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During the christmas season, just one of hundreds of facilities like it. some 5 to 7 million boxes a year. thats a lot of love. so how many relatives do you think you have in america? >> aurora: in america, oh my gosh. >> analyn: florida. >> aurora: california, albert. >> rubin: my ate -- my other sister is in california. >> analyn: in hong kong, we have at least ten. >> aurora: and then dubai around eight, in qatar. >> anthony: im at this christmas gathering today because of one of our producer...

Little after 8:15. >> its -- yeah. "its 8:15, just finished my shift. today was crazy. everybody was all buying v --" and the "v" was for valentines day. >> reporter: and thats as far as she got? >> thats as far as she got. so shes interrupted mid-sentence. >> reporter: just who had done that? detectives werent quite sure. daron believed the letter was intended for albert, who at the time of cathys murder was lying in a coma in the hospital after a suicide attempt. he never woke up, and died alm...

Dated in high school. cathys older sister was married to sams older brother. >> they had a long on again off again relationship in which, what, he couldnt let go of her or she couldnt let go of him? >> i think a lot of it was mutual. >> even after cathy started dating albert and sam had another girlfriend, too, they continued to see each other. and darren found evidence that in sams mind, his relationship with cathy was far from casual. >> mary gave me a shoebox full of letters written between s...

>> he paged me, saying, "you know what, i need a ride." >> reporter: the prosecutor argued that if they were together and javiers dna put him at scene of the crime, then sam had to be there too. his alibi is at theurder scene. and for sam lopez, i think thats just devastating evidence. >> reporter: and he told the jury it was the first of many instances where the most powerful evidence of guilt came from sams own words. >> its sams actions and its sams statements. >> reporter: so he gave you the...

Families. it turned out cathy had dated armandos younger brother, sam, off and on. and the families lived right down the street from each other. you can see one house from the other. >> exactly. >> reporter: and shes going out with sam. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: you marry his older brother. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: so that house wasnt just another house on the street. >> right. >> reporter: it was family. >> right. right. >> reporter: police spoke with members of the lopez family. sam knew cathy th...

Have on a guy who gets "pissed," his own word, "pissed," if she even mentions another guy? what is he gonna do when he sees a hickey? >> reporter: what he did, matt said, was slash cathys tires. >> obviously somebody had -- would have to be very angry at her to slash her tires. if those tires were slashed, ladies and gentlemen, theres only one suspect. theres only person that did it. >> reporter: murphy said sams anger continued to build as cathys attention turned to albert -- the same week when...

Looked as if sam and kraft i had been arguing. he did say cathy looked fine. nobody was sure what happened after that. except they apparently parted company. sam in his car, cathy in hers. she was too out of it to realize she had been driving on slashed tires. >> i kept saying, what happened to your tires? >> she says she didnt know. she knew she had gone out with sam that night. >> darren wyatt now believed sam drugged cathy, possibly assaulted her and slashed her tires. the next day cathy call...

Police had their suspicions about sam lopezs involvement in the murder of his neighbor and former girlfriend, cathy torrez. but there was no physical evidence tying him to the murder. and he had a solid alibi on the night cathy was killed. sam was with his cousin, javier. which is why when police took their case to the d.a.s office, the d.a. refused to file charges against sam. police pursued other leads too, like a possible connection to the suicide of cathys boyfriend, albert. did you think th...

Not confirmed yet, but thats what they told me. >> horrible situation. we understand church service starts at 11:00 there at first baptist church. it was 11:30 a.m. according to authorities and eyewitnesss when the first shots were fired. now we have a very tragic scene. so many people transfort ported to nearby hospitals and unclear the official numbers from authorities. you as a commissioner had that access there who is telling you about these sad, tragic horrific numbers. possibly 27 dead and...

>> yeah. >> left it unlocked for everyone, you know. >> reporter: the next day, saturday, was the tennessee lsu football game and everyone was looking forward to tailgating. but the fun day turned sour. brooke borrowed something out of dinas closet, the girlfriends had an argument about it. >> and i had found out she had wore it without asking. >> reporter: it was a silly fight, but it stuck with brooke. she didnt tailgate for long. >> she had been calling all these people to pick her up to take...