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>> reporter: to daron wyatt, it felt more like fate. and just months later, in january 1997, his lieutenant suggested daron apply to the homicide unit. >> so i ended up putting in for that job and being selected. >> reporter: it wasn't long before he cracked open the doors that housed the homicide files. >> and i open the cabinet and i see the torrez case. and i remembered the incident with debbie from about a year earlier. so i pulled it out and i started reading just on free time, just reading it a little bit. >> reporter: by then, the cathy torrez case had been cold for a good three years. ...

Police had their suspicions about sam lopez's involvement in the murder of his neighbor and former girlfriend, cathy torrez. but there was no physical evidence tying him to the murder. and he had a solid alibi on the night cathy was killed. sam was with his cousin, javier. which is why when police took their case to the d.a.'s office, the d.a. refused to file charges against sam. police pursued other leads too, like a possible connection to the suicide of cathy's boyfriend, albert. did you think that cathy's disappearance had anything to do with albert? >> no. >> reporter: coincidence. >> yeah...

Himself and she was sorry for him doing that, because she thought it was his -- her fault, okay? that's -- that's how she said it to me. we never really sat down and talked about it. well, you know what? i think she was trying to hide from her problems by smoking out. >> reporter: meaning she was smoking marijuana. cathy's family said that for her, that would be out character. sam told detectives he had last seen cathy the thursday before she disappeared. he said she'd paged him several times that day and when they finally met up -- >> she asked me for some weed, you know? and then she kept on...

Voters, and he isn't delivering on the core promises he made of focusing on jobs, passing an infrastructure bill, fixing the health care system. he's not delivering on this stuff. he can't get his approval rating back up if he doesn't deliver, and he's not doing it. >> the poll has really harmful information to the president. the question of would you say donald trump is level-headed? 26% say yes. 71% of americans say their president, the president of the united states, is not level-headed. something they would probably say about most of the high school principals in their town, they're level-...

There is zero chance this becomes law. the fact the president is wasting his time doing this thing when there's basically no shot of it getting ratified through the senate to his desk shows just how much his agenda has shrunk and how little he's probably going to get done. >> ron, such a good point brought up by sam. i was watching that today, that announcement today about this. i was sitting there thinking, okay, so the judiciary committees are going to immediately go to work on this thing that they know is helpless, that they know could never get through the senate because of the amendment p...