weed? but. there was no indication that any of that was true. which calls into question his story. it does. as detective digs deeper into the case. he spots some telling behavior from sam in those old interview tapes. coming up. he never shows any emotion about the fact this girl is brutally murdered. no emotion whatsoever. that s a big red flag. huge. he learns that kathy and sam s relationship was anything but straightforward. when the promise continues. julie! hey. guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike mike mike.mike what day is it mike? ha ha! leslie, guess what today is? it s hump day. whoot whoot!
he didn t sound like a killer. we re here about kathy. later on video. after her body was found. he had always been cooperative. he voluntary gave hair samples. blood sample. and fingerprints. and said whatever i can do, i ll do. as he read the file, he learned there were other things sam didn t do. for example. sam lived right down the street. he never stopped by during the whole frantic week when they were searching. he did speak with police. i don t think anybody thought he was telling lt truth. remember he told detective ts kathy came to him looking for
four years after kathy torres was murdered, detective caught a break. a fingerprint and bloodstain from kathy s car. matched to lopez. he couldn t explain how they got there. he was arrested and put in jail. he didn t stay long. the da didn t bring charges and he walked free. but if you think the detective was about to give up. think again. detective daron wyatt never believed javier lopez acted alone. even when he arrested javier in 1997 for the murder of cathy torrez, he thought javier s real role was helping the prime suspect javier s cousin sam lopez. tina montelongo, sam s then-wife and javier s friend, wasn t buying it. can you conceive of javier going through with a murder or being involved in it because of his
kathy s family said he never stopped by the house while the family was searching for her. he noticed an inconsistency in the account of the days. right before kathy disappeared. mary, however, says sam was the one calling her home looking for cathy. he called how many times? quite a few times looking for her. reporter: mary says sam sounded okay at first, until she told him where cathy was. i said she was at the hospital and she wasn t back yet. reporter: at the hospital, visiting albert, her boyfriend, who had attempted suicide. sam okay with that? no, he got upset. reporter: sam told police he was just worried about cathy, especially after he spoke with her that week. she was crying on the phone, i messed up you know, i never tried getting him hurt and all this and i told her just calm down. cause when you re depressed you do things.