had been nothing but trouble. she couldn t tell me what had, happen she was so upset. it was about to get much worse. my mom would say, if you find, the car you will find kathy. he did not want to be, dark because you wanted to keep looking. she had been stabbed multiple times, there was blood in the interior of the car. she was a targeted victim. who killed kathy? we had no witness, no confession, no dna. 20 years went by. they still had to keep looking for what i had lost. but, kathy had her, and she had him. i put a lot of faith in god. and the killer, he never had a chance. this was i fulfilled my promise. in the wee small hours of the morning, while it s a whole wild world is fast asleep, mary bennett is awake, not because she wants to be, but because something stay with you, whether you want them to or not. and for mary bennett, it is a 80 3:40 a.m.. every day i wake up around the time, it is embedded in my brain. for more than two
this case and that s where we re at now. just when it seemed the case was buttoned up, darren got a surprising call. remember when the request for touch dna darren had submitted months earlier? the crime lab finally called back. the crime lab says what? hey, to be tell you that we found javier s dna on kathy s body? what? yeah, we found hovers profile on a sock on the back of her knee and under her right armpit. did we tell? you know, we didn t tell you. how long have they known then? a couple of months, at least. they what? forgot to call? yeah. i think the examiner that was doing it was looking for additional results and didn t realize she hadn t notified us. touch dna paid off? it did. but not quite the way they had all hoped. unbelievable that you would get touched dna evidence back that long after the fact.
right. but the news, it doesn t have some lopez s name on it. that s right. so, the strongest physical evidence was still against javier. it was sam who had the motive and he was the first one going on trial. even without a trace of his dna anywhere. it had taken 13 years to arrest sam lopez. it would take another eight to bring him to trial. just months before that trial began, murphy learned that sam had a new defense attorney, someone matt knew very well. he is so good and i ve been lying if i said my heart was not in my throat. sends defense to tierney, rosenblum, was the former assistant dea who supervised the homicide unit. in fact, he was the original prosecutor who, back in 1994, didn t think there was enough evidence to charge sam. not only that, lou was the man