43:31,544 --> 00:43:35,815 Sadly, Harvey's love couldn't save his fairytale romance 802 00:43:35,849 --> 00:43:39,386 and his loyal friendship couldn't save his life. 803 00:43:39,419 --> 00:43:41,388 Instead of happily ever after, 804 00:43:41,421 --> 00:43:43,823 his story ends in tragedy because of a 805 00:43:43,857 --> 00:43:46,726 killer relationship.