like, she s dead, she s dead! and i was so confused. i was like, what s going on? what happened? a small texas town, two super close friends, and a summer night in the park. they have this lookout, and you could see the harbor bridge lit up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that they found them. i could see two girls laying there. it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouths, on their hands. a mystifying scene. the only thing we have are cigarette butts and suspicion. dna would point one way. he s like, serge, you ve got to take a look at this. a bombshell message would point another. i read the letter and immediately knew this was something very important. a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. it takes a special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. to crack a case this convoluted, it might just take a miracle. that was extraordinary. i just couldn t believe it. welcome to dateli
at gunpoint by a man she had never met. she remembered her assailant was wearing under armour gloves. was this a detail that could help investigators unlock the mystery? here again is josh mankiewicz with a texas twist. day by day, inch by inch, kristene chapa walked a steady, if uneven, road to recovery. i couldn t move my left side. i couldn t move my hand or my arm, my legs. i had to relearn to swallow. you don t give up, do you? i don t. i try to stay motivated. so did detective roland chavez. he, too, was making progress. the cigarette butts and drink can collected from the crime scene had just given him his first major break in the case. what did the dna show? the dna showed that it returned to dylan spellman. who was dylan spellman? police learned he lived just three blocks from the crime scene, and chavez also noticed a striking resemblance to that
that must have been a wonderful thing to see. it was. for police, the pressure to find the shooter was intense. detective roland chavez hoped kristene, now conscious, would be playing a big part in that, but kristene still could not speak. it was either a squeeze of the hand and then the blinking of the eyes. so chavez kept his questions simple. the first thing we asked her, of course, is did you know the person that did this, and she said no. how tall was he? she described him as about 5 8 , 5 9 . within the first two weeks of her recovery, kristene helped police draw this sketch of the man who shot her. she said he smelled of cigarettes, which made chavez think about those cigarette butts found at the crime scene. he asked that the dna tests on those be put on the fast track. one of the things that kristene was also able to give us was that the assailant wore gloves and under armour gloves specifically. she saw the logo? yes. and she was a softball player, s
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of the man who shot her. she said he smelled of cigarettes, which made chavez think about those cigarette butts found at the crime scene. he asked that the dna tests on those be put on the fast track. one of the things that kristene was also able to give us was that the assailant wore gloves and under armour gloves specifically. she saw the logo? yes. and she was a softball player, so she s saying under armour gloves, then under armour gloves is probably exactly what we re looking for. but during those sessions with kristene, chavez wasn t the only one asking questions. kristene struggled to ask a few of her own, tough ones. was kristene asking you about mollie? she did. we did not initially give her any of that information. both chavez and kristene s parents were afraid that the truth about mollie would upset kristene and maybe jeopardize her recovery. i would just tell her, mollie s got sent to another hospital. of course, kristene