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 death of a loved one, it hurts. it hurts a lot. it s like a scar. very much so. very much so. do you feel bad about that at all, that he was put through that? i m sorry that he had to go through that, yes. but if i had to do the investigation over, i wouldn t change anything.
i m sorry he lost the love of his life. but we had a job to do, and we had to either arrest him for murder, or clear him. we cleared him. but, before jamie, before kristen, before carolyn, there was another victim who soon learned she was also connected to this horrifying series of events. her name is misty johnson. if i didn t let him rape me, he would have killed me. like kristen, misty reported her attack to the bryan police department. but ynobe denied it, claiming it was consensual, and misty was too traumatized to help police in the investigation. probably within a week, i quit my job and left 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
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 had done, he explained to us he was referring to a petty argument they had had just days before jamie s murder and the guilt he felt from not being with her the day 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 sacker had squished the 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. and now he says he could
possibly he wouldn t have been able to go on to hurt anyone else. and kristen 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. do 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. kristen faced him in court during the penalty face. 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.
of course, we wanted to know why. was he the killer or was he not? the detective was determined to answer that question. 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, and 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 age 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 anybody. frightening, but sound advice, because in this case, connecting the dots wouldn t be so easy. coming up, detectives have a second possible suspect in their sights. jamie s boyfriend is invited to sit down for a polygraph test. failed the test.