had been nothing but trouble. she couldn t tell me what had, happen she was so upset. it was about to get much worse. my mom would say, if you find, the car you will find kathy. he did not want to be, dark because you wanted to keep looking. she had been stabbed multiple times, there was blood in the interior of the car. she was a targeted victim. who killed kathy? we had no witness, no confession, no dna. 20 years went by. they still had to keep looking for what i had lost. but, kathy had her, and she had him. i put a lot of faith in god. and the killer, he never had a chance. this was i fulfilled my promise. in the wee small hours of the morning, while it s a whole wild world is fast asleep, mary bennett is awake, not because she wants to be, but because something stay with you, whether you want them to or not. and for mary bennett, it is a 80 3:40 a.m.. every day i wake up around the time, it is embedded in my brain. for more than two
i know now how you feel. i know. i can feel it myself. i m a dad now. if you haven t given up, i haven t given up. and 2003, nine years after the murder, darren once again approached a friend in the d.a. s office. as it, i have a cold case i needed to take a look at. he physically stops walking and says, if it s a case and thinking about, i m not going to touch it. darren was persistent. eventually, he persuaded his friend to take kathy s case back to the d.a. s homicide unit. the same unit that had rejected him twice before. this time though, something different happened. the prosecutor, i m familiar with the case, agreed to take a fresh look. his name is matt murphy. he noticed one thing right away. the first thing that you see when you look at the file is a big rejection really good lawyers who reviewed it individually and this group. which means they tried very hard to make a case and they couldn t do it. they tried very hard.
i open the cabinet, i see the tourist, case and i remember the incident with debbie from about a year earlier. i fully, iowa state reading, and just on free time, just reading it a little bit. by then, the kathy tourist case had been cool for a good three years. i m know work had been done on it for the last two years. from the beginning, police had suspected kathy s one-time boyfriend sam lopez had something to do with her murder. but they had nothing connecting him with the crime. no witnesses, no dna, and some had that solid alibi. tina was still married to stems brother the two families intertwined, as kathy s family continued to search for answers. then in april of 1997, i had a phone call from kathy s mom, it would be their first conversation of many. mary told darrin, how she had seen reports about a new
that kathy was not someone who just disappeared. they went to reporters. mary spoke to knbc in los angeles. this is one thing that nobody should have to go through. and took the search into her own hands. the police was not receptive, so i told my mom, okay, give me a picture. was in charge of flyers, working the and younger brother kept watch in front of soon, it was not just the tourist family searching for kathy, police did jump on the, case and it seemed as if all of that as well. we had strangers, people coming to the house, asking what can we, do we or can we take the, flyers can we have some flyers to pass out. tina drove to the school where kathy, worked all the while, mary s mantra echoed through her mind, find the car, and you will find kathy. when i drove into the
jobs, one of the local drugstore, and another as a teacher s aide, all to pay for college. and now, she was also seeing a new guy, just a few days before february 14th, kathy told sister what she had wanted for valentine s day. she said, tina, i would just like if somebody gave me a dozen red roses for valentine s day. and i, said yes, that is all you want. she said, i would just like a dozen red roses. she had never received a dozen roses for anyone. that year, she was it was saturday february 12th, kathy went off to her job at the drugstore. how was she that morning? she was, fine, routine nothing out of the ordinary. dean it was trying to catch up with kathy that day before she went, to work, but just missed her home. only to see her moments later in traffic. we saw each, other and she