had been nothing but trouble. she couldn t tell me what had, happen she was so upset. it was about to get much worse. my mom would say, if you find, the car you will find kathy. he did not want to be, dark because you wanted to keep looking. she had been stabbed multiple times, there was blood in the interior of the car. she was a targeted victim. who killed kathy? we had no witness, no confession, no dna. 20 years went by. they still had to keep looking for what i had lost. but, kathy had her, and she had him. i put a lot of faith in god. and the killer, he never had a chance. this was i fulfilled my promise. in the wee small hours of the morning, while it s a whole wild world is fast asleep, mary bennett is awake, not because she wants to be, but because something stay with you, whether you want them to or not. and for mary bennett, it is a 80 3:40 a.m.. every day i wake up around the time, it is embedded in my brain. for more than two
seemed darren s hands were tied. after all, the case had been rejected by the d.a. s office twice before. this case has a lot of baggage over the years. yes, it did. if you go ahead with it, you re not only going ahead with the case, you re also insulting the d.a.. yeah. years went by. kathy tourist case grew colder by the day. so did the marriage between kathy sister tina and sam s brother armando. you and armando got divorced. yes. just a subtle thing to do that? he was a mix. darren by was promoted to detective sergeant at his caseload shifted to other types of crime. but he never forgot his promise to marry, in part because of a milestone in his own life. my first daughter was born. i remember going to marry shortly after that and looking here in the eyes and say, i know.
we believed he was telling people who had information that could help convict sam not to cooperate with the police. kathy sister had to ponder what that might mean about her former husband. betrayal of the worst kind. betrayal of her, betrayal of you. exactly. everything. your family? my family, trust, betrayal. everything s broken beyond belief. sam and his wife had also separated by this point. she was a work when her sister colten told her that police had once again come for sam. what did you think when sam was arrested? the same that i was. here we go again. nothing to. yeah. and that he will be held soon. yeah. after all, they had detained sam once before and had really set. as darren quiet now explained to sam lopez, this time was different. i told you before that we wouldn t give up until we were able to bring resolution to
under cross examination, mary revealed he had actually returned three pages. they were trying to paint the picture of sam that he did absolutely nothing and that is not true. it is one of the only cases i ve done in my career where i realize he understands this case as well as i do. it was mentor against people. mistake the stakes can be higher. coming up it s as cold blooded as you can possibly get. where is the evidence? a 20 year search for a killer draws to a close. but, as always, the jury gets the last word. when dateline continues. ateline continues.
so i offered him some free food, and we started talking. she felt a spark right away. i did not think i would mayhem whenever, some that was the word that came out of my mouth. i will get married to that guy. you were i was. sam and tina started dating. but in a small town like it was not long before tina heard the rumors. i found out my sister went to school with, him and i asked her what she knew about, him what she thought about him? that is when she told me that he was the one that they suspected in the murder of kathy tourists? he had not told you that? he had not told me that. it was in the first few weeks that was dating him. sam emphatically denied any involvement in kathy s murder. but just the idea spooked tina. so she made up a lie. i met him, i told him most dating somebody else, which was not true.