she was a college student found on a lonely road in texas. we figured she had been sexually assaulted and dumped here. tough questions for her boyfriend. where was i the night before? what had i been doing? when had i last seen her? i really thought he could be our killer. but while police try to prove it, another attack. he has got me by the throat and he s shaking me and he s yellinh at me, telling me not to say a word. you re a prisoner in his apartment? yes. even on forsman they felt what do we have on our hands. there is growing danger because the police are looking in the wrong place. i lived health and no one believed me. this monster is walking free while they are wasting their time on me. can the killer be caught before he kills again? it makes you realize how fragile your life is. and that anybody can take it. welcome to dateline, a killer was on the loose in a texas college town leaving students and their parents terrified. with a sh
but while police try to prove it, another attack. he has got me by the throat and he s shaking me and he s yeg at me, telling me not to say a word. you re a prisoner in his apartment? yes. a college campus gripped by fear. a growing list of suspects. a growing list of victims, too. welcome to dateline. a killer was loose on the college texas town, leaving parents terrified. with a shocking discovery of jimmy hart s body, investigators were desperately trying to piece together the clues. was that young woman connected to her killer or did police have an active predator on their hands? here is andrea canning with the face of evil. looking back now, this woman almost didn t make it. i said, if you keep doing, this you are going to kill me. and he just said, do you think i actually care about that? is that when you feel like you are looking in the face of evil? i knew then completely in the moment that he intended on killing me. little did she know that in thi
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. you think about them a lot? they were total strangers to you. but they re my alternative future. i mean, they re what could ve happened to me. i mean, they re what could ve 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. kristin faced him in court during the penalty phase. it was terrifying. i had to testify and i met carolyn s family and 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, you know. it s not her fault that my sister died. and kristin should have no guilt over that. with the casey family as witnesses, ynobe matthews was
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 or crimes. mr. matthews had a tendency to try to sexually assault females, and in the process of that he would choke them if they were not willing to have sex with him. how did carolyn die? her death was ruled a strangulation. so things started kinda matchin up. ynobe had never been convicted of sexual assault, but in the files the detective read the story one particularly brutal assault. a case ended up being charged as a misdemeanor unlawful restraint it was kristin s. ynobe was the man she says almost killed her. i was certain that he had done this before. but at the
same time i didn t think he would do it again. the detective called ynobe matthews back down to the station for another interview decided to pull a fast one with his suspect telling him he was about to get dna results from the crime scene. what were you really about to get it that quickly? we weren t gonna get it that quickly that day, but tryin to get him to believe that we had that information, that we had everything that we needed. i had contacted my supervisor earlier. and i told him, if he would page me just say put in type in the words that says dna matches. and right on cue, the detective s pager went off. and i showed it to mr. matthews. it said dna matches. so what s his face like when he looks at that match?