Page 91 - Albert News Today

Robach at windsor castle tonight. amy? >> reporter: yes, david. harry did acknowledge today that baby sussex was a little overdue, perhaps giving the royal couple some extra time to pick out baby names. bookmakers here in the uk have three favorites -- arthur, albert and philip. philip being a nod to prince harrys grandfather, prince philip. and the long shot that some people are talking about, spencer. of course, that was dianas maiden name and that would certainly be a touching tribute. royal ...

These things. i think we live in a different world now. if you look at what happened with the parkland shooting. when we saw the kids sort of energize and get out there and start marching about gun rights, when i was 16 years old. i was not thinking about gun control and mass shootings and climate change. and now these younger people are really really involved in this. >> we are indoctrinating kids and they are being politicized younger and younger ages: i think we should let children develop an...

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...

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 shed been driving on slashed tires. tina saw the tires the ne...

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. >> reporter: sams admitted jealousy, cathys doting on albert, a rejected proposal. a...

Were in high school, lived across the street. 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 m...

More than 70 stab wounds suggested something else. >> theres nothing random about it. she was a targeted victim. >> reporter: and perhaps the most chilling clue -- a letter in cathys own handwriting found tucked away on the passenger side of cathys car. she says in the letter its a 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 sh...

>> there were rumors within the community that that may have been the motive for her disappearance and murder, was that, "hey you need to look at the rangel family." >> reporter: members of alberts family, the rumors said, were angry with cathy, thinking that she might have been the cause of his suicide attempt. >> because of his relationship with cathy and the fact that she wasnt as serious about him as he was with her. so that had to be examined, it had to be looked at. >> reporter: so the inv...

We would always be laughing, making jokes. >> reporter: given their friendship, detectives were curious about what cathy might have shared with sam about albert. since albert tried to commit suicide, she was taking it pretty hard. was she confiding in you? >> the only thing she mentioned about him was that he hung himself and she was sorry for him doing that, because she thought it was his -- her fault, okay? thats -- thats how she said it to me. we never really sat down and talked about it. wel...

>> 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. >> reporter: sams admit...