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
who brought matt into the homicide unit. lou took me under his wing and train we had two homicides. what s it like to go against toronto? it s terrifying to go up against your mentor. another one of them had ever lost a murder case. but someone s winning streak was about to end. february 10th, 2015, 20 years after kathy torres s murder, sam lopez went on trial. at the end of this case, you are going to hold that men accountable for what he did. the very first witness matt murphy put on the stand with kathy s mom, mary. it seemed safe way to start. there s a cardinal role that you don t do a hard cross examination on a mother. but matt mentor broke that role. he really pressed her on some of the details. and scored some points? scored big points. i mean, scored big time points. mary, initially told the jury that sam only responded to one of her pages.
attorney. someone matt knew very well. he so is good. and i would be lying if i said my heart was not in my throat. reporter: sam s defense attorney lew rosenblum was the former assistant d.a. who supervised the homicide unit. in fact, he was the original prosecutor who back in 1994 didn t think there was enough evidence to charge sam. not only that, lew was the man who brought matt into the homicide unit. lew took me under his wing and trained me how to do homicides. what s it like to go up against your mentor? well, it s terrifying to go up against your mentor. reporter: neither one of them had ever lost a murder case. but someone s winning streak was about to end. february 10th, 2015. 20 years after cathy torrez s murder, sam lopez went on trial. at the end of this case you are going to hold that man accountable for exactly what he did.
and just months before that trial began, matt murphy learned that sam had a new defense attorney. someone matt knew very well. he so is good. and i would be lying if i said my heart was not in my throat. reporter: sam s defense attorney lew rosenblum was the former assistant d.a. who supervised the homicide unit. in fact, he was the original prosecutor who back in 1994 didn t think there was enough evidence to charge sam. not only that, lew was the man who brought matt into the homicide unit. lew took me under his wing and trained me how to do homicides. what s it like to go up against your mentor? well, it s terrifying to go up against your mentor. reporter: neither one of them had ever lost a murder case. but someone s winning streak was about to end. february 10th, 2015. 20 years after cathy torrez s murder, sam lopez went on trial.
eight to bring him to trial. and just months before that trial began, matt murphy learned that sam had a new defense attorney. someone matt knew very well. he is so good, and would be lyin if i said my heart was not in my throat. reporter: sam s defense attorney lew rosenblum was the former assistant da who supervised the homicide unit. in fact, he was the original prosecutor, who back in 1994 didn t think there was enough evidence to charge sam. not only that, lew was the man who brought matt into the homicide unit. lew took me under his wing and trained me how to do homicides. what s it like to go up against your mentor? well, it s terrifying to go up against your mentor. reporter: neither one of them had ever lost a murder case. but someone s winning streak was about to end. february 10th, 2015. 20 years after cathy torrez murder, sam lopez went on trial.