she was scared at that point that he poisoned her. rudy went to the kitchen and washed kristine s glass. her roommates claim he never washed the dishes before. i know he worked at an adhesive plant and he was a biology major and he taught lab at baruch college. so he knows his chemicals. she said, will you take me to the emergency room? and he said no, you ll be fine. don t worry about it. kathy s husband came and took kristine to the hospital. fortunately she and the baby were fine. two weeks later on october 24th, rudy came back to pick up kristine. she told friends and family she was going to help him clean his new apartment. kristine s roommate said he was acting suspiciously. he came upstairs and proceeded to pace. he didn t want to eat. he didn t want to talk. he was just very nervous, like agitated.
but it was a hollow victory for the culberson family. yes, we did convict the man who took my daughter s life, but yet we still didn t have what we wanted most and that was carrie. even though this case in ohio is providing kathy and angel some hope that rudy and charlie might one day be brought to trial, there s no justice that will compensate their loss. if i had to choose kristine s body or rudy in jail, i d much rather find kristine and take care of her. as far as i m concerned he won. he robbed my sister of her life. she was 34 years old. she had her whole life ahead of her. neither charlie nor rudy has been charged with any crime in connection with the disappearance of anna or kristine. we tried repeatedly to contact both men as well as their lawyers or others who might speak on their behalf.
rudy has since stopped talking. he did, however, speak to police briefly ten days after kristine s disappearance. he has not been charged with any crime. a lot of the questions at the time that he was interviewed weren t answered because his attorney was present and advised him not to answer certain questions. where is kristine? where is kristine? kathy, however, would not let rudy s silence deter her. i wanted him to keep knowing that she was loved, that she is not forgotten, and he s just not going to get away with it. you can t get away with murder. when we come back i called the police because it s been a couple days. and they tell me, oh, she s off in atlantic city somewhere. she would never have left her dog. she would never have left her money. she would have called.
she had gotten pregnant. he was desperate. his wife knows. she could be pushing him to get something done quick. so who are we going to ask? rudy is very controlling, you know. he had to know exactly what happened. they systematically met people close to him. we found out a lot, just about his family. who he hung out with. who he would trust, who he was around. in building their case, they would have to disprove rudy s version of events the day kristine disappeared. he told police he took kristine to queens mall and dropped her off at a health food store near her house. he claims that was the last he saw of her. i did a canvass of almost every store, going up and down to see if they saw kristine, see if they saw anything on that day. and nobody saw anything on that day. the next step was to figure out where he might have taken her. since october of 1998, they ve searched abandoned buildings and spoken to hundreds of people. here s what we re going to do. we re going to go
said kristine never came back. i said oh, my god, he killed her. those who knew kristine say she would never run off as police had suggested. friends say 28-year-old kristine kupka had everything to live for. with a 3.97 grade point average, she was two months from graduating from baruch college and had plans to go to law school. she had a steady job at a new york city restaurant, and she was having a baby. get over here. you were a good dog. you didn t bark. kristine s mother, elaine bodell. she was ready to have a baby. her older sisters had babies of their own. she wanted a baby. kristine had become involved with rudy persaud, the only son of guyanese parents. he was her chemistry lab instructor at baruch. some who knew rudy said he s charismatic but controlling. they started seeing each