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They had been college roommates, super close, until that terrible night. That could certainly suggest rage at the victim. Who couldve done a . The boyfriend . Something didnt seem right. Her ex . He was very obsessed. It went kroll for two decades but she was sure she knew who the killer was and even got a you could not have shocked me more. Hello. Welcome to dateline. When Angie Samota walked into a room, people notice. Pretty. Vivacious and outgoing. The College Student had her choice of dates. Late one friday night, angie was murdered. A crucial clue pointed to one man, but in thiS Case, nothing was as it seemed. It would take decades and date tenacious friend to uncover the truth. Here is Josh Mankiewicz within the middle of the night. It was a Saturday Morning in October 1984 when Sheila Wysockis Phone ring. It was a girlfriend. Theres been an accident. An accident involving sheilas good friend, Freshman Roommate and good friend at southern methodist university, Angie Samota. I initially thought angie had been in a car accident. Of course, went through, she in the hospital . Where is she . I wasnt getting any information. My girlfriend was crying. Thats because it was not an accident. The same morning, Angies Sorority Sister evelyn was given the new straight out by two friends. They told me angie had been murdered. She had been found naked with a lot of stab wounds. It was absolute shock. Angie samota had not only been killed but butchered. Repeatedly stabbed in her own bedroom. It was a bloody end to a life that had so much promise. She was the most amazing person. She was full of life. She could light up a room. She was a very hard worker and she knew where she was going. She was very driven. And she had grown up in amarillo, texas, and attended the all Girl School in dallas. She had just bought a condo near the smu campus. Angie was this amazing, shining star. To so many people that she knew. She was brilliant before her time. She was a double major in Engineering And Computer science at a time when girls were not doing that. She had this amazing shraddha v, this love of life. Was really the life of the party. Beautiful. Intelligent. Single. And 20 years old. A combination that attracts men of all kinds. She used to get notes on her car. She would give flowers. She would come in and show me who wrote her that day. She had a lot of attention. Absolutely a lot of attention. Mi right thinking she may not have the best taste in guys . She didnt choose wisely at that point in her life. Some of those choices and some of those men would figure prominently in the stories of her life and of her death. There was lance who angie dated back home in amarillo and through her Freshman Year in dallas, according to her friends, angie said she was afraid of lance because he had a Temper And Dad once pulled a knife on her. There was ben, the boyfriend at the time of her death. Older and already out of school, he was a Construction Supervisor in dallas. Sounds like he was the opposite of lance. I would say he was the opposite of lance. There was russell. A new friend who had gone out that evening with her and her Friend Anita. Another female Engineering Student at smu. You saw her that Last Night. Yes. How what she . She was angie. She was fine. That Night Anita accompanied Angie And Russell to a series of bars and clubs. Angies Boyfriend Ben was not present. He was of where the fact that we were going out together. At least to Angies Friend evelyn, ben didnt seem like the type to get violent or jealous. You could never imagine him hurting angie . I could never imagine ben hurting angie. Angie dropped russell off at his apartment which was Walking Distance from her home. Then took anita home. Anita thought about spending the night at angies but decided against it. What was the last thing you said to Each Other . See you tomorrow at the football game. She doesnt meet me there. Very strange goes angie was pretty much a woman of her word. I remember saying, i wonder where angie is . My roommate said Theres Something i have to tell you. She said, but you might want to sit down. She goes, and she was murdered Last Night and the police are wanting you to call them back. What did you think . I didnt want to believe it at first then i started with the word guy, could i have prevented . Should i have spent the night . Would things have been different . She was not the last person to see angie alive. It turns out Angies Boyfriend ben was that person. She had stopped by his place on her way home after dropping off anita. Later that night, it was ben who called police to Angies Condo and what got their attention was not just what ben said but how he sounded when he said it. Does he sound frantic . Panicked . Investigators didnt think so. Coming up. Police start focusing on ben but soon the list of suspects gets longer. 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From what you could tell, did Angie Samota have enemies . Seamanship broken hearts but enemies, didnt seem she had enemies. Everyone liked her a lot. The only people mad at her work exboyfriends or people who wanted to be her boyfriend. Police focused on the man in Angies Life starting with ben, her then boyfriend. Ben told police a story that sounded a bit suspicious. He said after dropping off anita after their Night Out, angie stopped by his place, waking him up for a brief visit and then she drove home. Within minutes of reaching her condo, ben said angie called him around 1 45 a. M. And in that phone call, ben said angie told him she let a man she didnt know into her home in the middle of the night. Man a way as to use her phone and bathroom. Been said angie hung up, promising to call him back a few minutes later but she never did ben said and she didnt answer his calls. Concerned, ben told police he drove to her condo. But Angie Wasnt answering her door either, now ben was locked outside, calling police on the early generation Mobile Phone in his truck. Sounding, to them, oddly calm. My girlfriend called me and said there was a man in the apartment using the bathroom and now i cant get her to answer the phone. Her car is here and she wont answer the door. He broken . He didnt break in . Police werent sure what to make of ben and his version of events. There was no way to tell whether the store that ben told police on the 911 tape actually happen . The only thing we had was his word. No Cell Phone records and no records of local Phone Calls at that call may never have happened . That is correct. I would expect someone come i cant find her. I dont know where she is. Shes not answering. It was a mellow, feeling less phone call. Somebody who didnt seem too concerned. He waited in the Living Room while police went into the bedroom and they came out and told Him Angie was dead. The first responding officer, what he remembered most, even after he discovered the body and said so, ben didnt even ask what condition, how she was, or anything like that. Sometimes people who dont is the question because they already know the answer . Exactly. Didnt ask how she was killed. Gunshot . Stab wounds . There was something else. Bens story may have been suspicious but ben himself was squeaky clean. This was approximately 2 00 a. M. He had been awakened from sleep and he arrived at the location in a clean pressed shirt and he smelled of soap as if he had just cleaned up. Attended to raise some suspicions with the first responding officer that something didnt seem right. While police were trying to process the Story Ben was telling, they widen their investigation to include angies Exboyfriend Lance. The boy next door in amarillo. The Boy Angie had trouble with. It was something her Friend Sheila knew all about. He was very obsessed with angie. He was so obsessed, he would come down all the time to school to see her. That had data through angies Freshman Year. One night i got a call from angie and she was crying. She said lance had gone crazy, and i needed to get over there. She was screaming. Lance had taken a knife and shredded all her clothes. Did he threaten her . Yes, he did. Physically . Verbally . Verbally. And you have a weapon, he threatened her. Hes a pretty scary guy. He is creepy. Suddenly lance was at the top of the investigators list. Prime suspect. Especially when theres an 18 and stabbing. There was no forced entry. Suggesting however got in and had either figured out a way of getting an undetected angie knew them and let them in. Yes. All of that pointed to the Exboyfriend Lance or to angies current Boyfriend Ben. Or maybe to a new man in her life, a man she had been out with the Last Night of her life, russell. Soon police would ask sheila, then a College Student to help narrow down the list of suspects and solve the crime. He killed her. He needed to pay for it. Coming up. Sheilas nerveracking night with suspect number 1. I am sitting across from this Man Thinking i Meeting Dinner with a murder were. Investigators get a break. Pete g. Writes, my tween wants a new phone. How do i not break the bank . We gotcha, pete. Xfinity mobile was designed to save you money and gives you access to wifi speeds up to a gig. So you get high speeds for low prices. Better than getting low speeds for high prices. Right, bruce . Jealous . Yeah, look at that. Honestly, someone get a helmet on this guy. Get a free unlimited line for a year when you buy one unlimited line. Plus, get up to 800 off Google Pixel 9 phones. Switch today who wanted Angie Samota to dead . An autopsy determined she had been sexually assaulted just before she was stabbed to death. Her Friend Sheila. I found out she had been raped. I Cant Think of anything else. It was overwhelming. Emotionally. It was hard for Angies Friends to hear but rape did help Law Enforcement because they had the Perpetrators Dna Profile but in the mid80s, that wasnt the help it would be today. In 1984, they could do a type of Blood Testing where they can determine whether or not an individual as a secretor or nonsecretor. Narrow it down to 20 of the population. Roughly 80 of americans are secretors meaning their bodily fluids contain markers for blood type. The other 20 known as Non Secretor dont have those markers. The killer was a nonsecretor . Correct. That meant it could not be lance, the exboyfriend. Angies friend say she told them lance had threatened her with a knife. Blood tests revealed lance was a secretor. In addition, lance had an alibi putting up 370 miles away on the night of the murder. He was staying with his parents and amarillo working at the local so they were satisfied he was not in town when it took place. He was a laminated based on that. What about ben . Angies oddly unemotional boyfriend who officers thought active strangely the night of the murder. Did police check to see if there were scratches or bruises on him . They check that. They checked his vehicle. They checked his apartment for any type of blood, bloody clothes or anything. Nothing. Tests showed ben was also a secretor. Whoever raped and killed angie was not so cross ben off the list. Which leaves rustle. He was a nonsecretor so he could not be eliminated. Has alibi was that he was at home in bed. No witness could confirm where he was after he was dropped off by Angie And Anita. No one can confirm he went to bed where he was after that. Did he ever move off that story . No. And there was nothing romantic about the evening. The Night Out with three young people. He continued to insist he didnt have interest in angie. Correct. Have the feeling No One believed that. A lot of things were adding up. Soon police were questioning about Russell Buchanan. Was or something specific they wanted to know . Did i think he was romantically interested in angie was the primary question. I think they were piecing together we went out that night and he had romantic interest in her and maybe she had rebuffed him and since he lived within Walking Distance that he had committed the crime. What anita did not know was the day after the crime, russell left town for about 24 hours. It seemed suspicious. When he returned, police paid him a visit and he said he didnt know anything about angies murder. Even though was in the headlines and all over local news. It seemed hard to believe. Police saw both motive and opportunity. While there was no witness pleasing russell at the Crime Scene, there was No One to back up his alibi. Angies Friend Sheila met with the Lead Detective who laid out for her the Police Theory. Russell snapped is the word he used. Then, he grabbed a knife, took her into the room, and proceeded to rape her. Probably The One And Only murder he would do. It was a passionate moment and he snapped. He is going to be back to his old call himself. Investigators asked sheila to have dinner with russell and ask about his whereabouts the night of the murder. She agreed. It was so uncomfortable. I am sitting across from this Man Thinking i Meeting Dinner with a murder were. Im getting into a car with a murderer. He murdered my roommate. Even to sheila, russell stuck with the story just as he had after the murder when police asked him to take a lie detector test. In fact, russell was found to be truthful when asked questions about angies murder. About three months later, Dallas Police took a second look. They looked at the polygraph again and came to the consensus that he was deceptive on those questions. Thats a big difference from the way the original polygraph results were perceived. Huge. They had their guide now. I didnt want to believe it was someone who was close to her. Did you think police would charge russell . Absolutely. But they didnt. He hired an attorney and stopped talking with police. They told me he lawyered up and they couldnt touch a man they said russell was leaving the country. Of course, he was leaving the country. He lawyered up. He is going to get away with murder. Not so fast. Russell buchanan is about to tell a story that will make you evaluate everything you just heard. Coming up. Russell answers the tough questions. The Police Theory was you attacked her, had sex with her and you stabbed her to death. Worst Co Protect Against Rsv with arexvy. Arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower Respiratory Disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. Arexvy does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients. Those with weakened Immune Systems may have a lower response to the vaccine. 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Hi, im Richard Lui with a news update. A manhunt underway right now in kentucky. Officials say numerous people were shot near the 75 Highway North of the city of london. The mayor says No One was killed. The suspect, a 32yearold Joseph Couch On The Run and considered armed and dangerous. Record temperatures result in scorching Heat Set to last through the weekend in some parts of the west. The national Weather Service says Hollywood Burbank Airport matched its alltime high temperature of 114 degrees. And now back to dateline. Welcome back to dateline. I am craig melvin. The detectives were convinced they knew who killed Angie Samota. Russell buchanan had the means and a possible motive. The evidence against him was circumstantial and soon, the case went cold. Russell had his own story to tell. The truth would lead dormant for decades only to be uncovered by an amateur sleuth obsessed with the case. Back to Josh Mankiewicz with in the middle of the night. Several months after Angie Samota was raped and murder, the Prime Suspect Russell Buchanan hired an attorney and refused to speak to police. Several months after that, he left the country. It seemed suspicious that without enough evidence to arrest him, police could not stop him. Russell is not arrested or charged in angies murder. He went on to become a successful architect. It had been nearly 30 years when russell decided to talk once again about what happened that night and about angie. Her friends describe her as a kind of girl that guys get crushes on. Maybe so. Possible you had a crush . Not at all. I hardly knew her. After questioning her Friend Anita about the shared Night Out , investigators wrote she told them that the evening centered around russell and Angie And Anita felt as if she was along for Appearances Sake only. It did not occur to me that it was angie and russ events, it was the three of us. I remember anita and i sitting at the table visiting while angie was on the dance floor dancing. Russell told police Angie And Anita dropped them off around 1 00 a. M. And he went to sleep. For him, that was the end of the night. Your alibi was you were in home in bed. And there was no way to prove it. Unfortunately. The Police Theory was that you come after you were dropped off, walked back to angies house, not on the door, she let you win because she knew you. You already had a thing for her. Something went wrong. You attacked her. You had sex with her. You raped her and said she knew you and could identify you, you stabbed her to death. That is what they thought. s in the days after the Murder Police started picking him up after work and bringing him down to the station for questioning. Is seem like two or three times a month for six months, as i got toward the 5 to 6 month time period, there was a significant shift in the Tone And Tenor of the interrogation. More accusatory. Out right accusatory. I recall in detail the detective leaning back in his chair with an envelope, photographs of the Crime Scene. They were absolutely horrific. He would hold them up in front of me and his questions were, russell, this looks familiar, doesnt it . You remember this, dont you . Because you did this. We thank you did this. It was not you think. It is you did this. You had sex with her and killed her. You stabbed her 18 times. Russell continue to deny it. The steady drumbeat of Accusation And Denial ended only when russell hired the attorney and refused any further free trips downtown. The murder of Angie Samota then went cold. For years. In 2004, 20 years after the crime, angies Friend Sheila by then living in nashville, decided to act on something she had thought about for a while. I had felt angie around me for a while. I was doing homework for the bible study class, and all of a sudden, i look up and as you are sitting there, there was angie. I thought, it is time. I called the police. And said . I wanted to know about the Angie Samota case and who was working on it and if they werent, what they reopen it . At that point told me, nobody in 20 years had called. Not one single phone call. That prompted sheila to take a big step. She decided to get a private Investigators License to see if she could learn enough about crime and criminals to actually help solve angies murder. At the least, she wanted Dallas Police to take her seriously. She earned her license in 2006, and called the police again. I said, i am a private investigator. You need to send me all the information owned Angie Samota S Case and i need to talk to the detective and i need you to Tell Me what has been done and what hasnt been done. Wheres the evidence . All of that. It was not well received at all. But they met to talk about the case . No. They gave you the evidence . No. They gave you regular updates . No. No. Didnt sound like a helped to be up private i . It did not. After finding out they would not welcome me into the investigation, i started making Phone Calls. The first 50 Phone Calls went to the Lead Detective who had been moved to traffic. Got nowhere to him. Finally, one day, six months into it, i talked to a receptionist who said, he is in retirement. Hes not even working traffic. You left 50 messages in one month . Yes. Im a little obsessive. Her persistence paid off and was put in touch with the investigator looking at Cold Cases. A woman who dusted off the Angie Samotas falls and looked inside and found some promising evidence. In 2006 when she decided to reopen the case, she went to the lab and she found out they had a rape kit, a sample that in Todays Technology that could be tested to try to find a dna stander. 2006, Dna Testing had evolved. Some of the other friends of angies talk to police about reopening but it was sheila who made more than 700 Phone Calls over the years, trying to move Angies Case forward. She even offered to pay for the Dna Testing herself. I said i will send you a check. Put away make it out to . She said we can do that. Thats Something Police departments pay for not a private eye. In 2008, the Dna Sample from Angie Samotas Cold Case was entered into the national database. To sheila wysocki, the frightened coed turned mom turned private eye. Pieces were about to finally fall into place. You still focused on the theory that Russell Buchanan got away with murder . Absolutely. Found out he was in dallas. That he was actually a professional and i kept thinking, why is this man having a good life after he murdered angie . It was going to be solved and russell would go to jail. Well, just a minute. She was persistence in a Breathe New Life into a case that set called for nearly 24 years. Now, the investigation was about to take a turn. Coming up. The detective said we got him. My mind went to russell. Who was couldve done it . 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Who else couldve done it . And then she says . Its not russell. You could not have shocked me anymore. Everything i had known my whole life was just gone. This whole time i thought, this guy had done it and it was not him. It wasnt him. Dna as we know does not lie. The sample taken from Angie Samotas body did not match Russell Buchanan. Do you feel guilty . For having done everything to post somebody behind bars . Well, yeah. To convict him and send him to Death Row . Of course i did. I thought this guy was it and i was going to get him. He was not the guy. Everything i thought was truth was not truth anymore. And, yes, felt very guilty. Still do. She felt guilty. Russell felt anything but. All those years, he had been unaware of how Hard Sheila had worked to convict him. All he had known was the intense Heat Police had applied. Even now, russell just cant seem to get the words, i told you so, out of his mouth. It doesnt change anything. Angies life has not been resurrected, but my Role Or Lack of role in thiS Case was put to rest. I no longer had to wonder anymore about who perpetrated this horrible crime. I no longer had to live with the idea that there were people in the Police Department that thought i had perpetrated this crime. The Dallas Police called him on the phone to apologize. The Police Sergeant was very thoughtful. He said on behalf of the dallas Police Department, i want to tell you that we apologize for anything that we may have done to have accused you of a crime in thiS Case. We wish you well. Didnt hurt my feelings at all. And you were okay with that . Thats all it took . You bet. How many interrogations . Holding the Crime Scene photos . It was not a happy experience. They apologize and you are fine . I refuse to allow this to define who i am. I have moved on and i harbor no ill feelings toward the dallas Police Department. Never have. I happen to be an innocent bystander falsely accused. Life goes on. I was thrilled they called me to offer an apology. He does think about what mightve happened. What if i had said i could not go out that Friday Evening . I wouldnt be here. I would not even have been considered a suspect. So, the fate of that one decision to go out one evening Cast A Very Long Shadow not only for angie but for everyone else involved. There is an even bigger question for russell. What if he hadnt been able to hire a lawyer . He was, prosecutors say, an eyelash away from being arrested for Angies Rape and murder. You believed he was attracted to angie and he had motive. He had opportunity. He didnt have an alibi and now you add failing a polygraph. All the evidence pointed toward him. It was all circumstantial. In the mid80s, that got you locked up. Got a lot of people locked up. Who was the man behind the Dna Match and what story would he tell . Angies friend face the accuser accused killer in court. With they get the justice they fought so hard to win . 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For years, angies Friend Sheila wysocki wanted nothing more than the truth. What she learned was as stunning as the murder itself. Here is Josh Mankiewicz with the conclusion of in the middle of the night. More than 23 years after the murder of Angie Samota, the man behind the dna was finally identified. It was not, as we now know, Russell Buchanan. It was not lance, the Ex Boyfriend. It was not ben, the boyfriend who never asked police how angie died. The man whose dna was found in Angie Samotas body is Donald Bess. Not a name you had heard before. Never. Never hit the radar of the dallas Police Department. Not someone she knew. Never crossed paths. Why was his dna on file . He had previously been arrested and convicted of two different rape. Donald bess had been out on parole seven months on a Rape Charge when angie was raped and killed. She had no idea he had history when he came knocking on her door. Angie m in the house. Why would she do that . A different time. 1984. They said can i use the bathroom . Can you give me directions . She wouldve thought twice about helping. He never admitted to with. He has yet to admit he had sexually relations with their. In 2008, Donald Bess was charged with Angies Rape and murder. His dna was fresh but everything else was more than 20 years old. The Murder Weapon was never found. By now, Donald Bess was 61. Angie wouldve been 45. Her college Friend Sheila walked in the Court Room on the first day of trial. I just remember feeling shaky all over. She got a close look at the man accused of Robbing Angie of most of her life. He walks in the door, and i remember that air sucked out of the room. The feeling that i am in the presence of pure evil. Anita, and russell, the friends whom angie spent her Last Night both testified. Both found it emotional. Keep reliving a situation that is difficult. It was a flood of emotion. How could you do something like that . It was tough. Did you look at the defendant while you were there . Yeah, that was scary. And you think you are the reason i was under suspicion. That was not what was going through my mind at all. What was going through my mind, dude, do not come after me. Prosecutors had dna on their side which sound like a Slam Dunk but nothing ever is in a jury trial. The fact his dna is found in her doesnt necessarily put him at the Crime Scene or a murder were. The Defense Team went on the attack. All you can assume from dna is he had sex with her. Itsy evidence to determine whether it was consensual are on consensual. Youre gonna Tell Me Angie Samota chose to have sex with a convicted rapist . No one was there. The defense did the same police did in the first hours after angies murder. Make her Boyfriend Ben a suspect. The man who made that calm 911 call the police found suspicious. A very intelligent young lady will throw the door open to a stranger at 1 30 a. M. To come into her apartment to User Bathroom . But so afraid of this person that she picks up the phone and called her boyfriend . And then hangs up the phone willingly. This is supposed to be the assailant that kills her . It doesnt make sense. You find bens actions suspicious . Extremely suspicious. They didnt put their fingers only a ben but also Ex Boyfriend at lance, russell, and any other manner could have been invited by angie into her home. It, seems she was overcome by someone she knew. Or someone holding a knife and she was terrified. It could still be someone she knew. Someone other than Donald Bess. Someone like ben and they put the blame on angie her suffer possibly making him jealous. A bouncer at The Club where she had been that night talked about the way she was dressed. The way she was acting. She was extremely flirtatious with him and thats how she got in The Club and the general tenor of her behavior. You are making her out to be i know. Kind of. Is a harsh word. Things arent exactly what they think. May be reckless behavior. Maybe a little bit more fun and flirtatious then certain people wouldve liked and maybe someone found out about it. You think ben was angrier than he let on . Much angrier . Even though he appeared calm . There are a lot of suspects who can be calm when they need to appear calm. They put on a defense on anything that would stick and the best way is to attack the victim and the victim in credibility and she wasnt there because he murdered her, to defend herself. That is what they did and shame on them. And it didnt work. It didnt work. Defied the Defense Attack on angie and the men in her life, the jury deliberated for less than an hour. The verdict was guilty. The same jury sentenced Donald Bess to the death penalty. His appeal was denied but he wouldnt be executed. In 2022, Donald Bess died of a Heart Attack while on Death Row. For Angies Friends, his conviction was the end of a long and very sad trail. I can only guess that Angie Wouldve been probably overwhelmed to know so many of you were thinking of her all those years later. Angie was really special. She never left our hearts and minds. You still think about her. I do. You fought hard to find out who killed her . I did. Do you feel accomplishment . I feel maybe she can now rest in peace. She died a horrific death. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Im craig melvin. Thank you for watching. Hello. I am craig melvin. This is dateline. Rachel brady ever since it, its been replaying in my head over and over. Ever since i heard