so it s out of sight. .and out of mind. always discreet. for bladder leaks. i never thought i d say this, but i found bladder leak underwear that s actually pretty. always discreet boutique. hidden inside is a super absorbent core that quickly turns liquid to gel. so i feel protected. .and pretty. new always discreet boutique. homicide cop darren wyatt was deep in the cathy torrez murder case. he was looking closely at the behavior and statements from sam lopez. cathy s neighbor and ex-boyfriend. cathy s family said he never stopped by the house while the family was searching for her. and darren noticed an inconsistency in sam s account of the days right before cathy
darren wyatt was not going to quit before i filed a case or i died or he died i guess. he was dedicated to this. if murphy declined the case a third time, the cathy torrez case would certainly go from cold to dead. what would he decide? no one understood the stakes better than cathy s mom. darren had told me that we were going to meet with the d.a. my interpretation of it was he was going to tell me there was nothing they could do. coming up. a key piece of evidence arrives. better late than never. how long had they known that? a couple of months at least. they what, forgot to call? it isn t the smoking gun. when dateline continues. alright, off you go.
darren wyatt was promoted to detective sergeant and his case load shifted to other types of crime. but he never forgot his promise to mary, in part, because of a milestone in his own life. my first daughter was born and i remember going to mary shortly after that and looking her in the eye and saying i know, i know now how you feel. i know t i can feel it myself. i m a dad now. and you haven t given up. i won t give up. in 2003, nine years after the murder, darren once again approached a friend in the d.a. s office. i said i ve got a cold casey need you to take a look at. he physically stops walking and says if it s the case i m thinking about, i m not going to touch it. darren was persistent. eventually, he persuaded his friend to take cathy s case back to the d.a. s homicide unit. the same unit that rejected it twice before. this time, though, something
name sam? yeah, absolutely. now you really are back to square one? yes. is that the end? to some people. but not to him. and not to mary. you put a lot of faith in darren. i put a lot of faith in god. darren was his tool. but for the time being, it seemed darren s hands were tied. after all, the case had been rejected by the d.a. s office twice before. this case got a lot of baggage over the years. yes, it did. if you go ahead with it, you re not only going ahead with the case, you re also kind of insulting the d.a. yeah. years went by. the cathy torrez case grew colder by the day and so did the marriage between cathy s sister tina and sam s brother armando. you and armando got divorced. yeah. did this have something to do with that? definitely.
2007, 15 years after cathy torrez had breathed her last. i was having coffee. it was before work and i was reading my bible. it was a little bit after 7:00 when i saw that i had a call from him. from darren wyatt. mary knew he was scheduled to meet with the d.a. my first thought was he was going to tell me that the meeting was canceled again. but that was not the message. not at all. he said i m standing here in front of sam s house and we are making an arrest right now. and you thought? i got up and i think i screamed there at the mcdonald s. years before, darren wyatt had made a promise. now he felt he was keeping it. that had to feel pretty good. tears of joy this time. sam lopez was arrested and charged with cathy s murder. but he wasn t alone. just as prosecutors now believed