somebody. and then she would call me up. and we would just, like calling each other, going out to eat, places like that. nothing serious at the time. sam definitely was trying to limit his connection with cathy, give the impression that it s not that big of a deal. reporter: remember cathy s sister tina had told detectives sam had proposed to cathy just days before she disappeared. but when police asked sam about that, he denied it. you didn t ask her to marry you, then? no. reporter: later he changed his story but seemed to say getting married was cathy s idea. a lot of people hit me up already. they said that that that we were supposed to elope, okay? this is what she okay, but look. she had a crazy idea to go to mexico, okay? just the two of us. reporter: then there was sam s claim that cathy never tried to contact him after she disappeared. i thought she was going to page me on friday. she goes somewhere, and she never paged me on friday. we know that cath
cathy had been arguing. but he did say cathy looked fine. nobody was quite sure what happened after that, except they apparently parted company. sam in his car, cathy in hers. then cathy arrived home, too out of it to realize she d been driving on slashed tires. tina saw the tires the next day. i just kept saying, who what happened to your tires? who slashed your tires? reporter: and she d say? and she d say she didn t know. she she just knew that she had gone out with sam that night. reporter: daron wyatt now believed sam drugged cathy, possibly assaulted her, and slashed her tires. the next day, cathy called tina with more details about her strange night with sam. he had told her let s run off, let s get married. let s run off and let s elope. and she told him, you re joking, this is not you know, what are you talking
parking lot. the other for failing to stop at a stop sign. the cop who pulled sam over for not stopping said sam flew through the intersection, and when he approached the car, the cop said it looked as if sam and cathy had been arguing. but he did say cathy looked fine. nobody was quite sure what happened after that, except they apparently parted company. sam in his car, cathy in hers. then cathy arrived home, too out of it to realize she d been driving on slashed tires. tina saw the tires the next day. i just kept saying, who what happened to your tires? who slashed your tires? reporter: and she d say? and she d say she didn t know. she she just knew that she had gone out with sam that night. reporter: daron wyatt now believed sam drugged cathy, possibly assaulted her, and slashed her tires. the next day, cathy called tina with more details about her strange night with sam. he had told her let s run off, let s get married. let s run off and let s elope. and she told
it s it s an off-and-on thing. on-and-off thing. okay. reporter: tell number one, how sam talked about his relationship with cathy. see, i was going out with somebody. and then she would call me up. and we would just, like calling each other, going out to eat, places like that. nothing serious at the time. sam definitely was trying to limit his connection with cathy, give the impression that it s not that big of a deal. reporter: remember cathy s sister tina had told detectives sam had proposed to cathy just days before she disappeared. but when police asked sam about that, he denied it. you didn t ask her to marry you, then? no. reporter: later he changed his story but seemed to say getting married was cathy s idea. a lot of people hit me up already. they said that that that we were supposed to elope, okay? this is what she okay, but look. she had a crazy idea to go to mexico, okay? just the two of us. reporter: then there was
but when police asked sam about that, he denied it. you didn t ask her to marry you, then? no. reporter: later he changed his story but seemed to say getting married was cathy s idea. a lot of people hit me up already. they said that that that we were supposed to elope, okay? this is what she okay, but look. she had a crazy idea to go to mexico, okay? just the two of us. reporter: then there was sam s claim that cathy never tried to contact him after she disappeared. i thought she was going to page me on friday. she goes somewhere, and she never paged me on friday. we know that cathy s mom paged him 20 or 25 times in a matter of at least a couple of days, trying to get him to contact her because he s so close to cathy and she s missing. reporter: montgomery noted a key detail about those pages. mary s home phone and cathy s home phone are the same number. they re the same numbers. reporter: so, seeing that number on his pager, how did sam know it wasn t cathy?