so he put the young man under surveillance, followed him to a local restaurant. and are you hidden somewhere in the restaurant? i m kind of back in a corner, yeah. he watched the student have a few drinks. when he left, the detective snagged the dirty beer mugs and sent them out for dna testing. the results would take weeks, leaving a town full of young people on edge. dads and moms were telling their college-aged kids, be alert everywhere you go. go with people when you go out. don t be alone. and that s a frightening order to give anyone. detectives have a second possible suspect in their sights. jamie s boyfriend is invited to sit down for a polygraph test. when we return failed the test. that s a bad sign for you, right? bad sign for him.
it was terrifying. and i had to testify. and i met carolyn s family. and jamie s family. they all came out afterwards and gave me a hug. it helped me realize that their families didn t hold any grudge against me. it s not her fault that my sister died. and kristin should have no guilt over that. with the casey family as witnesses, ynobe matthews was executed three years later. if there is a lesson to take from this story, it is one that comes directly from a survivor herself, someone who has learned the hard way to cherish life s moments each and every one. it makes you realize how fragile your life is, you know, and that anybody can take it, you know, in a moment s notice. this story, you know, for them that s it. that s their life story. the final chapter s been written. but for me i get to keep going on.
and what about the woman at the start of our story? jamie hart s case had been handled by the brazos county sheriff s office. but after ynobe was arrested, it didn t take long for the college station police department and the sheriff s office to compare the dna. what they found? ynobe was also jamie s killer. what s that moment like? i remember the feeling of wanting to feel relieved, but all i could think was, this is exactly what i knew was going to happen. he struck again. another girl is dead, and another family has lost their precious daughter. chuck says, to this day he misses jamie, and has never gotten over being viewed as a suspect. having to spend such a long time under investigation for the
jamie was taking time off from her studies at texas a&m and was working at a pizza parlor. her shift ended at midnight. we contacted everyone she delivered pizzas to and nothing out of the ordinary. afterward she headed to a friend s house. she watched movies and left the house at 11:30. what time do you think she was killed? we got the call at 7:15 a.m. so between 4:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. the friend was supposed to be the last one that saw her alive. the detective paid him a visit. he was upset, obviously. they were friends and had been for some time. the friend s grief seemed genuine, but something wasn t peculiar. when investigators asked for a dna sample he said no. no? of course, we wanted to know why. was he the killer or was he not? the detective was determined to answer that question.
about the only thing that i remember her father asking me is, when are you coming down? so i got some stuff together and drove down as soon as i could. and i spent most of the next week with them, mourning with the family and then acting as a pallbearer for her funeral. back in college station, detective kenny elliott was working the case. anytime you have a killer out on the run, it s frustrating. you want to catch the person responsible. one possible suspect, that male friend jamie visited the night of her murder. he d refused to give police a dna sample for testing. that s kind of odd if he had nothing to hide. a lot of people will not give up dna. too much tv. but the detective had snagged a sample from a beer mug, and when the dna finally came back,