their relationship. the detective asked chuck for dna, and he said yes. and when they asked him for a polygraph, he agreed to that, too. but here s the thing with that last part, the polygraph. failed the test. that s a bad sign for you, right? it s a bad sign for him, yes. didn t tell you that he s guilty, but it he was a very strong person of interest. and what s more, the detective had been speaking with jamie s friends who said the relationship wasn t fine. in fact, the couple had a fight and were on the verge of a breakup. all of which just led to more questions. basically, went over every aspect of the relationship. just questioned him on his whereabouts. tried to get him to confess. and if a failed polygraph wasn t suspicious enough, then listen to what the detective says chuck told him next. he said he had done some bad things, and wouldn t tell us what. did you look him in the eyes and say is one of those bad things killing jamie hart? i did. he denied it
a lot of people will not give up dna. too much tv. but the detective had snatched a sample from a beer mug. and when the dna finally came back, he was not a match. you felt confident that you could rule him out based on the dna not matching? yes. but even before the dna test cleared jamie s friend, the detective was already looking for other suspects, and his attention quickly landed on someone very close to the victim her boyfriend. the questions that they asked focused on where was i the night before, what had i been doing. looking at you as a possible suspect? it didn t really occur to me that that was what they were doing. i just thought they were asking for information. chuck told the detective that before jamie was killed, he hadn t seen her for two days. on the night of the murder, he said he was at home. i was playing computer games like a good nerd. did you have anyone there to
corroborate your alibi? i think my roommates were there, but they were both asleep. i had nobody right there sitting there with me. so the boyfriend s alibi wasn t solid. and as they spoke, the detective was looking carefully for signs he might be hiding something. he was cooperative. apprehensive. he said everything was fine in their relationship. the detective asked chuck for dna, and he said yes. and when they asked him for a polygraph, he agreed to that, too. but here s the thing with that last part, the polygraph. failed the test. that s a bad sign for you, right? it s a bad sign for him, yes. didn t tell you that he s guilty, but he was a very strong person of interest. and what s more, the detective had been speaking with jamie s friends who said the relationship wasn t fine. in fact, the couple had a fight and were on the verge of a breakup. all of which just led to more questions.
jamie s boyfriend, chuck cruz, then 24, says right after the murder, he took off to bay town, texas, jamie s hometown. 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 elliot was working the case. any time 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 had refused to give police a dna sample for testing. that s kind of odd, if he had nothing to hide.
in addition to keeping an eye on jamie s boyfriend chuck, they say they followed up on hundreds of other leads and tips. but no one in that department looked at kristen s case for a possible connection. you were sexually assaulted. 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, was that there was a boyfriend that may have been involved. and it was a romantic relationship that went wrong. it wasn t some random occurrence by a stranger. kristen 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. you know, i just became completely risk-seeking. what kind of things would you do? i think i started drinking heavily. for a while after that. i d hop on the back of a stranger s motorcycle after he had had three beers. and it took a long time to rea