recourse. she did talk about the case later with reporter kelly brown. it bothered me at the time because i wondered, why didn t the grand jury indict him for at least attempted sexual assault? but it seemed a little troubling to me that, what were we missing? what part of the story did we not have? did the detective 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 kristen s case for a possible connection.
months since kristen had been assaulted. her attacker had failed to show up in court and seemed to have just disappeared. didn t show up. didn t show up. in the next town over, detective kenny elliott continued to work the jamie hart murder case. he had spent the last year casting a wide net for possible suspects. you took dna from 70 people? i think 77. mainly people that were being booked into jail for violent crimes anyone that was in the area that didn t want to talk. he also had never taken his eye off her boyfriend, chuck cruz. there was just something that was bothering you about chuck cruz. there was a lot bothering me about chuck cruz. so the sheriff s office kept investigating chuck, even communicated with the d.a. about possibly convening a grand jury. chuck and his lawyer spoke to the detective on many occasions
something that was bothering you about chuck cruz? there was a lot bothering me about chuck cruz. so the brazos county sheriffs office kept investigating chuck even communicated with the da about possibly convening a grand jury. chuck and his lawyer spoke to the detective on many occasions. and the detective continued to think chuck s behavior was suspicious. and he still seemed nervous. reporter: did you ever think that maybe the reason that chuck cruz was acting this way was that you guys were coming down pretty hard on him and he s lost his girlfriend. i mean, is this a way to act? i don t know, but he had he had several things goin against 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. reporter: 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
that he would choke them if they were not willing to have sex with him. reporter: how did carolyn die? her death was ruled a strangulation. so things started kinda matchin up. reporter: 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 same time i didn t think he would do it again. reporter: the detective called ynobe matthews back down to the station for another interview decided to pull a fast one with his suspect telling him he was about to get dna results from the crime scene. reporter: what were you really about to get it that quickly? we weren t gonna get it that quickly that day, but tryin to get him to believe that we had that information, that we had everything that we needed. i had contacted my superv
few drinks, and when he left, the detective snagged the dirty beer mugs and sent them out for dna testing. the results would take weeks leaving a town full of young people on edge. dads and moms were telling their college-age kids, be alert everywhere you go. go with people when you go out. don t be alone. and that s a frightening order to give anybody. frightening but sound advice, because in this case, connecting the dots wouldn t be so easy. detectives have a possible suspect in their sights. jamie s boyfriend is invited to sit down for a polygraph test. failed the test. bad sign for you, right? bad sign for him. [music playing] (vo) from the beginning, wells fargo has supported community organizations like united way, non-profits like the american red cross, and our nation s veterans. we knew helping our communities was important then.