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That he had committed the crime. what anita didn t know is the day after the crime, russell left town for about 24 hours. it seemed suspicious. when he returned, police paid him a visit. he said he didn t know anything about angie s murder, even though it was all over the news. it seemed hard to believe. police saw motive and opportunity. and while there was no witness placing russell at the crime scene, there was no one to back up his alibi. angie s friend, sheila, met with the lead detective who laid out for her the theory. russell snapped is the word he used. and then he grabbed a knife, took her into the room and proceeded to rape her. this is probably the one and only murder he will do, that it was just a passionate moment, and he snapped and he s going to be back to his old calm self. investigators asked sheila ....
About that shared night out, investigators wrote that she told them that the evening centered around russell and angie, and anita felt she was along for appearances sake only. it didn t occur to me that it was angie and russ event. it was the three of us. i remember anita and i sitting at the table, visiting while angie was out on the dance floor dancing. russell told police angie and anita dropped him off around 1:00 a. m. and he went to sleep. for him, that was the end of the night. your alibi was you were home in bed. yeah. there was no way to prove it, unfortunately. the police theory was that you, after you were dropped off, walked back to angie s house, knocked on the door. she let you in, because she knew you. you already had a thing for her. something went wrong. you ....
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 was murdered last night and the police want you to call them back. what did you think? i didn t want to believe it at first. beyond that, i started with the whole would have, could have, should have. could i have prevented it, should i have spent the night? would things have been different? but she was not the last person to see angie alive. it turns out angie s boyfriend, ben, was that person. she had stopped by his place on her way home after dropping off anita. later that night, it was ben who called police to angie s condo. and what got their attention was not just what ben said, but how he sounded when he said it. ....
Her friend, anita. another female engineering student at smu. you saw her that last night? yes. how was she? she was angie. i mean, she was fine. that night, anita accompanied angie and russell on an expedition to a series of bars and clubs. angie s 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? ....
there was no witness that could confirm where he was after he was dropped off by angie and anita. no one could confirm he went to bed or where he was after that. did he ever move off that story? no. and russell said, there was nothing romantic about the evening. it was just a night out for three young people. he continued to insist that he didn t have any feelings for angie, he didn t perceive that evening as a date and he wasn t romantically interested in her. correct. and i get the feeling no one believed that. nobody did. a lot of things weren t adding up. soon, police were questioning anita and russell buchanan. was there some specific thing they wanted to know. was he romantically interested in angie? since he loved within walking distance, ....