He was very obsessed with angie. The trail went cold for more than two decades, but she was sure she knew who the killer was, even got a private detective license to help prove it. I said, im a private investigator, and i need you to tell me wheres the evidence, all of that. Wasnt well received at all. Finally, the break they needed. We got the match. Leading to one of the greatest twists of all time. We could not have you could not have shocked me more. Hello, and welcome to when dateline continues. When angie samota walked into a room, people noticed pretty, vivacious, and outgoing. The College Student had her choice of dates. Then 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 a tenacious friend to uncover the truth. Heres josh mankowitz with in the middle of the night. Reporter it was a saturday morning in october, 1984, when sheilah wysoc kidss phone rang. It was a girlfriend. She
you re so uncomfortable. here i am sitting across from this man eating dinner with a murderer. i m getting into a car with a murderer. this guy murdered my roommate. but even to sheila, russell stuck to his story, just as he had a couple of weeks after the murder when police asked him to take a lie detector test. in fact, russell was found to be truthful when he was asked questions about angie s murder. but about three months later, dallas police took a second look. they looked at the polygraph again and came to the conclusion he was deceptive. that s a big difference from the original way his polygraph results were perceived? huge. they had their guy now. i did not want to believe it was somebody close to her. it was more than i could handle. did you think police were going to charge russell? oh, yes, absolutely. but they didn t. russell hired an attorney and stopped
several months after angie samota was raped and murdered, the prime minister suspect, russell buchanan, hired an attorney and refused to speak with police. several months after that, he left the country. it seemed suspicious, but without enough evidence to arrest russell, police could not stop him. russell was not arrested or charged in angie s 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 the type of girl guys get crush on her. maybe so. you had a crush on her? no, no. not a all i hardly knew her. but after questioning anita about that shared night out, investigators wrote that she told them that the evening centered around russell and angie, and anita felt as if she
murdered. she had been found naked with a lot of stab wounds. it was it was absolutely a 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, very driven. angie had grown up in amarillo, texas, and attended the exclusive all-girl hackaday school in dallas. she had just bought a condo near the smu campus. angie was this amazing, shining star to so many people
place, waking up him for a brief visit, and that she then drove home. within minutes of reaching her condo, ben says angie called him at around 1:45 a. m. in that phone call, ben says angie told him she had let a man she didn t know into her home in the middle of the night. a man who had asked to use her phone and bathroom. ben said angie then hung up, promising to call him back a few minutes later. but she never did, ben said, and she didn t answer his calls. concerned, ben told police he drove to her condo. but angie wasn t answering her door either. and now ben was locked outside, calling police on the early generation mobile phone in his truck. and sounding to them, oddly calm.