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He wasn't alone the night he stabbed cathy to death. sam's cousin javier was also arrested and charged with murder. police also arrested sam's older brother armando who was once married to cathy's sister tina and had helped search for cathy. >> it's just a tragic loss. it hurts. everybody loved cathy. >> armando was charged with being an accessory after the fact for allegedly helping cover up the murder. >> we believe he was telling people who had information that could help convict sam not to cooperate with the police. >> cathy's sister had to ponder what that might mean about her former husb...

>> he paged me, saying, "you know what, i need a ride." >> reporter: the prosecutor argued that if they were together and javier's dna put him at scene of the crime, then sam had to be there too. his alibi is at theurder scene. and for sam lopez, i think that's just devastating evidence. >> reporter: and he told the jury it was the first of many instances where the most powerful evidence of guilt came from sam's own words. >> it's sam's actions and it's sam's statements. >> reporter: so he gave you the case against him. >> the best evidence that we have in this case, and that we had, was sam l...

Their lives. rob: the interview you won't see anywhere else. >> reporter: after tragedies like this there are always stories of heroes, police officers or everyday civilians but sometimes those heroes emerge in the most unlikely places. the broken windows at mandalay bay a constant reminder what happened that night, the concert venue a football distance from where i am here at sam's aviation facility, thousands ran from there, some came here. there was one man working and he had a few seconds to make a decision to save people's lives. >> 100 some people here, had to have enough room for them. ...

>> so we know that, you know, unfortunately, addiction is a disease of early onset. and we need to promote good education and prevention efforts before kids start to use. >> how do you do that? >> we need to -- so there's great evidence based prevention programs. grant funding through the office of national drug control policy and through sam's that promote good evidence based and community based prevention programs. we know how to do this. it's not as if we have a lack of knowledge around what we need to do to prevent this epidemic and treat it successfully. it's really a function of do we ha...

>> in terms of practice of how sf 86 prosecutions happen, that appears to be correct in terms of what -- who actually gets prosecuted for omitting things. although i will note that sneaking sergey kislyak into trump tower and, you know, floating the idea of a secret back channel in which you use russian diplomatic facilities is a sort of thing you might remember. but the bigger thing to me, sam s that there's just this unbelievable unity that the mistruths, the falsehoods, the deceptions about this one topic time and time and time and time again. >> well, you know, the real sort of fundamental...