close friends, and, a summer night in the park. they had this look out, and you can see the harbor bridge that up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that they found it. i could see the two girls laying. there it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouse, on their hands. a mystifying scene. the only thing we have our cigarette beds and suspicion. dna would 0.1 way. it was like star you gotta take a look at. this a bombshell message would point another. i read a letter, and immediately knew this was something very important. a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. take some special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. to crack a case this kind of alluded, it might just take a miracle. that was extraordinary. i just couldn t believe it. welcome to dateline, two young women were discovered in a park bound and gagged both were sexually assaulted and shot in the head. one died, but th
mollie got sent to another hospital. of course, kristene persisted, and eventually everybody decided she deserve to know mollie is faith. family and doctors assembled in kristene the room when detective chavez revealed the truth. she was distraught in. crying. and told her you know, we just need you to stay strong so that you can help us and we re gonna catch them. and so she did. as the days pass, kristene communication skills steadily improved. enabling her to share with police more details of that horrible night. it was supposed to be peaceful and sane. we wanted to hear her story to. you look great, and it s great to see you. thank you. christine began by describing her relationship with molly. i met mollie at the mall. where there s some chemistry right from the beginning? oh there, was we were both very sarcastic. we were just amuse each other
the jury began deliberations. it took six hours to reach a verdict. guilty! strickland was sentenced to life in prison. backed by a new legal team, strickland appealed. but a court upheld the jury s decision. he plans to keep fighting the conviction. families family and friends, that guilty verdict as it often does, provided hollow satisfaction. we re waiting for justice. and now it s here, but we do not get her back. we have had so many huge major life moments and she hasn t been there. what would ve been our anniversary, her birthday, the anniversary of us getting shot. those days are the hardest. christine still wonders how she escaped death. and sometimes, why. i do have survivors guilt.
popular teen. she had a lot of friends. yes. oh yeah. a lot of friends. she never let anybody leave from hanging out with her without giving them a hug. and saying i love. you ever. which was certainly true when it came to the newest member of mali s unusually large posse of friends. 18 year old christine top of. did you color that you really liked each other? yeah. maya talked about her a lot. christine lived in a neighboring town where she was earning a reputation as a softball superstar. christine was a softball icon for this town. brittani selby was christine s close friend. she was like the comic relief and our little group of friends. brittani said christine sense of humor was a perfect match for molly s. molly definitely brought out christine s crazy side. it was never, never a dull moment with those two. but for this group of girls, crazy and dull were a relative
two of us could put dylan spellman at the crime scene, but still had no way of tying him directly to the shootings. we have no gun, we have no usable plans, the only thing we have our cigarette buds, the monster can, and suspicion. it didn t help that travis is one eyewitness to the shootings could not identify spellman from a photo lineup. it was very hard because the suspects all looked the same. and then there was the manner of mr. spellman s height. he was big. what s exciting? six foot eight. remember, christine said the shooter was quite a bit shorter than that. 58. maybe 59. for me, it was always the difficulty of getting all of this size. so travis and his team regrouped. we began getting saw phone records for him, getting hair samples, anything off the duct tape, anything off of the girls clothing. anything that would be able to