look looking for what i had lost. reporter: daron chased some who had attempted suicide. sam okay with that? no, he got upset. reporter: sam told police he was just worried about cathy, especially after he spoke with her that week. she was crying on the phone, i messed up you know, i never tried getting him hurt and all this and i told her just calm down.
what walks out of the jail along with javier is any leverage you had to get him to name sam? yes, absolutely. reporter: and now you really are back to square one? yes. reporter: is that the end? to some people. reporter: but not to him. and not to mary. you put a lot of faith in daron. i put a lot of faith in god. daron was his tool. reporter: but for the time being, it seemed daron s hands were tied. after all, the case had been rejected by the d.a. s office twice before. this case getting a lot of baggage over the years? yeah, it did. reporter: and so 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. reporter: years went by. the cathy torrez case grew colder by the day. and so did the marriage between
that he was with sam, that sam had picked him up at his house in anaheim and driven him to another friend s house in fullerton during the time that we believe cathy was contacted and ultimately murdered. reporter: so if you believe sam s alibi, he couldn t have been the thing that interrupted cathy when she was writing that note. right. reporter: nevertheless, they pressed sam for more details. the clothing you were wearing saturday? i think it was a guess sweatshirt. reporter: sam readily gave those clothes to the police. he let them search his house too. and he willingly gave samples of his hair and blood. but something about sam s behavior the week cathy was missing bothered her family. mary said she d repeatedly paged sam looking for cathy, but he was slow to respond. he call you back? not at first. reporter: but eventually he did? eventually, yes. reporter: and he said what, he hadn t seen her? he hadn t seen her. reporter: to all appearances, that was true
we would always be laughing, making jokes. reporter: given their friendship, detectives were curious about what cathy might have shared with sam about albert. since albert tried to commit suicide, she was taking it pretty hard. was she confiding in you? the only thing she mentioned about him was that he hung himself and she was sorry for him doing that, because she thought it was his her fault, okay? that s that s how she said it to me. we never really sat down and talked about it. well, you know what? i think she was trying to hide from her problems by smoking out. reporter: meaning she was smoking marijuana. cathy s family said that for her, that would be out character. sam told detectives he had last seen cathy the thursday before she disappeared. he said she d paged him several times that day and when they finally met up she asked me for some weed, you know? and then she kept on asking me, so are you going to give it to me or what? and i go, you know what?
8:00. then, shoo shoot, what i d do that day? oh, somebody paged me, i think. oh, i picked my cousin up again. so if we had to contact everyone that you mentioned, you know, you could get the names and addresses, phone numbers. sure. they could confirm where you were on saturday night? reporter: and sure enough, they did. police spoke with javier who corroborated sam s story. javier told investigators that he was with sam, that sam had picked him up at his house in anaheim and driven him to another friend s house in fullerton during the time that we believe cathy was contacted and ultimately murdered. reporter: so if you believe sam s alibi, he couldn t have been the thing that interrupted cathy when she was writing that note. right. reporter: nevertheless, they pressed sam for more details. the clothing you were wearing saturday? i think it was a guess sweatshirt. reporter: sam readily gave