I'm Lester Holt, tonight on Dateline, a crowded carnival, a missing child, and a roller-coaster

ride with a head snapping twist.

Michelle was hysterical.

She said, Timmy's missing.

If somebody has a minor care who you are, I just want my son back.

They just kept drilling or and drilling or and drilling.

We kind of felt like there was more to this than she was telling us.

There's news reports that Michelle has been kidnapped.

That was a showstopper.

I'm thinking like the same people that took Timmy, they came back and now they're going

to kill her.

It was a blanket recovered about 15 feet on the embankment.

You recognize that blanket right away, right away.

Without the blanket, there was no case.

You crack a cold case, you get on Dateline.

We're like, I don't understand.

How could they arrest you?

You didn't do anything.

This is where it gets even crazier.

We expect that once the jury makes their decision, came over.

But not in this case.

Here's Andrea Canning with the blue blanket mystery.

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