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
california at the time of the muferd. 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 cristobal 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 immediately recognized the photo. he knew when and where it was taken. plus, he said, the original photograph was of two people. the missing man, he said, was his former roommate, david strickland. if the snapshot was a surprise to melchor, the name david strickland was an even bigger one for detective volaman. turns out, he had crossed paths with david strickland before. i had interviewed david strickland in 2012, just days
and an underarmor glove and you could see very clearly the white under armour logo. a glock. 45, the type of gun the crime lab suspected was used to shoot the girls. always for the black glove, kristine was absolutely certain that the shooter wore a pair exactly like that. i know that because i played softball and that stuck out to me right away. detective volaman immediately sent strickland s gun to be tested to see if it fire those two spent shell casings fired at the crime scene. he didn t have to wait long for the results. what that report said was that the two shell casings found at the scene and the two shell casings from the test fire were linked to the same weapon. for detective volaman that report was the missing piece of the puzzle, which he believed now directly linked david strickland to the shootings. the day i looked at that ballistics report is the day we arrested david strickland. the charges, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual
found at the scene and the two shell casings from the test fire were linked to the same weapon. for detective volaman that report was the missing piece of the puzzle, which he believed now directly linked david strickland to the shootings. the day i looked at that ballistics report is the day we arrested david strickland. the charges, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual assault and capital murder. while in custody, david strickland agreed to sit down for a police interview. just have a seat more fe. the county prosecutor sam smith watched the interview through a one way mirror. he would claim to have committed the murder. you re saying you did this? sure, i did it, everything you said i did. and in the next sentence with a smile on his face saying, but that s what you wanted me
married. then volaman saw photographs of david strickland s possessions which had been seized at the time of his arrest on the gun theft charge. i will never forget the first photograph that popped up. it was a glock. 45 pistol and an underarmor glove and you could see very clearly the white under armour logo. a glock. 45, the type of gun the crime lab suspected was used to shoot the girls. always for the black glove, kristine was absolutely certain that the shooter wore a pair exactly like that. i know that because i played softball and that stuck out to me right away. detective volaman immediately sent strickland s gun to be tested to see if it fire those two spent shell casings fired at the crime scene. he didn t have to wait long for the results. what that report said was that the two shell casings