Cell 22. it was the kind of letter that makes an impression. i appreciate your interest in my story, and your desire to want to know what is really going on in this pathetic excuse of an investigation. she clearly knew her audience. as long as you respect me and mine i will give you one heck of a story. because she said she had information we would want to hear about her ex husband j.d.. a man she said was the real killer. there is a very dangerous man walking the streets of this town. i know the truth, i won t stop screaming until someone listens. listen we did, those letters kept coming and soon katie and our producer karen israel were chatting by phone. hi, katie. hi, miss israel? hi. yes, i m glad were finally able to connect. i m just coming at this trying to learn as much as i can.
mongold thought, j. d. was still holding back. he believed, j. d. was at helium road, with robin. and laid out a scenario of how it all might have happened. in the backseat, she shows up, she sore speeding on that glass cause we have trips from the, windowpane transfers from the gun. it happens in a flash, right here in front of, you can t do anything about it, it is driving you crazy. not your fault, it happened in five seconds time no, sir. you are throwing all kinds of accusations and crap me right now. that is not true, sir. eight days later, j. d. said, he was ready to come clean. the story he then told matched investigators suspicions. j. d. now admitted, he had gone to helium road, that night, to meet robin. i got in the backseat with her, and we were talking about the girls, the stars test coming up. that is when j. d. said, he noticed headlights, shining through the back window.
there is some nicks in the glass, and there s also a hot pink paint polymer transferred to the grass. something that hit something that was? pick something that was classic? yes. at the time, the investigator had no way of knowing how significant that pink on the window might be. and he was trying to figure out who might wanted to kill robin. he went to see robin s boyfriend jarrett who worked at a bar. his story was basically that he goes to the bar. until 9:30. goes home, plays xbox until 11:00 or midnight. and goes to sleep. not the perfect alibi? no. the investigator are so questioned jd at his home. he has a story where he came home, had a couple of bears, passed out. and he was nowhere near helium road? that s what he says. and that s when j. d. told him about another man in robbyn s life. another name the investigator had not heard before. chris. who s chris? well he tells the story that they used to date. he thinks there into drugs. he thinks there into violence, he thinks that he is a bad guy.
An antenna, at the lockney tower. which was close to savannah s house. and, also to the crime scene. when she checked her voice mail, it pinned off the tower. so, the ping from katie s phone, that is consistent with your theory that she had committed a murder, and was heading home. if it are theory, that s right. the motive means an opportunity. randall county sheriff s investigators believed, they had everything they needed. on april 11th, 2014, only four days after their daughter s murder, an investigator gave robin s parents the news. he says, well, we just arrested katie. wow, it was like done, done, done. and it was done and we said, okay. this is awesome. case closed? not quite. coming up katie, offers up a new suspect. i don t know, i m starting to think maybe j. d. did it. j. d. has a new story. just forgive me. if i ended up misleading anybody. when dateline, continues.
you re hearing this from j. d.? yes. and the wife story. she tells the same thing. so you go see chris? we go see chris. same things. when was the last time you saw? robin what was illiberal each and? he said i m with my mom. he had an alibi. so he s on the bottom of the list? yes. he s at the bottom. jared soon moved to the bottom too. but jd was about to move up the investigators list. because his story was about to change. coming up! this dreadful trying to figure out everything. an ex husband caught an ally. did you have any plans to meet robin that evening? no. how do you explain these text messages? let me read this to you. when dateline continues! [ tires screeching ] jordana, easy on the gas.
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Either had contempt for before or just thought, could never be mine? could never be mine. girls like me don t have things like that. when diego was a year old katie broke up with his father and she moved back to amarillo, where she met another guy, this will not so special. i got pregnant with my daughter at 17, when i was six months pregnant her father left me for a stripper. okay. well, sorry. i mean, life is what it is. while she was pregnant a friend introduced her to his brother who lived in florida, katie move there and gave birth to her second child harley, kid s new birth friend helped raise hardly and katie earned her ged. then i realized that people like me, if they really do work hard enough, they can get to where they want to be. an american success story. getting closer to it. out of hail? beauty from ashes. it was hell. it was held, but i learned how
Motive. we found of photo of her shooting a pink pistol, if that gun shot robin only two people could ve done it. i may be a lot of things, but i m not a murderer. you and i both know there s something going on here, you re protecting yourself? you re protecting someone else? i want robbyn back. i want to be happy. i want what will never be. it began with a letter. mailed by a sun scorched stack of cement blocks and steel wire. in the dusty plains outside of amarillo, texas. randall county jail. we often hear from inmates. but this letter seemed a little different. within neat lines the author dangled a promise. i will give you one hell of a story. now that was the truth!
she s accused of killing robbyn with a bullet to the head, in 22. katie s alibi looked shaky and she had failed to polygraph s. add to that how robin also happened to be the ex-wife of katie s husband j.d., and the romantic relationship with j.d. somehow seemed to survive the end of the marriage. there was a river of bad blood between the two women. a bunch of blinking signs that said katie did it. we started digging a bit and we wondered if there was more to the story. so in february 2015, one of our producers sent a letter to katie at the county jail. dear miss spielbauer, i ve been following your case for the past several months and felt it was time i reached out to you directly. a week later we received a response from inmates number 8059 housing unit to, pod the
there is jd four versions of what happened. four different versions of what happened. the jury watch the video of him lying to investigators about whether he met with robin on helium road the night of the murder. did you have any plans to meet robin on helium road? no. then jurors were shown another recording taken a few weeks later. when his story changed dramatically. and he admitted that he did meet with robin that night. and he said, so did katie. who jd claimed followed him out helium road. which took me by surprise and everything. that was not the biggest lie that j. d. was accused of telling, even bigger was this one. giant even by texas standards. it wasn t about the night of the murder, it was about his past. a record search by investigators head yield did this. j. d., the gear head. was no jar head.