none. no eyewitnesss. no fingerprints. no dna matches. the investigation wasn t off to a good start. that s when we started contacting people at her place of employment, friends, roommates. did she have any enemies? everybody seemed to love her. detective elliot began to retrace jamie s steps on the night of the murder. jamie was taking time off from her studies at texas a&m and was working at a pizza parlor. her shift had ended around midnight. we contacted everybody that she delivered pizzas to, and nothing out of the ordinary. after work, she had headed over to a friend s house. he said they were there watching movies and she left his house around 4:30 in the morning. and what time did you think that she was killed? we got the call at 7:15 a.m. so between 4:30 a.m. and 7:00. the male friend, a college student, was the last known person to see jamie alive. the detective paid him a visit. he was upset. obviously. they were friends. and had been for some time.
and i showed it to mr. matthews and asked him to read it. it said dna matches. so what s his face like when he looks at that match? he became pretty emotional. and he said, it was an accident, but he had killed her. the detective called carolyn s parents and gave them the news of the confession. they said, i think we got him. i said well, how sure? he said, i ll bet the farm on it. it was the next morning when kristen lancaster opened up the newspaper and learned her attacker had been charged with murder. i felt overwhelming guilt. just overwhelming guilt knowing that he had killed someone, and, you know, perhaps i hadn t tried hard enough to make people believe me. did you feel like i life could have been saved if you had been taken more seriously? oh, yes.
one particularly brutal attack. the case ended up being charged as a misdemeanor, unlawful restraint. it was kristen s. ynobe was the man she says almost killed her. i was certain that he had done this before. but at the same time, i didn t think he would do it again. the detective called ynobe matthews back down to the station for another interview and decided to pull a fast one with his suspect. telling him he was about to get dna results from the crime scene. were you really about to get it that quickly? we weren t going to get it that quickly that day. but trying to get him to believe that we had that information, that we had everything that we needed. i had contacted my supervisor earlier. i told him if he could page me, just say type in the words that says dna matches. and right on cue, the detective s pager went off.
how did carolyn die? ynobe had never been convicted of sexual assault, but in the files, he read the account of one particularly brutal attack. the case ended up being charged as a misdemeanor, unlawful restraint. it was kristen s. ynobe was the man she says almost killed her. i was certain that he had done this before. but at the same time, i didn t think he would do it again. the detective called ynobe matthews back down to the station for another interview and decided to pull a fast one with his suspect. telling him he was about to get dna results from the crime scene. were you really about to get it that quickly? we weren t going to get it that quickly that day. but trying to get him to believe that we had that information, that we had everything that we needed. i had contacted my supervisor earlier. i told him if he could page me, just say type in the words that says dna matches. and right on cue, the detective s pager went off.
and i showed it to mr. matthews and asked him to read it. it said dna matches. so what s his face like when he looks at that match? he became pretty emotional. and he said, it was an accident, but he had killed her. the detective called carolyn s parents and gave them the news of the confession. they said, i think we got him. i said well, how sure? he said, i ll bet the farm on it. it was the next morning when kristen lancaster opened up the newspaper and learned her attacker had been charged with murder. i felt overwhelming guilt. just overwhelming guilt knowing that he had killed someone, and, you know, perhaps i hadn t tried hard enough to make people believe me. did you feel like i life could have been saved if you had been taken more seriously? oh, yes. carolyn would still be here. i mean, there s no doubt. and what about the woman at the start of our story? jamie hart s case had been handled by the brazos county sheriff s office. but after ynobe was arrested,