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Named albert. his jealousy was triggered that night he saw her with another man. >> he gets, in his own words, pissed. >> what he did was slash cathys tires. >> obviously, someone would have to be pretty angry with her to slash tires. if the tires were slashed, ladies and gentlemen, theres only one person who did it. >> murphy said sams anger continued to build as cathys attention turned to albert, the same when when sam asked her to elope. a proposal she told her sister tina she was going to re...

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 next day. >> i just kept saying, "who -- what happened to your tires? who slashed your tires?" >> and she -- and shed say? >> and shed say she didnt know. she -- she just knew that she had gone out with sam that night. >> reporter: daron wyatt now believed sam drugge...

Cathy? >> ive known them for five years. >> she interview him down at the station. >> like i say, always had a smile. would always be laughing, making jokes. >> given p their friendship, detectives were curious about what cathy might have shared with sam about albert. >> albert tried to commit suicide. 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 her fault. nereally sat down and talke...

>> 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 -- 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 between sam and cathy, and the content of these letters sh...

>> police had their suspicions about sam lopezs involvement in the murder of her neighbor and former girlfriend cathy torres. 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...

In a coma in the hospital after his suicide attempt. he never woke up and died almost two years later. >> obviously you have to look at all of that and ask is there something thats involved in that? >> it was almost too strange to imagine, except to police. >> there are 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. >> maebz of alberts family, the rumor said, were angry with cathy, thinking th...

Cathy had fled from the vehicle on foot, had most likely been caught and k thatted again before she was ultimately placed in the trunk of the car. >> she fought pretty hard to get away. >> she did. she ran for her life. >> the detectives, this was not a sex crime or a robbery. more than 70 stab wounds suggested something else. >> theres nothing random about it. she was a targeted victim. >> and perhaps the most chilling clue? a letter in cathys own handwriting found tucked away on the passenger ...

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 gonna 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. all of it seemed to add up to motive. but motive...

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, 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 i...

You have albert, philip, henry, alexander. i could go on. all based on cnn analysis which is speculation because no one knows the names. we are looking at philip and arthur. two names that charles and william both share as middle names. others have gone. george, obviously to the older brother. louis. arthur and philip and hoping we are right. today is all about the speculation. last time with charlotte, we did not get the name for a couple of days. the betting money is pouring in. >> max, lets b...