town. i was scared. she now regrets that decision. her attack happened first, months before jamie was murdered. i feel like if i would have stayed and fought him through the police department, that possibly he wouldn t have been able to go on to hurt anyone else. and kristin is left with the memory of an assault that, according to the law, never really happened. i was so angry that two people had to die in order for someone to believe me. did the system fail? it failed me. it failed carolyn. it failed jamie. you think about them a lot? they were total strangers to you. but they re my alternative future. i mean, they re what could have happened to me. i mean, they re what could have happened to any of us. a jury convicted ynobe matthews of carolyn s murder and sentenced him to death. he also pleaded guilty to jamie s murder. kristin faced him in court during the penalty phase.
like you had something to hide. they interpreted all these things as signs of my guilt rather than a distraught boyfriend. at the time i had long hair, and this was a cowboy town. that was considered to be weird and unusual. as for those bad things he told the detective he d done, he explained to us he was referring to a petty argument they d had just days before jamie s murder and the guilt he felt from not being with her the night she died. do you remember what you were arguing about? a loaf of bread. the grocery sacker had put a cantaloupe on a loaf of bread. and she was upset that the grocery sacker had squished the loaf of bread. and i told her it wasn t that big of a deal. and we had picked our sides and we argued about something as stupid as a loaf of bread.
connected. and that was primarily because with jamie there was a boyfriend that may have been involved. it was a romantic relationship that went wrong. it wasn t some random occurrence by a stranger. kristin was now living with overwhelming anxiety and dread which she says manifested into dangerous behavior. instead of being afraid of everything, i became afraid of nothing. i just became completely risk seeking. what kind of things would you do? i think i started drinking heavily for a while after that. you know, i d hop on the back of a stranger s motorcycle after he d had three beers. d took a long time to really get out of that hole. just as kristin was starting to turn a corner, her attacker was due in court on that misdemeanor charge, but nothing came of it. he didn t even show up. i d done what i needed to do. and part of me just wanted to forget it ever happened. but she couldn t.
carolyn would still be here. i mean, there s no doubt. 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 hart was sexually assaulted. did you start to think that these could be connected? i didn t think they were connected. and that was primarily because, with jamie there was a boyfriend that may have been involved. it was a romantic relationship that went wrong. it wasn t some random occurrence by a stranger. reporter: kristin was now living with overwhelming anxiety and dread, which she says manifested into dangerous behavior. instead of being afraid of everything i became afraid of nothing. i, you know, i just became completely risk seeking. reporter: what kind of things would you do? i think i started drinking heavily for a while after that. you know, i d hop on the back of a stranger s motorcycle after he d had three beers and it took a long time to really get out of that hole. reporter: just as kristin was starting to turn a corner her attacker was due in court on that misdemeanor charge. but nothing came of it. he didn t even show up. i d done what i needed to d