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brother, armando. the two families intertwined, as cathy s family continued to search for answers. and then in april of 1997, i got a phone call from mary bennett. reporter: cathy s mom. it would be their first conversation of many. mary told daron how she d seen reports about a new program in orange county centered around investigating cold cases. cathy s case had specifically been mentioned. and mary said, if they re going to use my daughter s murder as publicity for their program, by all means they re going to work it. and it s your job to make sure that that happens. reporter: there were no new murders in placentia in 1997, allowing daron to focus his full attention on this old one. and because you have you have mary bennett and the family, who s persistent, who are very well known and very well liked within the community, it did give me a lot of leverage when i went forth and said, hey

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thing cathy was still alive when she was placed in the trunk of the car. so, if javier put her there, he could be charged with murder. why not grab javier up that day and say, okay, your dna and fingerprints were at the scene. we didn t know that until just now. you re going away for murder unless you start talking ? well, let s say that we did that and we bring him in and he says, well, yes, my fingerprint was there because i helped her push her car out of the street a week before. or when i was helping her change a tire. i cut my finger and i bled on it. reporter: so instead of approaching javier, daron wyatt spent nearly five months carefully watching him and sam. he learned the two cousins were unusually close. sam lived in a one-bedroom little bungalow with his wife and his baby at the time, yet javier was there all the time, sleeping in the same essentially the same room. reporter: eventually, daron wyatt felt he had enough new information to get a search warrant.

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sam s cousin javier was also arrested and charged with murder. police also arrested sam s older brother, armando, who was once married to cathy s sister tina, and had helped search for cathy. it s just a tragic loss. it hurts. everybody loved cathy. reporter: armando was charged with being an accessory after the fact for allegedly helping cover up the murder. we believe that he was telling people who had information that could help convict sam not to cooperate with the police. reporter: cathy s sister had to ponder what that might mean about her former husband. betrayal of the worst kind. reporter: betrayal of her, betrayal of you. exactly, everything. reporter: your family. my family. trust, betrayal, everything s broken beyond belief. reporter: sam and his wife had also separated by this point. she was at work when her sister called her and told her police had once again come for sam.

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definitely it was all intermixed. reporter: daron wyatt was promoted to detective sergeant and his caseload shifted to other types of crime. but he never forgot his promise to mary. in part because of a milestone in his own life. my first daughter was born. and i remember going to mary shortly after that and looking her in the eye and saying, i know i know now how you feel. i know it. i can feel it myself. i m a dad now. you haven t given up. i won t give up. reporter: in 2003, nine years after the murder, daron once again approached a friend in the d.a. s office. i said, i ve got a cold case that i need you to take a look at. and he physically stops walking and he says, if it s the case i m thinking about, i m not going to touch it. reporter: but daron was persistent. eventually he persuaded his friend to take cathy s case back to the d.a. s homicide unit. the same unit that had rejected it twice before. this time though, something different happened. a prosecutor

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