they re like, okay. you know what? you need to leave town. no one could no where i was at. only my family knew where i was at. reporter: 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 that he was on a training exercise in fort hunter liggett, 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
him directly to the shootings. we had no gun. no usable prints. the only thing we have are cigarette butts, monster can and suspicion. it didn t help that his one eyewitness to the shootings could not identify spellman from a photo line-up. it was very hard because the suspects all looked the same. and then there was the matter of mr. spellman s height. he s big. he s what, 6 8 . 6 8 . remember christine said the shooter was quite a bit shorter than that, 5 8 , maybe 5 9 . for me it was always the difficulty of getting over the size. anything off the duct tape, anything that would be able to attach spellman to them. does any of that lead anywhere? no, unfortunately it didn t. two years pass.
their terrible discovery. in the tall beach grass, lay the bodies of two young women. it just looked like they had both been molested or mauled. we didn t know if they were alive or dead. we had no idea. they ran for help. 911, location of your emergency. we got two dead bodies out here. are they emamale or female. two females. he had never seen anything like it. it was horrifying. there was blood. the clothes were off the girls. there was duck tape on their mouths and their hands. they were clearly bound. duck tape also covered their eyes and each girl had been shot in the back of the head. i went and checked the pulse on the first girl. i could feel her body was cold and didn t feel a pulse. and then something no one expected. i went to reach for the second girl and that s when she
the sidewalk in order to reach the injured people at the scene of that big car accident and still he could not get there on time. now, we have this letter from the ems coordinator to the mayor before today. what we did not have before today was the 911 call. what we did not have was a sense of the people who were waiting for help. 911, a big accident over here! the city of ft. lee released these calls today in response to open record requests from those looking for information, how the manufactured traffic jam, people were looking for information on how that traffic jam affected emergency services. today we got 21 hours of information how the emergency
now, we have this letter from the ems coordinator to the mayor before today. what we did not have before today was the 911 call. what we did not have was a sense of what it was like for the people who were waiting for help. 911, a big accident over here! the city of ft. lee released these calls today in response to open record requests from those looking for information, how the manufactured traffic jam, people were looking for information on how that traffic jam affected emergency services. today, we got 28 hours of information how the emergency responders and police officers struggled with the gridlock over those four days. though we knew it was bad, we didn t know quite how bad it was. nor did we know what the consequences of it were like in realtime.