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He refused to denounce those individuals. and as a result of that, the ilk is all be it not mental is an illness of individuals thinking theyre supreme in this country based on their whiteness when in fact we know the history of this country when we rested in white supremacy, many people are maligned, many people are targeted, and far too many people are massacred as we have seen over the last week. >> albert, in the manifesto that the el paso shooter says he posted, he targets latin-americans. ...

The restaurant, and drove with friends to the concert. she spent the night at dinas house. >> i called it hotel dina like everyone just stayed. >> 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 and the girlfriends had an argument about it. >> and i had found out she had wore it without asking. >> rep...

Jacqui heinrich reporting on the rest of this story. jacqui? >> albert flick had a violent history. he killed his wife and attacked two women. one of them while on probation. eight years ago, a judge released him saying he would age out of his capacity for harm. yesterday a jury sent him back to jail after watching the 77-year-old stab a woman to death in front of her twins on surveillance video. prosecutors said kimberly, a 48-year-old mother of two rejected his advances. flick became obsessed ...

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...

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...

Cathys older sister was married to sams older brother. >> reporter: they had this 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. >> reporter: even after cathy started dating albert and sam had another girlfriend, too, they continued to see each other. and daron found evidence that in sams mind, his relationship with cathy was far from casual. >> mary gave me a shoe box full of letters that were written...

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 the best. >> how long have you known cathy? >> jeez, ive known her for over five year...

About, are you serious?" >> reporter: remember, cathy was seeing another guy. albert. who, only days later tried to kill himself. tina says cathy thought about sams proposal all that week. ultimately, cathy decided, says tina, that she was so broken up about albert she was going to tell sam the answer was no. >> shes crying, and then she said, "im going to tell him this saturday that im not gonna take off with him, that i will not elope." that was wednesday. and then saturday she never came home...

In general, like labor trafficking, sex trafficking. i wanted to understand it better. and so when i came back from traveling around the world, i had to make a decision what i wanted to do about this. because i could not unsee what i saw. i know i just could not do anything. obviously, one platform we have thats very powerful is in baseball. and then i created another organization kwhich is taking vulnerab vulnerable populations and helping them get jobs. strikeout slavery really was something a...

Hand to see if you can draw them out and see if they are a victim. let us go out and investigate. >> well give a phone number in a second as well. i want to go back out to california. albert, if people are watching and listening, what would you have them do? >> well, just get involved. september is where we kraecreat our first one about year and a half ago. tomorrow well have our first one at a new york mets. always being big supporter of that. believe later on in the summer well have kansas cit...