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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...

>> she was alive, and sam lopez cut her throat. it's as cold-blooded as you can possibly get. >> reporter: the 21st anniversary of cathy's murder fell during the middle of trial. a day that reminded cathy's family once again of all they had lost. what'd your family do that day? >> we went to the cemetery. as we go every year in february. we take her red roses that she wanted for valentine's day that year. >> reporter: for 21 years the torrez family had demanded answers. two days after deliberations began, the jury reached a verdict. >> i couldn't breathe. i felt just tightness inside. and when...

Question. when he finally did. >> >> larry noticed a telling statement. >> thought you were never going to ask. >> because i don't want memories to come back, you know. >> i don't want memories to come back. >> what memories does he have? >> if he's innocent, he has memories of cathy, good times, what they did. >> people would want those memories. >> if he had a memory he killed her, that's certainly a memory he doesn't want to relive. >> after listening to the interviews time and again, the evidence whisperer had no doubt sam killed cathy. >> but could the team prove it beyond a reasonable do...

Car. >> fold up like a house of cards and say, all right, fine you got me. >> you've watched thousands of these interviews and sometimes people don't say is just as important what they do say. >> what javier either would not or could not say were these words. i did not kill cathy torrez. >> he says i don't know who did. that's not what i asked, javier. did you kill cathy torrez? i don't know who did. we played that several times to where he'd finally say i didn't do it. you doesn't what? >> can't say the words killed cathy. >> right. >> then it moved did you put her body in the trunk of the ca...

Suspect for 20 years. and during that entire time, his attorney said, police had it all wrong. >> the detectives made up their mind about who did this murder within hours. "we had a bad feeling about you," they said. "we're gonna prove it." and they spent the next 21 years, over and over, trying. >> reporter: the defense argued sam's behavior didn't prove anything. not only was sam in touch with cathy's family the week she disappeared, he also participated in the search, putting up a flyer at his girlfriend's store. and that business about him not showing any emotion in his interview with poli...