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Soon it wasn't just the torres family searching for cathy. >> you know god is there for you. >> police did jump on the case, and it seemed as if all of placentia did too. >> we had strangers, people coming to the house asking what can we do? where can we take the flyers? can we have some flyers to pass out flyers? >> tina drove to the school where cathy worked. all the while mary's mantra echoed through her mind. find the car, and you'll find cathy. >> i drove into the parking lot. i said let me just see her car. let me just see her car because i knew a lot of things were going on if her life,...

When i went forth and said, "hey look, i need time to concentrate specifically on this case." >> reporter: daron pored through the files and hunted down new leads. and then a tip came in, seemingly out of nowhere. >> so a guy from a repossession company calls the police and says, "hey repo'd this car earlier today, and there was a folio in the trunk of the car. and i'm going through the folio, there are articles in there about this murder in placentia from 1994 and there are receipts from sav-on. >> reporter: sav-on. the drugstore chain where cathy was working at the time she was stabbed to de...

>> some compelling parts of the case. he never showed emotion about the fact that she was murdered. no emotion whatsoever. that's a big red flag. huge. he learns cathy and sam's relationship was anything but straightforward. every time she mentions some guy's name, i get pissed off, okay? >> when "dateline" continues. ♪ protect your pet with the #1 name in flea and tick protection. frontline plus. trusted by vets for nearly 20 years. you finished preparing overhim for college.rs, in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well-being. but meningitis b p...

Cathy's case. that is a weird coincidence. >> we don't believe in coincidences. >> 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. >>...

>> police had their suspicions about sam lopez's involvement in the murder of her neighbor and former girlfriend cathy torres. 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. >> coincidence? >> yeah, just two...