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
the shootings. we have no gun. we have no usable prints. the only thing we have are cigarette butts, a monster can, and suspicion. it didn t help that chavez s one eyewitness to the shootings could not identify spellman from a photo lineup. it was very hard because the suspects all looked the same. and then there was the matter of mr. spellman s height. he s big. he s what, 6 8 ? 6 8 . remember, kristene said the shooter was quite a bit shorter than that, 5 8 , maybe 5 9 . for me, it was always the difficulty of getting over the size. so chavez and his team regrouped. we begin getting cell phone records for him, getting hair samples or anything off the duct tape, anything off of the girls clothing, anything that would be able to attach dylan spellman to them. does any of that lead
that must have been a wonderful thing to see. it was. for police, the pressure to find the shooter was intense. detective roland chavez hoped kristene, now conscious, would be playing a big part in that, but kristene still could not speak. it was either a squeeze of the hand and then the blinking of the eyes. so chavez kept his questions simple. the first thing we asked her, of course, is did you know the person that did this, and she said no. how tall was he? she described him as about 5 8 , 5 9 . within the first two weeks of her recovery, kristene helped police draw this sketch of the man who shot her. she said he smelled of cigarettes, which made chavez think about those cigarette butts found at the crime scene. he asked that the dna tests on those be put on the fast track. one of the things that kristene was also able to give us was that the assailant wore gloves and under armour gloves specifically. she saw the logo? yes. and she was a softball player, s
and began to stir. that s an incredible little girl here. i m telling you, she is something else. we asked her questions, she would squeeze our hand. that must have been a wonderful thing to see. it was. for police, the pressure to find the shooter was intense. detective roland chavez hoped kristene, now conscious, would be playing a big part in that, but kristene still could not speak. it was either a squeeze of the hand and then the blinking of the eyes. so chavez kept his questions simple. the first thing we asked her, of course, is did you know the person that did this, and she said no. how tall was he? she described him as about 5 8 , 5 9 . within the first two weeks of her recovery, kristene helped police draw this sketch
monster can, and suspicion. it didn t help that chavez s one eyewitness to the shootings could not identify spellman from a photo lineup. it was very hard because the suspects all looked the same. and then there was the matter of mr. spellman s height. he s big. he s what, 6 8 ? 6 8 . remember, kristene said the shooter was quite a bit shorter than that, 5 8 , maybe 5 9 . for me, it was always the difficulty of getting over the size. so chavez and his team regrouped. we begin getting cell phone records for him, getting hair samples or anything off the duct tape, anything off of the girls clothing, anything that would be able to attach dylan spellman to them. does any of that lead 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