by an amateur sleuth obsessed with the case. back to josh. several months after angie samota was raped and murdered, the prime minister suspect, russell buchanan, hired an attorney and refused to speak with police. several months after that, he left the country. it seemed suspicious, but without enough evidence to arrest him, police could not stop him. russell was not arrested or charged in angie s murder. he went on to become a successful architect. it had been nearly 30 years when russell decided to talk once again about what happened that night and about angie. her friends describe her as the type of girl guys get crush on her. maybe so. you had a crush on her? i hardly knew her. but after questioning anita
sheila, walked in the courtroom on the first day of trial. and i just remember feeling shaky all over. she got a close look for the first time at the man accused of robbing angie of most of her life. and he walks in the door, and i remember the air being sucked out of the room, and the the feeling that i m in the presence of pure evil. anita and russell, the friends with whom angie spent her last night, both testified. both found it emotional. just keep reliving a situation that is just difficult. it was just a flood of emotion, of how could you do something like that? it was tough, very tough. did you look at the defendant while you were there? yeah, that was scary. and think to yourself, you
he was staying with his parents in amarillo, working with at the gym there. so he was eliminated based on that. what about ben, angie s oddly unemotional boyfriend, who officers thought acted strangely the night of the murder? the police check to see if there was scratches or bruises on him? they checked that, his vehicle, his apartment for any type of blood, bloody clothes, anything like that. nothing? nothing. and tests showed ben was also a secreter. whoever raped and killed angie was not. so cross ben off the list. which leaves russell. and he was a nonsecreter.
boyfriend, ben, was not present. ben was aware of the fact that angie, russell, and i were all going out together. at least angie s friend, evelyn, ben didn t seem like the type to get jealous or violent. you could never imagine ben hurting angie? i could never imagine that. the evening ended at 1:00 a. m. angie dropped russell off from his apartment, which was walking distance from her own. and then took anita home. she thought about spending the night at angie s but decided against it. what was the last thing you said to each other? see you tomorrow at the football game. she doesn t meet me there, very strange. because she was a woman of her word. i remember saying, i wonder why angie is. i came home, and my roommate said, there s something i need to tell you. she said, umm, you might want to sit down. she goes, angie
hours after angie s murder. make her boyfriend, ben, a suspect. the man who made that calm 911 call that police found suspicious. to assume that a very intelligence young lady is going to throw the door open to a stranger at 1:30 in the morning to use the bathroom, but is so afraid of this person, that she picks up the phone and calls her boyfriend. and then hangs up the phone willingly, and yet this is supposed to be the one that kills her? it doesn t make sense. you find ben s actions suspicious? extremely suspicious. she and the others on the defense team didn t point their fingers only at ben. but also at ex-boyfriend lance, at russell, and at any other man who could have been invited by angie into her home. it almost seems as if she was overcome by someone she knew. or someone holding a knife. it could still be someone