>> that's all for this edition of dateline extra. i'm tamron hall. thanks for watching. i told myself the worst part about dying is being afraid of dying. if i'm not afraid, it won't be so bad. i just couldn't believe this was the way it was going to happen. >> she was a college student found on a lonely road in texas. >> we figured that she had been sexually assaulted and dumped here. >> tough questions for her boyfriend. >> where was i the night before and what had i been doing and

when had i last seen her? >> i thought he could be the killer. >> while police try to prove it, another attack. >> he has me by the throat and telling me not to say a word. >> you are a prisoner. >> yes. >> her body was propped up on the bed. >> i thought what do we have on our hands here. >> police are looking in the wrong place. >> i lived to tell and nobody believed me. >> this monster is walking free while they are wasting their time on me. >> can the killer be caught before he kills again? >> it makes you realize how fragile your is and anybody can take it. >> welcome to dateline extra, i'm tamron hall. a killer was on the loose in a texas town leaving students and parents terrified. with a shocking discovery of jamie hart's body, investigators were desperately trying to piece

together clues. was the young woman connected to her killer or do police have an active predator on their hands stalk women in the college community. here's the face of evil. looking back now, this woman almost didn't make it. >> i said if you keep doing this, you are going to kill me. he just said do you think i actually care about that. >> sorry that when you feel like you are looking in the face of evil? >> i knew in that moment he intended on killing me. >> little did she know this this college town, she was not the only one. >> he said he would go to jail for murder before he would go to jail for rape. >> what are is going through your mind? >> i wish i told the people that i loved them. >> was there private horror connected to a public mystery? >> everyone is saying what is going on in this community? it had people asking what's happening next. >> more women connected by tragedy and by questions. could a killer have been stuck

sooner? >> i was so angry that two people had to die in order for someone to believe me. >> the story begins in a small texas town. it's not just any town. this is college station, home to texas a&m. in 1999, home to 21-year-old student jamie hart. >> i was immediately struck with her beauty. >> chuck cruz was her boyfriend at the time. he said jamie was the light of his life. he remembers when he first laid eyes on her. >> i could barely speak when i saw her, she was so pretty. it was like when the color came on in the wizard of oz. i was living in a dark world and she showed me a world of color. >> she was a loyal friend, funny, outspoken. >> she would tell you what was on her mind at all times. >> it was early one morning in

may. jamie's roommates couldn't find her and they called chuck. >> i got a call asking where she was. i said i didn't know where she was. i hadn't talked to her the night before and i went to work. >> the same morning the detective from the county sheriff's office was summoned to the scene of a disturbing discovery. >> there was a young female appeared in her early 20s, nude, extensive road rash on her entire body. she was obviously deceased. >> a jogger spotted the victim in a ditch, nine feet from the side of the road. >> there was probably a half dozen officers here and they taped off the area and blocked traffic. at that point we started conducting a search of the area. we figured she had been sexually assaulted and dumped here. >> less than a mile away, deputies discovered what was

presumed to be the woman's clothing strewn across the entrance to the oil field. another nine miles, an abandoned vehicle and the imagine still running. >> there was blood on the car and that raised suspicion. >> inside the car a driver's license that belonged to jamie hart. when detectives showed up at chuck's workplace that afternoon, he said his heart sanction. >> when are they told me that she had been found dead, it felt like i had been hit by a truck. >> wow. so your sense of dread was coming true. >> yep. realized. fully realized. >> did fear spread throughout the campus? >> oh, yes. it was front page news. >> kristin lancaster was a 19-year-old freshman. >> my brother worked with her at the time and he came home devastated. >> a killer in a college town is

terrifying. >> this happens in chicago and houston. it's not something that happens in bryant college station in aggy land. >> kelly brown is the editor of the local newspaper. >> at the time people were hoping this was a drifter that kept ongoing. because of the location of her body. they looked for eyewitnesss. >> i talked to several hundred people and no one had seen anything. during an autopsy, the medical examiner did recover dna. dna that likely came from the rapist and killer. >> did you put the dna into a database. >> and he hits? >> none. >> no eyewitness, no fingerprints, no dna matches. the investigation was not off to a good start. >> that's when we started

contacting people at her place of employment and friends and roommates. >> did she have enemies. >> everybody loved her. >> elliott retraced the steps on the night of the murder. jamie was taking time off from her studies and working at a pizza parlor. her shift ended around midnight. >> per are she headed over to a friend's house. >> they were there watching movies and she left his house around 4:30 in the morning. >> what time was she killed? >> we got the call at 7:15 a.m. between 4:30 and 7:00. >> the male friend, a college student was the last known person to see jamie alive. the detective paid him a visit. >> he was upset, obviously. they were friends and had been for sometime. >> the friend's grief seemed genuine, but something was peculiar when they asked for a

dna sample. >> he said no. we wanted to know why. was he the killer or was he not? >> the detective was determined to answer that question. he put them into surveillance. you hidden? >> i'm back in a corner. >> he watched the student have a few drinks and when he left, detectives snagged the dirty beer mugs and sent them out. the results would take weeks leaving a town full of young people on edge. >> dad moms were telling their college aged kids to be alert and go with people when you go out. don't go alone. that's a frightening order to give anybody. >> frightening, but sound advice. in this case connecting the dots wouldn't be so easy. coming up -- detectives have a second possible suspect in their

sights. jamie's boyfriend is invited to sit down for polygraph tests. >> he failed the test. >> that's a bad sign for you. >> bad sign for him. >> dateline extra continues.

>> a college campus rocked by the rape and murder of a promising young murder. a suspect refused to provide a dna sample. this case was far from being solved. it was time to look at other possible suspects. returning to the face of evil, here's andrea. >> on the side of a busy roadway. >> all i could think about was

loss. she is gone from my life forever. >> jamie's boyfriend chuck cruz then 24 said right after the murder he took off to baytown, texas. jamie's hometown. >> about the only thing i remember her father asking me is when are you coming down? >> so i got stuff and drove down as soon as i could and i spent most of the next week with them mourning with the family. and then acting as a pallbearer for her funeral. >> the detective was working the case. >> any time you have a killer out on the run that is frustrating you. >> one possible suspect, the male friend jamie visited the night of her murder. he refused to give police a dna sample for testing. >> that's kind of odd if he had

nothing to hide. >> a lot of people will not give up dna. >> the detective snagged a sample from a beer mug and when the dna came back, he was not a match. >> you felt confident that you could rule him out based on the dna not matching? >> yes. >> even before the dna test cleared jamie's friend, the detective was looking for other suspects. his attention quickly landed on someone very close to the could have. her boyfriend. >> the questions they asked focused on where was i the night before and what had i been doing? >> looking at you as a suspect. >> it didn't sorry to me that that was what they were doing. i just thought they were asking for information. >> chuck told the detective before jamie was killed, he had not seen her for two days on the night of the murder, he said he

was home. >> i was playing computer games like a good nerd. >> did you have anyone to corroborate your alibi. >> i think my roommates were there, but i think they were asleep. i had nobody sitting there with me. >> the detective was looking carefully for signs he might be hiding something. >> he was cooperative. apprehensive and said everything was fine in their relationship. >> the detective asked chuck for dna and he said yes. when they asked him for a polygraph, he agreed to that too. here's the thing with that last part. the polygraph. >> he failed the test. >> that's a bad sign for you. >> a bad sign for him, yes. >> it doesn't say he's guilty, but he was a very strong person of interest. >> what's more, the detective had been speaking with jamie's friends who said the relationship was not fine. the couple had a fight and were on the verge of a break up, all

of which led to more questions. >> they went over every aspect of the relationship. we questioned him on his whereabouts and tried to get him to confess. >> for a failed polygraph was not suspicious enough, listen to what chuck hold them next. >> said he had done bad things and wouldn't tell us what. >> did you say is one of those killing jamie? >> i did. he denied it. at that point in time i thought he could be the killer. >> the more you started to think he was the killer, how does he react to that? >> he was very nervous. just acted guilty. >> chuck was free to go. as authorities waited for his dna to be processed, the detective developed a theory of the crime that made sense to him. >> he was in love with her. they were having issues in their relationship. >> so the boyfriend, a likely

suspect was in the cross hairs. when the dna results came back -- >> the dna was not a match. >> were you able to rule out chuck cruz when you got that check smd. >> i didn't rule him out completely. >> that was enough with the friend who she was with the night before. you ruled him out after you got the dna. >> the other guy wasn't her boyfriend and he was not in a bad relationship with her. chuck was. >> they didn't arrest chuck. months went by and the detective kept investigating him. they seized his computer and searched his car. all the while, chuck was saying they were looking at the wrong guy. >> there was a lot of people who won't confess to a murder for obvious reasons. at that point he was a strong person of interest, but i didn't know if he was my killer. we continued the search. >> the investigation dragged on. for the students on campus, they

began to go back to normal. parties every weekend. when police were called to the scene of one house party and it wasn't because of noise or underage drinking, another woman was in a fight for her life. coming up -- a student at a party ends up a prisoner in a stranger's apartment. >> i screamed. as loud as i can and he grabs me in and starts choking me again. . steady is exciting. . oh this is living baby! only glucerna has carbsteady, to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and try new glucerna hunger smart to help you feel full.

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>> as the investigation continued, police were suspicious of her boyfriend, chuck cruz. he maintained his innocence and weeks turned the into months with no new developments. then another attack. another young woman in a desperate fight for her life. returning to the face of evil, here's andrea. when chuck cruz's girlfriend was murdered, he was immediately considered a purpose of

interest. >> they said you were acting nervous. you were acting like you had something to hide. >> they interpreted all these things as signs might have guilt. rather than a distraught boyfriend. at the time i had long hair and this was a cowboy town. that was considered to be weird and unusual. >> as for the bad things he told the detective he had done, he explained to us he was referring to a petty argument they had days before jamie's murder and the guilt he felt from not being with her the night she died. >> do you remember you were arguing about? >> a loaf of bread. the grocery sacker put a cantaloupe on a loaf of bread. she was upset about that. i told her it wasn't that big of a deal and we picked our sides and we argued about something as

stupid as a loaf of bread. >> and now he said he could hardly grieve with police breathing down his neck. >> what's it like waking up and knowing that you are under a cloud of suspicion. >> incredibly depressing. >> here left college station and moved home near dallas who spent money to hire a defense attorney. >> the biggest thing going through my mind was that i didn't do it. they don't know who did it. and the guy who did it is out walking around and likely to on more victims. this monster is walking free while they are wasting their time on me. >> kelly brown of the eagle newspaper was writing front page stories about the unsolved crime in the college town. >> it shook the community. this is an area that is not used to seeing this type of crime. >> and kelly was hearing talk that the police had a suspect.

>> but there was no arrest. that's what kept everybody saying okay, was it the boyfriend or was it someone that is still out there? is he going to strike again? >> it was scary of course and students like kristin lancaster followed the investigation. >> do people change their behavior patterns because of the crime? >> to a certain degree, but i think it was short lived. people went back to your business. >> this doesn't happen to you. >> exactly. yeah. >> then it was late october. half a year since the murder of jamie hart. kristin didn't know it yet, bus she was part of a chain of events that only deepened the mystery. >> maybe i went to classes that day. i know the evening time rolled around and i think it was a friday. >> a friend invited kristin to a party. >> she said i'm having a get

together at my house. why don't you come by. >> the town next to college station is bryant. >> the doors open and there was music playing and people having drinks. >> she struck up a conversation with her friend's upstairs neighbor. he was 24, headed to college and mixed in easily with the students. >> was he a likeable guy? >> very likeable and personable. seemed nice. >> he no problem sharing intimate details about his personal life. >> he had been married and somehow the conversation goes into how he found god and he made a lot of mistakes and i wasn't a great husband. >> you got into quite the conversation. >> i was young and he was drunk. >> not long after the party started, it abruptly ended. kristin's friend who hosted the party got into a fight. >> there was chicago involved and they were worried it would get out of hand. >> everyone left, but not

kristin. she was concerned about her friend and she stuck around talking to the upstairs neighbor. >> you were feeling protective. >> he said you are worried about your friend and i said yes. he said we can go to my apartment and you can be close to a phone to call. >> she and the neighbor walked up to his apartment. >> it is directly above her apartment. he opens the door and i was barely a step in and he pushes me in and slams the door shut and looks the door and immediately grabs a remote right there and turns the stereo up to this deafening volume. deafening. >> kristin reached for the door to leave. >> he pushes me back and starts making demands. all of a sudden it's seriously aggressive. i almost thought he was joking. >> but he was serious and demanded she undress. >> i kept saying i'm not going to do that and he said you are going do it and he grabbed me by

the throat and chokes me. i scream as long as i can and he starts choking me again. this time he specks me up and pulls me back into the bedroom to the back. >> you are a prisoner in this apartment. >> yes he puts me on the mattress and i blacked out. i wondered if this was it. >> i could die. >> his hand was still on my throat and he was shaking me. >> she couldn't fight him off physically and she tried to talk her way out of a sexual assault. i said you don't top the do this. he stops and looks at me and said why don't i want to do this. i said because i have hiv. you can tell he is thinking about it for a second and he said guess what. so do i. >> the lie didn't work. she tried something else. i was like what about finding god and trying to work on yourself? i was able to stall him for quite sometime. i must have gotten off the bed and we were standing talking.

i remember i started to stomp my foot. i was trying to make it lock like i was making a point. he grew angry again. >> he threw her back on the bed. his grip tighter as he sexually assaulted her. >> she was squeezing so hard that it felt like the bones in my throat were cracking and i said if you keep doing this -- do you think i actually care about that? >> is that when you feel like you are looking in the face of evil? >> i knew in that moment he intended on killing me. >> coming up, a knock at the door. >> this is like a miracle. >> and doubt. >> i couldn't believe that nobody believed me. >> when dateline extra continues. tic rodent. [rickie] a romantic what?

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trump's vice presidential pick in new york this morning. he told the crowd he vowed to take hoosier ideals into washington. supporters of the president took to the streets celebrated the failed military coup of the country. they called on the u.s. to extradite a man who denies any involvement. back to dateline extra. welcome back. six months after one woman was raped and killed in a texas college town, a second woman was attacked in the neighboring community. held prisoner in a stranger's apartment and choked repeatedly. kristin lancaster was certain the man meant to kill her, but what seemed like an end turned out to be the beginning of a fierce fight for the truth. back with the face of evil, here's andrea. >> 19-year-old kristin lancaster

was preparing to die. >> when you are possibly in the last moments of your and you think somebody is going to kill you, what is going through your mind? >> i thought about i wish i told all the people that i loved that i loved them. >> she was in a stranger's apartment being assaulted, drifting in and out of consciousness. >> i blackout and i start to come to again and it's the scenes in the movies where the bombs explode and everything is fuzzy. they are coming through the fog. >> the man stood up and left the room and ordered her to remain quiet. >> i scream as loud as i can. call the police! >> the brian police were at the door. >> my friend heard me screaming and stomping and called the police. >> this is like a miracle. >> it was, yeah.

>> in the knick of time the police show up. that only happens on tv. >> i know. believe me, i know. >> they ran in and i was curled in a feelth position just shaking. shaking uncontrollably. i remember them asking what happened and i just -- the words were just coming out so fast. >> the cops took the man away in handcuffs and kristin slept on her friend's couch that night. the friend called the police to see what understand happen next. >> she found out they didn't book him for sexual assault changes. >> kristin's attacker had been released. >> that must have been a tough pill to swallow. >> it was terrifying. i thought he was going to find me and kill me. >> the man had given a wildly different version of events. this is the police chief. he was not with the department back then, but the suspect told investigators that he and kristin had a fight over drugs.

>> she got angry when he substituted as pin for cocaine. >> he told them a story about how it had been a drug deal gone bad and i was crying rape. >> police charged him with unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor. the next day, kristin and her dad went to the bryan police department to find out why he was not charged with something more serious. >> i was furious. i thought in this moment that i survived. i survived. this is it. this guy is going down. >> she met with the detective who asked her questions. lots of them. >> i had bruises all up and down my throat and i couldn't swallow. the dkd asked me to place my hands on my own throat. even then, that was traumitizing. >> why? >> he looks at me and said those could have been self-inflicted. >> what are did you say to the detective who is am category up with the theories? >> i was crying and telling him

this man tried to kill me. he was saying that's not what he said. of course that's not what he said. >> despite her bruises, police treated it like a he said she said. >> how rangry were you getting? >> i was furious, i couldn't believe nobody believed me. >> they maintained they were doing a thorough investigation. >> everything i read indicated they did believe her. sometimes your job is to get to the truth as a detective. you have to ask hard questions. >> they interviewed her attacker again and a few months later did charge him with sexual assault. >> the restraint was in place and we booked him. >> the case went to a grand jury and decided not to indict him. >> the sexual assault charges were dropped because they felt there was insufficient evidence. >> that must have been tough to hear. >> it was very tough to hear that. it was at a point in time when i

found that out, i didn't feel like i had recourse. >> she did talk about it later with reporter kelly brown. >> it bothered me at the time. i wondered why didn't the grand jury indict him for at least attempted sexual assault? it seemed troubling to me that what were we missing in what part of the story did we not have? did the detectives say something that made them think maybe it was consensual? >> he was facing the misdemeanor charge of unlawful restraint scheduled to go to court down the road. he was a free man. >> he is out walking around. >> he is out walking around. >> in the next town over, the detectives at the sheriff were working the jamie hart murder case. in addition keeping an eye on jamie's boyfriend, chuck, they followed up on hundreds of other leads and tips. no one in that department looked at kristin's case for a possible

connection. >> you were sexually assaulted, jamie hart was sexually assaulted. did start to think they could be connected? >> i didn't think they were connected primarily because with jamie there was a boyfriend that may have been involved. there was a romantic relationship that went wrong and not a random occurrence by a strange er. >> kristin was living with overwhelming anxiety and dread that machine fested into determinous behavior. >> i started being afraid of everything. i became afraid of nothing. i became completely risk seeking. >> what kind of things would you do? >> i started drinking heavily. for a while after that. i would hop on the back of a stranger's motorcycle after he had three beers and it took a long time to get out of that hole. >> just as kristin was starting to turn a corner, her attacker was due in court on the misdemeanor charge. but nothing came of it.

he didn't even show up. >> i had done what i needed to do and part of me wanted to forget it happened. >> she couldn't. kristin was about to walk into another crime scene in college station. coming up -- >> even law enforcement fell what do we have here? >> a shockingly brutal murder and the suspect makes a mistake. >> the clothing was different than what he told us. >> when dateline extra continues. i thought i had it covered. then i realized managing was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said humira was for people like me who have tried other medications,... but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief... ...and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections... ...including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers,... including lymphoma, have happened;

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>> welcome back to dateline extra. i'm tamron hall. year later, detectives were on the hunt for a killer in's college town. their hiding in plain sight.

unfortunately it would take another gruesome crime for the facts to start lining up. here moerz of our story, the the face of evil. >> it was may of 2000, six months since kristin had been assaulted. her attacker failed to show up in court and seemed to have disappeared. >> didn't show up. >> didn't show up. >> in the next town over, the detective kenny elliott worked the jamie hart murder case and spent the last year casting a wide net for possible suspects. >> you took dna from 70 people? >> i think 77. mainly people being booked into jail for violent crimes and anyone that was in the area that just didn't want to talk. we took dna from everybody who would give it. >> he never taken his eye off her boyfriend, chuck cruz. >> something was bothering you about chuck cruz.

>> a lot. >> so the county sheriffs office kept investigating chuck. even communicated with the da about possibly convening a grand jury. he and his lawyer spoke to the detective on many occasions and the detective continued to think chuck's behavior was suspicious. he still seemed nervous. >> did you think that maybe the reason that chuck cruz was acting this way was that you guys were coming down pretty hoord him and he lost his girlfriend. i mean, is there a way to act? >> i don't know, but he had several things going against him and we couldn't walk away. we had to prove he did it or prove he didn't. >> chuck said he should have been cleared almost right away. >> even though the dna didn't match. >> there was no match and they insisted on targeting me as the prime suspect. they were trying to build a case

that wasn't there. >> while chuck's life had been on hold for a year, kristin was starting to feel like her old self again. in the months since the attack, she had taken up running, had a new boyfriend and though kristin hoped the pain was behind her for good, it wasn't. >> there was police tape everywhere. >> may 28th, 2000. kristin had just arrived to visit friends at an apartment complex. there was no reason, not then, to think her case was connected to the scene unfolding there. >> police cars and ambulances and all kinds of emergency response vehicles everywhere. >> now the site of police tape sent memories rushing back. >> it was just fear. >> firefighter leon moore arrived at the apartment complex early that morning after a neighbor reported smoke in one of the units. >> et bedroom door was open and we could see flame on the carpet. we had a water extinguisher to

put the small fire out. >> there on the floor, a body. >> we're backed out and made sure we preserved as much evidence as we could. >> he sensed foul play, not just a fire. he called for the detective from the college station police department. >> for looked like her body had been propped up on to the bed. she was nude from the waist down. >> this is really disturbing. >> it was. >> the victim was between yore old carolyn casey. a daycare worker. her parents were so proud of their daughter. >> she was wonderful with kids. everyone loved her. >> never could they prepare themselves for the dreadful phone call they received. >> is your daughter carolyn casey? i said yes. i think he said there has been an accident and your daughter is dead. a fire. >> when carolyn's younger sister amanda learned the news she

collapsed with grief. >> i screamed really loud. it made my ears ring from my screaming. >> they have gotten this wrong. >> something is wrong. she didn't die. i said she was not dead. >> what was the turning point? >> i called her apartment and she didn't answer. they said it was homicide. >> i think we had a strong feeling that possibly there was a type of sexual assault that occurred and somebody was trying to kill her. >> kelly brown of the eagle newspaper had another story to write. >> this is a community that is not used to a lot of murders. not used to violent crimes like this. it certainly wasn't used to having a murder victim be set on fire. even with law enforcement. what do we have on our hands here. >>or the night of carolyn's

murder, there had been a small party in one of the apartments and now the detective was canvassing the complex looking for leads. >> you are literally knocking on doors? >> yes. >> in one unit, two men answered. one had been to the party. his name was matthews. >> he mentioned he did attend the party and she was there. >> like many people he agreed to an interview. his down at the police department. he was friendly and cooperative and said carolyn left the party before he had. >> he later left the party and went with another female at the party to a convenience store close by and bought cigarettes. >> he gave a dna sample and supplied the clothes he was wearing. to verify, they pulled surveillance store and noticed something. >> the clothing that he was wearing was different than what he told us. why is he not telling us the

truth? >> he said he forgot and handed them the proper clothing. no evidence found on the clothing connected him to the crime scene. >> this was not a big moment? >> no, it wasn't. >> the big moment did come though. just a few nights later when the pieces of this puzzle finally came together. coming up -- an arrest of a familiar suspect. >> i was certain he had done this before. at the same time i didn't think he would do it again. >> when dateline extra continues. and auto coverage, which reduces red tape, which saves money. when they save, you save. that's home and auto insurance for the modern world. esurance, an allstate company. click or call. esurance does insurance a smarter way. they offer a single deductible, which means you don't pay twice when something like this happens, which saves money. esurance is built to save. that's home and auto insurance for the modern world. esurance, an allstate company. click or call.

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welcome back to "dateline extra." as carolyn casey's family grieved their loss, detectives struggled to make sense of the crime scene as they canvassed the area looking for leads, a possible suspect emerged. and it was someone police had met before. could her killer have been stopped sooner? here's andrea canning with the

final chapter of "the face of evil." >> it was two nights after the murder and fire. detective capps made a discovery, one that would finally connect the dots in this series of crimes that had terrorized this college town. >> i spent that evening basically reading through all these reports. >> the detective ordered background checks on some of the people who attended the party in carolyn's apartment complex, including ynobe matthews. it turns out there were several police reports in the file accusing ynobe of a number of crimes. >> mr. matthews had a tendency to try to sexually assault females, and in the process of that, he would choke them if they were not willing to have sex with him. >> how did carolyn die? >> her death was ruled a strangulation. so things started matching up. >> ynobe had never been convicted of sexual assault, but

in the files, the detective read the account of one particularly brutal attack. the case ended up being charged as a misdemeanor, unlawful restraint. it was kristen's. ynobe was the man she says almost killed her. >> i was certain that he had done this before. but at the same time, i didn't think he would do it again. >> the detective called ynobe matthews back down to the station for another interview and decided to pull a fast one with his suspect. telling him he was about to get dna results from the crime scene. were you really about to get it that quickly? >> we weren't going to get it that quickly that day. but trying to get him to believe that we had that information, that we had everything that we needed. i had contacted my supervisor earlier. and i told him, if he would page me, just say -- put -- type in the words, dna matches. >> and right on cue, the detective's pager went off. >> and i showed it to mr. matthews and asked him to read it.

it said dna matches. >> so what's his face like when he looks at that match? >> he became pretty emotional. and he said, it was an accident, but he had killed her. >> the detective called carolyn's parents and gave them the news of the confession. >> they said, i think we got him. i said, well, how sure? he said, i'll bet the farm on it. >> it was the next morning when kristen lancaster opened up the newspaper and learned her attacker had been charged with murder. >> i felt overwhelming guilt. just overwhelming guilt knowing that he had killed someone, and, that, you know, perhaps i hadn't tried hard enough to make people believe me. >> did you feel like a life could have been saved if you had been taken more seriously? >> oh, yes. carolyn would still be here. i mean, there's no doubt. >> and what about the woman at the start of our story? jamie hart's case had been handled by the brazos county sheriff's office.

but after ynobe was arrested, it didn't take long for the college station police department and the sheriff's office to compare the dna. what they found, ynobe was also jamie's killer. what's that moment like? >> i remember the feeling of wanting to feel relieved, but all i could think was, this is exactly what i knew was going to happen. he struck again. another girl is dead. and another family has lost their precious daughter. >> chuck says to this day he misses jamie and has never gotten over being viewed as a suspect. >> having to spend such a long time under investigation for the death of a loved one, it hurts. it hurts a lot. >> it's like a scar. >> very much so. very much so. >> do you feel bad about that at all, that he was put through

that? >> i'm sorry that he had to go through that, yes. but if i had to do the investigation over, i wouldn't change anything. i'm sorry he lost the love of his life. but we had a job to do, and we had to either arrest him for murder or clear him. we cleared him. >> but before jamie, before kristen, before carolyn, there was another victim who soon learned she was also connected to this horrifying series of events. her name is misty johnson. >> if i didn't let him rape me, he would have killed me. >> like kristen, misty reported her attack to the bryan police department. but ynobe denied it, claiming it was consensual, and misty was too traumatized to help police in the investigation. >> probably within a week, i quit my job and left town. i was scared. >> she now regrets that decision. her attack happened first, months before jamie was murdered. >> i feel like if i would have

stayed and fought him through the police department, that possibly he wouldn't have been able to go on to hurt anyone else. >> and kristen is left with the memory of an assault that, according to the law, never really happened. >> i was so angry that two people had to die in order for someone to believe me. >> did the system fail? >> it failed me. it failed carolyn. it failed jamie. >> do you think about them a lot? they were total strangers to you. >> but they're my alternative future. i mean, they're what could have happened to me. i mean, they're what could have happened to any of us. >> a jury convicted ynobe matthews of carolyn's murder and sentenced him to death. he also pleaded guilty to jamie's murder. kristen faced him in court during the penalty face. >> it was terrifying. and i had to testify. and i met carolyn's family. and jamie's family. they all came out afterwards and

gave me a hug. it helped me realize that their families didn't hold any grudge against me. >> it's not her fault that my sister died. and kristen should have no guilt over that. >> with the casey family as witnesses, ynobe matthews was executed three years later. if there is a lesson to take from this story, it is one that comes directly from a survivor herself. someone who has learned the hard way to cherish life's moments, each and every one. >> it makes you realize how fragile your life is, and that anybody can take it in a moment's notice. the story for them, that's it. that's their life's story. the final chapter has been written. but for me, i get to keep going on. >> what would you call yourself? >> i mean, people have called me a survivor. i would call myself lucky.

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