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Did her stalker target a stranger to get revenge? 2021 Jan 16
In September 2016, Grapevine, Texas, police responded to a gruesome discovery in a park. Jackie Vandagriff, a 24-year-old college student, had been found murdered.
Police soon uncovered video of a man she was last seen with at some college bars in Denton, Texas.
Jackie had just met him that night, but Caitlin Mathis already knew him well. Mathis had dated Charles Bryant in that past summer and had recently broken things off. He was just trying to win me back and I was just like, nothing is going to work, she told CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod.
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January 16, 2021 / 9:40 PM / CBS NEWS Grapevine Police Dept.
An inside look at the investigation into the murder of Jackie Vandagriff.
On the night of September 13, 2016, Jacqueline Jackie Vandagriff – a junior at Texas Woman s University – walked into a bar in Denton, Texas.
Charles Bryant, the man seated two chairs away, struck up a conversation with her. Sadly, the chance meeting ended in tragedy. Jackie was found murdered the next morning.
Police quickly uncovered evidence linking Bryant to Jackie s murder, including extensive surveillance footage of the two strangers chatting hours before Jackie s death
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48 Hours covers tragic 2016 murder of college student in Grapevine
48 Hours covers tragic 2016 murder of college student in Grapevine Jackie Vandagriff, left, and Caitlin Mathis, right.
Photo courtesy of CBS A high-profile murder that took place in Grapevine in 2016 is the subject of a new episode of
48 Hours. Called The Murder of Jackie Vandagriff, the episode covers the tragic murder of 24-year-old college student Jackie Vandagriff, and will air on CBS on Saturday, January 16 at 9 pm. Vandagriff, who was a junior at Texas Woman s University in Denton, was found murdered the morning after meeting a man in a bar. Charles Bryant, a personal trainer from Haslet, was found guilty of the crime in April 2018 and sentenced to life in prison, with an additional 20-year sentence for tampering with evidence.
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Texas Ranger James Holland believes a young woman s stalker was a serial killer in the making 2021 Jan 15
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Jackie Vandagriff was found brutally murdered in a park. Was the college student targeted because she resembled the killer s ex-girlfriend? CBS News chief investigative and senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod reports in The Murder of Jackie Vandagriff.
On a September night in 2016, a young man strolls into a college bar in Denton, Texas, and takes a seat. He chats easily with the women around him and seems like any other carefree student out for the night.