and sometimes people who don t ask that question don t ask it because they already know the answer. exactly. didn t ask how she was killed, whether it was gun, stab wounds. that s unusual. very. and there was something else. ben s story may have been suspicious, but ben himself was squeaky clean. this was approximately 2:00 in the morning. 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. that tended to raise some suspicions with the first responding officers that something just didn t seem right. while police were trying to process the story ben was telling, they widened their investigation to include angie s ex-boyfriend, lance. the boy next door in amarillo. the boy angie had trouble with. it was something angie s friend,
a stranger at 1:30 in the morning to use the bathroom, but is so afraid of this person, that she picks up the phone and calls her boyfriend. and then hangs up the phone willingly, and yet this is supposed to be the one that kills her? it doesn t make sense. you find ben s actions suspicious? extremely suspicious. she and the others on the defense team didn t point their fingers only at ben. but also at ex-boyfriend lance, at russell, and at any other man who could have been invited by angie into her home. it almost seems as if she was overcome by someone she knew. or someone holding a knife. it could still be someone other than donald bess. someone like ben, the defense suggested. a bouncer at the club where she had been that night talked
then or records of local phone calls, so that phone call may have never happened? that is correct. i would expect someone to be, i can t find her, i don t know where she is, she s not answering. it was a very mellow, feelingless phone call. it was somebody who didn t seem too concerned. ben waited in the living room while they went into the bedroom. they came out and told him angie was dead. the first responding officer, what he remembered most was even after he had discovered the body and said so, ben didn t even ask what condition, how she was or anything like that.
all going out together. at least angie s friend, evelyn, ben didn t seem like the type to get jealous or violent. you could never imagine ben hurting angie? i could never imagine that. the evening ended at 1:00 a. m. angie dropped russell off from his apartment, which was walking distance from her own. and then took anita home. she thought about spending the night at angie s but decided against it. what was the last thing you said to each other? see you tomorrow at the football game. she doesn t meet me there, very strange. because she was a woman of her word. i remember saying, i wonder why angie is. i came home, and my roommate said, there s something i need to tell you. she said, umm, you might want to sit down. she goes, angie was murdered last night and the police want you to call them back. what did you think? i didn t want to believe it at first. beyond that, i
the heart. josh and patrick were assistant district attorney s in dallas at the time. they say whoever stabbed angie was intent on killing her. that many wounds could certainly suggest rage, anger at the victim. absolutely. from what you could tell, did angie samota have any enemies? it seemed like she had broken some hearts. but she was the type of person that did not have enemies. everyone seemed to like her a lot. the only people that seemed to be mad at her were ex-boyfriends or people that wanted to be her boyfriend. police immediately focused on the man in angie s life, starting with ben, her then boyfriend. ben told police a story that sounded a bit suspicious. he said that after dropping off anita after their night out, angie stopped by his place, waking up him for a brief visit, an then drove home. within minutes of reaching her condo, ben says