College attracts the best and the brightest. Idealistic kids full of fire ready to change the world, but there's idealism and there's Michelle herned it.

She gave to the world wide life fun to the animal relief.

She had a fascination with apes. She worked at the primate sanctuary.

She went to St. Francis House and volunteered, which is a homeless shelter.

I've actually seen her get out of her vehicle in the middle of a target parking lot because someone threw a cup in the parking lot.

And she was so arrayed. She told him it was a young man college student just like her.

There's a trash right there. What did he kill you? And that's just what she said.

For Michelle it was simple. We are all custodians of our planet and of everything on it.

She was a caretaker. Yes. Of people, of things, of animals, of everything.

She's called me on her way to work. I'm going to be late for work. I'm going to get in trouble. I'm like, why?

A squirrel I found in my road. It has a broken leg. I have to take it to UF, to the veterinary clinic. I'm thinking, oh Michelle.

Just 24 years old, Michelle herned and wanted to join the Peace Corps and spend time doing charity work in Africa.

She even donated money every month to sponsor a needy child.

And she had the photo of the boy in her day planter and ran up to me. Just go look at this boy. I just adopted.

She had the world by the tail who was riding it.

My child has never been half here. She had everything she ever wanted.

But her life would take an unexpected turn in early November 2005,

becoming the center of a mystery that would baffle detectives and forensic experts

and take more than two years to resolve.

Michelle herned and dreamed of traveling the globe,

but she got her start on the two lane county roads of Live Oak, Florida,

a sleepy, tight-knit community just south of the Georgia border.

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