what could he tell them, if anything, about what happened in the dorm room? i couldn t put together what happened because was so violent. there was so many things that didn t make sense. scenarios that you were it s an alteration between roommates. maybe possibly alex and clayton were on the run and this is the roommate on the ground. maybe clayton hurt the roommate. through your mind? yes. reporter: and at her parents house, samantha, her best buddy, was calling all her friends. a college official got on the line and told her there was a situation. and i broke down and i called my sister and was like we need to go back right now. and i rushed here. 4:00 in the morning? 4:00 in the morning. i didn t know exactly who it
what did she say? it was a private conversation between two moms. there were tears, of course. doesn t bring back alex. it doesn t. reporter: clayton whittemore was sentenced to 25 years to life. now, among those who know the story of alex kogut s life and death, there s a new awareness of the vulnerability and challenges of young love, especially because, prosecutors say, there was evidence to show clayton had a history of threatening alex. he left angry voice mails on her phone. there were almost 30 voice mails that she saved from him. they were all of the aggressive controlling.
reporter: the cops in the interview room asked him how he felt about his dad now. reporter: in the minutes before he was arrested, clayton wrote a bizarre apology to alex and the koguts. sorry to you, he wrote. nothing will ever fix or undo what i did. i became my father. clayton s sister took the story.
nope. partying? no. drinking?. no. this sounds like a tamest bunch of hockey players i ever heard of? no. it was hardly surprising that alex was drawn to another athlete and clayton was a catch. she d gone through high school with clayton and sat beside him in senior year math class. she felt he deserved a lot more and she was very lucky. so, she considered herself lucky that he had chosen her? absolutely. did it seem he really cared about her and liked her, happy to be in the relationship? yes. you see them laughing together, getting along so well. their twitter messages were light hearted.
they called each other dork and freak and lived out their lives in the twittersphere. before arriving that friday alex tweeted, ah, see you soon. her family liked him soon. her mom contributed $20 towards his gas for the trip. once alex s swim team meet ended that day, the couple had time. she s like we re out to dinner right now and they went to a friend s house and came back to the dorm. on the way back clayton got that ticket and the cop saw them back separately. and at 2:00 a.m., should have known, it read. should have known. what do you think that meant? probably does have something to do with clayton but i don t exactly know. minutes later alex swiped her card to enter the dorm with clayton. so, now, investigators were desperate to find out where clayton whittemore was and if alex was with him. luckily we had all the information from the ticket we issued him.