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. Hes like, serge, youve 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 couldnt believe it. Welcome to dateline. Two young women were discovered in a park bound and gagged. Both were sexually assaulted and shot in the head. One died, but the other miraculously was still alive. Some wondered, could a secret relationship have been the motive for murder . Heres Josh Mankiewicz with a texas twist. Named for the body of christ, Corpus Christi sits on the texas gulf coast and just east of the bay is a park known f
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so, just like that, basically, mr. melchor is no longer the focus of this. it s now david strickland. that s right. chris melchor went on to explain that he and strickland were no longer on good terms. melchor believed strickland had stolen several of his guns, so he had strickland arrested. yeah, the gun robbery put a damper on their relationship. strickland pleaded not guilty to the gun theft charge and was released soon after, but the charges were still pending, and veuleman wondered, could strickland have written that letter as some kind of elaborate payback for melchor having strickland arrested? i know there was bad blood between david strickland and christobal melchor, but to accuse someone of murder? if you think that letter was written by david strickland and you think the letter includes things that only the killer would know well, i think the logical inference was that strickland had something to do with the murder. finding david strickland was now veulem
an implied threat to her safety, and so we moved very quickly to make sure that she was safe, that she was protected. and they re like, okay, you know what, you need to leave town. like, no one could know where i was at. only my family knew where i was at. with kristene in a safe place, veuleman went straight to layton, utah. with the help of the local pd, he was soon sitting across from his new person of interest. christobal melchor said he was on a training exercise in california at the time of the murder. not only was he not in texas, he was on the other side of the country. he was. was there anything to suggest that he had some kind of vendetta against the chapa family? we were not able to find any connection between christobal melchor and the chapa family or the olgin family. he then showed melchor the letter, and melchor was stunned. but he was even more surprised when he saw his picture on the last page of the letter. that was because melchor
duct tape themselves, the fact that he called them by numbers, girl number one, girl number two. then, the biggest revelation of all. who does he say the murderer is? he identifies him. his name is christobal melchor, and he gives an address in utah. from layton, utah, to be precise, just outside salt lake city. he worked in the area as an army reservist. had the name christobal melchor crossed your desk in any way during your investigation? in the two years in the investigation, we never heard that name. it even included a photograph of mr. melchor, the man he said hired him. this man s being handed to you on a plate. yeah. could it be real? should the police take this at a face value? is it possible this letter is some sort of thinly veiled threat to kristene, you know, you survived, but we know where you live? yes. the letter definitely contained
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