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Welcome back, continuing our story. a college campus was rocked by the rape and murder of a promising young woman. police quickly honed in on the last person known to have seen jamie hart alive. but he refused to provide a dna sample. suspicious. investigators thought so. but this case was far from being solved. it was time to start looking at other possible suspects. returning to "the face of evil," heres andrea canning. >> 21-year-old jamie hart had been sexually assaulted and left to die on t...

Doors. >> yes. >> in one unit, two men answered. one of them had been to the party. his name was ynobe matthews. >> he mentioned that he did attend this party. she was there. >> like many people who had attended, ynobe agreed to an interview, his down at the police department. he was friendly and cooperative. said carolyn had left the party before he had. >> he later left the party. went with another female that was at the party over to a convenience store that was close by and bought some cigar...

>> none. >> no eyewitnesss. no fingerprints. no dna matches. the investigation wasnt off to a good start. >> thats when we started contacting people at her place of employment, friends, roommates. >> did she have any enemies? >> everybody seemed to love her. >> detective elliot began to retrace jamies steps on the night of the murder. jamie was taking time off from her studies at texas a&m and was working at a pizza parlor. her shift had ended around midnight. >> we contacted everybody that she ...

Believed to have been in that fire, and it really sort of points to the fact that authorities dont have much to work with to try to recover bodies. its very sad. >> and think about it this way, joe, they had already said, the alameda county sheriff saying, listen, some of the bodies are easily identifiable. some are not. and now with the new appeal, they are asking family members of those inside who may have lost their lives here, to please preserve their dna in a plain paper bag. if they are do...

Murder, there had been a small party in one of the apartments. and now the detective was canvassing the complex, looking for leads. so youre literally knocking on doors. >> yes. >> in one unit, two men answered. one of them had been to the party. his name was ynobe matthews. >> he mentioned that he did attend this party. she was there. >> like many people who had attended, ynobe agreed to an interview, his down at the police department. he was friendly and cooperative. said carolyn had left the ...

He had refused to give police a dna sample for testing. >> thats kind of odd, if he had nothing to hide. >> a lot of people will not give up dna. too much tv. >> the detective had snagged a sample from a beer mug. >> when the dna finally came back, he was not a match. you felt confident that you could rule him out based on the dna not matching? >> yes. >> but even before the dna test cleared jamies friend, the detective was already looking for other suspects, and his attention quickly landed on ...

When investigators asked for a dna sample -- >> he said no. >> no? >> of course, we wanted to know why. was he the killer or was he not? >> the detective was determined to answer that question. so, he put the young man under surveillance, followed him to a local restaurant. >> and are you hidden somewhere in the restaurant? >> im kind of back in a corner, yeah. >> he watched the student have a few drinks, and when he left, the detective snagged the dirty beer mugs and sent them out for dna testi...

He had refused to give police a dna sample for testing. >> thats kind of odd, if he had nothing to hide. >> a lot of people will not give up dna. too much tv. >> but the detective had snagged dna from a beer mug. when the dna finally came back, he was not a match. you felt confident that you could rule him out based on the dna not matching? >> yes. >> but even before the dna test cleared jamies friend, the detective was already looking for other suspects, and his attention quickly landed on some...

And now the detective was canvassing the complex, looking for leads. so youre literally knocking on doors. >> yes. >> in one unit, two men answered. one of them had been to the party. his name was ynobe matthews. >> he mentioned that he did attend this party. she was there. >> like many people who had attended, ynobe agreed to an interview, his down at the police department. he was friendly and cooperative. said carolyn had left the party before he had. >> he later left the party. went with anot...

Loss, that shes gone from my life forever. >> jamies boyfriend, chuck cruz, then 24, says right after the murder, he took off to bay town, texas, jamies hometown. >> about the only thing that i remember her father asking me is, when are you coming down? so i got some stuff together and drove down as soon as i could, and i spent most of the next week with them, mourning with the family, and then acting as a pallbearer for her funeral. >> back in college station, detective kenny elliot was working...