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like, she s dead, she s dead! and i was so confused. i was like, what s going on? what happened? a small texas town, two super close friends, and a summer night in the park. they have this lookout, and you could see the harbor bridge lit up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that they found them. i could see two girls laying there. it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouths, on their hands. a mystifying scene. the only thing we have are cigarette butts and suspicion. dna would point one way. he s like, serge, you ve got to take a look at this. a bombshell message would point another. i read the letter and immediately knew this was something very important. a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. it takes a special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. to crack a case this convoluted, it might just take a miracle. that was extraordinary. i just couldn t believe it. welcome to ....
After the murder. remember that tip about a white car seen speeding from the park the night of the murder? the tipster was david strickland. he came in as a good samaritan wanting to provide information. back then, david strickland lived just blocks from the park where the shootings took place. and now here he is being mentioned in connection with a guy who s been mysteriously fingered for the murder. that s right. so, just like that, basically, mr. melchor is no longer the focus of this. it s now david strickland. that s right. chris melchor went on to explain that he and strickland were no longer on good terms. melchor believed strickland had stolen several of his guns, so he had strickland arrested. yeah, the gun robbery put a damper on their relationship. strickland pleaded not guilty to the gun sheft charge and was released soon after, but the charges were still pending, and volaman wondered, ....
Investigators arguing they bungled the two-year long investigation by losing documents and mishandling evidence. we had documentation that the evidence was mishandled from the chief of police, chastising the officer that handled the evidence. that detective admits mistakes were made. he is now retired. the second lead detective, volaman, was let go for sharing sensitive details of the case with someone outside the department. strickland s attorneys concede their client may have written that letter, but they argue it would only have been out of revenge for chris melchor having him arrested. as for the confidential details in the letter. this is small town texas, there s any number of places this information could have come from. what about the lab report showing strickland s gun matching the shell casings found at the scene. we had our expert that said it is inconclusive. i mean there s no way that you can say for sure. police, they said, should never have taken their sights ....
Could strickland have written that letter as some kind of elaborate payback for melchor having strickland arrested? i know there was bad blood between david strickland and cristobal melchor, but to accuse someone of murder? if you think that letter was written by david strickland and you think the letter includes things that only the killer would know well, i think the logical inference was that strickland had something to do with the murder. finding david strickland was now volaman s priority. according to melchor, strickland left utah after his arrest and returned to texas, so detective volaman did the same, hoping this man would turn out to be the investigation s third and final person of interest. coming up a suspect not acting at all like you might expect. he was enjoying this interview. maybe police have the wrong guy again. ....
Investigation, we never heard that name. it even included a photograph of mr. melchor, the man he said hired him. this man s being handed to you on a plate. yeah. could it be real? should the police take this at a face value? is it possible this letter is some sort of thinly veiled threat to kristene, you know, you survived, but we know where you live? yes. the letter definitely contained an implied threat to her safety, and so we moved very quickly to make sure that she was safe, that she was protected. and they re like, okay, you know what, you need to leave town. like, no one could know where i was at. only my family knew where i was at. with kristene in a safe place, volaman went straight to layton, utah. with the help of the local pd, he was soon sitting across from his new person of interest. cristobal melchor said he was on a training exercise in ....