Matt Murphy

Of course, they didn't know what was in the bag until they opened it up.

So as far as these guys being involved in this, one of the things that I'm sure you remember is there was a $500,000 reward at the time leading to Lacey's recovery and locating her and everything like that.

Well, in Modesto, when you've got guys that are using meth and, you know, two guys involved in an abduction to try and convince me, I mean, I worked in a different world than maybe some of your viewers, but to try and convince me that one wouldn't roll on the other for $500,000.

I mean, my gosh, that's, you know, pure Santa Claus.

I mean, there's just no way.

Well, there were two pregnant girls that were pregnant about the same stage as Lacey that walked dogs in the neighborhood.

There was one named Michelle who was walking a golden retriever and another one named Kristen that was walking a chocolate lab.

And then there was a third girl, another attractive gal, all three attractive.

that easily could have been mistaken for Lacey by somebody in the neighborhood who did not know Lacey.

Now, and this is the interesting part, is none of these people that came forward and claimed they saw Lacey there actually knew her.

They never had a barbecue with her.

They'd never been to her house.

So it's easy to misplace or misidentify somebody, especially with the coverage going on, with the thought of being helpful or maybe the thought that I want to be involved in this.

But we couldn't find any evidence that anybody who actually knew Lacey had seen her in the neighborhood

at that time.

And as far as anybody identifying her as walking around there, it could have been an easy mistaken identity with any of these other three girls.

I interviewed two of them.

And, you know, if you're looking out the blinds and you don't know who you're looking at, I mean, think about yourself.

You know, you're at your home, you see somebody walk by in the morning, and then two days later, maybe something comes up and

That might have been the same person.