absolutely going to get him. and he wasn t the guy. so everything that i thought was truth was not truth any more. and, yes, i 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. but even now, russell just can t seem to get the words i told you so out of his mouth. it doesn t change anything. angie s life hasn t been resurrected. but my role or lack of role in this case was put to rest. i no longer had to wonder any more 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.
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, i m a private investigator, and i need you to tell me where is the evidence, all of that. it wasn t well received at all. finally, the break they needed. we got the match. leading to one of the greatest twists of all time. it could not have shocked me more. hello and welcome to dateline. 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.
coast to responsible for one death in virginia on saturday after a tree crashed onto a victims of. and in haiti, an american nurse and her child were kidnapped thursday near the country s capital according to a nonprofit group connected to her. the u.s. has ordered nonemergency personnel to leave the country with rising crime. now back to dateline. g welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. detectives were convinced they knew who killed angie samota. russell buchanan had the means and a possible motive. but the evidence against him was circumstantial, and soon the case went cold. russell had his own story to tell, but the truth would lay dormant for decades, only to be uncovered by an amateur sleuth obsessed with the case. back to josh.
rape charge when angie was raped and killed. prosecutors say she clearly had no idea of his history. when he came knocking on her door. and angie let him in the house. why why would she do that? a different time, a little more innocent, 1984. they said hey, can i use the bathroom, can you give me directions, she was the type of individual that would help. he hasn t admitted to it? has not. he has still yet to admit he had sexual relations with her. in may 2008, donald bess was charged with angie s rape and murder. the trial took place two years later. his dna was fresh, but everything else in the case was more than 20 years old. and the murder weapon was never found. by now, donald bess was 61. angie would have been 45. her college friend, sheila, walked in the courtroom on the first day of trial. and i just remember feeling shaky all over.
on the night of the murder. he was staying with his parents in amarillo, working at the gym there. so he was eliminated based on that. what about ben, angie s oddly unemotional boyfriend, who officers thought acted strangely the night of the murder? the police checked to see if there was scratches or bruises on him? they checked that, his vehicle, they checked his apartment for any type of blood, bloody clothes, anything like that. nothing? nothing. and tests showed ben was also a secreter. whoever had raped and killed angie was not. so cross ben off the list. which leaves russell. and he was a nonsecreter. his alibi, he was at home in bed, not the strongest. there was no witness that could confirm where he was after he was dropped off by