process the car. and inside the car, a drivers license that belonged to jamie hart. when detectives showed up at chuck s workplace that afternoon, he says his heart sank. when they told me that she had been found dead, it felt like i had been hit by a truck. wow. so your sense of dread was right. coming true? yep. realized, fully realized. did fear spread throughout the campus? oh, yes. i mean, it was front page news. kristin lancaster was a 19 year old freshman. my brother actually worked with jamie at the time. i ll never forget him coming home devastated. reporter: a killer in a college town is terrifying. very much so, yes. this is something that happens in chicago. it something that happens in houston. it s not something that happens in bryan college station in aggieland. kelly brown is the editor of the eagle, the local newspaper
detectives struggled to make sense of the crime scene as they canvas the area looking for leads, a possible suspect emerged. here s andrea canning with the final chapter of the face of evil. it was two nights after the murder and fire. detective capps made a discovery, one that would finally connect the dots in this series of crimes that had terrorized this college town. i spent that evening basically reading through all these reports. the detective had ordered background checks on some of the people who attended the party in carolyn s apartment complex, including ynobe matthews. it turns out there were several police reports in the file accusing ynobe of a number of crimes. mr. matthews had a tendency to try to sexual assault females, and in the process of that, he would choke them if
is now in custody. police say the student shot his parents in the dormitory friday morning when many parents arrived to pick up students for spring break. 90-mile-per-hour winds in some parts along the east coast, the storms triggered heavy rain and flooding. now back to dateline. welcome back. i m craig melvin. just months after one woman was raped and killed in a college town, christin lancaster was certain the man meant to kill her. but what seemed like the end, turned out to be the beginning of a fight for truth. reporter: 19-year-old kristin lancaster was preparing to die. when you re possibly in the last moments of your life, when you
and now he says he could hardly grieve with police breathing down his neck. reporter: what s it like waking up every morning and knowing that you re under a cloud of suspicion? incredibly depressing. he left college station, moved home to be with his family near dallas, who spent money to hire a defense attorney. the biggest thing that was going through my mind the whole time was that i didn t do it, they don t know who did it, and the guy who did it is out walking around and likely to prey on more victims. this monster is walking free while they re wasting their time on me. kelly brown of the eagle newspaper was writing front page stories about the unsolved crime in the college town. and it really shook the community because this is an area that isn t used to seeing this type of crime. and kelly was hearing talk that the police had a suspect. but there was no arrest and that s what kept everybody
hardly grieve with police breathing down his neck. what s it like waking up every morning and knowing that you re under a cloud of suspicion? incredibly depressing. he left college station and moved home. he spent money to hire a defense attorney. the biggest thing that was going through our mind the whole time was that i didn t do it. they don t know who did it. and the guy who did it is out walking around and likely to prey on more victims. this monster is walking free while they re wasting their time on me. kelly brown of the eagle newspaper was writing front page stories about the unsolved crime in the college town. and it really shook the community, because this is an area that isn t used to seeing this type of crime. and kelly was hearing talk that the police had a suspect. but there was no arrest, and that s what kept everybody saying well, then, okay, was it the boyfriend?