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
brooke ostrum learned about it on facebook. didn t say who it was, didn t say male or female or anything along those lines. you didn t think it would be anybody you knew. i didn t think it d be anybody i knew. britney selby tried to call both kristene and mollie. neither is picking up, so that s when i started to get worried. kristene s parents, grace and larry chapa, were worried, too. grace had been pacing the floor ever since she discovered kristene hadn t come home the night before. that was unusual. that was very unusual. by now, how many times had you called your daughter? i would say four or five times i called her. i even told her, i m going to call the police if you don t call me right now. which is just what grace did. that s when she learned kristene had been hurt, but the officer wouldn t say much else, only that grace needed to get to memorial hospital. he wouldn t tell you what happened? no, he doesn t know what happened. it was only after arrivi
telling her that i was there, you know, that we loved her, you know. how d she look? it was bad. it was so bad that you couldn t even you didn t know it was her. the bullet had entered the right side of kristene chapa s head and shattered, destroying some of her brain tissue. during a lengthy surgery, doctors decided not to try to retrieve the bullet fragments. but at least kristene was still alive. by now, the other victim had had been identified as mollie olgin, and news of mollie s death had reached her family. i was in shock. i remember crying really hard, and i was throwing stuff in my room, because it just didn t seem real to me. how were your parents? really emotional. i d never seen my dad cry. they took it really hard. so did mollie s friends, stephanie and brooke.
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megan olgin was mollie s older sister, just two years apart. they were, says megan, fiercely competitive. she was really smart, which i was always kind of jealous, because math came so easy to her. all the subjects came easy to her. she didn t even have to study, try, nothing. mollie also played drums in the high school band, but her friends, brooke ostrum and stephanie chaestic say what mollie really loved was cruising down the highway singing along to bands like the spice girls. that s mollie behind the wheel. she loved her car a lot. i remember one night when she decided, i m going to name my car jabbar. and after that, she called her car jabbar macar, and it was the funniest thing for no reason. smart, funny, and a car owner, all of which made for one very popular teen. she had a lot of friends? yes. oh, yeah. a lot of friends. yeah. she never let anybody leave from hanging out with her