like, she s dead, she s dead! and i was so confused. i was like, what s going on? what happened? a small texas town, two super close friends, and a summer night in the park. they have this lookout, and you could see the harbor bridge lit up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that they found them. i could see two girls laying there. it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouths, on their hands. a mystifying scene. the only thing we have are cigarette butts and suspicion. dna would point one way. he s like, serge, you ve got to take a look at this. a bombshell message would point another. i read the letter and immediately knew this was something very important. a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. it takes a special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. to crack a case this convoluted, it might just take a miracle. that was extraordinary. i just couldn t believe it. welcome to dateli
anywhere? no, unfortunately, it didn t. two years passed. the case grew so cold that chavez s chief decided to give it to a new detective, hoping he might have better luck finding the missing pieces. detective aaron veleman had been working the case, and now he took the lead. what we first wanted to do was expand the scope of the crime scene search because there was one crucial piece of evidence we didn t have at that point, which was a murder weapon. he hoped the murder weapon might definitively link spellman to the shootings. what d that turn up? we didn t find anything, nothing of value. so you re back to kind of nowhere. that s right. and then? we received a phone call from the investigators at the sinton police department. those investigators in the neighboring town of sinton had just been given a letter addressed to kristene chapa s father. what does the letter say? the letter is written from the perspective of a hit man who has been hired to kill the
A Vinton man threatened to kill local government officials on July 21, and an emergency substantial risk order was filed against him the next day. He surrendered four handguns and