8:00. then, shoo shoot, what i d do that day? oh, somebody paged me, i think. oh, i picked my cousin up again. so if we had to contact everyone that you mentioned, you know, you could get the names and addresses, phone numbers. sure. they could confirm where you were on saturday night? reporter: and sure enough, they did. police spoke with javier who corroborated sam s story. javier told investigators that he was with sam, that sam had picked him up at his house in anaheim and driven him to another friend s house in fullerton during the time that we believe cathy was contacted and ultimately murdered. reporter: so if you believe sam s alibi, he couldn t have been the thing that interrupted cathy when she was writing that note. right. reporter: nevertheless, they pressed sam for more details. the clothing you were wearing saturday? i think it was a guess sweatshirt. reporter: sam readily gave
the same rumors about albert that were circulating around placentia. but you know what? hey, it s a possibility that, shoot, somebody else from his family i m not blaming anybody. i m not pointing fingers at nobody, okay? but why why the coincidence that after he hung himself, this happened? why? have you ever thought of that? reporter: of course, police also asked sam where he was the night cathy disappeared. could you tell us where you were saturday night, this last saturday? sure. we re asking everyone. no. that s fine, that s fine, i understand. i was up in corona. i was helping my friend, a friend of mine moved. reporter: sam told police how he and his cousin javier helped their friend move in the afternoon, and then he said he dropped javier off at his home. where d you go from there? from there i went to my girlfriend s store. and i was there till, shoot, till they closed, which was around 8:00, a little bit after
to me. we never really sat down and talked about it. well, you know what? i think she was trying to hide from her problems by smoking out. reporter: meaning she was smoking marijuana. cathy s family said that for her, that would be out character. sam told detectives he had last seen cathy the thursday before she disappeared. he said she d paged him several times that day and when they finally met up she asked me for some weed, you know? and then she kept on asking me, so are you going to give it to me or what? and i go, you know what? the minute i said no to her, she blew up. she started cussing me out. you know, and, if i don t get it through you, i m going to get it through somebody else. reporter: and then, sam said, cathy got in her car and took off. so i m like, you know, i mean, what can i do now? i mean, shoot, a girl cusses you out, i mean i can t go chasing after her. you know, cause i never thought she was going to i mean, this was going to happen. report