like, she s dead, she s dead! and i was so confused. i was like, what s going on? what happened? a small texas town, two super close friends, and a summer night in the park. they have this lookout, and you could see the harbor bridge lit up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that they found them. i could see two girls laying there. it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouths, on their hands. a mystifying scene. the only thing we have are cigarette butts and suspicion. dna would point one way. he s like, serge, you ve got to take a look at this. a bombshell message would point another. i read the letter and immediately knew this was something very important. a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. it takes a special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. to crack a case this convoluted, it might just take a miracle. that was extraordinary. i just couldn t believe it. welcome to dateli
sketch kristene had helped police draw of the gunman. we start trying to get background on dylan spellman. some quick computer searches revealed spellman had a criminal past. dylan spellman had just been convicted of a violent crime. yes. an armed robbery in nevada. yeah. that nevada armed robbery occurred in 2010, a year and a half before the shootings. spellman and some accomplices broke into a home in a las vegas suburb and held a family hostage before robbing them and taking off. anybody get killed? no. and at the time of the shootings in 2012, dylan spellman was in the corpus christi area awaiting sentencing for the nevada armed robbery. he d been sent here to stay with a friend. what intrigued chavez were some unusual similarities between the nevada crime and the shootings in texas. as we start going through that case file, we started
some quick computer searches revealed spellman had a criminal past. dylan spellman had just been convicted of a violent crime. yes. an armed robbery in nevada. yeah. that nevada armed robbery occurred in 2010, a year and a half before the shootings. spellman and some accomplices broke into a home in a las vegas suburb and held a family hostage before robbing them and taking off. anybody get killed? no. and at the time of the shootings in 2012, dylan spellman was in the corpus christi area awaiting sentencing for the nevada armed robbery. he d been sent here to stay with a friend. what intrigued chavez were some unusual similarities between the nevada crime and the shootings in texas. as we start going through that case file, we started seeing more and more things that are lining up with what we re looking at. for example? the use of numbers. remember, kristene had said the shooter referred to her and
we start trying to get background on dylan spellman. some quick computer searches revealed spellman had a criminal past. dylan spellman had just been convicted of a violent crime. yes. an armed robbery in nevada. yeah. that nevada armed robbery occurred in 2010, a year and a half before the shootings. spellman and some accomplices broke into a home in a las vegas suburb and held a family hostage before robbing them and taking off. anybody get killed? no. and at the time of the shootings in 2012, dylan spellman was in the corpus christi area awaiting sentencing for the nevada armed robbery. he d been sent here to stay with a friend. what intrigued chavez were some unusual similarities between the nevada crime and the shootings in texas. as we start going through that case file, we started seeing more and more things that are lining up with what we re
some quick computer searches revealed spellman had a criminal past. dylan spellman had just been convicted of a violent crime. yes. an armed robbery in nevada. yeah. that nevada armed robbery occurred in 2010, a year and a half before the shootings. spellman and some accomplices broke into a home in a las vegas suburb and held a family hostage before robbing them and taking off. anybody get killed? no. and at the time of the shootings in 2012, dylan spellman was in the corpus christi area awaiting sentencing for the nevada armed robbery. he d been sent here to stay with a friend. what intrigued chavez were some unusual similarities between the nevada crime and the shootings in texas. as we start going through that case file, we started seeing more and more things that are lining up with what we re looking at. for example? the use of numbers.