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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. all of it seemed to add up to motive. but motives dont prove murder. there was still no physical evidenc...

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 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 ...

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...

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 between sam and cathy, and the content of these letters showed a very jealous guy. a g...

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?" >> reporter: 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 drugged cathy...

Were beginning to realize that things arent right here in the middle of canada. we travel on the athabaskan with a fair eight hours its cold there are regular shallow as its an unpleasant journey that we wont forget very quickly for the people here its a daily experience when we finally arrive in port chippewa and on the lake athabaskan we expect everything just not this. sprinklers luxury s.u.v.s an affluent small town in the middle of canadas forests and a town that has no roads leading to it ...

>> im a refugee from drc. >> anthony: what did you do in kinshasa? >> i did electrician and construction too. >> anthony: and here? >> i was machine operator. after that, i decide to be farmer. it was my dream. >> my dream it was to get my own garden, and what i harvest, i need to cook. >> anthony: where are you cooking now? >> i work at the four seasons hotel. >> anthony: oh thats not a bad gig. >> yeah, yeah. >> anthony: how african will houston be in twenty years? a lot, right? >> gertrude: i...

Recent arrivals in houston come from places where life is unbelievably hard and often dangerous. many come from agrarian backgrounds, arriving here without the skill set needed to compete for jobs in an urban situation. plant it forward, a non-profit urban farming program, provides refugees like gertrude and albert, lombo access to land where they can make a living from the ground. so here we are, middle of houston -- a lush, fertile plot where eggplant, squash, string beans, and other produce i...

There is a long and glorious tradition of chicano rock, garage and punk boiling away under and over the surface for years, and egregiously over looked. ♪ but what is it with the morrissey thing? what is it about morrissey? the irish singer via england that sang melancholic pathos-filled ballads that were a backdrop for a million post-breakups during the 80s that so speaks to the chicano soul? i asked musicians and concert promoters oscar arguello and albert gambea. oscar thrives in the rockabi...

You know, because when i go to mexico, im like a sore thumb there. you know, my spanish is horrible, the way i dress, the way i talk, but theres just something about it like morrissey really articulates that experience. in terms of an immigrant. he is irish. you know, he feels displaced. ♪ >> albert: this is the thing about being a mexican in the states. youre never white enough for this country, and youre never brown enough for mexico. >> oscar: there is a big issue about that, pocho, and all...