Nathan Lee

Are the children okay?

Yes.

Well, my youngest one's crying, but they're okay.

All my kids.

My name is Chris Morales, and I am the Deputy Chief of Police for the Northport Police Department.

But at that time, you were... At the time, I was a detective with the agency in the Major Crimes Unit.

You get this call that Denise Lee is missing.

I got a notification from my sergeant and said, hey, I need you two to go out to Latour Avenue, reference to a missing female.

Photos were disseminated out throughout the department to members on their computers and who to be out on the lookout for at that time.

Do you just wait for the police?

Do you call anybody else?

Yeah, so as soon as I got off the phone with 911, I called Denise's dad.

Who happens to be a detective.

Rick always, when he answers the phone, he just starts talking.

And the first thing Rick asked me, I'll never forget it.

I can't imagine what this must have felt like from his standpoint.

He asked me, do you guys want to come over for dinner tonight?

And I'm like, Rick, we can't.

I don't know where Denise is.

And he's like, what do you mean by that?