no history of violence at all. david strickland did not do this. it was sam smith who had the last word. dylan spellman, he told the jury, might have been under suspicion. but ultimately had nothing to do with this crime. david strickland, he said, was the man holding the gun. shooting both of these girls for no identifiable bull reason at all. he certainly is a psychopath. he never offered the jury a possible motive. christine says, she is sure that it is about her sexual orientation. what is the reason for thinking it is a hate crime? in the letter that he supposedly tried to send to my dad, it says something in the letter like those lesbians! in his interrogation, strickland made a point of saying that he had no issues with the gay community. whether or not that was the truth, prosecutors decided not to charge him with a hate crime. after five days of testimony,
never met. she remembered her assailant was wearing under armor gloves. was this a detail that could help investigators unlocked the mystery? here again is josh michael wits with a texas twist. day by day, inch by inch, kristene chalk up watched a steady if uneven road to recovery. i couldn t move my left side. i couldn t move my hand or my arm. or my leg. i had to re-learn to swallow. you don t give up to you? i don t. i tried to stay motivated. so the detective roland travis, he too was making progress. the cigarette buzz and drink can collect it from the crime scene had just given him his first major break in the case. what did the dna show? if dna show that it s returned to joe spellman. who was dylan spellman? police learned he loved just
that the client may have written the letter. but they argue, it would only have been out of revenge. for chris melcher having him arrested. after those comes potential details in the letter? small details. there is any number of places where this kind of information could ve come from. but what about the lab report showing strickland s gun matching the shell casings found at the scene? we had our expert who said that it is inconclusive. there is no way that you can say for sure. police, they said, should never have taken their sights off of the real shooter. they have the right guy. dylan spellman? you think that s the killer? he s a better match than my boy. he [inaudible] and then started trying to plea bargain. this man kicked it with people wearing masks, when, and terrorize a family of hostages. they said their client had
three blocks from the crime scene. and two of us also noticed a striking was hamblin s two that sketch christine had helped police draw of the gunmen. we start trying to get background on dillon spellman. some quick computer searches revealed spellman had a criminal past. elaine spellman had just been convicted of a violent crime. yes. or i m bribery in nevada. yeah. that nevada armed robbery occurred in 2010. a year and a half before the shootings. spellman and some accomplices broke into a home in a las vegas suburb and held a family hostage before robbing them and taking off. did anybody get killed? no. and at the time of the shootings in 2012, dylan spellman was in the corpus christi area, awaiting sentencing for than about armed robbery. he had been sent here to stay with a friend. what interrupts of us wear some unusual similarities.
between the nevada crime, and the shootings and texas. as we start to go through the case file, we started seeing more and more things that are lining up with what we are looking at. for example? the use of numbers. remember, christine had said the shooter referred to her and mali as girl one and girl to. he used numbers and that other crime? yes. they refer to each other by number in that particular crime. the similarities between the two crimes didn t and there. in the nevada home invasion, where the victims bound? yes, they were. you gotta be number one on the list at this point. he definitely jump to the top. by that, time dylan spellman had already returned to nevada to begin serving his three year sentence. so travis hopped a plane to las vegas, hoping to see what mr. spellman might reveal about his brief stay in texas. spellman admitted he was in the park the night of the shootings,