him, and we just couldn t walk away from him. we either had to prove that he did it, or prove that he didn t do it. but chuck says he should have been cleared almost right away. so even though the dna didn t match there was no match. but they insisted on targeting me as the prime suspect. they were trying to build a case that wasn t there. while chuck s life had been on hold for a year kristin was starting to feel like her old self again. in the six months since her attack she d taken up running had a new boyfriend. and though kristin hoped the pain of that horrible night was behind her for good. it wasn t. and there s police tape everywhere. may 28 2000. kristin had just arrived to visit friends at an apartment complex. there was no reason, not then anyway, to think her case was connected to the scene unfolding there. police cars and ambulances and all kinds of, you know, vehicles, like, emergency response vehicles everywhere. and now the sight of police tape sent
basically reading through all these reports. the detective had ordered background checks on some of the people who attended the party in carolyn s apartment complex, including ynobe matthews. it turns out, there were several police reports in the file accusing ynobe of a number or crimes. mr. matthews had a tendency to try to sexually assault females, and in the process of that he would choke them if they were not willing to have sex with him. how did carolyn die? her death was ruled a strangulation. so things started kinda matchin up. ynobe had never been convicted of sexual assault, but in the files the detective read the story one particularly brutal assault. a case ended up being charged as a misdemeanor unlawful restraint it was kristin s. ynobe was the man she says almost killed her. i was certain that he had done this before. but at the
back in college station, detective kenny elliott was working the case. anytime you have a killer out on the run it s frustrating. you want to catch the person responsible. one possible suspect that male friend jamie visited the night of her murder. he d refused to give police a dna sample for testing. that s kind of odd, if he had nothing to hide. a lot of people will not give up dna. too much tv. but the detective had snagged a sample from a beer mug and when the dna finally came back, he was not a match. you felt confident that you could rule him out, based on yes. yes. the dna not matching? yes. but even before the dna test cleared jamie s friend, the detective was already looking for other suspects. and his attention quickly landed on someone very close to the victim. her boyfriend. the questions that they asked, focused on where was i
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troubling to me that what were we missing? what part of the story did we not have? did the detectives say something that made them think, maybe it was consensual? he was still facing the misdemeanor charge of unlawful restraint scheduled to go to court down the road. in the meantime, he was a free man. he s out walking around. he s out walking around. in the next town over, detectives at the brazos county sheriff s office were still working the jamie hart murder case in addition to keeping an eye on jamie s boyfriend chuck, they say they followed up on hundreds of other leads and tips. but no one in that department looked at kristin s case for a possible connection. you were sexually assaulted. jamie hart was sexually assaulted. did you start to think that these could be connected? i didn t think they were connected. and that was primarily because, with jamie there was a boyfriend that may have been involved. it was a romantic relationship that went wrong. it wasn t some ran