1 00:02:14,467 --> 00:02:15,568 >> I'M SORRY 2 00:02:15,568 --> 00:02:17,737 IT'S HARD. >> Reporter: RELIVING THE WORST 3 00:02:17,737 --> 00:02:20,440 DAY OF YOUR LIFE WOULD BE HARD FOR ANYONE 4 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,176 SO KNOW THIS KATIE COATS WANTED TO TELL US 5 00:02:23,176 --> 00:02:25,345 HER STORY ABOUT WHEN SHE WAS 20, ABOUT WHEN SHE WAS RAPED BY A 6 00:02:25,345 --> 00:02:28,081 MAN SHE MET ON VACATION. >> WHEN HE WAS STRANGLIN' ME, I 7 00:02:28,081 --> 00:02:31,317 PUT UP SOME FIGHT. BUT I JUST -- I GOT SO SCARED. 8 00:02:31,317 --> 00:02:35,121 >> Reporter: AND WHAT CAME NEXT, AFTER KATIE SUMMONED HER COURAGE 9 00:02:35,121 --> 00:02:39,993 AND REPORTED HER ASSAULT TO POLICE, WAS ALMOST WORSE 10 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:45,965 HER STORY, THIS STORY, IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO LISTENED AND 11 00:02:45,965 --> 00:02:51,404 BELIEVED AND THOSE WHO DID NOT >> I'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT 12 00:02:51,404 --> 00:02:55,175 PART OF IT JUST BECAUSE IF HE WAS 13 00:02:55,175 --> 00:02:57,877 PROSECUTED, THEN TWO LIVES WOULD STILL BE WITH US TODAY 14 00:02:57,877 --> 00:03:02,248 >> Reporter: IN THAT FEELING, SHE'S NOT ALONE. 15 00:03:02,248 --> 00:03:05,485 AND IT WOULD TURN OUT KATIE WASN'T HER ATTACKER'S FIRST 16 00:03:05,485 --> 00:03:14,127 VICTIM OR HIS LAST WE BEGIN OUR STORY WITH 17 00:03:14,127 --> 00:03:17,897 MOLLY MATHESON, A PARENTS' DREAM. 18 00:03:17,897 --> 00:03:22,268 KIND, FUNNY, INDEPENDENT SHE HAD A SPECIAL BOND WITH HER 19 00:03:22,268 --> 00:03:25,805 DAD, DAVID, AND HER MOM, TRACY >> I CALLED HER MY BEST FRIEND 20 00:03:25,805 --> 00:03:28,708 AND SHE CALLED ME HER BEST FRIEND 21 00:03:28,708 --> 00:03:34,714 AND WE HUNG OUT A LOT TOGETHER >> Reporter: IT HELPED THAT 22 00:03:34,714 --> 00:03:39,085 MOLLY LIVED ONLY TEN MINUTES FROM HER PARENTS IN FORT WORTH, 23 00:03:39,085 --> 00:03:42,856 TEXAS. IT WAS 2017. 24 00:03:42,856 --> 00:03:46,092 MOLLY WAS STUDYING SOCIAL WORK IN COLLEGE AND WORKING PART-TIME 25 00:03:46,092 --> 00:03:49,896 AT A LINGERIE STORE WHERE SHE WAS THE MODEL EMPLOYEE 26 00:03:49,896 --> 00:03:54,768 >> MOLLY, HER "LATE" WAS 15 MINUTES EARLY 27 00:03:54,768 --> 00:03:59,105 SHE ALWAYS CAME IN TO WORK TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, SHE HAD -- 28 00:03:59,105 --> 00:04:01,341 SHE LOOKED PRESENTABLE >> Reporter: MOLLY'S BOSS, 29 00:04:01,341 --> 00:04:04,511 CARISSA VERA >> SHE HAD SUCH A CUTE 30 00:04:04,511 --> 00:04:07,747 PERSONALITY, AND YOU COULD TELL SHE WAS JUST A GREAT GIRL. 31 00:04:07,747 --> 00:04:09,949 >> Reporter: IT WAS ON MONDAY, APRIL 10th, 2017, THAT SOMETHING 32 00:04:09,949 --> 00:04:12,085 SEEMED WRONG >> SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE 33 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:14,287 AT 1:00. AND IT WAS 12:45, AND I LOOKED 34 00:04:14,287 --> 00:04:17,490 I'M LIKE, "SHE'S NOT HERE. SO I'M LIKE, "WELL, THAT'S 35 00:04:17,490 --> 00:04:20,226 WEIRD. AND THEN I COME 1:00, WHEN SHE'S 36 00:04:20,226 --> 00:04:24,531 SUPPOSED TO BE THERE I'M LIKE, "OKAY, THIS IS REALLY 37 00:04:24,531 --> 00:04:29,069 NOT NORMAL." >> Reporter: THE HOURS TICKED BY 38 00:04:29,069 --> 00:04:32,138 AND STILL NO SIGN OF MOLLY >> AND I REMEMBER EXACTLY AT 39 00:04:32,138 --> 00:04:35,375 THE -- AT 4:00 I -- YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN WE GOT A 40 00:04:35,375 --> 00:04:38,678 LITTLE DOWN TIME, I SAID, "I'M GOING TO, YOU KNOW, CALL HER 41 00:04:38,678 --> 00:04:45,151 EMERGENCY CONTACT. >> I WAS AT HOME AND THE PHONE 42 00:04:45,151 --> 00:04:50,590 RINGS. AND IT'S MOLLY'S BOSS, CARISSA 43 00:04:50,590 --> 00:04:54,928 AND SHE WAS CALLING TO SAY THAT MOLLY HAD NOT SHOWN UP FOR WORK. 44 00:04:54,928 --> 00:04:58,198 AND, UM, I KNEW MOLLY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AT WORK 'CAUSE 45 00:04:58,198 --> 00:05:02,369 SHE HAD TOLD US THE NIGHT BEFORE 46 00:05:02,369 --> 00:05:04,204 >> Reporter: THIS WASN'T LIKE HER. 47 00:05:04,204 --> 00:05:06,339 >> AND - >> Reporter: SHE WOULDN'T -- SHE 48 00:05:06,339 --> 00:05:08,508 WOULDN'T - >> NO. 49 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:10,677 SO I WAS LIKE, "I'LL JUST HOP IN THE CAR AND DRIVE OVER TO 50 00:05:10,677 --> 00:05:12,846 MOLLY'S HOUSE. >> Reporter: MOLLY'S MOM DROVE 51 00:05:12,846 --> 00:05:15,048 THE TEN MINUTES TO HER DAUGHTER'S APARTMENT 52 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:17,150 >> I PULL UP AND AT THIS POINT, I'M FEELING A 53 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:18,818 LITTLE FRANTIC I RACE DOWN THE DRIVEWAY 54 00:05:18,818 --> 00:05:21,054 THE GARAGE APARTMENT IS, YOU KNOW, AT THE BACK OF THE 55 00:05:21,054 --> 00:05:23,156 DRIVEWAY AND I KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND 56 00:05:23,156 --> 00:05:24,791 KNOCKED. AND THERE WAS NO ANSWER. 57 00:05:24,791 --> 00:05:26,426 AND SO I THOUGHT, "WELL, I'LL TRY THE DOORKNOB." 58 00:05:26,426 --> 00:05:28,595 I DID. AND IT WAS UNLOCKED. 59 00:05:28,595 --> 00:05:30,230 I WENT INSIDE, AND THERE WAS NO SIGN OF MOLLY. 60 00:05:30,230 --> 00:05:32,665 I WENT BACK OUT. AND I THOUGHT, "WAIT, I DIDN'T 61 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:34,534 GO IN THE BATHROOM I SHOULD GO BACK INSIDE. 62 00:05:34,534 --> 00:05:36,703 AND SO I WENT BACK INSIDE AND AROUND THE CORNER TO THE 63 00:05:36,703 --> 00:05:38,338 BATHROOM AND THAT'S WHERE I FOUND HER 64 00:05:38,338 --> 00:05:40,073 BODY ON THE FLOOR OF THE SHOWER. >> Reporter: MOLLY WAS CRUMPLED 65 00:05:40,073 --> 00:05:42,142 OVER SHE WASN'T MOVING. 66 00:05:42,142 --> 00:05:47,547 >> I NEED AN AMBULANCE >> WHAT IS YOUR FIRST NAME 67 00:05:47,547 --> 00:05:51,885 >> MY NAME'S TRACY >>> WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO 68 00:05:51,885 --> 00:05:55,155 MOLLY MATHESON WHEN WE COME BACK -- 69 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:57,891 >> I AM VERY FRANTIC AND OUT OF MY MIND. 70 00:05:57,891 --> 00:06:00,560 >> JUST GOT OVER THERE AS SOON AS I COULD 71 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,729 >> WE WALKED IN, AND SOMETHING JUST DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT 72 00:06:02,729 --> 00:06:22,782 LITERALLY THE HAIRS ON THE BACK >> Reporter: THE AFTERNOON OF 73 00:06:22,782 --> 00:06:26,586 APRIL 10th, 2017, WAS CLOUDY IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS. 74 00:06:26,586 --> 00:06:30,357 >> I NEED AN AMBULANCE >> Reporter: FOR TRACY MATHESON, 75 00:06:30,357 --> 00:06:34,694 A STORM WAS ALREADY RAGING SHE'D JUST ENTERED HER 76 00:06:34,694 --> 00:06:38,598 DAUGHTER'S APARTMENT AND FOUND HER UNRESPONSIVE 77 00:06:38,598 --> 00:06:41,201 >> MY DAUGHTER IS IN A BOTTOM OF A SHOWER 78 00:06:41,201 --> 00:06:43,903 SHE'S NOT MOVING I CANNOT TELL IF SHE'S 79 00:06:43,903 --> 00:06:47,907 BREATHING. >> PARAMEDICS ARE COMING, OKAY 80 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:49,843 >> OKAY. I AM VERY FRANTIC AND OUT OF MY 81 00:06:49,843 --> 00:06:53,680 MIND AND AT THIS POINT, I HAVE 82 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,949 CONCLUDED THAT MOLLY IS DEAD AND -- AND I -- I -- I THINK I'M 83 00:06:55,949 --> 00:06:57,450 SCREAMING TO THE OPERATOR, "SHE'S DEAD! 84 00:06:57,450 --> 00:07:00,687 SHE'S DEAD SHE'S DEAD!" 85 00:07:00,687 --> 00:07:02,856 >> WE'RE A UNIT THAT WAS AVAILABLE. 86 00:07:02,856 --> 00:07:07,193 THEY DISPATCHED US TO IT >> Reporter: FORT WORTH POLICE 87 00:07:07,193 --> 00:07:10,463 OFFICER TAYLOR ROGERS WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE SCENE 88 00:07:10,463 --> 00:07:14,067 >> IT WAS ACTUALLY VERY VAGUE CALL DETAILS, AN INVESTIGATION 89 00:07:14,067 --> 00:07:16,469 CALL WHERE - - THINK IT SAID SOMETHING TO DO WITH A FEMALE. 90 00:07:16,469 --> 00:07:19,205 HER MOM HAD FOUND HER DECEASED WE PULLED UP, THERE WERE SEVERAL 91 00:07:19,205 --> 00:07:22,442 PEOPLE OUTSIDE THERE WERE FIRETRUCKS, 92 00:07:22,442 --> 00:07:25,879 AMBULANCES >> Reporter: AND MOLLY'S MOM 93 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:30,050 POLICE BODYCAMS RECORDED THE SCENE. 94 00:07:30,050 --> 00:07:32,786 >> SHE WAS FRANTIC SHE WAS, I MEAN, ABSOLUTELY 95 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:34,954 FREAKIN' OUT THERE WAS NO CALMING HER DOWN 96 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:37,090 FOR A WHILE. WE HAD TO GIVE HER SOME SPACE. 97 00:07:37,090 --> 00:07:40,393 >> Reporter: SHE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO CALL HER HUSBAND. 98 00:07:40,393 --> 00:07:42,562 DAVID, WHERE WERE YOU? >> I WAS AT WORK 99 00:07:42,562 --> 00:07:44,731 SO I HAD -- I HAD, YOU KNOW, JUST GOT OVER THERE AS FAST AS I 100 00:07:44,731 --> 00:07:46,366 COULD. >> WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME 101 00:07:46,366 --> 00:07:49,102 ANYBODY SAW HER? >> LAST NIGHT. 102 00:07:49,102 --> 00:07:53,473 >> ABOUT WHAT TIME >> Reporter: POLICE TRIED TO 103 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:56,710 FIND OUT ALL THEY COULD ABOUT MOLLY FROM HER FAMILY. 104 00:07:56,710 --> 00:08:00,513 >> SHE WAS THE BEST 22 YEARS OF MY LIFE. 105 00:08:00,513 --> 00:08:02,716 >> YEAH. >> SHE HAD A CERTAIN LIGHT TO 106 00:08:02,716 --> 00:08:05,418 HER. >> Reporter: MOLLY'S OLDER 107 00:08:05,418 --> 00:08:08,121 BROTHER NICK >> SHE WAS SUCH A PERSONALITY 108 00:08:08,121 --> 00:08:11,358 THAT WAS SO GREAT TO BE AROUND UM, SHE WAS FUNNY AND, YOU KNOW, 109 00:08:11,358 --> 00:08:14,060 OUTGOING AND WASN'T SCARED TO MAKE FUN OF HERSELF AND WASN'T 110 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:17,330 SCARED TO BE HERSELF >> Reporter: AND IN A FAMILY OF 111 00:08:17,330 --> 00:08:19,833 THREE BOYS AND ONE GIRL, MOLLY STOOD OUT. 112 00:08:19,833 --> 00:08:24,938 >> SHE TOOK HUGE ADVANTAGE OF BEING THE ONLY GIRL IN THE 113 00:08:24,938 --> 00:08:29,776 FAMILY >> THAT'S TRUE 114 00:08:29,776 --> 00:08:32,445 >> UM, SHE WAS PRETTY CONVINCED THAT SHE WAS THE FAVORITE CHILD 115 00:08:32,445 --> 00:08:35,715 AND, UM, WOULD, UH, LEAVE NOTES IN THE HOUSE 116 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:39,519 AND WE STILL HAVE NOTES ON OUR CHALKBOARD IN THE KITCHEN, UM, 117 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:42,789 "MOLLY IS MY FAVORITE. AND IT'S SIGNED "DAD." 118 00:08:42,789 --> 00:08:46,059 SHE LOVED WHEN I WOULD TAKE HER SHOPPING BECAUSE IT WAS 119 00:08:46,059 --> 00:08:48,762 WHATEVER -- WHATEVER YOU WANT, LET'S GET TWO 120 00:08:48,762 --> 00:08:50,964 OF THOSE >> Reporter: YOU WERE A SOFT 121 00:08:50,964 --> 00:08:54,234 TOUCH. >> VERY MUCH SO. 122 00:08:54,234 --> 00:08:56,369 AND SHE KNEW IT. >> Reporter: AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, 123 00:08:56,369 --> 00:08:59,105 MOLLY HEADED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND MET HER 124 00:08:59,105 --> 00:09:02,375 SOON-TO-BE BEST FRIEND, SUTTON RHEA. 125 00:09:02,375 --> 00:09:06,179 >> SHE WAS JUST FUNNY, WITTY SHE WAS DIFFERENT. 126 00:09:06,179 --> 00:09:09,416 SHE JUST HAD ME LAUGHING ALL THE TIME, AND IT WAS GREAT 127 00:09:09,416 --> 00:09:12,118 >> Reporter: AND DID WHAT SHE WANTED 128 00:09:12,118 --> 00:09:15,922 >> SHE HAD A BUNCH OF TATTOOS. AND, OF COURSE, SHE HID 'EM FROM 129 00:09:15,922 --> 00:09:18,091 HER PARENTS. >> Reporter: NOT FROM HER OLDER 130 00:09:18,091 --> 00:09:20,860 BROTHER. >> WE WERE OUT THERE PADDLE 131 00:09:20,860 --> 00:09:27,901 BOARDING, AND I KINDA SAW ON HER RIB CAGE -- I THOUGHT IT WAS HER 132 00:09:27,901 --> 00:09:32,272 BATHING SUIT OR SOMETHING. BUT I WAS LIKE, "MOLLY, DO 133 00:09:32,272 --> 00:09:34,507 YOU -- IS THAT A TATTOO? AND SHE VERY QUICKLY KINDA WAS 134 00:09:34,507 --> 00:09:37,110 LIKE, "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. 135 00:09:37,110 --> 00:09:40,380 AND JUST - AND I WAS LIKE, "MOLLY, THAT -- 136 00:09:40,380 --> 00:09:42,582 THAT'S A TATTOO. AND IT -- YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, 137 00:09:42,582 --> 00:09:45,251 IT -- WE -- WE FOUND OUT LATER THAT SHE HAD MULTIPLE. 138 00:09:45,251 --> 00:09:46,853 >> Reporter: ONE TATTOO WAS TO REMIND HER OF HER YOUNGER 139 00:09:46,853 --> 00:09:49,055 BROTHERS ANOTHER WAS JUST ONE WORD, 140 00:09:49,055 --> 00:09:51,224 "BELOVED." >> IT JUST -- YEAH, IT'S GREAT 141 00:09:51,224 --> 00:09:53,927 FOR HER. IT'S VERY FITTING FOR HER. 142 00:09:53,927 --> 00:09:56,663 >> Reporter: JUST BEFORE WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HER SENIOR YEAR 143 00:09:56,663 --> 00:09:59,366 IN 2015, MOLLY DECIDED TO TAKE SOME TIME OFF AND SHE WENT BACK 144 00:09:59,366 --> 00:10:04,738 TO TEXAS >> MOLLY HAD HAD A DIFFICULT 145 00:10:04,738 --> 00:10:07,474 YEAR AT ARKANSAS AND SO WHEN IT WAS DECIDED TO, 146 00:10:07,474 --> 00:10:12,645 YOU KNOW, COME HOME, TAKE A YEAR OFF, KINDA REGROUND, REBASE. 147 00:10:12,645 --> 00:10:16,216 >> Reporter: SHE HAD RETURNED HOME TO FORT WORTH, RENTED THAT 148 00:10:16,216 --> 00:10:18,885 APARTMENT, AND HAD GOTTEN THAT PART-TIME JOB. 149 00:10:18,885 --> 00:10:22,822 IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT SAFE SUBURBAN ROUTINE THAT MOLLY 150 00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:26,526 ENDED UP DEAD. NOW POLICE OFFICERS WERE LOOKING 151 00:10:26,526 --> 00:10:29,262 THROUGH HER BELONGINGS >> EVERYTHING LOOKED PRETTY 152 00:10:29,262 --> 00:10:31,364 UNDISTURBED. IT LOOKED LIVED IN 153 00:10:31,364 --> 00:10:35,168 THERE WERE, YOU KNOW -- THERE WAS FOOD OUT OR THE TV WAS STILL 154 00:10:35,168 --> 00:10:38,471 THERE. >> Reporter: THEY FOUND MOLLY'S 155 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:41,675 CELL PHONE CHARGING NEXT TO HER BED. 156 00:10:41,675 --> 00:10:46,813 THIS DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A ROBBERY, AND NO INDICATION OF A STRUGGLE. 157 00:10:46,813 --> 00:10:49,849 AND THERE WERE PARTS OF THE SCENE THAT WEREN'T ADDING UP 158 00:10:49,849 --> 00:10:52,552 LIKE HOW MOLLY'S BODY LOOKED WHEN IT WAS FOUND IN THE 159 00:10:52,552 --> 00:10:56,122 BATHROOM >> SHE STILL HAD A SHIRT ON. 160 00:10:56,122 --> 00:10:58,491 THE SHOWER WAS ALREADY OFF >> Reporter: HE ASKED MOLLY'S 161 00:10:58,491 --> 00:11:00,160 MOM ABOUT THAT >> "DID YOU TURN THE SHOWER OFF 162 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,761 WHEN YOU GOT HERE? AND SHE SAID, "NO, IT WAS 163 00:11:01,761 --> 00:11:03,963 ALREADY OFF. THAT WAS WEIRD 164 00:11:03,963 --> 00:11:06,132 THEY TELL YOU, AS YOU'RE BECOMING A POLICE OFFICER, 165 00:11:06,132 --> 00:11:08,268 THERE'S GONNA BE CALLS THAT STICK WITH YOU FOREVER 166 00:11:08,268 --> 00:11:10,470 YOU'RE GONNA WALK IN, AND SOMETHING'S JUST NOT GONNA FEEL 167 00:11:10,470 --> 00:11:12,639 RIGHT. AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS. 168 00:11:12,639 --> 00:11:15,508 WE WALKED IN, AND SOMETHING JUST DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT. 169 00:11:15,508 --> 00:11:18,078 UH, LITERALLY THE HAIRS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK STOOD UP 170 00:11:18,078 --> 00:11:20,213 >> Reporter: THE OFFICER CALLED HIS SERGEANT 171 00:11:20,213 --> 00:11:22,949 AND SOON, HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WERE ON THEIR WAY. 172 00:11:22,949 --> 00:11:25,652 >>> COMING UP -- >> WE WEREN'T SURE IF WE WERE 173 00:11:25,652 --> 00:11:29,422 LOOKING AT SOME TYPE OF MEDICAL ISSUE. 174 00:11:29,422 --> 00:11:31,958 MAYBE A POSSIBLE OVERDOSE? >> CLUES WERE EVERYWHERE 175 00:11:31,958 --> 00:11:34,828 IN THE APARTMENT - >> THE SHOWER WAS DRY. 176 00:11:34,828 --> 00:11:37,097 >> -- AND ON HER PHONE >> THE INDIVIDUAL SAID THAT "I'M 177 00:11:37,097 --> 00:11:39,199 OUTSIDE. MOLLY TEXTED THIS INDIVIDUAL 178 00:11:39,199 --> 00:11:57,951 BACK AND SAID, "I'LL COME OUTSIDE AND GET YOU. 179 00:11:57,951 --> 00:11:59,019 >> Reporter: MOLLY MATHESON WAS DEAD 180 00:11:59,019 --> 00:12:02,789 HOMICIDE DETECTIVES MATT ANDERSON AND KYLE SULLIVAN 181 00:12:02,789 --> 00:12:05,492 WERE ASSIGNED TO THE CASE. AND RIGHT AWAY THE SAME THINGS 182 00:12:05,492 --> 00:12:08,728 THAT HAD BOTHERED RESPONDING OFFICERS JUMPED OUT AT THEM. 183 00:12:08,728 --> 00:12:12,565 >> I NOTICED THAT THE SHOWER WAS DRY, UH, INDICATING THAT IT HAD 184 00:12:12,565 --> 00:12:15,769 BEEN DRYING FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME 185 00:12:15,769 --> 00:12:18,505 >> Reporter: WHAT'S YOUR BEST GUESS AS TO HOW LONG MOLLY HAD 186 00:12:18,505 --> 00:12:21,775 BEEN DEAD? >> I WAS THINKING SOMEWHERE 187 00:12:21,775 --> 00:12:24,511 BETWEEN 8 TO 12 HOURS, IF NOT LONGER 188 00:12:24,511 --> 00:12:28,281 >> Reporter: THE NIGHT BEFORE PROBABLY 189 00:12:28,281 --> 00:12:31,518 >> THE NIGHT BEFORE PROBABLY >> Reporter: SO THEN WHAT HAD 190 00:12:31,518 --> 00:12:34,754 HAPPENED MOLLY HAD NO OBVIOUS WOUNDS. 191 00:12:34,754 --> 00:12:38,291 TO COPS THIS LOOKED LIKE AN ACCIDENT, POSSIBLY EVEN A DRUG 192 00:12:38,291 --> 00:12:41,795 OVERDOSE >> AT THAT POINT, YOU KNOW, IT 193 00:12:41,795 --> 00:12:44,531 JUST SEEMED -- WE WEREN'T SURE IF WE WERE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, 194 00:12:44,531 --> 00:12:47,233 SOME TYPE OF MEDICAL ISSUE WERE WE LOOKING AT MAYBE A 195 00:12:47,233 --> 00:12:49,903 POSSIBLE OVERDOSE? >> Reporter: WHEN THE COPS SAY 196 00:12:49,903 --> 00:12:53,139 TO YOU, YOU KNOW, "YOU SHOULD GET READY FOR THIS BEING SOME 197 00:12:53,139 --> 00:12:55,875 KIND OF MEDICAL EVENT OR AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE," THAT MAKE 198 00:12:55,875 --> 00:12:58,111 ANY SENSE TO YOU AT ALL? >> NOT AT ALL. 199 00:12:58,111 --> 00:13:00,213 >> NO. >> Reporter: THEY TOLD POLICE 200 00:13:00,213 --> 00:13:02,882 MOLLY DIDN'T DO ANY HARD DRUGS, AND NONE WERE FOUND IN HER 201 00:13:02,882 --> 00:13:06,686 HOUSE. HER PARENTS TOLD POLICE MOLLY 202 00:13:06,686 --> 00:13:08,855 SEEMED COMPLETELY NORMAL THE NIGHT BEFORE 203 00:13:08,855 --> 00:13:11,124 >> SHE CAME OVER SUNDAY AFTERNOON, HUNG OUT WITH US MOST 204 00:13:11,124 --> 00:13:13,760 OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING, HAD DINNER, AND LEFT THE HOUSE 205 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,962 ABOUT 8:00 >> Reporter: AND NOT ONLY -- AND 206 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:19,232 SHE WAS FINE AND SHE WAS IN GOOD SPIRITS AND SHE WASN'T - 207 00:13:19,232 --> 00:13:21,468 >> OH, 100%. >> Reporter: -- WORRIED ABOUT 208 00:13:21,468 --> 00:13:23,570 ANYTHING >> OH, GOSH, NO. 209 00:13:23,570 --> 00:13:26,272 AND THAT -- THAT'S WHAT WE WERE STRUGGLIN' WITH. 210 00:13:26,272 --> 00:13:28,975 I MEAN, IT -- IT DIDN'T ADD UP >> Reporter: IT WASN'T ADDING UP 211 00:13:28,975 --> 00:13:31,144 FOR THE DETECTIVES EITHER, UNTIL THE MEDICAL EXAMINER ARRIVED AT 212 00:13:31,144 --> 00:13:33,847 THE SCENE. >> SHE WAS ABLE TO REMOVE 213 00:13:33,847 --> 00:13:36,082 MOLLY'S HAIR FROM HER FACE WE NOTICED WHAT WE CALL 214 00:13:36,082 --> 00:13:39,285 PETECHIAE, OR WHERE THE BLOOD VESSELS BREAK IN YOUR FACE 215 00:13:39,285 --> 00:13:40,920 THAT WAS VERY WEIRD. WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT 216 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,623 IT'S VERY RARE TO SEE THAT IT'S USUALLY AN INDICATION OF 217 00:13:43,623 --> 00:13:46,860 STRANGULATION. >> Reporter: THEY'D HAVE TO WAIT 218 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:49,596 FOR THE AUTOPSY THE NEXT DAY TO MAKE SURE. 219 00:13:49,596 --> 00:13:53,400 POLICE SEALED THE HOUSE AND PUT AN OFFICER AT THE DOOR 220 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,101 OVERNIGHT. >> I SPENT THE TIME WAITING, 221 00:13:55,101 --> 00:13:57,170 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GONNA BE THE BETTER WAY FOR HER 222 00:13:57,170 --> 00:13:59,339 TO DIE AM I GONNA PREFER THAT SHE HAD A 223 00:13:59,339 --> 00:14:02,042 MEDICAL CONDITION WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT? 224 00:14:02,042 --> 00:14:04,244 OR IS IT GONNA BE BETTER THAT SHE OVERDOSED ON SOMETHING 225 00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:06,379 I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT'S GOING THROUGH MY HEAD. 226 00:14:06,379 --> 00:14:08,348 WHAT'S GONNA BE BETTER? WHAT'S GONNA BE BETTER? 227 00:14:08,348 --> 00:14:10,183 >> BUT -- BUT A MURDER WASN'T -- >> THAT WASN'T ON THE -- 228 00:14:10,183 --> 00:14:13,053 >> IT -- IT NEVER ENTERED OUR -- >> RADAR 229 00:14:13,053 --> 00:14:14,521 >> -- MIND I MEAN, THAT WAS NOT -- IT 230 00:14:14,521 --> 00:14:16,690 WASN'T EVEN A THOUGHT. >> Reporter: IT WAS FOR 231 00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:18,858 DETECTIVES THEY KNEW THE AUTOPSY WOULD 232 00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:21,061 DETERMINE THEIR NEXT MOVE. >> I ARRIVED AT THE MEDICAL 233 00:14:21,061 --> 00:14:24,831 EXAMINER'S OFFICE FOR THE AUTOPSY. 234 00:14:24,831 --> 00:14:28,101 THE MEDICAL EXAMINER INSTANTLY TOLD ME SHE WAS MURDERED DUE TO 235 00:14:28,101 --> 00:14:31,905 STRANGULATION. >> Reporter: AND GIVEN THE WAY 236 00:14:31,905 --> 00:14:34,074 MOLLY WAS FOUND, NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN, DETECTIVE SULLIVAN 237 00:14:34,074 --> 00:14:36,810 HAD WONDERED IF SHE'D BEEN RAPED. 238 00:14:36,810 --> 00:14:39,479 >> THEY COLLECTED A SEXUAL ASSAULT EXAMINATION FROM MOLLY 239 00:14:39,479 --> 00:14:41,648 BUT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE AT THAT TIME THAT WE COULD PROVE 240 00:14:41,648 --> 00:14:44,484 THAT SHE WAS ACTUALLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. 241 00:14:44,484 --> 00:14:48,188 WE WERE GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE DNA TO COME BACK 242 00:14:48,188 --> 00:14:51,224 >> Reporter: NOW THAT THEY KNEW THIS WAS A MURDER, CRIME SCENE 243 00:14:51,224 --> 00:14:54,160 INVESTIGATORS RETURNED TO MOLLY'S APARTMENT AND RIGHT AWAY 244 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,698 FOUND CLUES. >> THEY FOUND SOME CLOTHING 245 00:14:58,698 --> 00:15:01,201 ITEMS IN THE WASHING MACHINE SOME MEN'S UNDERWEAR, FEMALE 246 00:15:01,201 --> 00:15:05,038 CLOTHING, TOWELS, AND A WASHCLOTH. 247 00:15:05,038 --> 00:15:12,412 ALL THE CLOTHES WERE STILL STUCK TO THE BASIN AND IT WAS WET. 248 00:15:12,412 --> 00:15:23,189 >> Reporter: THAT SUGGESTED THE WASHER MIGHT HAVE BEEN STARTED 249 00:15:23,189 --> 00:15:26,926 CLOSE TO WHEN MOLLY WAS KILLED AND INSIDE, ALONG WITH THE 250 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:28,161 CLOTHES, WAS A FITTED BED SHEET. >> WHEN WE LOOKED OVER AT THE 251 00:15:28,161 --> 00:15:29,229 BED, WE NOTICED IT WAS ALSO MISSING THE FITTED SHEET 252 00:15:29,229 --> 00:15:30,463 >> Reporter: SO SOMEBODY TOOK THE FITTED SHEET OFF AND PUT IT 253 00:15:30,463 --> 00:15:31,197 IN THE WASHING MACHINE >> EXACTLY 254 00:15:31,197 --> 00:15:32,432 ONCE WE SAW THIS AND A PAIR OF MEN'S UNDERWEAR -- 'CAUSE MOLLY 255 00:15:32,432 --> 00:15:33,566 LIVED BY HERSELF -- NO OTHER MEN'S CLOTHING WAS FOUND IN 256 00:15:33,566 --> 00:15:35,435 THE -- WE BELIEVED AT THAT TIME THAT THE KILLER WAS TRYIN' TO 257 00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:40,306 COVER HIS TRACKS BY GETTING RID OF THE EVIDENCE THROUGH THE 258 00:15:40,306 --> 00:15:44,077 WASHING MACHINE. >> Reporter: DID THAT UNDERWEAR 259 00:15:44,077 --> 00:15:47,881 BELONG TO MOLLY'S KILLER HAD HE MADE A MISTAKE WHILE 260 00:15:47,881 --> 00:15:51,084 CLEANING UP THE CRIME SCENE? WHO WAS SHE TALKING AND TEXTING 261 00:15:51,084 --> 00:15:53,787 WITH THAT NIGHT? >> WE WERE ABLE TO UNLOCK THE 262 00:15:53,787 --> 00:15:57,090 CELL PHONE AND HAVE A FORENSIC ANALYSIS CONDUCTED ON THE PHONE. 263 00:15:57,090 --> 00:16:00,827 >> Reporter: TELL ME ABOUT THE MESSAGES 264 00:16:00,827 --> 00:16:03,697 >> SO I SAW THAT MOLLY WAS COMMUNICATING WITH A NUMBER IN 265 00:16:03,697 --> 00:16:07,901 HER CELL PHONE THAT WAS NOT SAVED. 266 00:16:07,901 --> 00:16:11,705 THE MESSAGES CONSISTED OF MOLLY ASKING THIS INDIVIDUAL TO COME 267 00:16:11,705 --> 00:16:15,508 OVER TO THE HOUSE, AND THE INDIVIDUAL SAID, "YES, I'LL COME 268 00:16:15,508 --> 00:16:18,778 OVER SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS." 269 00:16:18,778 --> 00:16:23,083 >> Reporter: BECAUSE THAT PHONE NUMBER WASN'T IN MOLLY'S 270 00:16:23,083 --> 00:16:26,886 CONTACTS, THEY COULDN'T EVEN TELL WHO IT BELONGED TO. 271 00:16:26,886 --> 00:16:30,123 WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL ARRIVED, SAID THAT "I'M OUTSIDE," MOLLY 272 00:16:30,123 --> 00:16:33,393 TEXTED THIS INDIVIDUAL BACK AND SAID, "I'LL COME OUTSIDE AND GET 273 00:16:33,393 --> 00:16:36,096 YOU. >> Reporter: THAT WAS ABOUT 274 00:16:36,096 --> 00:16:38,832 10:30 P.M. AN HOUR OR SO LATER, MOLLY 275 00:16:38,832 --> 00:16:42,602 RESPONDED TO A GROUP TEXT. THE LAST TIME SHE LOOKED AT A 276 00:16:42,602 --> 00:16:44,738 CHAT WAS AROUND 11:37 P.M. ON APRIL 9th, 2017. 277 00:16:44,738 --> 00:16:48,074 SHE RESPONDED TO A CHAT FROM ONE OF HER FRIENDS 278 00:16:48,074 --> 00:16:50,744 SO MOLLY WAS PROBABLY STILL ALIVE JUST AFTER 11:30 279 00:16:50,744 --> 00:16:54,214 THEN CAME ONE FINAL TEXT FROM THAT SAME UNKNOWN PERSON WHO'D 280 00:16:54,214 --> 00:16:56,116 BEEN AT HER HOUSE. >> LATER IN AROUND 3:30, I 281 00:16:56,116 --> 00:16:59,686 BELIEVE, IN THE MORNING, THIS SAME NUMBER TEXTED MOLLY BACK. 282 00:16:59,686 --> 00:17:02,622 BUT THE MESSAGE WAS UNREAD AND IT WAS A MESSAGE ABOUT, "HIT 283 00:17:02,622 --> 00:17:10,230 ME UP IN THE MORNING I'M GLAD WE GOT TO TALK AND HOPE 284 00:17:10,230 --> 00:17:12,932 TO SEE YOU IN THE FUTURE." >> Reporter: CONCEIVABLE THAT 285 00:17:12,932 --> 00:17:15,602 THAT PERSON WHO TEXTS HER AND COMES OVER ISN'T THE KILLER? 286 00:17:15,602 --> 00:17:20,473 THAT PERSON LEAVES AND SOMEBODY ELSE SHOWS UP OR REALIZES THAT 287 00:17:20,473 --> 00:17:23,743 SHE'S BEEN SEEING THAT PERSON INSTEAD OF THEM? 288 00:17:23,743 --> 00:17:26,246 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: IF ANYBODY KNEW WHO 289 00:17:26,246 --> 00:17:28,648 MOLLY WAS TEXTING WITH, IT WAS HER FRIENDS. 290 00:17:28,648 --> 00:17:35,155 AND THAT'S WHO POLICE TURNED TO NEXT 291 00:17:35,155 --> 00:17:38,958 >>> COMING UP -- >> SHE WAS WITH THIS GUY 292 00:17:38,958 --> 00:17:43,296 HIS NAME IS DAVID. I GUESS THEY WERE DATING 293 00:17:43,296 --> 00:17:46,833 >> WAS HE MOLLY'S LATE NIGHT VISITOR? 294 00:17:46,833 --> 00:17:48,201 >> WELL, ME AND HER HUNG OUT ON SUNDAY 295 00:17:48,201 --> 00:17:50,603 >> I'M JUST GOING TO COME OUT AND ASK. 296 00:17:50,603 --> 00:17:50,937 AND ASK. DID YOU HARM HER 297 00:18:08,421 --> 00:18:11,624 MISSING TONIGHT, 22-YEAR-OLD MOLLY MATHESON 298 00:18:11,624 --> 00:18:16,029 >> Reporter: THE STORY OF MOLLY MATHESON'S MURDER MADE LOCAL TV 299 00:18:16,029 --> 00:18:20,333 NEWS ON NBC STATION KXAS >> CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS 300 00:18:20,333 --> 00:18:24,704 SPENT ALL DAY HERE PROCESSING THE SCENE, WHILE THOSE WHO KNEW 301 00:18:24,704 --> 00:18:29,109 MOLLY TRY TO PROCESS HER LOSS. >> Reporter: DETECTIVES WERE ON 302 00:18:29,109 --> 00:18:31,177 THE HUNT FOR MOLLY'S KILLER. HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY PITCHED 303 00:18:31,177 --> 00:18:33,446 IN >> EVERYONE WAS KIND OF, YOU 304 00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:36,950 KNOW, TRYING TO GET INTO HER FACEBOOK 305 00:18:36,950 --> 00:18:39,319 YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT MESSAGES. YOU KNOW, WHO WAS SHE TALKING 306 00:18:39,319 --> 00:18:41,454 TO >> HER FRIENDS PUT THEIR HEADS 307 00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:43,656 TOGETHER AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TRY -- "OKAY, WHO DO WE THINK? 308 00:18:43,656 --> 00:18:45,925 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY KNEW A MOLLY THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW. 309 00:18:45,925 --> 00:18:47,961 AND SO THEY WERE AWARE OF -- >> OR THEY -- THEY KNEW HER 310 00:18:47,961 --> 00:18:52,265 DIFFERENTLY THAN WE KNOW HER >> WELL, RIGHT 311 00:18:52,265 --> 00:18:56,670 I MEAN, JUST AS ALL 22-YEAR-OLD PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, NO PARENT 312 00:18:56,670 --> 00:19:01,474 KNOWS THE SAME 22-YEAR-OLD THAT THEIR 22-YEAR-OLD FRIENDS KNOW 313 00:19:01,474 --> 00:19:06,312 >> I BEGIN RECEIVING NUMEROUS CALLS FROM FRIENDS INDICATING 314 00:19:06,312 --> 00:19:09,582 THAT THEY MAY HAVE INFORMATION ON PEOPLE THAT MOLLY WAS IN 315 00:19:09,582 --> 00:19:11,751 CONTACT WITH HER LAST FEW DAYS >> THIS IS PEYTON. 316 00:19:11,751 --> 00:19:13,920 >> HEY, PEYTON THIS IS DETECTIVE SULLIVAN 317 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,089 AGAIN. >> Reporter: FRIENDS LIKE 318 00:19:16,089 --> 00:19:18,792 PEYTON BAILEY. HOW DO YOU KNOW MOLLY? 319 00:19:18,792 --> 00:19:21,494 >> I, LIKE, GREW UP WITH HER GOING TO YOUTH GROUP AND STUFF 320 00:19:21,494 --> 00:19:23,663 >> WHO WAS SHE WITH? >> SO WHAT WE HAVE NOW FIGURED 321 00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:26,366 OUT FROM, LIKE, A GROUP OF FIVE OF US IS THAT SHE WAS WITH, UM, 322 00:19:26,366 --> 00:19:29,636 THIS GUY HIS NAME IS DAVID. 323 00:19:29,636 --> 00:19:31,805 I GUESS THAT THEY HAD BEEN DATING 324 00:19:31,805 --> 00:19:33,506 WE'D NEVER MET HIM >> I STARTED RECEIVING PHONE 325 00:19:33,506 --> 00:19:36,710 CALLS FROM HER FRIENDS INDICATING THAT MOLLY WAS 326 00:19:36,710 --> 00:19:41,047 POSSIBLY IN A RELATIONSHIP BY A MALE NAMED DAVID WALTON. 327 00:19:41,047 --> 00:19:45,385 ALLS THEY WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE IS THAT SHE HAD BEEN SEEING 328 00:19:45,385 --> 00:19:47,554 DAVID, I GUESS IN A DATING RELATIONSHIP, AND THAT MOLLY 329 00:19:47,554 --> 00:19:49,189 WOULD FREQUENTLY VISIT DAVID AND DAVID WOULD ALSO VISIT 330 00:19:49,189 --> 00:19:50,924 MOLLY. >> Reporter: YOU RUN HIS NAME TO 331 00:19:50,924 --> 00:19:52,459 SEE WHETHER HE HAS ANY KIND OF CRIMINAL RECORD? 332 00:19:52,459 --> 00:19:54,060 >> YES, SIR. >> Reporter: AND 333 00:19:54,060 --> 00:19:55,695 >> DAVID CHECKED OUT CLEAN >> Reporter: YOU CALL 334 00:19:55,695 --> 00:19:57,297 DAVID WALTON AND HE COMES IN >> YES 335 00:19:57,297 --> 00:20:00,000 >> Reporter: WITHOUT A LAWYER? >> WITHOUT A LAWYER. 336 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,736 >> I APPRECIATE YOU, REALLY, COMING DOWN. 337 00:20:02,736 --> 00:20:05,972 >> Reporter: DAVID FREELY ADMITTED HE WAS WITH MOLLY ON 338 00:20:05,972 --> 00:20:08,174 THE DAY SHE WAS MURDERED >> WELL, ME AND HER HUNG OUT ON 339 00:20:08,174 --> 00:20:10,343 SUNDAY SHE CAME OVER. 340 00:20:10,343 --> 00:20:12,679 >> WHEN YOU SAY HER, WHO DO YOU MEAN 341 00:20:12,679 --> 00:20:14,681 >> MOLLY >> UH-HUH. 342 00:20:14,681 --> 00:20:16,883 >> SHE CAME OVER AT, LIKE, MAYBE 12:00, 12:15 P.M 343 00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:19,552 >> THEY WENT TO KROGER THEY WENT TO PLAY POOL AT 344 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:21,721 SOMEPLACE. HE HAD TO GO TO WORK 345 00:20:21,721 --> 00:20:26,559 HE LEFT TO GO TO WORK. MOLLY WENT HOME. 346 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:28,728 >> I CHANGED, AND THEN SHE LEFT. AND ON THE WAY TO WORK, SHE 347 00:20:28,728 --> 00:20:30,930 TEXTED ME AND EVERYTHING, "HAVE A GOOD DAY AT WORK 348 00:20:30,930 --> 00:20:33,066 LOVE YOU." >> Reporter: SULLIVAN WANTED TO 349 00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:36,336 KNOW MORE ABOUT DAVID'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MOLLY. 350 00:20:36,336 --> 00:20:39,039 >> Y'ALL BOYFRIEND-GIRLFRIEND? >> UM, WE -- IT WAS KIND OF 351 00:20:39,039 --> 00:20:41,241 COMPLICATED. WE WERE KINDA JUST TALKING 352 00:20:41,241 --> 00:20:43,977 BUT WE'VE BEEN BEST FRIENDS FOR, LIKE, SIX, SEVEN YEARS 353 00:20:43,977 --> 00:20:46,146 >> Reporter: HE SAID THEY'D BEEN SEEING EACH OTHER THREE OR FOUR 354 00:20:46,146 --> 00:20:49,416 TIMES A WEEK AND POLICE WERE ABLE TO VERIFY 355 00:20:49,416 --> 00:20:52,686 PART OF HIS STORY. HERE'S VIDEO OF MOLLY AND DAVID 356 00:20:52,686 --> 00:20:56,990 COMING OUT OF THAT KROGER GROCERY STORE AT ABOUT 357 00:20:56,990 --> 00:21:00,260 12:45 P.M. AFTER THAT, DAVID SAID HE WENT 358 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:02,962 TO HIS JOB AS A RESTAURANT COOK. >> AND WHAT TIME DID YOU GET TO 359 00:21:02,962 --> 00:21:07,834 WORK >> 4:00. 360 00:21:07,834 --> 00:21:12,772 >> WHAT TIME DID YOU GET OFF >> ABOUT 10:30, 11:00. 361 00:21:12,772 --> 00:21:14,941 >> WHAT'D YOU DO, UH, AFTER YOU GOT OFF OF WORK? 362 00:21:14,941 --> 00:21:21,481 >> I ENDED UP COMING HOME, AND I PLAYED XBOX LIVE WITH MY BUDDY, 363 00:21:21,481 --> 00:21:23,083 MY CO-WORKER >> DID YOU EVER LEAVE THE 364 00:21:23,083 --> 00:21:24,751 APARTMENT AGAIN? >> NO, SIR 365 00:21:24,751 --> 00:21:26,353 >> ON SUNDAY, DID -- HOW WAS HER MOOD 366 00:21:26,353 --> 00:21:28,521 WAS EVERYTHING GOOD OR - >> THAT'S -- THAT'S WHAT I DON'T 367 00:21:28,521 --> 00:21:30,690 GET. EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT 368 00:21:30,690 --> 00:21:32,392 >> WAS SHE TALKING ABOUT GOING SOME PLACE THAT NIGHT, HAVING 369 00:21:32,392 --> 00:21:34,127 PEOPLE OVER, ANYTHING? >> NOTHING 370 00:21:34,127 --> 00:21:38,798 >> Reporter: DAVID LET THE COPS TAKE A DNA SAMPLE AND ALSO 371 00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:41,501 AGREED TO A POLYGRAPH. >> I'M JUST GOING TO COME OUT 372 00:21:41,501 --> 00:21:43,670 AND ASK BECAUSE, UM, MY BOSS IS GONNA WANT ME TO KNOW. 373 00:21:43,670 --> 00:21:46,873 DID YOU HARM HER >> NEVER 374 00:21:46,873 --> 00:21:50,210 >> DO YOU KNOW WHO HARMED HER? >> NO IDEA 375 00:21:50,210 --> 00:21:54,014 >> Reporter: AND WHEN THEY CHECKED HIS PHONE, HE WASN'T 376 00:21:54,014 --> 00:21:56,716 THAT UNNAMED PERSON MOLLY HAD BEEN TEXTING 377 00:21:56,716 --> 00:22:01,621 DAVID DID TELL POLICE ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE 378 00:22:01,621 --> 00:22:03,189 HE'D HEARD ABOUT ANOTHER MAN IN MOLLY'S LIFE 379 00:22:03,189 --> 00:22:06,526 >> SHE WAS TELLING ME ABOUT, LIKE, HOW THIS DUDE IN TEXARKANA 380 00:22:06,526 --> 00:22:08,828 HAD STARTED CALLING HER AGAIN. >> DID SHE MENTION NAMES, 381 00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:10,830 ANYTHING LIKE THAT >> YEAH, SHE SAID IT WAS 382 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:12,565 RYAN PEACOCK >> OKAY. 383 00:22:12,565 --> 00:22:14,634 >> Reporter: RYAN PEACOCK, A FRIEND OF MOLLY'S. 384 00:22:14,634 --> 00:22:17,904 DAVID THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE WANTED TO BE MORE THAN THAT. 385 00:22:17,904 --> 00:22:20,073 >> DAVID SAID THAT HE UNDERSTOOD THAT MOLLY WAS HAVING ISSUES 386 00:22:20,073 --> 00:22:22,208 WITH HIM AS FAR AS HE ALWAYS WANTED TO CALL HER AND STUFF 387 00:22:22,208 --> 00:22:26,546 LIKE THAT. AND MOLLY WASN'T SO INTERESTED 388 00:22:26,546 --> 00:22:29,816 IN RYAN AS -- AS MUCH AS RYAN WAS INTERESTED IN HER. 389 00:22:29,816 --> 00:22:33,586 >> Reporter: EVEN THOUGH RYAN LIVED 200 MILES AWAY, DETECTIVE 390 00:22:33,586 --> 00:22:36,856 SULLIVAN LEARNED HE'D BEEN IN THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA THE 391 00:22:36,856 --> 00:22:40,660 WEEKEND MOLLY WAS MURDERED >> I WENT AND CHECKED MOLLY'S 392 00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:43,930 CELL PHONE, AND SURE ENOUGH, THERE HAD BEEN SOME 393 00:22:43,930 --> 00:22:46,800 COMMUNICATIONS WITH RYAY PEACOCK, UH, THE NIGHT 394 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,336 PRIOR TO WHEN THIS UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL CAME OVER 395 00:22:49,336 --> 00:22:52,572 >> Reporter: ARE THERE TEXTS BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO 396 00:22:52,572 --> 00:22:55,842 OF THEM? >> YES 397 00:22:55,842 --> 00:22:59,646 UH, I THINK HE CALLED HER SEVERAL TIMES. 398 00:22:59,646 --> 00:23:02,349 SHE DIDN'T ANSWER. MAY HAVE SENT A TEXT 399 00:23:02,349 --> 00:23:05,652 AND THEN APRIL 8th OF 2017, INTO APRIL 9th OF 2017, THEY HAD, 400 00:23:05,652 --> 00:23:08,288 LIKE, A 50- SECOND PHONE CALL. >> Reporter: APRIL 9th WAS A 401 00:23:08,288 --> 00:23:10,690 SUNDAY, THE DAY MOLLY WAS PROBABLY KILLED. 402 00:23:10,690 --> 00:23:12,625 IT WAS TIME FOR POLICE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH RYAN PEACOCK 403 00:23:12,625 --> 00:23:14,794 >>> COMING UP -- >> I PHONED RYAN 404 00:23:14,794 --> 00:23:17,497 COULD HE COME AND TALK TO ME AND HE SAID, "YES, I CAN DO THIS 405 00:23:17,497 --> 00:23:19,699 IN PROBABLY TWO MONTHS." >> Reporter: HANG ON A SECOND. 406 00:23:19,699 --> 00:23:21,868 IN TWO MONTHS HE'S GONNA HELP YOU OUT ON A MURDER 407 00:23:21,868 --> 00:23:24,070 INVESTIGATION? >> YES 408 00:23:24,070 --> 00:23:25,638 >> I DIDN'T LIKE THE FACT THAT HE WASN'T BEATING DOWN MY DOOR 409 00:23:25,638 --> 00:23:43,423 TO COME DOWN AND TALK TO ME. WERE LOOKING INTO A PROMISING 410 00:23:43,423 --> 00:23:46,693 LEAD -- RYAN PEACOCK, A GUY FROM MOLLY'S 411 00:23:46,693 --> 00:23:48,294 PAST DID MOLLY EVER SAY ANYTHING TO 412 00:23:48,294 --> 00:23:51,197 EITHER OF YOU ABOUT THIS GUY, RYAN PEACOCK 413 00:23:51,197 --> 00:23:52,098 >> NO. >> I DIDN'T KNOW THAT NAME AT 414 00:23:52,098 --> 00:23:54,300 ALL. >> Reporter: DETECTIVES 415 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:57,003 CONFIRMED RYAN HAD BEEN TALKING WITH MOLLY IN THE DAYS BEFORE 416 00:23:57,003 --> 00:23:59,739 HER MURDER >> I PHONED RYAN 417 00:23:59,739 --> 00:24:03,543 I INFORMED HIM THAT MOLLY WAS MURDERED 418 00:24:03,543 --> 00:24:06,312 COULD HE COME AND TALK TO ME AND HE SAID, "YES, I CAN DO THIS 419 00:24:06,312 --> 00:24:08,415 IN PROBABLY TWO MONTHS." >> Reporter: HANG ON A SECOND. 420 00:24:08,415 --> 00:24:10,850 IN TWO MONTHS HE'S GONNA HELP YOU OUT ON A MURDER 421 00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:14,387 INVESTIGATION? >> YES, IN TWO MONTHS. 422 00:24:14,387 --> 00:24:18,191 >> Reporter: WHEN YOU TELL RYAN PEACOCK MOLLY'S DEAD, 423 00:24:18,191 --> 00:24:20,927 YOU'RE LISTENING PRETTY CLOSELY TO SEE WHETHER THIS IS SOMEBODY 424 00:24:20,927 --> 00:24:23,096 HEARING THAT INFORMATION FOR THE FIRST TIME 425 00:24:23,096 --> 00:24:25,832 >> ABSOLUTELY. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. 426 00:24:25,832 --> 00:24:28,535 >> Reporter: WHAT'D YOU THINK? >> I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW. 427 00:24:28,535 --> 00:24:30,704 I DIDN'T LIKE THE FACT THAT HE WASN'T BEATING DOWN MY DOOR TO 428 00:24:30,704 --> 00:24:32,906 COME DOWN AND TALK TO ME I DIDN'T LIKE THAT AT ALL. 429 00:24:32,906 --> 00:24:37,777 >> Reporter: RYAN DID HAVE AN EXPLANATION. 430 00:24:37,777 --> 00:24:41,548 HE SAID HE COULDN'T COME IN PERSON BECAUSE HE WAS BUSY 431 00:24:41,548 --> 00:24:44,818 TRAINING FOR A NEW POSITION AS A RESTAURANT MANAGER 432 00:24:44,818 --> 00:24:47,087 I'M THINKING -- VERY QUICKLY MADE THE POINT TO RYAN PEACOCK 433 00:24:47,087 --> 00:24:50,290 THAT TWO MONTHS WASN'T GONNA DO IT 434 00:24:50,290 --> 00:24:53,960 YOU NEEDED TO TALK TO HIM RIGHT NOW UNLESS HE WANTS A ALERT OUT 435 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,330 FOR HIS ARREST >> DIDN'T SAY IT QUITE LIKE 436 00:24:57,330 --> 00:24:59,499 THAT, BUT I JUST TOLD RYAN THE BEST I COULD DO THEN IF HE 437 00:24:59,499 --> 00:25:02,235 WOULDN'T COME IN IS, "CAN WE JUST DO A PHONE INTERVIEW? 438 00:25:02,235 --> 00:25:07,640 >> HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN MOLLY? 439 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,343 >> ABOUT, I'D SAY, FOUR MONTHS >> FOUR MONTHS 440 00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:13,079 HAVE Y'ALL HAD ANY KIND OF RELATIONSHIP IN THAT FOUR 441 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:15,749 MONTHS >> UH, YES SIR 442 00:25:15,749 --> 00:25:19,052 >> Reporter: RYAN SAID THEY'D BEEN OUT A FEW TIMES, BUT IT WAS 443 00:25:19,052 --> 00:25:22,255 NOTHING SERIOUS. >> HE SAID HE HASN'T BEEN OVER 444 00:25:22,255 --> 00:25:24,958 TO MOLLY'S RESIDENCE IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND HE HADN'T SEEN 445 00:25:24,958 --> 00:25:28,228 HER. >> DID YOU GO TO MOLLY'S HOUSE 446 00:25:28,228 --> 00:25:30,964 ON SUNDAY EVENING? >> NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. 447 00:25:30,964 --> 00:25:34,067 >> HE DID VERIFY THE PHONE CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH HER, 448 00:25:34,067 --> 00:25:35,802 BUT THAT HE HAD NOT PHYSICALLY BEEN WITH MOLLY FOR SEVERAL 449 00:25:35,802 --> 00:25:38,505 MONTHS >> Reporter: DETECTIVE SULLIVAN 450 00:25:38,505 --> 00:25:42,342 ALSO LEARNED RYAN HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD AND HIS NUMBER 451 00:25:42,342 --> 00:25:46,646 WAS IN MOLLY'S PHONE SO HE WAS NOT THE LAST PERSON TO 452 00:25:46,646 --> 00:25:50,216 TEXT HER >> Reporter: SO DAVID WALTON AND 453 00:25:50,216 --> 00:25:52,652 RYAN PEACOCK ARE STILL POTENTIAL PERSONS OF INTEREST? 454 00:25:52,652 --> 00:25:54,387 >> YES >> Reporter: AT THE VERY LEAST 455 00:25:54,387 --> 00:25:57,490 >> YES I NEVER BELIEVE ANYBODY. 456 00:25:57,490 --> 00:26:03,463 TRUST BUT VERIFY SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF DAVID OR 457 00:26:03,463 --> 00:26:07,267 RYAN HAD DONE IT AT THAT TIME. BUT I'M INCHIN' CLOSER TO TRYIN' 458 00:26:07,267 --> 00:26:12,105 TO INVESTIGATE, TRYING TO ELIMINATE THEM OR INCLUDE THEM 459 00:26:12,105 --> 00:26:16,443 >> Reporter: THE PERSON POLICE REALLY WANTED TO TRACK DOWN WAS 460 00:26:16,443 --> 00:26:20,246 WHOEVER BELONGED TO THOSE MYSTERY DIGITS IN MOLLY'S PHONE. 461 00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:23,516 A REVERSE SEARCH ON THAT NUMBER WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS 462 00:26:23,516 --> 00:26:27,320 DETECTIVE SULLIVAN HAD DONE. >> I ACTUALLY USED A LOCAL 463 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,056 DATABASE I TYPED IN THE NUMBER, AND THE 464 00:26:30,056 --> 00:26:33,259 NUMBER CAME BACK TO A PERSON BY THE NAME OF REGINALD KIMBRO. 465 00:26:33,259 --> 00:26:36,563 >> Reporter: WAS THIS THE MYSTERY MAN POLICE HAD BEEN 466 00:26:36,563 --> 00:26:39,265 SEARCHING FOR? NOW DETECTIVE SULLIVAN MADE THE 467 00:26:39,265 --> 00:26:42,502 CALL >> I INTRODUCED MYSELF AND SAID 468 00:26:42,502 --> 00:26:44,671 THAT I'D LIKE TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT MOLLY MATHESON 469 00:26:44,671 --> 00:26:47,941 HE SAID THAT, YES, HE WAS WITH HER THE NIGHT BEFORE SHE WAS 470 00:26:47,941 --> 00:26:51,177 MURDERED HE SEEMED EAGER TO COME TO WANNA 471 00:26:51,177 --> 00:26:54,748 TALK TO ME >> Reporter: KIMBRO SAID HE WAS 472 00:26:54,748 --> 00:26:57,150 OUT OF TOWN. SO WHILE DETECTIVES WAITED, THEY 473 00:26:57,150 --> 00:27:00,387 DUG INTO HIS PAST. SULLIVAN FOUND OUT KIMBRO GREW 474 00:27:00,387 --> 00:27:04,724 UP IN PLANO, A WELL-TO-DO SUBURB NEAR DALLAS. 475 00:27:04,724 --> 00:27:08,028 ONCE KIMBRO GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, HE JOINED THE NAVY 476 00:27:08,028 --> 00:27:10,697 AND AFTER BEING DISCHARGED, HE ENDED UP IN ARKANSAS WHERE HE 477 00:27:10,697 --> 00:27:14,501 MET MOLLY. MOLLY AND REGINALD MET ON 478 00:27:14,501 --> 00:27:18,304 TINDER AND SUBSEQUENTLY, MOLLY AND 479 00:27:18,304 --> 00:27:22,075 REGINALD HAD BROKEN UP YOU KNOW WHAT'S UNUSUAL IS THAT 480 00:27:22,075 --> 00:27:25,912 MOLLY HAD KNOWN REGINALD KIMBRO FOR A LONG TIME. 481 00:27:25,912 --> 00:27:29,149 AND YET HIS NUMBER WASN'T IN HER PHONE UNDER HIS NAME 482 00:27:29,149 --> 00:27:32,352 >> YES, THAT IS UNUSUAL. IT'S PROBABLY, I ASSUME, BECAUSE 483 00:27:32,352 --> 00:27:36,690 THEY MUST'VE HAD SOME FALLING OUT AT SOME POINT AND SHE 484 00:27:36,690 --> 00:27:39,426 DELETED HIM FROM HER CONTACTS. >> Reporter: BUT THEN MONTHS 485 00:27:39,426 --> 00:27:41,594 LATER, SHE INITIATES A CONVERSATION WHICH ENDS UP WITH 486 00:27:41,594 --> 00:27:44,831 HIM COMIN' OVER. >> YES 487 00:27:44,831 --> 00:27:48,068 >> Reporter: AND AFTER HIS BREAK-UP WITH MOLLY, REGGIE HAD 488 00:27:48,068 --> 00:27:50,236 STARTED DATING THIS WOMAN, MOLLY'S FORMER COLLEGE ROOMMATE 489 00:27:50,236 --> 00:27:52,405 MEGAN LEWIS. >> HELLO 490 00:27:52,405 --> 00:27:55,108 >> IS THIS MEGAN THIS IS DETECTIVE SULLIVAN 491 00:27:55,108 --> 00:27:57,811 >> YES, IT IS. >> Reporter: MEGAN REACHED OUT 492 00:27:57,811 --> 00:28:00,547 TO POLICE IN THE DAYS AFTER MOLLY'S MURDER 493 00:28:00,547 --> 00:28:06,019 SHE TOLD THEM HOW SHE FIRST STARTED DATING REGGIE. 494 00:28:06,019 --> 00:28:09,756 >> EVENTUALLY REGGIE AND I, UM, GOT INTO A RELATIONSHIP, UH, IN 495 00:28:09,756 --> 00:28:12,792 THE FALL, 2015 HE WAS FUN AND, YOU KNOW, SEEMED 496 00:28:12,792 --> 00:28:15,729 TO BE DIFFERENT THAN EVERY OTHER GUY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'D MEET 497 00:28:15,729 --> 00:28:19,032 IN COLLEGE >> Reporter: MOLLY'S FORMER 498 00:28:19,032 --> 00:28:21,134 ROOMMATE SEEMED TO REALLY LIKE REGGIE 499 00:28:21,134 --> 00:28:23,837 REGGIE WAS CHARMING. HE KNEW WHAT TO SAY, WHEN TO SAY 500 00:28:23,837 --> 00:28:28,875 IT >> HE WAS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. 501 00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:31,411 HE KNEW EVERYBODY. >> Reporter: MEGAN AND REGGIE'S 502 00:28:31,411 --> 00:28:34,147 ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WAS LONG OVER, BUT THEY WERE STILL 503 00:28:34,147 --> 00:28:36,816 FRIENDS. SHE WAS ABLE TO HELP POLICE 504 00:28:36,816 --> 00:28:39,552 TRACK REGGIE'S ACTIVITIES THE NIGHT OF MOLLY'S MURDER. 505 00:28:39,552 --> 00:28:42,255 >> WE TALKED ON THE PHONE. EVERYTHING WAS FINE. 506 00:28:42,255 --> 00:28:45,492 HE TOLD ME HE WAS AT HIS SISTER'S HOUSE, WORKING ON HER 507 00:28:45,492 --> 00:28:48,228 CAR. AND HE SAYS, "I'M GONNA GO AHEAD 508 00:28:48,228 --> 00:28:50,397 AND, LIKE, LET YOU GO. I HAVE TO RUN BY A FRIEND'S 509 00:28:50,397 --> 00:28:53,099 HOUSE. AND I SAID, "OKAY, GOOD NIGHT. 510 00:28:53,099 --> 00:28:57,971 LIKE, I WAS GONNA GO TO SLEEP. >> Reporter: THAT WAS IT 511 00:28:57,971 --> 00:29:01,574 TWO DAYS LATER, ON TUESDAY, MEGAN GOT THE NEWS ABOUT MOLLY 512 00:29:01,574 --> 00:29:05,011 SHE CALLED REGGIE THAT AFTERNOON IN CASE HE HADN'T HEARD. 513 00:29:05,011 --> 00:29:07,180 >> I SAID, "MOLLY'S GONE." AND HE GOES, "WHAT ARE YOU 514 00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:10,483 TALKING ABOUT? I SAID, "MOLLY -- MOLLY'S DEAD 515 00:29:10,483 --> 00:29:16,389 MOLLY'S PASSED AWAY. AND THEN THAT'S WHEN HE TOLD ME, 516 00:29:16,389 --> 00:29:19,626 "I WAS JUST WITH HER." THAT'S WHEN I TOLD HIM, "YOU 517 00:29:19,626 --> 00:29:23,463 NEED TO GO TO THE POLICE." I WAS LIKE, "IF YOU TOUCHED A 518 00:29:23,463 --> 00:29:28,301 DOORKNOB, IF YOU TOUCHED THE COUNTER, YOU TOUCHED THE TRASH 519 00:29:28,301 --> 00:29:31,037 CAN, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE SOMETHING THAT SHOWS THAT 520 00:29:31,037 --> 00:29:33,707 YOU WERE THERE." >> Reporter: POLICE DIDN'T HAVE 521 00:29:33,707 --> 00:29:35,842 TO WAIT LONG TO MEET THE MAN OF THE HOUR 522 00:29:35,842 --> 00:29:39,846 >> ALL RIGHT, GO HAVE A SEAT, MAN. 523 00:29:39,846 --> 00:29:42,349 >>> COMING UP -- >> I CAME OVER 524 00:29:42,349 --> 00:29:45,618 I GOT THERE ABOUT, LIKE, 10:30 >> REGGIE TELLS HIS STORY. 525 00:29:45,618 --> 00:29:48,355 WILL IT ADD UP >> WHAT TIME DID YOU LEAVE HER 526 00:29:48,355 --> 00:29:52,659 HOUSE? >> I LEFT THERE BEFORE 1:30. 527 00:29:52,659 --> 00:29:54,828 >> CUE THE SECURITY CAMERAS. >> I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TIME YOU 528 00:29:54,828 --> 00:29:57,130 GOT THERE. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TIME YOU 529 00:29:57,130 --> 00:29:57,297 I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TIME YOU LEAVE. 530 00:30:18,985 --> 00:30:20,954 MAN? I'M SORRY. 531 00:30:20,954 --> 00:30:23,656 I HAD KID PROBLEMS THIS MORNING. >> Reporter: THREE DAYS AFTER HE 532 00:30:23,656 --> 00:30:25,825 SPOKE WITH DETECTIVES BY PHONE, REGGIE KIMBRO SHOWED UP AT THE 533 00:30:25,825 --> 00:30:28,028 FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT >> I KNOW THAT WE NEEDED TO TALK 534 00:30:28,028 --> 00:30:29,629 FOR A LITTLE WHILE, AND I APPRECIATE YOU DRIVING YOURSELF 535 00:30:29,629 --> 00:30:32,332 DOWN HERE. SO 536 00:30:32,332 --> 00:30:35,035 >> YEAH, UH, IT'S NO PROBLEM >> THIS IS MY PARTNER, 537 00:30:35,035 --> 00:30:37,203 DETECTIVE ANDERSON I DON'T KNOW IF WE INTRODUCED 538 00:30:37,203 --> 00:30:39,372 YOU TO HIM >> Reporter: HE'S COOPERATING? 539 00:30:39,372 --> 00:30:41,541 >> HE'S COOPERATING. HE'S GIVIN' US EVERYTHING THAT 540 00:30:41,541 --> 00:30:43,710 WE KIND OF WANT AT THAT TIME >> HOW DO YOU KNOW MOLLY 541 00:30:43,710 --> 00:30:46,980 >> I MET MOLLY IN ARKANSAS >> Reporter: REGGIE CONFIRMED 542 00:30:46,980 --> 00:30:49,115 WHAT DETECTIVES HAD ALREADY HEARD IN OTHER INTERVIEWS. 543 00:30:49,115 --> 00:30:51,284 >> REGINALD SAID THAT HE HAD MET MOLLY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 544 00:30:51,284 --> 00:30:53,186 ARKANSAS UH, THEY WERE IN A DATING 545 00:30:53,186 --> 00:30:56,156 RELATIONSHIP AT THE TIME SHE EVENTUALLY MOVED BACK HOME 546 00:30:56,156 --> 00:31:00,493 TO THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA, AND THEY HAD LOST TOUCH SINCE 547 00:31:00,493 --> 00:31:03,763 AROUND 2015. AND THEY HAD RECENTLY, WITHIN 548 00:31:03,763 --> 00:31:05,932 THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, HAD RECONNECTED AGAIN. 549 00:31:05,932 --> 00:31:09,202 >> Reporter: SO ON THE NIGHT OF HER MURDER, MOLLY TEXTED REGGIE 550 00:31:09,202 --> 00:31:12,472 AND INVITED HIM OVER >> I HAVE THE TEXTS. 551 00:31:12,472 --> 00:31:14,107 >> OKAY. >> I WAS LIKE, "DID YOU NEED 552 00:31:14,107 --> 00:31:15,809 SOMETHING? AND SHE'S LIKE, "I JUST WANT TO 553 00:31:15,809 --> 00:31:18,411 SEE IF YOU WANT TO HANG OUT. SO I CAME OVER 554 00:31:18,411 --> 00:31:24,384 I GOT THERE ABOUT LIKE 10:30 >> Reporter: REGGIE SAID THEY 555 00:31:24,384 --> 00:31:26,553 SMOKED SOME WEED, WATCHED NETFLIX, AND CHATTED 556 00:31:26,553 --> 00:31:30,890 >> OKAY. WHAT ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT 557 00:31:30,890 --> 00:31:33,093 >> UH, BASICALLY JUST CATCHING UP 558 00:31:33,093 --> 00:31:35,228 SHE WAS TELLING ME ABOUT HER NEW BOYFRIEND. 559 00:31:35,228 --> 00:31:37,397 SHE WAS TELLING ME ABOUT HOW HER BROTHER GOT HER OLD CAR AND SHE 560 00:31:37,397 --> 00:31:41,201 GOT A NEW CAR. SHE'S TALKING ABOUT, LIKE, HER 561 00:31:41,201 --> 00:31:43,503 MOM. >> Reporter: HE SAID THEY 562 00:31:43,503 --> 00:31:45,005 STARTED MAKING OUT >> DID YOU ALL HAVE SEX THAT 563 00:31:45,005 --> 00:31:47,173 NIGHT? >> NO. 564 00:31:47,173 --> 00:31:49,376 LIKE, WE GOT TO THE POINT TO WHERE WE WERE GOING TO, BUT SHE 565 00:31:49,376 --> 00:31:51,011 WAS JUST LIKE, "I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE. 566 00:31:51,011 --> 00:31:53,146 >> AND SHE WAS JUST LIKE, "WAIT, STOP." 567 00:31:53,146 --> 00:31:54,848 I WAS LIKE, "WHAT'S WRONG? AND SHE'S LIKE, "I DON'T FEEL 568 00:31:54,848 --> 00:31:56,583 RIGHT. YOU KNOW, DAVID WOULDN'T LIKE 569 00:31:56,583 --> 00:31:57,984 THIS." >> Reporter: DAVID AS IN 570 00:31:57,984 --> 00:32:00,220 DAVID WALTON >> AND I WAS LIKE, "OKAY." 571 00:32:00,220 --> 00:32:02,922 AND THAT'S WHEN I GOT UP I WENT TO THE BATHROOM 572 00:32:02,922 --> 00:32:05,158 I GUESS IT JUST KIND OF GOT AWKWARD THERE. 573 00:32:05,158 --> 00:32:07,827 WHEN I COME BACK OUT, SHE'S LIKE, "WELL, I'M GOING TO GO TO 574 00:32:07,827 --> 00:32:10,530 SLEEP BECAUSE I HAVE CLASS TOMORROW." 575 00:32:10,530 --> 00:32:13,800 AND I WAS LIKE, "OKAY, WELL, JUST HIT ME AFTER CLASS. 576 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,969 >> OKAY. >> AND SHE WALKED ME OUT 577 00:32:15,969 --> 00:32:18,672 >> I DON'T THINK I ASKED THIS. WHAT TIME DID YOU LEAVE HER 578 00:32:18,672 --> 00:32:21,374 HOUSE? >> I LEFT THERE BEFORE 1:30. 579 00:32:21,374 --> 00:32:23,510 >> Reporter: REGGIE TOLD THEM HE DROVE STRAIGHT FROM MOLLY'S 580 00:32:23,510 --> 00:32:25,712 HOUSE UP TO OKLAHOMA, A THREE HOUR DRIVE, THEN STAYED WITH A 581 00:32:25,712 --> 00:32:27,881 FRIEND >> WHEN DO YOU FIND OUT ABOUT 582 00:32:27,881 --> 00:32:29,482 MOLLY'S DEATH? >> TUESDAY 583 00:32:29,482 --> 00:32:31,685 >> TELL ME ABOUT THAT. >> MEGAN HAD CALLED ME, AND SHE 584 00:32:31,685 --> 00:32:33,286 LEFT A VOICEMAIL >> Reporter: HE'S REFERRING TO 585 00:32:33,286 --> 00:32:36,089 MEGAN, MOLLY'S OLD ROOMMATE AND REGGIE'S FORMER GIRLFRIEND 586 00:32:36,089 --> 00:32:39,259 HE RECOUNTED THAT CONVERSATION >> AND SHE'S LIKE, "DID YOU 587 00:32:39,259 --> 00:32:41,227 HEAR?" AND I WAS LIKE, "HEAR ABOUT 588 00:32:41,227 --> 00:32:42,495 WHAT?" AND SHE'S LIKE, "MOLLY." 589 00:32:42,495 --> 00:32:44,898 I WAS LIKE, "OKAY, WHAT'S WRONG WITH MOLLY?" 590 00:32:44,898 --> 00:32:46,866 AND SHE'S LIKE, "SHE'S GONE. AND WHEN SHE TOLD ME, I'M LIKE, 591 00:32:46,866 --> 00:32:49,102 "NO, I LITERALLY JUST SAW MOLLY. 592 00:32:49,102 --> 00:32:51,204 AND SHE'S LIKE, "NO, SHE'S -- SHE'S DEAD." 593 00:32:51,204 --> 00:32:56,109 I JUST KIND OF DROPPED IN DISBELIEF BECAUSE I WAS JUST 594 00:32:56,109 --> 00:32:58,211 THERE. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN 595 00:32:58,211 --> 00:32:59,879 AND I WAS JUST BAWLING, CRYING >> Reporter: HE SAID MEGAN AND 596 00:32:59,879 --> 00:33:02,048 THE FRIEND HE WAS STAYING WITH URGED HIM TO REACH OUT TO 597 00:33:02,048 --> 00:33:03,717 POLICE >> SO HE'S LIKE, "YOU NEED TO GO 598 00:33:03,717 --> 00:33:06,186 TALK TO THEM." HE'S LIKE, "YOU CAN HELP SOME 599 00:33:06,186 --> 00:33:07,454 WAY. >> Reporter: THE COPS BEAT HIM 600 00:33:07,454 --> 00:33:09,622 TO IT BY CALLING HIM FIRST AND REGGIE WAS INDEED HELPFUL. 601 00:33:09,622 --> 00:33:12,225 >> HE GAVE US ACCESS TO HIS PHONE, PROVIDED ME HIS PASSCODE 602 00:33:12,225 --> 00:33:13,960 TO HIS PHONE >> DOWN, UP. 603 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,562 >> SWEET, ALL RIGHT. I'LL RUN UP THERE TO 'EM 604 00:33:15,562 --> 00:33:17,731 >> Reporter: YOU ASKED HIM FOR A DNA SAMPLE 605 00:33:17,731 --> 00:33:19,366 >> YES >> Reporter: AND HE GIVES IT TO 606 00:33:19,366 --> 00:33:24,270 YOU? >> HE GIVES ME THAT DNA SAMPLE 607 00:33:24,270 --> 00:33:28,641 >> OPEN YOUR MOUTH >> SO THIS IS JUST A BLOCK, UH, 608 00:33:28,641 --> 00:33:31,344 NORTH OF WHERE MOLLY MATHESON WAS KILLED 609 00:33:31,344 --> 00:33:34,080 >> Reporter: BY THE TIME REGGIE SAT DOWN WITH DETECTIVES, THEY 610 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,750 HAD ALREADY CONFIRMED PART OF HIS STORY. 611 00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:39,085 DETECTIVE ANDERSON HAD PULLED HOURS OF VIDEO FROM CAMERAS IN 612 00:33:39,085 --> 00:33:44,858 MOLLY'S NEIGHBORHOOD THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER, AND THEY SHOWED A 613 00:33:44,858 --> 00:33:48,128 2004 BUICK PARK AVENUE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE REGGIE'S. 614 00:33:48,128 --> 00:33:50,830 >> AND VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD DID SHOW, UH, 615 00:33:50,830 --> 00:33:54,134 FROM DIFFERENT HOUSES THAT HE WAS SHOWING UP AT 10:25 AND 616 00:33:54,134 --> 00:33:57,904 DRIVING FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH TOWARDS WHERE MOLLY LIVED. 617 00:33:57,904 --> 00:34:01,708 >> Reporter: THEY DID NOTICE A GAP IN REGGIE'S TIMELINE 618 00:34:01,708 --> 00:34:05,478 >> AND THEN AS WE FURTHER REVIEWED THE CAMERAS 619 00:34:05,478 --> 00:34:07,647 2:00 THAT MORNING, WE SEE HIM LEAVING AGAIN OUT OF THE 620 00:34:07,647 --> 00:34:12,485 NEIGHBORHOOD, LEAVING NORTHBOUND THE SAME WAY THAT HE CAME. 621 00:34:12,485 --> 00:34:14,688 >> Reporter: REMEMBER, REGGIE TOLD DETECTIVES HE'D LEFT 622 00:34:14,688 --> 00:34:17,390 MOLLY'S AT 1:30 A.M. THAT PUTS A 30-MINUTE HOLE IN 623 00:34:17,390 --> 00:34:20,093 HIS STORY. BACK IN THE INTERVIEW ROOM, 624 00:34:20,093 --> 00:34:23,163 DETECTIVE SULLIVAN USED THAT TO TURN UP THE HEAT 625 00:34:23,163 --> 00:34:25,065 >> I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TIME YOU GOT THERE. 626 00:34:25,065 --> 00:34:27,701 I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TIME YOU LEAVE. 627 00:34:27,701 --> 00:34:29,869 >> OKAY. >> AND AT THAT TIME, THE 628 00:34:29,869 --> 00:34:34,207 INTERVIEW CHANGED DIRECTIONS >> Reporter: HOW DOES IT CHANGE? 629 00:34:34,207 --> 00:34:37,477 >> HE IMMEDIATELY KNOWS NOW THAT I'M TRYING TO CONFRONT HIM 630 00:34:37,477 --> 00:34:39,779 >> THE ONLY REASON I'M TALKING TO YOU NOW, REGGIE - 631 00:34:39,779 --> 00:34:41,781 >> YES, SIR. >> -- IS BECAUSE I THINK SOME -- 632 00:34:41,781 --> 00:34:43,917 WENT WRONG IN THERE. >> WHILE I WAS THERE 633 00:34:43,917 --> 00:34:45,652 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> UH, NO THEN 634 00:34:45,652 --> 00:34:48,288 NO >> ABSOLUTELY, REGGIE. 635 00:34:48,288 --> 00:34:50,423 >> NO, SIR >> YEAH. 636 00:34:50,423 --> 00:34:52,625 >> I'M TELLING YOU NO. >> Reporter: SULLIVAN ASKED 637 00:34:52,625 --> 00:34:55,862 REGGIE IF HE'D TAKE A POLYGRAPH. THAT'S THE MOMENT WHERE THE 638 00:34:55,862 --> 00:34:58,098 DETECTIVE'S MOOD CHANGES, AND YOU CAN SEE REGGIE'S DOES TOO. 639 00:34:58,098 --> 00:35:01,835 >> WE'LL GO RIGHT NOW AND DO IT. I GOT A GUY ALREADY WAITING FOR 640 00:35:01,835 --> 00:35:06,172 US >> I DON'T -- DUDE, NO 641 00:35:06,172 --> 00:35:08,875 ALL RIGHT, MAN NO, I'M -- YEAH, I'M DONE. 642 00:35:08,875 --> 00:35:11,044 I DIDN'T KILL MOLLY. YOU'RE ALL OUT OF YOUR -- MINDS, 643 00:35:11,044 --> 00:35:14,280 MAN. >> REGGIE, I PROMISE YOU THIS. 644 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,449 IT'S WHY I'M LOOKING AT YOU. I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN 645 00:35:16,449 --> 00:35:18,385 >> THAT'S FINE >> BUT NEXT TIME I SEE YOU, IT'S 646 00:35:18,385 --> 00:35:21,855 GOING TO BE -- YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN CUSTODY. 647 00:35:21,855 --> 00:35:24,557 >> OKAY. >> OKAY. 648 00:35:24,557 --> 00:35:26,726 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES LET HIM DIGEST THAT AS THEY DECIDED WHAT 649 00:35:26,726 --> 00:35:28,428 TO DO. >> HEY, REGGIE, YOU DON'T WANT 650 00:35:28,428 --> 00:35:31,064 TO TAKE POLYGRAPH? >> NO, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE A -- 651 00:35:31,064 --> 00:35:32,732 POLYGRAPH. >> OKAY. 652 00:35:32,732 --> 00:35:35,402 HEY, WE'RE GOING TO CONFISCATE YOUR PHONE TOO 653 00:35:35,402 --> 00:35:37,570 >> Reporter: WHY NOT ARREST HIM RIGHT THEN 654 00:35:37,570 --> 00:35:40,373 >> THE ONLY THING I COULD PROVE OUT OF THAT INTERVIEW WAS THAT 655 00:35:40,373 --> 00:35:43,076 HE DID LIE ABOUT HIS TIMEFRAME BUT HE COULD ALSO HAVE BEEN 656 00:35:43,076 --> 00:35:45,178 MISTAKEN >> Reporter: IT WAS ONLY A 657 00:35:45,178 --> 00:35:47,313 30-MINUTE DISCREPANCY. NOT A HUGE DEAL. 658 00:35:47,313 --> 00:35:50,383 EXCEPT POLICE KNEW SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT REGGIE'S PAST 659 00:35:50,383 --> 00:35:53,853 SOMETHING THAT SUGGESTED HE WAS VIOLENT AND CAPABLE OF 660 00:35:53,853 --> 00:36:01,494 ASSAULTING MOLLY >> I WAS SUSPICIOUS OF SEXUAL 661 00:36:01,494 --> 00:36:04,764 ASSAULT. I WAS, UH, SUSPICIOUS OF HIM 662 00:36:04,764 --> 00:36:06,933 MURDERING HER. BUT I STILL HAD TO PROVE IT. 663 00:36:06,933 --> 00:36:09,069 SUSPICION IN THE STATE OF TEXAS DOESN'T EQUATE TO THE CHARGE OF 664 00:36:09,069 --> 00:36:12,439 MURDER >> Reporter: DETECTIVES DIDN'T 665 00:36:12,439 --> 00:36:15,075 HAVE DNA RESULTS BACK YET, AND AT THAT POINT, THEY WERE NOT 666 00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:18,311 EVEN SURE IF MOLLY HAD BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED 667 00:36:18,311 --> 00:36:21,881 ULTIMATELY THEY SAY THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO LET REGGIE GO. 668 00:36:21,881 --> 00:36:24,317 THEY DID HANG ON TO HIS CELL PHONE. 669 00:36:24,317 --> 00:36:28,121 BUT THEY COULD NOT HANG ONTO REGGIE KIMBRO. 670 00:36:28,121 --> 00:36:33,059 >>> COMING UP -- >> I JUST -- I GOT SO SCARED 671 00:36:33,059 --> 00:36:37,897 >> A YOUNG WOMAN'S HORRIFYING STORY BECOMES A HEARTBREAKING 672 00:36:37,897 --> 00:36:40,633 LINK TO MOLLY'S CASE >> MY DETECTIVE SAID, "DO YOU 673 00:36:40,633 --> 00:36:44,404 WANT THIS TO HAPPEN TO ANOTHER GIRL?" 674 00:36:44,404 --> 00:36:46,573 AND I SAID, "NO. HE SAID, "THEN LET'S GET THIS 675 00:36:46,573 --> 00:37:06,393 GUY. >> Reporter: POLICE 676 00:37:06,393 --> 00:37:09,295 INVESTIGATING THE MURDER OF MOLLY MATHESON WERE DEEPLY 677 00:37:09,295 --> 00:37:11,297 SUSPICIOUS OF REGGIE KIMBRO. BUT HE WAS ONE OF THREE PERSONS 678 00:37:11,297 --> 00:37:13,466 OF INTEREST. LIKE THAT GUY MOLLY HAD BEEN 679 00:37:13,466 --> 00:37:15,635 SEEING WHAT'D YOU LEARN ABOUT 680 00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:18,338 DAVID WALTON >> I MEAN, HE, WHENEVER WE 681 00:37:18,338 --> 00:37:20,540 CALLED HIM, ANSWERED ALL OF THE QUESTIONS WE HAD 682 00:37:20,540 --> 00:37:22,676 AND WE PULLED HIS CELL PHONE RECORDS AND WERE LATER -- LATER 683 00:37:22,676 --> 00:37:25,912 ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT, YOU KNOW, HE WASN'T AROUND MOLLY'S 684 00:37:25,912 --> 00:37:28,815 HOUSE AT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS HAPPENED 685 00:37:28,815 --> 00:37:30,817 >> Reporter: WHAT ABOUT RYAN PEACOCK 686 00:37:30,817 --> 00:37:32,452 RYAN PEACOCK WASN'T QUITE AS COOPERATIVE. 687 00:37:32,452 --> 00:37:34,054 >> I KNOW DETECTIVE SULLIVAN TALKED TO HIM TWO OR THREE 688 00:37:34,054 --> 00:37:35,689 TIMES. AND WE TRIED MAKIN' IT WHERE WE 689 00:37:35,689 --> 00:37:37,290 WOULD COME MEET WITH HIM, OR HE COULD COME MEET WITH US, 690 00:37:37,290 --> 00:37:39,459 WHATEVER'S EASIEST AND THAT INTERVIEW JUST NEVER 691 00:37:39,459 --> 00:37:42,696 HAPPENED >> Reporter: POLICE WERE ABLE TO 692 00:37:42,696 --> 00:37:47,067 CLEAR PEACOCK AS WELL. THE ONE PERSON WHO COULDN'T BE 693 00:37:47,067 --> 00:37:49,169 CLEARED WAS REGGIE KIMBRO. AND IT WASN'T JUST BECAUSE HE'D 694 00:37:49,169 --> 00:37:52,405 BEEN AT MOLLY'S THE NIGHT SHE WAS KILLED 695 00:37:52,405 --> 00:37:55,108 POLICE HAD LEARNED SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT HIM 696 00:37:55,108 --> 00:37:58,578 >> WHEN I RAN A CRIMINAL HISTORY WITH REGINALD, I'D SEEN THAT HE 697 00:37:58,578 --> 00:38:00,780 HAD BEEN ARRESTED FOR A SEXUAL ASSAULT OUT OF SOUTH PADRE 698 00:38:00,780 --> 00:38:02,716 ISLAND, UH, TEXAS. >> Reporter: YOU CALL THAT 699 00:38:02,716 --> 00:38:06,019 DEPARTMENT >> I ACTUALLY HAD TO CALL THE 700 00:38:06,019 --> 00:38:11,925 DETECTIVE DOWN THERE HE SAID THAT REGINALD KIMBRO WAS 701 00:38:11,925 --> 00:38:15,195 ARRESTED FOR A SEXUAL ASSAULT AROUND SPRING BREAK, 2014. 702 00:38:15,195 --> 00:38:17,897 >> Reporter: AND IF THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR, IT'S BECAUSE THE 703 00:38:17,897 --> 00:38:23,336 VICTIM IN THAT CASE WAS SOMEONE YOU'VE ALREADY MET -- 704 00:38:23,336 --> 00:38:26,573 KATIE COATS. IT WAS SPRING BREAK, THREE YEARS 705 00:38:26,573 --> 00:38:30,377 BEFORE THE MURDER OF MOLLY MATHESON 706 00:38:30,377 --> 00:38:33,079 IT WAS A DOUBLE CELEBRATION FOR KATIE. 707 00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:35,248 >> MY BIRTHDAY ALWAYS FALLS ON SPRING BREAK 708 00:38:35,248 --> 00:38:38,518 SO I HAD JUST RECENTLY TURNED 20. 709 00:38:38,518 --> 00:38:40,687 WE DECIDED TO GO TO SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 710 00:38:40,687 --> 00:38:43,423 >> Reporter: IT'S A STRIP OF WHITE SAND AND CLEAR WATER ON 711 00:38:43,423 --> 00:38:51,564 THE TEXAS GULF COAST PEACEFUL, QUIET, EXCEPT FOR 712 00:38:51,564 --> 00:38:55,869 THREE WEEKS IN MARCH WHEN THESE BEACHES TEEM WITH THOUSANDS OF 713 00:38:55,869 --> 00:39:00,740 COLLEGE KIDS, ALL INTENT ON HAVING THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES 714 00:39:00,740 --> 00:39:03,443 >> DURING SPRING BREAK, OF COURSE, EVERYONE, YOU KNOW, GOES 715 00:39:03,443 --> 00:39:05,645 OUT AND HAS A GOOD TIME. WE'RE ON THE BEACH 716 00:39:05,645 --> 00:39:10,016 THERE'S MUSIC. THERE'S, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, 717 00:39:10,016 --> 00:39:14,821 DRINKS AND EVERYTHING. >> Reporter: IT'S SUN, SAND, 718 00:39:14,821 --> 00:39:19,659 SURF, AND A TSUNAMI OF ALCOHOL PLUS A CHANCE TO MEET OTHER 719 00:39:19,659 --> 00:39:24,531 KIDS, INCLUDING A GUY KATIE KEPT RUNNING INTO -- REGGIE KIMBRO. 720 00:39:24,531 --> 00:39:27,801 >> I JUST REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, HE WAS VERY POPULAR 721 00:39:27,801 --> 00:39:31,037 EVERYONE KIND OF GATHERED AROUND HIM. 722 00:39:31,037 --> 00:39:35,375 >> Reporter: SEEMED LIKE A NICE GUY? 723 00:39:35,375 --> 00:39:38,078 >> YEAH. HE SEEMED LIKE HE JUST WANTED TO 724 00:39:38,078 --> 00:39:41,348 HAVE FUN >> Reporter: ONE NIGHT THEY WENT 725 00:39:41,348 --> 00:39:45,685 OUT TO A CLUB. AS CLOSING TIME APPROACHED - 726 00:39:45,685 --> 00:39:48,388 >> WE ALL WENT DOWN TO THE HOT TUB. 727 00:39:48,388 --> 00:39:51,091 AT SOME POINT, I WAS READY -- I WAS READY TO LEAVE 728 00:39:51,091 --> 00:39:54,327 >> Reporter: REGGIE OFFERED TO WALK KATIE BACK TO HER ROOM. 729 00:39:54,327 --> 00:39:58,665 HERE THEY ARE ON A HOTEL SECURITY CAMERA. 730 00:39:58,665 --> 00:40:03,269 >> WE HAD KISSED UM, THERE'S NO DENYING THAT. 731 00:40:03,269 --> 00:40:07,273 I WANTED TO USE THE RESTROOM >> Reporter: KIMBRO WALKED HER 732 00:40:07,273 --> 00:40:11,077 TO THE HOTEL LADIES' ROOM. >> I'M GOING INTO THE BATHROOM, 733 00:40:11,077 --> 00:40:15,548 AND I'M STILL NOT THINKING ANYTHING'S REALLY WRONG AT THAT 734 00:40:15,548 --> 00:40:17,550 POINT. UNTIL I TURNED AROUND TO SHUT 735 00:40:17,550 --> 00:40:21,921 THE STALL DOOR AND I SEE HIM COMING MY DIRECTION. 736 00:40:21,921 --> 00:40:24,758 >> Reporter: YOU -- YOU DIDN'T INVITE HIM IN? 737 00:40:24,758 --> 00:40:31,097 >> NO. >> Reporter: WHEN KATIE LOOKED 738 00:40:31,097 --> 00:40:34,868 INTO HIS EYES, SHE PANICKED. >> I KNEW BY THE LOOK WHEN I SAW 739 00:40:34,868 --> 00:40:38,104 HIM COMING INTO THE STALL -- I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT 740 00:40:38,104 --> 00:40:40,807 WAS WRONG. >> Reporter: IT ALL HAPPENED 741 00:40:40,807 --> 00:40:44,077 BOTH VERY FAST AND IN SLOW MOTION 742 00:40:44,077 --> 00:40:54,387 >> HE SHUTS THE DOOR AND LOCKS IT 743 00:40:54,387 --> 00:41:08,468 AND AT THAT POINT, THAT'S WHEN HE STARTED TO STRANGLE ME. 744 00:41:08,468 --> 00:41:12,772 I JUST -- I GOT SO SCARED. AND SO I KINDA JUST DID WHATEVER 745 00:41:12,772 --> 00:41:15,508 HE WANTED ME TO DO >> Reporter: HE ATTACKED HER, 746 00:41:15,508 --> 00:41:20,413 RAPED HER. KATIE SAYS ALL SHE COULD DO WAS 747 00:41:20,413 --> 00:41:23,683 TRY TO SURVIVE >> I JUST PUT MY HAND OVER MY 748 00:41:23,683 --> 00:41:27,487 MOUTH SO HE COULDN'T HEAR ME, LIKE, CRYING 749 00:41:27,487 --> 00:41:33,460 >> Reporter: THIS HAD TO BE TERRIFYING 750 00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:40,567 >> YEAH. THE WAY IT FELT, IT FELT LIKE I 751 00:41:40,567 --> 00:41:44,337 WAS IN THERE FOR HOURS >> Reporter: THE REALITY WAS 752 00:41:44,337 --> 00:41:48,675 ABOUT 15 MINUTES KATIE GOT AWAY AND RAN OUT 753 00:41:48,675 --> 00:41:52,479 REGGIE KIMBRO STROLLED OUT ABOUT 30 SECONDS LATER 754 00:41:52,479 --> 00:41:57,350 KATIE FOUND A HOTEL WORKER WHO WALKED HER TO HER ROOM 755 00:41:57,350 --> 00:41:59,519 >> AND ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAD SAID, "KATIE, LIKE, TELL US 756 00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:02,222 WHAT'S WRONG." AND ONE OF 'EM POINTED OUT -- 757 00:42:02,222 --> 00:42:07,694 THEY WERE LIKE, "WHAT IS ON YOUR NECK?" 758 00:42:07,694 --> 00:42:10,397 >> Reporter: THERE WERE BRUISES ON HER NECK. 759 00:42:10,397 --> 00:42:13,099 HER FRIENDS INSISTED KATIE GO TO A HOSPITAL WHERE A NURSE DID A 760 00:42:13,099 --> 00:42:15,835 SEXUAL ASSAULT EXAM. AND THAT BACKED UP HER STORY 761 00:42:15,835 --> 00:42:22,609 YOU DIDN'T WANNA REPORT THIS AT FIRST? 762 00:42:22,609 --> 00:42:26,079 >> NO. NO 763 00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:29,315 >> Reporter: BECAUSE THAT MAKES IT REAL? 764 00:42:29,315 --> 00:42:34,087 'CAUSE YOU THINK, WHAT, YOU'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO FORGET ABOUT IT 765 00:42:34,087 --> 00:42:41,761 OR -- OR YOU DON'T WANNA RUIN THE WEEKEND FOR EVERYBODY ELSE 766 00:42:41,761 --> 00:42:47,200 >> I THINK MY INITIAL THOUGHT AT FIRST WAS, YEAH, I JUST WANTED 767 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:52,672 TO GO HOME AND KINDA TRY TO FORGET ABOUT IT. 768 00:42:52,672 --> 00:42:55,375 BUT I FELT SORRY FOR HIM AND I CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT 769 00:42:55,375 --> 00:42:58,645 >> Reporter: I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU DID, BUT A LOT OF 770 00:42:58,645 --> 00:43:03,049 PEOPLE BLAME THEMSELVES WHEN, IN FACT, THE BLAME LIES ELSEWHERE 771 00:43:03,049 --> 00:43:04,584 >> YEAH. I'M SORRY. 772 00:43:04,584 --> 00:43:07,854 >> Reporter: NO. I'M SORRY. 773 00:43:07,854 --> 00:43:25,205 >> YOU JUST NEVER IMAGINE, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA BE YOU. 774 00:43:25,205 --> 00:43:29,075 >> Reporter: KATIE SUMMONED WILLPOWER AND COURAGE TO REPORT 775 00:43:29,075 --> 00:43:32,812 HER RAPE SOON SHE WAS ANSWERING 776 00:43:32,812 --> 00:43:37,183 DETECTIVES' QUESTIONS AT THE SOUTH PADRE ISLAND POLICE 777 00:43:37,183 --> 00:43:39,886 DEPARTMENT >> THEN HE STARTED CHOKING ME. 778 00:43:39,886 --> 00:43:42,622 AND I REMEMBER AT ONE POINT, I WENT, LIKE -- HE, LIKE, SLAMMED 779 00:43:42,622 --> 00:43:46,393 ME TO THE GROUND AND JUST -- HAVING SEX WITH ME 780 00:43:46,393 --> 00:43:48,528 >> WHEN DID YOU TELL HIM NO? >> THE WHOLE TIME. 781 00:43:48,528 --> 00:43:51,331 >> THE WHOLE TIME? >> I SAID I WANTED TO LEAVE AND 782 00:43:51,331 --> 00:43:54,000 I WANT OUT AND HE WOULDN'T LET ME OUT 783 00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:02,676 >> DO YOU WANT TO FILE CHARGES >> I'M JUST SCARED 784 00:44:02,676 --> 00:44:07,580 I SAID, "I JUST WANNA GO HOME. AND MY DETECTIVE JUST LOOKED AT 785 00:44:07,580 --> 00:44:13,553 ME AND HE SAID, "DO YOU WANT THIS TO HAPPEN TO ANOTHER GIRL?" 786 00:44:13,553 --> 00:44:24,397 AND I SAID, "NO. HE SAID, "THEN LET'S GET THIS 787 00:44:24,397 --> 00:44:28,735 GUY. SO THAT'S WHEN I WENT THROUGH 788 00:44:28,735 --> 00:44:32,539 WITH PRESSING CHARGES. >> Reporter: REGGIE KIMBRO WAS 789 00:44:32,539 --> 00:44:35,775 ARRESTED THE STORY HE TOLD BACK THEN IS A 790 00:44:35,775 --> 00:44:39,079 FAMILIAR ONE IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES. 791 00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:41,781 HE SAID THIS WAS JUST SEX, NOT RAPE 792 00:44:41,781 --> 00:44:44,351 >> YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU ALL HAD CONSENSUAL SEX 793 00:44:44,351 --> 00:44:45,685 >> YEAH. SHE -- LIKE I SAID, SHE STOPPED 794 00:44:45,685 --> 00:44:47,253 ME TWICE AND I WAS LIKE, "OKAY, WHAT'S 795 00:44:47,253 --> 00:44:49,389 WRONG? AND SHE'S LIKE, "NOTHING." 796 00:44:49,389 --> 00:44:51,091 AND THEN, LIKE, WE'D GO BACK AT IT 797 00:44:51,091 --> 00:44:54,861 >> Reporter: POLICE DIDN'T BELIEVE HIS STORY AND FOUND 798 00:44:54,861 --> 00:44:58,631 KATIE CREDIBLE EXCEPT, AS THE DETECTIVES SOON 799 00:44:58,631 --> 00:45:04,104 FOUND OUT, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY APPARENTLY DID NOT 800 00:45:04,104 --> 00:45:07,340 YOUR TESTIMONY, YOU'RE BRUISED, THE RAPE KIT, AND THEY DON'T 801 00:45:07,340 --> 00:45:09,509 PROSECUTE? >> NOPE. 802 00:45:09,509 --> 00:45:14,414 >> Reporter: HE ADMITS HE WAS THERE. 803 00:45:14,414 --> 00:45:17,650 HE HAD SEX WITH YOU. BUT IT WAS CONSENSUAL, DESPITE 804 00:45:17,650 --> 00:45:20,487 THE FACT THAT IT LEFT YOU TERRIFIED, CRYING, WITH BRUISES? 805 00:45:20,487 --> 00:45:23,623 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: AND THERE'S NO 806 00:45:23,623 --> 00:45:28,528 PROSECUTION? >> NO. 807 00:45:28,528 --> 00:45:32,332 >> Reporter: SO WHY WAS THAT WELL, WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THE 808 00:45:32,332 --> 00:45:37,737 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND DISTRICT ATTORNEY DECLINED OUR REQUEST TO 809 00:45:37,737 --> 00:45:42,075 HAVE THAT QUESTION ANSWERED. IT TURNED OUT KATIE COATS WASN'T 810 00:45:42,075 --> 00:45:44,778 ALONE IN HER SUFFERING THERE WAS ANOTHER WOMAN WHOSE 811 00:45:44,778 --> 00:45:48,548 CASE NEVER MADE IT TO A COURTROOM. 812 00:45:48,548 --> 00:45:51,284 >>> COMING UP -- >> THE NEXT THING I KNOW IS, 813 00:45:51,284 --> 00:45:53,453 LIKE, SNAP, LIKE, I'M JUST ON THE GROUND 814 00:45:53,453 --> 00:45:56,122 HIS HANDS ARE AROUND MY THROAT, AND THAT'S WHEN MY BRAIN JUST 815 00:45:56,122 --> 00:45:57,791 FROZE. >> Reporter: YOU'RE LUCKY TO 816 00:45:57,791 --> 00:45:59,459 STILL BE HERE. >> ABSOLUTELY. 817 00:46:18,345 --> 00:46:21,047 >> Reporter: AS THEY INVESTIGATED REGGIE KIMBRO, 818 00:46:21,047 --> 00:46:25,385 HOMICIDE DETECTIVES IN FORT WORTH CONTACTED THEIR 819 00:46:25,385 --> 00:46:30,790 COUNTERPARTS 500 MILES AWAY ON SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS. 820 00:46:30,790 --> 00:46:33,493 THAT'S WHERE KIMBRO HAD BEEN ARRESTED BUT NOT PROSECUTED FOR 821 00:46:33,493 --> 00:46:40,500 ASSAULTING KATIE COATS THREE YEARS EARLIER. 822 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:43,203 AND WHAT THE SOUTH PADRE ISLAND COP DISCLOSED PUT THIS CASE IN A 823 00:46:43,203 --> 00:46:49,709 WHOLE NEW CATEGORY >> HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT THERE 824 00:46:49,709 --> 00:46:52,946 WAS A CODIS HIT TO A PLANO CASE THAT HAD OCCURRED ABOUT A YEAR 825 00:46:52,946 --> 00:46:55,115 AND A HALF PRIOR, AND REGINALD WAS A SUSPECT IN THE PLANO CASE 826 00:46:55,115 --> 00:46:59,452 AS WELL AS A SUSPECT IN THEIR CASE 827 00:46:59,452 --> 00:47:03,223 >> Reporter: PLANO, REMEMBER, IS REGGIE KIMBRO'S HOMETOWN 828 00:47:03,223 --> 00:47:07,060 IT WAS 2012, 5 YEARS BEFORE MOLLY MATHESON'S MURDER. 829 00:47:07,060 --> 00:47:09,496 >> SO A FRIEND OF MINE AND I HAD GONE TO THE MALL 830 00:47:09,496 --> 00:47:12,399 IT WAS A FRIDAY NIGHT. >> Reporter: MELISSA WINTON WAS 831 00:47:12,399 --> 00:47:15,101 18 AND JUST STARTING HER SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL. 832 00:47:15,101 --> 00:47:16,803 MELISSA CONTINUES -- >> WE HAD WALKED INTO THIS ONE 833 00:47:16,803 --> 00:47:20,040 STORE. IT WAS A SURF SHOP 834 00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,276 AND HE WAS EMPLOYED THERE. >> Reporter: HE WAS A 835 00:47:23,276 --> 00:47:25,445 19-YEAR-OLD REGGIE KIMBRO. >> WE'RE JUST KINDA, LIKE, 836 00:47:25,445 --> 00:47:28,148 FLIRTING BACK WITH EACH OTHER, WHATNOT. 837 00:47:28,148 --> 00:47:30,316 UM, WE ENDED UP EXCHANGING NUMBERS IN THE STORE 838 00:47:30,316 --> 00:47:32,485 >> Reporter: SOUNDS LIKE HE WAS INTERESTED, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE 839 00:47:32,485 --> 00:47:35,755 YOU WERE TOO >> RIGHT 840 00:47:35,755 --> 00:47:40,126 >> Reporter: LATE THAT NIGHT, KIMBRO TEXTED MELISSA AND 841 00:47:40,126 --> 00:47:42,829 INVITED HER TO HIS HOUSE HE TOLD HER TO COME IN THROUGH 842 00:47:42,829 --> 00:47:47,167 HIS BEDROOM WINDOW BECAUSE HIS PARENTS WERE ASLEEP. 843 00:47:47,167 --> 00:47:50,970 THEY TALKED, AND THEN WHEN HE MADE A FEW MOVES, SHE SAID NO. 844 00:47:50,970 --> 00:47:55,275 >> AND THAT'S WHEN HE WAS LIKE, "OKAY, WELL, CAN I GET ORAL SEX 845 00:47:55,275 --> 00:47:58,078 FOR $200?" AND IMMEDIATELY I WAS LIKE, 846 00:47:58,078 --> 00:48:02,349 "OKAY, IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GET OUT OF HERE. 847 00:48:02,349 --> 00:48:05,618 AND AS HE'S WALKING ME OUT TO MY CAR, HE WAS, LIKE, BEING KIND 848 00:48:05,618 --> 00:48:07,787 OF, LIKE, APOLOGETIC IN A SENSE. >> Reporter: SHE SAYS THEY TOOK 849 00:48:07,787 --> 00:48:09,422 A WALK IN A NEARBY PARK AND TALKED 850 00:48:09,422 --> 00:48:13,226 THINGS ARE IN A BETTER PLACE >> RIGHT 851 00:48:13,226 --> 00:48:16,463 AND I, LIKE, LEAN IN TO GIVE HIM A HUG, AND THEN THE NEXT THING I 852 00:48:16,463 --> 00:48:20,266 KNOW IS, LIKE, SNAP, LIKE, I'M JUST ON THE GROUND 853 00:48:20,266 --> 00:48:23,536 MY PANTS ARE DOWN. HE'S ON TOP OF ME. 854 00:48:23,536 --> 00:48:28,341 AND HIS HANDS ARE AROUND MY THROAT 855 00:48:28,341 --> 00:48:30,610 AND I BECAME KINDA LIGHT HEADED. AND THAT'S WHEN MY BRAIN JUST 856 00:48:30,610 --> 00:48:35,482 FROZE AND I JUST -- I LAID THERE. 857 00:48:35,482 --> 00:48:39,252 AND I JUST SAT THERE WHILE HE CONTINUED TO ATTACK ME 858 00:48:39,252 --> 00:48:42,489 >> Reporter: SHE SAYS KIMBRO VIOLENTLY RAPED HER. 859 00:48:42,489 --> 00:48:46,326 >> HE WOULD TELL ME LIKE, "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP." 860 00:48:46,326 --> 00:48:49,662 WHEN HE DID THAT, HE THEN, LIKE, MUFFED MY FACE, LIKE, OVER MY 861 00:48:49,662 --> 00:48:51,731 NOSE AND MY MOUTH. >> Reporter: YOU'RE LUCKY TO 862 00:48:51,731 --> 00:48:53,900 STILL BE HERE. >> ABSOLUTELY. 863 00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:58,238 I REMEMBER THINKING, "I'M NEVER GONNA SEE MY FAMILY AGAIN. 864 00:48:58,238 --> 00:49:01,007 I'M NEVER GONNA SEE SUNLIGHT LIKE, THIS IS IT?" 865 00:49:01,007 --> 00:49:04,744 >> Reporter: AFTERWARD, HE FORCED HER BACK INTO HER CAR AND 866 00:49:04,744 --> 00:49:08,014 THEY DROVE FOR HOURS FINALLY HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR 867 00:49:08,014 --> 00:49:11,651 AND SHE WENT HOME. >> AND I RUN STRAIGHT TO MY 868 00:49:11,651 --> 00:49:13,386 PARENTS' ROOM. AND I -- ALL I CAN SAY IS, LIKE, 869 00:49:13,386 --> 00:49:15,555 "I WAS RAPED I WAS RAPED. 870 00:49:15,555 --> 00:49:18,258 I WAS RAPED. >> Reporter: HER PARENTS TOOK 871 00:49:18,258 --> 00:49:21,027 HER TO THE E.R. WHERE A NURSE DID A RAPE KIT 872 00:49:21,027 --> 00:49:23,863 AND THEN THEY WENT TO POLICE >> YOU START WHEN YOU'RE READY 873 00:49:23,863 --> 00:49:25,899 >> LIKE, HE WOULDN'T LET GO OF ME 874 00:49:25,899 --> 00:49:28,601 YOU KNOW I TRIED TO, LIKE -- LIKE, SCREAM 875 00:49:28,601 --> 00:49:31,871 OR SOMETHING AND THEN HE WOULD, LIKE, CHOKE 876 00:49:31,871 --> 00:49:36,242 ME AGAIN >> Reporter: MELISSA TOLD HER 877 00:49:36,242 --> 00:49:41,247 STORY MULTIPLE TIMES TO PLANO PD DETECTIVE JON HOFFMAN 878 00:49:41,247 --> 00:49:45,452 >> AND WHEN HE CHOKED YOU, KINDA DEMONSTRATE WHAT HE WAS DOING 879 00:49:45,452 --> 00:49:48,688 WHEN HE DID THAT >> WELL, I HAVE, LIKE, BRUISES 880 00:49:48,688 --> 00:49:50,890 KIND OF. >> YEAH, I SEE A LITTLE BIT 881 00:49:50,890 --> 00:49:53,059 THERE. >> Reporter: SHE QUICKLY 882 00:49:53,059 --> 00:49:54,694 REALIZED THE DETECTIVE SEEMED TO HAVE HIS DOUBTS RIGHT FROM THE 883 00:49:54,694 --> 00:49:57,364 START. >> DO YOU THINK HE KNEW HE WAS 884 00:49:57,364 --> 00:49:59,532 HURTING YOU, OR DO YOU THINK THAT HE THOUGHT THAT YOU WANTED 885 00:49:59,532 --> 00:50:01,735 TO BE CHOKED OR -- >> I DON'T KNOW. 886 00:50:01,735 --> 00:50:04,437 I GUESS, LIKE -- >> I MEAN, THERE -- 'CAUSE THERE 887 00:50:04,437 --> 00:50:07,173 ARE PEOPLE THAT -- THAT LIKE THAT 888 00:50:07,173 --> 00:50:09,843 I DON'T KNOW >> Reporter: YOU HEARD THAT 889 00:50:09,843 --> 00:50:13,146 RIGHT. HE ASKED A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL 890 00:50:13,146 --> 00:50:15,315 IF PERHAPS HER ATTACKER THOUGHT SHE ENJOYED IT 891 00:50:15,315 --> 00:50:18,585 POLICE THEN SPOKE WITH REGGIE KIMBRO. 892 00:50:18,585 --> 00:50:23,223 AND YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GUESS WHAT HE SAID 893 00:50:23,223 --> 00:50:26,226 HE CLAIMED THE SEX WITH MELISSA WAS CONSENSUAL, JUST AS HE WOULD 894 00:50:26,226 --> 00:50:29,996 ABOUT KATIE COATS TWO YEARS LATER. 895 00:50:29,996 --> 00:50:34,868 >> UH, WE HAVE SEX FOR, UH -- FOR, LIKE, THREE MINUTES 896 00:50:34,868 --> 00:50:37,037 UH - UH, WE'RE JUST LAYIN' DOWN 897 00:50:37,037 --> 00:50:39,205 AFTERWARDS AND I WAS LIKE, "I'M PRETTY 898 00:50:39,205 --> 00:50:49,115 TIRED. I JUST WANNA GO HOME." 899 00:50:49,115 --> 00:50:49,883 AND SHE WAS LIKE, "OKAY, LET'S GO." 900 00:50:49,883 --> 00:50:51,084 >> Reporter: HE SAID MELISSA WAS JUST ANGRY THAT SHE COULDN'T 901 00:50:51,084 --> 00:50:52,185 SPEND THE NIGHT AT HIS HOUSE >> SHE'S LIKE, "NO -- YOU. 902 00:50:52,185 --> 00:50:53,086 YOU'RE A" -- AND I TURN AROUND, AND I WALK 903 00:50:53,086 --> 00:50:53,887 HOME >> Reporter: REGGIE CONSENTED TO 904 00:50:53,887 --> 00:50:55,588 A POLYGRAPH. >> DID YOU USE ANY PHYSICAL 905 00:50:55,588 --> 00:50:58,224 FORCE TO GET MELISSA TO HAVE SEX? 906 00:50:58,224 --> 00:51:00,960 >> NO. >> DID YOU CHOKE MELISSA LIKE 907 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,798 SHE CLAIMED? >> NO. 908 00:51:04,798 --> 00:51:10,203 >> Reporter: AND ACCORDING TO THE EXAMINER, REGGIE KIMBRO WAS 909 00:51:10,203 --> 00:51:14,074 TELLING THE TRUTH. HE PASSED THE POLYGRAPH. 910 00:51:14,074 --> 00:51:17,310 >> OKAY, REGGIE, YOUR POLYGRAPH RESULTS SHOW NO DECEPTION 911 00:51:17,310 --> 00:51:19,412 INDICATED. SO I CAN TELL DETECTIVE HOFFMAN 912 00:51:19,412 --> 00:51:22,682 THAT, IN MY OPINION, THAT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 913 00:51:22,682 --> 00:51:25,919 AND THAT TAKES CARE OF IT BEIN' A SEXUAL ASSAULT 914 00:51:25,919 --> 00:51:29,155 >> Reporter: WITH THAT, DETECTIVE HOFFMAN, APPARENTLY 915 00:51:29,155 --> 00:51:35,128 PERSUADED BY THE RESULTS OF THAT POLYGRAPH, OR PERHAPS BY HIS OWN 916 00:51:35,128 --> 00:51:39,432 SKEPTICISM, DECIDED THERE WAS NO WINNABLE CASE HERE 917 00:51:39,432 --> 00:51:50,944 >> I HAVE TO ASK YOU, IS WHAT YOU SAID TO ME ABOUT THE REPORT 918 00:51:50,944 --> 00:51:51,678 AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID TRUE 919 00:51:51,678 --> 00:51:53,713 >> YES LIKE - 920 00:51:53,713 --> 00:51:55,882 >> OKAY. >> THIS IS STUPID. 921 00:51:55,882 --> 00:51:57,517 LIKE, NOBODY'S BELIEVING ME. >> I KNOW. 922 00:51:57,517 --> 00:51:59,252 I KNOW IT'S -- IT -- IT'S NOT THAT I'M 923 00:51:59,252 --> 00:52:01,321 NOT BELIEVING YOU. I'M JUST SEEING THINGS THAT 924 00:52:01,321 --> 00:52:03,490 DON'T MAKE SENSE >> Reporter: ALL OF THAT DROVE 925 00:52:03,490 --> 00:52:06,192 MELISSA TO A BREAKING POINT. >> I DON'T EVEN WANNA DO THIS 926 00:52:06,192 --> 00:52:08,361 ANYMORE BECAUSE, LIKE, HONESTLY, LIKE, I MEAN, I KNOW WHAT 927 00:52:08,361 --> 00:52:10,497 HAPPENED Y'ALL PROBABLY DON'T 928 00:52:10,497 --> 00:52:12,132 I DON'T WANNA TALK TO ANYBODY ABOUT THIS ANYMORE 929 00:52:12,132 --> 00:52:14,534 LIKE, I JUST WANT IT TO BE OVER WITH 930 00:52:14,534 --> 00:52:18,104 LIKE, NOBODY'S BELIEVING ME. AND I'M STARTING TO REALIZE, 931 00:52:18,104 --> 00:52:23,543 LIKE, I CAN'T TRUST ANYBODY. LIKE, IT'S JUST HARD 932 00:52:23,543 --> 00:52:25,712 >> Reporter: HERE'S HOW THE DETECTIVE EXPLAINED IT TO 933 00:52:25,712 --> 00:52:27,881 MELISSA'S FATHER >> IF I'M SITTING ON A JURY, 934 00:52:27,881 --> 00:52:31,151 HERE'S WHAT THE APPEARANCE IS GONNA BE 935 00:52:31,151 --> 00:52:34,421 SHE LIED TO YOU. SHE SNUCK IN THE GUY'S WINDOW. 936 00:52:34,421 --> 00:52:36,589 THINGS DIDN'T HAPPEN LIKE THEY WANTED TO. 937 00:52:36,589 --> 00:52:39,826 SHE HAD SEX WITH A GUY THAT SHE MET EARLIER IN THE DAY 938 00:52:39,826 --> 00:52:43,630 AND HE WAS A HORSE'S ASS TO HER AFTERWARDS 939 00:52:43,630 --> 00:52:46,866 SHE'S VINDICTIVE, AND SHE MADE THIS WHOLE THING UP BECAUSE NONE 940 00:52:46,866 --> 00:52:49,602 OF THE EVIDENCE GOES THERE >> Reporter: MELISSA SAYS SHE 941 00:52:49,602 --> 00:52:52,806 COULD SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND WHAT WAS NOT 942 00:52:52,806 --> 00:52:55,508 SHE DROPPED THE CASE >> ARE YOU WANTING THIS CASE 943 00:52:55,508 --> 00:52:57,143 PRESENTED TO THE GRAND JURY? >> NO. 944 00:52:57,143 --> 00:52:59,312 >> OKAY. ARE YOU WANTING THE 945 00:52:59,312 --> 00:53:01,448 INVESTIGATION IN THIS CASE TO STOP 946 00:53:01,448 --> 00:53:04,184 >> YES >> Reporter: WHAT'S THAT LIKE TO 947 00:53:04,184 --> 00:53:09,589 HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS AND DONE THE RIGHT THING, THE DIFFICULT 948 00:53:09,589 --> 00:53:14,494 THING, THE PAINFUL THING, REPORT IT, GET A RAPE KIT DONE, GO 949 00:53:14,494 --> 00:53:17,731 THROUGH A LOT OF MEETINGS WITH POLICE, AND ESSENTIALLY HAVE IT 950 00:53:17,731 --> 00:53:20,433 LEAD NOWHERE BECAUSE -- BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE YOU? 951 00:53:20,433 --> 00:53:26,439 >> UH-HUH. UM, IT'S HARD. 952 00:53:26,439 --> 00:53:30,243 AND IT'S JUST LONELY IT -- I MEAN, IT -- IT SUCKS 953 00:53:30,243 --> 00:53:32,412 THERE -- THERE'S JUST NO WORDS REALLY 954 00:53:32,412 --> 00:53:37,283 IT JUST -- IT SUCKS. IT JUST SUCKS. 955 00:53:37,283 --> 00:53:39,452 >> Reporter: NOW, FIVE YEARS LATER, FORT WORTH DETECTIVES 956 00:53:39,452 --> 00:53:42,155 WERE LEARNING ABOUT MELISSA'S STORY. 957 00:53:42,155 --> 00:53:46,526 AND KATIE'S STORY. AND PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER. 958 00:53:46,526 --> 00:53:50,897 >> BOTH VICTIMS DESCRIBED BEIN' CHOKED 959 00:53:50,897 --> 00:53:55,268 UH, BOTH VICTIMS DESCRIBE, UH, THE SEXUAL ASSAULT PORTION OF 960 00:53:55,268 --> 00:53:59,606 THEIR CASES WERE VERY SIMILAR. >> Reporter: AND BOTH TALK ABOUT 961 00:53:59,606 --> 00:54:04,377 A SORT OF HAIR TRIGGER MOMENT IN WHICH HE TURNS FROM 962 00:54:04,377 --> 00:54:08,314 ACQUAINTANCE, FRIEND, MAYBE POSSIBLE BOYFRIEND, TO RAPIST. 963 00:54:08,314 --> 00:54:11,551 >> YES SO THOSE WERE SOME SIMILARITIES 964 00:54:11,551 --> 00:54:15,355 THAT I IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED AS HAPPENING TO MOLLY AS WELL 965 00:54:15,355 --> 00:54:18,625 >> Reporter: FORT WORTH DETECTIVES SAW REGGIE KIMBRO AS 966 00:54:18,625 --> 00:54:23,496 A MURDER SUSPECT AND MAYBE ALSO A SERIAL RAPIST. 967 00:54:23,496 --> 00:54:26,866 SULLIVAN HAD LOOKED AT MELISSA WINTON'S CASE FROM FIVE YEARS 968 00:54:26,866 --> 00:54:31,271 EARLIER AND THOUGHT THERE WAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST KIMBRO 969 00:54:31,271 --> 00:54:32,772 ON THAT OLD CHARGE >> YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE A 970 00:54:32,772 --> 00:54:34,908 POLYGRAPH. >> NO, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE A -- 971 00:54:34,908 --> 00:54:37,110 POLYGRAPH. >> Reporter: SO WHEN KIMBRO 972 00:54:37,110 --> 00:54:42,515 WALKED OUT OF THEIR INTERVIEW, SULLIVAN'S FIRST CALL WAS TO 973 00:54:42,515 --> 00:54:46,853 PLANO DETECTIVE JON HOFFMAN. >> I ASKED AT THAT TIME, "IS 974 00:54:46,853 --> 00:54:51,725 THERE ANY WAY WE COULD OBTAIN AN ARREST WARRANT FOR THE RAPE CASE 975 00:54:51,725 --> 00:54:54,594 BACK IN 2012?" AND I WAS TOLD THAT WE COULD 976 00:54:54,594 --> 00:54:56,596 NOT. >> Reporter: SO PLANO'S STICKIN' 977 00:54:56,596 --> 00:54:59,299 BY THEIR GUNS? THEY DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE IN 2012, 978 00:54:59,299 --> 00:55:02,035 AND THEY DIDN'T WANNA DO ANYTHING NOW 979 00:55:02,035 --> 00:55:04,738 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: A LITTLE MORE 980 00:55:04,738 --> 00:55:08,041 INTERDEPARTMENTAL COOPERATION WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL AT THAT 981 00:55:08,041 --> 00:55:12,512 POINT. INSTEAD, REGGIE KIMBRO WAS ONCE 982 00:55:12,512 --> 00:55:16,683 AGAIN BACK IN A FAMILIAR PLACE -- A WORLD WITHOUT 983 00:55:16,683 --> 00:55:19,953 CONSEQUENCES >>> COMING UP -- 984 00:55:19,953 --> 00:55:22,655 >> WE BELIEVED THAT THE KILLER WAS GETTING RID OF THE EVIDENCE 985 00:55:22,655 --> 00:55:25,925 THROUGH THE WASHING MACHINE. >> COULD THE WASHER HELP SOLVE 986 00:55:25,925 --> 00:55:30,263 MOLLY'S MURDER DETECTIVES ARE ABOUT TO TAKE 987 00:55:30,263 --> 00:55:51,151 THAT THEORY FOR A SPIN >> Reporter: FORT WORTH 988 00:55:51,151 --> 00:55:53,286 DETECTIVES WANTED REGGIE KIMBRO OFF THE STREETS OF TEXAS, EXCEPT 989 00:55:53,286 --> 00:55:55,989 THEY LACKED THE EVIDENCE TO ARREST HIM 990 00:55:55,989 --> 00:55:59,793 AFTER PLANO POLICE DECLINED TO ISSUE AN ARREST WARRANT FOR 991 00:55:59,793 --> 00:56:03,029 KIMBRO, DETECTIVES SULLIVAN AND ANDERSON KNEW IT WAS NOW UP TO 992 00:56:03,029 --> 00:56:06,833 THEM FROM NEIGHBORHOOD SECURITY 993 00:56:06,833 --> 00:56:10,103 CAMERAS, THEY KNEW HE'D LEFT MOLLY'S HOUSE ABOUT 2:00 A.M. 994 00:56:10,103 --> 00:56:14,574 THE NIGHT OF HER MURDER. THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM 995 00:56:14,574 --> 00:56:15,542 WHAT HE'D TOLD POLICE. HE SAID HE LEFT AT 1:30? 996 00:56:15,542 --> 00:56:18,244 IS THAT RIGHT? >> CORRECT 997 00:56:18,244 --> 00:56:22,115 HE SAYS ABOUT 1:30 HE LEAVES, AND THEN HE JUST STARTS DRIVING 998 00:56:22,115 --> 00:56:24,784 UP TOWARDS OKLAHOMA. >> Reporter: THAT HALF HOUR 999 00:56:24,784 --> 00:56:28,054 SIGNIFICANT? >> AT THAT POINT, INITIALLY, WE 1000 00:56:28,054 --> 00:56:32,058 WEREN'T SURE IF IT WAS SIGNIFICANT OR NOT 1001 00:56:32,058 --> 00:56:35,595 BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL LATER ON -- THEN IT BECAME VERY SIGNIFICANT 1002 00:56:35,595 --> 00:56:38,865 >> Reporter: CRIME SCENE TECHS HAD FOUND THAT BED SHEET AND 1003 00:56:38,865 --> 00:56:41,067 CLOTHING IN THE WASHING MACHINE. >> WE BELIEVED AT THAT TIME THAT 1004 00:56:41,067 --> 00:56:43,737 THE KILLER WAS TRYIN' TO COVER HIS TRACKS BY, UH, GETTING RID 1005 00:56:43,737 --> 00:56:49,175 OF THE EVIDENCE THROUGH THE WASHING MACHINE. 1006 00:56:49,175 --> 00:56:52,445 WE KNEW WE HAD TO PROVE SOMEHOW THAT REGGIE WAS THE LAST PERSON 1007 00:56:52,445 --> 00:56:56,783 THAT CAME AND WENT FROM MOLLY'S HOUSE. 1008 00:56:56,783 --> 00:56:58,485 AND DURING THE INTERVIEW WITH REGGIE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 1009 00:56:58,485 --> 00:57:00,587 KIND OF STUCK INTO OUR HEAD WAS HIM TALKING ABOUT WHAT MOLLY WAS 1010 00:57:00,587 --> 00:57:02,222 WEARING THAT DAY WHENEVER HE WAS OVER THERE 1011 00:57:02,222 --> 00:57:04,391 >> OKAY. WHAT WAS SHE WEARING 1012 00:57:04,391 --> 00:57:06,026 >> WHAT THE -- WAS SHE -- SHE WAS WEARING A T-SHIRT. 1013 00:57:06,026 --> 00:57:08,695 SOME, UH, LIKE, THOSE NIKE SHORTS 1014 00:57:08,695 --> 00:57:11,398 THEY COME, LIKE, RIGHT HERE. THEY WERE YELLOW AND BLACK 1015 00:57:11,398 --> 00:57:15,702 >> AND THAT SOUNDED VERY IDENTICAL TO A PAIR OF SHORTS 1016 00:57:15,702 --> 00:57:17,871 THAT WAS FOUND IN THE WASHING MACHINE THAT WAS STILL WET FROM 1017 00:57:17,871 --> 00:57:20,573 ACTUALLY BEIN' IN THE SPIN CYCLE FROM WHENEVER WE ARRIVED 1018 00:57:20,573 --> 00:57:22,842 >> Reporter: AND REMEMBER, THEY'D ALSO FOUND A PAIR OF 1019 00:57:22,842 --> 00:57:25,812 MEN'S UNDERWEAR IN THE MACHINE SO YOU GUYS START THINKING, 1020 00:57:25,812 --> 00:57:27,614 "WHEN DID THAT WASHING MACHINE START? 1021 00:57:27,614 --> 00:57:29,783 >> EXACTLY IF WE COULD PROVE EXACTLY WHEN 1022 00:57:29,783 --> 00:57:32,519 THAT WASHING MACHINE STARTED, THEN WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVE 1023 00:57:32,519 --> 00:57:34,120 WHETHER REGGIE WAS THERE WHEN IT STARTED OR WHETHER HE WASN'T 1024 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,423 THERE. >> Reporter: OKAY. 1025 00:57:36,423 --> 00:57:47,600 HOW DO YOU DO THAT >> SO DETECTIVE SULLIVAN THOUGHT 1026 00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,437 OF THE WATER USAGE HE CONTACTED THE CITY AN 1027 00:57:50,437 --> 00:57:52,505 ASKED THEM ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY MONITOR WATER USAGE 1028 00:57:52,505 --> 00:57:54,708 AND THEY BASICALLY INFORMED US THEY CHECK IT, YOU KNOW, FROM 1029 00:57:54,708 --> 00:57:56,309 THE METER AT THE STREET ABOUT ONCE A MONTH AND THAT'S IT 1030 00:57:56,309 --> 00:57:58,511 THERE'S NO WAY TO TELL WHEN IT'S USED THROUGHOUT THE DAY OR WHAT 1031 00:57:58,511 --> 00:58:00,113 DAY IT IS. >> Reporter: THEN SULLIVAN 1032 00:58:00,113 --> 00:58:01,715 THOUGHT, "WHAT ABOUT ELECTRICITY? 1033 00:58:01,715 --> 00:58:03,917 WASHING MACHINES USE A TON OF POWER. 1034 00:58:03,917 --> 00:58:06,086 THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD IDEA. >> YEAH. 1035 00:58:06,086 --> 00:58:07,687 I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM. >> Reporter: YEAH. 1036 00:58:07,687 --> 00:58:09,322 'CAUSE THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A PRETTY GOOD HUNCH 'CAUSE THAT 1037 00:58:09,322 --> 00:58:12,325 WAS A BIG PIECE OF THE PUZZLE. >> THAT WAS A HUMONGOUS PIECE OF 1038 00:58:12,325 --> 00:58:15,295 THE PUZZLE >> Reporter: THEY CONTACTED THE 1039 00:58:15,295 --> 00:58:17,430 ELECTRIC COMPANY -- ONCOR. >> AND THEY INFORMED US THAT 1040 00:58:17,430 --> 00:58:20,166 THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SMART METERS THAT MONITOR THE ELECTRICITY 1041 00:58:20,166 --> 00:58:24,537 USAGE EVERY 15 MINUTES, WHICH WAS PERFECT FOR US 1042 00:58:24,537 --> 00:58:31,044 THEY WERE ABLE TO SEND US A ELECTRICITY USAGE REPORT FOR 1043 00:58:31,044 --> 00:58:32,645 MOLLY'S HOUSE FOR THAT ENTIRE TIME SPAN. 1044 00:58:32,645 --> 00:58:37,550 >> Reporter: AND WHAT DOES THAT REVEAL 1045 00:58:37,550 --> 00:58:40,787 >> SO IT REVEALS DURING -- FROM MIDNIGHT TILL ABOUT 1:30, THE 1046 00:58:40,787 --> 00:58:42,689 ELECTRICITY USAGE IS PRETTY STEADY, PRETTY NORMAL. 1047 00:58:42,689 --> 00:58:44,424 BUT THEN, AT 1:45, IT ALMOST DOUBLES TO ALMOST TRIPLE - 1048 00:58:44,424 --> 00:58:46,092 >> Reporter: AND YOU RAN THE WASHING MACHINE TO SEE WHAT THAT 1049 00:58:46,092 --> 00:58:47,327 DOES TO THE ELECTRICITY MONITORING 1050 00:58:47,327 --> 00:58:50,597 >> CORRECT SO AFTER WE GOT THAT REPORT, WE 1051 00:58:50,597 --> 00:58:53,833 WANTED TO TRY TO MIMIC IT. SO WE MET WITH ONCOR OUT AT 1052 00:58:53,833 --> 00:58:57,470 MOLLY'S HOUSE. I HAD THEM SET THE METERS BACK 1053 00:58:57,470 --> 00:58:59,272 UP TO MONITOR IT AND WE WAITED, TURNED THE 1054 00:58:59,272 --> 00:59:04,177 WASHING MACHINE BACK TO THE NORMAL CYCLE THAT IT WAS ON 1055 00:59:04,177 --> 00:59:07,447 WHENEVER WE FOUND IT AND WATCHED THE ELECTRICITY BASICALLY 1056 00:59:07,447 --> 00:59:10,684 REPLICATE EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW PREVIOUSLY 1057 00:59:10,684 --> 00:59:15,822 AND IT DOUBLED AND TRIPLED, AND THEN CAME BACK DOWN TO A NORMAL 1058 00:59:15,822 --> 00:59:19,325 STATE. >> Reporter: JUST AS IT HAD AT 1059 00:59:19,325 --> 00:59:23,096 1:45 A.M. ON THE NIGHT OF MOLLY'S MURDER 1060 00:59:23,096 --> 00:59:25,799 SO REGGIE KIMBRO IS THERE WHEN THE WASHING MACHINE STARTS 1061 00:59:25,799 --> 00:59:28,034 >> EXACTLY HE -- WE KNOW WITHOUT A DOUBT 1062 00:59:28,034 --> 00:59:30,136 THAT HE WAS THERE WHEN THE WASHING MACHINE STARTED 1063 00:59:30,136 --> 00:59:32,038 AT 1:45 'CAUSE WE DEFINITELY KNOW THAT HE DIDN'T LEAVE THE 1064 00:59:32,038 --> 00:59:34,341 AREA UNTIL 2:00 THAT MORNING >> Reporter: THAT'S PRETTY 1065 00:59:34,341 --> 00:59:36,676 SMART. THAT'S PRETTY SMART THINKING 1066 00:59:36,676 --> 00:59:38,845 >> IT WAS BRILLIANT. DETECTIVE SULLIVAN, HE CAN COME 1067 00:59:38,845 --> 00:59:40,480 UP WITH SOMETHIN' OUT OF HIS HAT PRETTY GOOD. 1068 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,682 >> Reporter: ON THAT DAY, IT HAD ONLY BEEN A WEEK SINCE MOLLY'S 1069 00:59:42,682 --> 00:59:44,851 MURDER AND POLICE STILL DIDN'T HAVE THE 1070 00:59:44,851 --> 00:59:46,486 RESULTS OF THE SEXUAL ASSAULT KIT, NO TOXICOLOGY, NO DNA 1071 00:59:46,486 --> 00:59:50,824 RESULTS, STILL NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE A CASE. 1072 00:59:50,824 --> 00:59:54,227 ARE YOU WORRIED TO HAVE HIM OUT THERE RUNNING AROUND FREE? 1073 00:59:54,227 --> 00:59:55,695 >> AT THIS POINT, I WAS WORRIED BASED ON THE WAY HE LEFT 1074 00:59:55,695 --> 00:59:58,431 BECAUSE I KNEW AFTER BEIN' CONFRONTED FOR A CAPITAL MURDER, 1075 00:59:58,431 --> 01:00:01,668 YOU MAY BECOME DESPERATE >> Reporter: AND THE LAST TIME 1076 01:00:01,668 --> 01:00:04,404 THEY SAW HIM, REGGIE KIMBRO WAS AGITATED 1077 01:00:04,404 --> 01:00:07,040 >> ALL RIGHT, MAN. YOU KNOW WHAT? 1078 01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,743 I'M -- YEAH, I'M DONE. I DIDN'T KILL MOLLY. 1079 01:00:09,743 --> 01:00:11,378 Y'ALL ARE OUT OF YOUR -- MINDS >> Reporter: YOU'VE LOOKED BACK 1080 01:00:11,378 --> 01:00:13,013 AT THAT MOMENT A BUNCH OF TIMES, I'M GUESSING 1081 01:00:13,013 --> 01:00:14,647 >> YES, SIR. >> Reporter: BECAUSE OF WHAT 1082 01:00:14,647 --> 01:00:17,917 HAPPENED NEXT? >> YES, SIR. 1083 01:00:17,917 --> 01:00:21,788 >>> COMING UP -- ANOTHER YOUNG WOMAN, ANOTHER 1084 01:00:21,788 --> 01:00:25,492 HEARTBREAKING CRIME. >> I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN AND 1085 01:00:25,492 --> 01:00:29,295 MY HUSBAND AND I SAYING, "THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL." 1086 01:00:29,295 --> 01:00:31,431 AND YOU DON'T DARE VOICE THAT THAT BAD THING COULD BE GOING 1087 01:00:31,431 --> 01:00:33,733 ON >> Reporter: BECAUSE SAYING IT 1088 01:00:33,733 --> 01:00:36,536 MAKES IT TRUE. >> BECAUSE SAYING IT MAKES IT 1089 01:00:36,536 --> 01:00:36,670 >> BECAUSE SAYING IT MAKES IT TRUE 1090 01:00:58,825 --> 01:01:01,061 FORT WORTH POLICE SAW REGGIE KIMBRO, HE WAS LEAVING 1091 01:01:01,061 --> 01:01:04,330 THEIR STATION, MINUS HIS CELL PHONE, BUT OTHERWISE A FREE MAN. 1092 01:01:04,330 --> 01:01:06,933 SO HE WALKS OUT? >> YES 1093 01:01:06,933 --> 01:01:08,768 >> Reporter: AND YOU THINK TO YOURSELF, "THERE GOES A 1094 01:01:08,768 --> 01:01:11,304 MURDERER"? >> VERY SUSPICIOUS OF IT 1095 01:01:11,304 --> 01:01:12,939 >> WE KNEW THAT WE NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING TO GET HIM OFF THE 1096 01:01:12,939 --> 01:01:14,541 STREETS AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE >> Reporter: YEAH. 1097 01:01:14,541 --> 01:01:18,378 NOT QUICK ENOUGH >> NO, SIR, UNFORTUNATELY NOT. 1098 01:01:18,378 --> 01:01:22,148 >> Reporter: JUST HOURS AFTER KIMBRO STORMED OUT OF THE 1099 01:01:22,148 --> 01:01:26,453 FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT ON FRIDAY APRIL 14th, 36-YEAR-OLD 1100 01:01:26,453 --> 01:01:32,459 MEGAN GETRUM WENT FOR HER USUAL AFTER WORK HIKE AT THIS NATURE 1101 01:01:32,459 --> 01:01:35,128 PRESERVE IN PLANO. AS SHE WALKED THESE TRAILS, SHE 1102 01:01:35,128 --> 01:01:37,864 TEXTED WITH HER MOM, DIANE, ABOUT A RESTAURANT THEY'D BEEN 1103 01:01:37,864 --> 01:01:41,634 TO IT WAS ABOUT 8:45 P.M. 1104 01:01:41,634 --> 01:01:45,405 >> AND SHE TEXTED BACK, "YES, THAT'S REALLY NEAT 1105 01:01:45,405 --> 01:01:48,641 WE SHOULD GO BACK THERE. AND THAT WAS THE END OF THE 1106 01:01:48,641 --> 01:01:50,310 TEXT >> Reporter: SOUNDS LIKE 1107 01:01:50,310 --> 01:01:52,479 EVERYTHING'S NORMAL AS OF FRIDAY NIGHT. 1108 01:01:52,479 --> 01:01:55,215 >> ABSOLUTELY. EVERYTHING'S NORMAL. 1109 01:01:55,215 --> 01:01:58,451 >> Reporter: FOR MEGAN, NORMAL DIDN'T MEAN SITTING AROUND 1110 01:01:58,451 --> 01:02:01,821 SHE WAS A WHIZ AT COMPUTER CODING WHO ALSO LOVED GETTING 1111 01:02:01,821 --> 01:02:04,424 AWAY FROM THE DIGITAL WORLD. HER BROTHER JEFF 1112 01:02:04,424 --> 01:02:07,660 >> MEGAN WAS THE KIND OF PERSON WHO'D, UH, JUST GO SOMEWHERE 1113 01:02:07,660 --> 01:02:12,065 COOL AND SEE EVERYTHING THERE WAS TO SEE AND THEN COME BACK 1114 01:02:12,065 --> 01:02:14,701 AND SHOW EVERYBODY HER PICTURES OF IT. 1115 01:02:14,701 --> 01:02:20,106 >> SHE ALSO TOOK A LOT OF PICTURES OF HER CATS 1116 01:02:20,106 --> 01:02:22,809 SO SHE WAS A -- A CAT MOTHER AND EVERYTHING HER CATS DID WAS 1117 01:02:22,809 --> 01:02:28,248 CUTE AND SHE PHOTOGRAPHED EVERYTHING 1118 01:02:28,248 --> 01:02:31,518 HER CATS DID >> Reporter: SO THERE SHE WAS 1119 01:02:31,518 --> 01:02:35,321 FRIDAY EVENING, HIKING IN A LOCAL PARK AND TEXTING HER MOM 1120 01:02:35,321 --> 01:02:39,659 NO ONE IN HER FAMILY THOUGHT ANYTHING WAS WRONG UNTIL SUNDAY 1121 01:02:39,659 --> 01:02:42,328 WHEN MEGAN DIDN'T SHOW AT HER BROTHER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY 1122 01:02:42,328 --> 01:02:46,132 ON MONDAY, SHE DIDN'T GO TO WORK 1123 01:02:46,132 --> 01:02:48,835 THAT'S WHEN HER BROTHER WENT TO HER APARTMENT. 1124 01:02:48,835 --> 01:02:51,538 >> LIGHTS WERE ON. THERE'S A PILE OF PROBABLY CLEAN 1125 01:02:51,538 --> 01:02:54,274 LAUNDRY WAITING TO BE FOLDED ON THE FLOOR. 1126 01:02:54,274 --> 01:02:57,544 AND IT JUST LOOKED LIKE SHE'D STEPPED OUT FOR A BIT AND HADN'T 1127 01:02:57,544 --> 01:03:01,348 MADE IT BACK YET AND IT'S LIKE, "SURELY SHE'S 1128 01:03:01,348 --> 01:03:05,051 JUST BUSY. SO I WOKE UP AT, LIKE, 5:00 A.M. 1129 01:03:05,051 --> 01:03:07,320 AND DROVE BACK TO HER APARTMENT, AND IT WAS THE EXACT SAME STATE 1130 01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,056 AS WHEN I LEFT IT THE NIGHT BEFORE 1131 01:03:10,056 --> 01:03:14,394 AND AT ABOUT NOON, WE DECIDED THAT WE JUST NEEDED TO CALL THE 1132 01:03:14,394 --> 01:03:16,529 POLICE AND START THE ACTUAL PROCESS OF TRYING TO FIND HER 1133 01:03:16,529 --> 01:03:18,732 INSTEAD OF JUST WANDERING AROUND ON OUR OWN 1134 01:03:18,732 --> 01:03:21,968 >> THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE US IN THE BEGINNING. 1135 01:03:21,968 --> 01:03:27,941 I REMEMBER IT WASN'T UNTIL I TOLD THE POLICEMAN THAT THE CATS 1136 01:03:27,941 --> 01:03:34,948 HAVE NOT BEEN FED AND SHE WOULDN'T GO AWAY AND LEAVE HER 1137 01:03:34,948 --> 01:03:38,718 CATS ALONE SO AFTER THAT, OUR POLICE REALLY 1138 01:03:38,718 --> 01:03:41,454 WORKED HARD FOR US, I FELT >> Reporter: PLANO DETECTIVE 1139 01:03:41,454 --> 01:03:44,157 AARON BENZICK GOT THE CASE YOU'RE KINDA BEHIND THE EIGHT 1140 01:03:44,157 --> 01:03:46,326 BALL AT THAT POINT 'CAUSE THIS PERSON'S MISSING FOR 1141 01:03:46,326 --> 01:03:49,562 A WHILE. >> RIGHT 1142 01:03:49,562 --> 01:03:52,265 AND IN THIS CASE, WE GOT THE CALL ON TUESDAY, WHICH WAS FOUR 1143 01:03:52,265 --> 01:03:54,434 DAYS SINCE MEGAN HAD LAST BEEN TALKED TO. 1144 01:03:54,434 --> 01:03:58,772 >> Reporter: I'M GUESSING AS TIME GOES ON, YOU'RE GETTING 1145 01:03:58,772 --> 01:04:02,542 INCREASINGLY FRANTIC >> I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN AND 1146 01:04:02,542 --> 01:04:06,880 MY HUSBAND AND I SAYING, "THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL." 1147 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,883 AND YOU DON'T DARE VOICE THAT THAT BAD THING COULD BE GOING 1148 01:04:09,883 --> 01:04:11,785 ON >> Reporter: BECAUSE SAYING IT 1149 01:04:11,785 --> 01:04:14,521 MAKES IT TRUE SOMETIMES. >> BECAUSE SAYING IT MAKES IT 1150 01:04:14,521 --> 01:04:20,794 TRUE AND I DIDN'T WANT IT TO BE TRUE. 1151 01:04:20,794 --> 01:04:25,932 >> Reporter: IN HER HEART, MEGAN'S MOM PROBABLY KNEW HER 1152 01:04:25,932 --> 01:04:29,736 DAUGHTER WAS NOT ON SOME EXOTIC ADVENTURE. 1153 01:04:29,736 --> 01:04:33,340 AND ONCE HE GOT A LOOK AT MEGAN'S APARTMENT, BENZICK SAW 1154 01:04:33,340 --> 01:04:35,709 THE SAME THINGS HER FAMILY HAD >> WE FOUND HER WALLET AND KEYS 1155 01:04:35,709 --> 01:04:38,411 WERE ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER. YOU KNOW, HER LAPTOP WAS THERE, 1156 01:04:38,411 --> 01:04:41,147 NO INDICATION THAT SHE WAS TRAVELING. 1157 01:04:41,147 --> 01:04:43,316 AND WE FOUND HER VEHICLE PARKED OUTSIDE OF HER BUILDING. 1158 01:04:43,316 --> 01:04:46,086 >> Reporter: AND NOTHING UNUSUAL THERE? 1159 01:04:46,086 --> 01:04:48,154 >> NOTHING UNUSUAL >> Reporter: BENZICK LOOKED AT 1160 01:04:48,154 --> 01:04:51,358 VIDEO FROM COMPLEX SECURITY. >> AND WE FIND THAT AROUND 7:00, 1161 01:04:51,358 --> 01:04:53,526 A LITTLE AFTER 7:30 P.M. ON FRIDAY NIGHT, WE CAN SEE MEGAN 1162 01:04:53,526 --> 01:04:57,864 WALKING TOWARDS THE NATURE PRESERVE 1163 01:04:57,864 --> 01:05:00,033 >> Reporter: AND DOESN'T SEEM LIKE ANYTHING'S WRONG. 1164 01:05:00,033 --> 01:05:03,269 >> NO, SHE SEEMS COMFORTABLE UM, SHE'S DRESSED IN A KIND OF A 1165 01:05:03,269 --> 01:05:05,271 RED AND ORANGE FLORAL SHIRT. >> Reporter: AND NOBODY'S WITH 1166 01:05:05,271 --> 01:05:07,073 HER? >> NOBODY'S WITH HER 1167 01:05:07,073 --> 01:05:09,242 SHE'S ALONE. >> Reporter: HE CALLED IN SEARCH 1168 01:05:09,242 --> 01:05:11,411 TEAMS. >> AND WE STARTED BY BRINGING IN 1169 01:05:11,411 --> 01:05:14,114 THE CANINE DOGS. WE HAD THEM SEARCH 1170 01:05:14,114 --> 01:05:17,350 UH, COULDN'T FIND ANY SIGNS OF MEGAN. 1171 01:05:17,350 --> 01:05:20,587 WE ALSO BROUGHT IN HELICOPTERS THEY USED THEIR THERMAL CAMERAS, 1172 01:05:20,587 --> 01:05:23,823 COVER THE WHOLE PARK, TRIED TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY SIGNS OF 1173 01:05:23,823 --> 01:05:26,526 LIFE >> Reporter: THEY FOUND NONE 1174 01:05:26,526 --> 01:05:28,161 >> AT THAT POINT, WE'RE FEELING COMFORTABLE THAT SHE'S NOT IN 1175 01:05:28,161 --> 01:05:33,066 THE PARK ANYMORE BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS 1176 01:05:33,066 --> 01:05:35,735 >> Reporter: THE NEXT MORNING, BENZICK HEARD NEWS THAT STOPPED 1177 01:05:35,735 --> 01:05:38,672 HIM COLD >> THAT WEDNESDAY MORNING, I GOT 1178 01:05:38,672 --> 01:05:41,174 A CALL FROM ONE OF OUR INTEL DETECTIVES 1179 01:05:41,174 --> 01:05:43,309 SAID, "HEY, THERE'S A BULLETIN OUT FROM DALLAS POLICE HOMICIDE 1180 01:05:43,309 --> 01:05:45,478 UNIT THAT THEY HAVE AN UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE THAT GOT 1181 01:05:45,478 --> 01:05:47,280 FOUND IN LAKE RAY HUBBARD," WHICH IS OVER 20 MILES AWAY FROM 1182 01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,249 WHERE WE ARE >> Reporter: WHAT MADE YOU THINK 1183 01:05:49,249 --> 01:05:51,418 THAT MIGHT BE MEGAN? >> SO THEY HAD A DESCRIPTOR OF 1184 01:05:51,418 --> 01:05:54,120 THE CLOTHING BEING WORN. AND IT WAS KINDA THAT SAME, YOU 1185 01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,256 KNOW, RED, YELLOW, FLOWERED SHIRT. 1186 01:05:56,256 --> 01:05:57,891 >> Reporter: YOU GO OVER THERE TO SEE HER, IDENTIFY HER 1187 01:05:57,891 --> 01:05:59,526 >> YEAH. SO NEXT WE GO TO THE MEDICAL 1188 01:05:59,526 --> 01:06:01,695 EXAMINER'S OFFICE FOR DALLAS COUNTY 1189 01:06:01,695 --> 01:06:03,863 AND FROM VISUALLY LOOKING AT HER, I COULD TELL THAT IT WAS 1190 01:06:03,863 --> 01:06:08,201 MEGAN. >> Reporter: A FINGERPRINT 1191 01:06:08,201 --> 01:06:10,904 COMPARISON WITH HER DRIVER'S LICENSE CONFIRMED IT, AND THE 1192 01:06:10,904 --> 01:06:13,606 MEDICAL EXAMINER SAID MEGAN'S CAUSE OF DEATH WAS READILY 1193 01:06:13,606 --> 01:06:17,744 APPARENT >> THEY'RE ABLE TO DETERMINE, 1194 01:06:17,744 --> 01:06:19,612 FROM THE BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, FROM THE COMPRESSION ON THE 1195 01:06:19,612 --> 01:06:24,284 NECK, THAT THIS IS IN FACT A HOMICIDE 1196 01:06:24,284 --> 01:06:26,686 >>> COMING UP -- WHO MURDERED MEGAN 1197 01:06:26,686 --> 01:06:28,855 >> YOU DON'T SEE HOW THIS COULD'VE HAPPENED TO SOMEONE YOU 1198 01:06:28,855 --> 01:06:33,727 LOVE >> AND WHO MURDERED MOLLY? 1199 01:06:33,727 --> 01:06:36,463 AT LAST, THE EVIDENCE IS IN. AND DETECTIVES SAY IT'S A SLAM 1200 01:06:36,463 --> 01:06:59,552 DUNK >> Reporter: FIVE DAYS AFTER 1201 01:06:59,552 --> 01:07:02,255 MEGAN GETRUM DISAPPEARED, PLANO, TEXAS, POLICE BROKE SOME AWFUL 1202 01:07:02,255 --> 01:07:04,724 NEWS TO HER FAMILY >> THEY SAID, "WE FOUND MEGAN, 1203 01:07:04,724 --> 01:07:06,860 AND SHE'S DEAD." I MUST'VE ASKED SEVERAL TIMES, 1204 01:07:06,860 --> 01:07:09,295 "ARE YOU SURE? HOW CAN YOU BE SURE? 1205 01:07:09,295 --> 01:07:16,336 IT'S NOT HER." >> Reporter: FROM HER PRINTS, 1206 01:07:16,336 --> 01:07:20,106 DETECTIVES WERE SURE >> YOU DON'T SEE HOW THIS 1207 01:07:20,106 --> 01:07:28,748 COULD'VE HAPPENED TO SOMEONE YOU LOVE 1208 01:07:28,748 --> 01:07:35,255 AND -- AND IT WAS JUST THE MOST PAINFUL EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE, 1209 01:07:35,255 --> 01:07:38,525 JUST KNOWING THAT I'D NEVER SEE THAT STUPID GRIN AGAIN 1210 01:07:38,525 --> 01:07:42,362 A WHOLE HOLE OPENED UP IN MY HEART THAT STILL ISN'T FILLED. 1211 01:07:42,362 --> 01:07:45,498 >> Reporter: NOW DETECTIVE AARON BENZICK WAS TRYING TO FIND 1212 01:07:45,498 --> 01:07:48,768 HER KILLER >> WE REALLY START TRYING TO GET 1213 01:07:48,768 --> 01:07:52,572 THE WORD OUT THERE, DO MEDIA RELEASES 1214 01:07:52,572 --> 01:07:56,376 AND THEN THAT'S WHEN I GOT A BREAK FROM ONE OF OUR OWN 1215 01:07:56,376 --> 01:07:58,511 OFFICERS THEY WERE DOING A CURFEW CHECK 1216 01:07:58,511 --> 01:08:00,113 AT THE -- IN THE NATURE PRESERVE THAT NIGHT 1217 01:08:00,113 --> 01:08:02,816 >> YOU HAVE A TEXAS I.D. >> Reporter: POLICE DASH CAMS 1218 01:08:02,816 --> 01:08:04,584 ROLLED AS OFFICERS SAW A GROUP OF TEENAGERS 1219 01:08:04,584 --> 01:08:06,586 THIS IS FROM THE NIGHT MEGAN WENT MISSING 1220 01:08:06,586 --> 01:08:08,221 >> YOU EVER BEEN IN TROUBLE BEFORE 1221 01:08:08,221 --> 01:08:09,856 >> NO, SIR >> NEVER 1222 01:08:09,856 --> 01:08:12,525 >> NO, SIR >> Reporter: WHAT STORY DID THEY 1223 01:08:12,525 --> 01:08:13,660 TELL >> THEY NOTICED THAT A VEHICLE 1224 01:08:13,660 --> 01:08:15,362 WAS KINDA CIRCLING AROUND THEM SOMEONE GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLE 1225 01:08:15,362 --> 01:08:17,464 AND STARTED APPROACHING 'EM. AND THAT'S WHEN HE SAYS, "HEY, 1226 01:08:17,464 --> 01:08:19,132 DID YOU GUYS FIND A PHONE? I'M LOOKING FOR MY CELL PHONE IN 1227 01:08:19,132 --> 01:08:21,267 THIS AREA, AND I WAS HERE IN THE PARK EARLIER IN THE DAY AND LOST 1228 01:08:21,267 --> 01:08:22,869 IT." >> HOW LONG AGO DID THAT GUY 1229 01:08:22,869 --> 01:08:24,504 COME BY? >> 15 MINUTES. 1230 01:08:24,504 --> 01:08:26,673 NOT EVEN FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO, I WOULD SAY. 1231 01:08:26,673 --> 01:08:28,308 NOT EVEN >> AND HE JUST RAN OFF 1232 01:08:28,308 --> 01:08:30,477 >> HE WAS DESCRIBED AS A BLACK MALE IN HIS EARLY 20s. 1233 01:08:30,477 --> 01:08:32,946 AND THEY JUST HEAR THAT HE'S LOOKING FOR A PHONE, A LOST 1234 01:08:32,946 --> 01:08:35,348 PHONE. SO IT DOESN'T IMMEDIATELY CAUSE 1235 01:08:35,348 --> 01:08:36,950 ANY KIND OF MAJOR CONCERN. >> Reporter: ON THEIR WAY OUT, 1236 01:08:36,950 --> 01:08:38,585 THE OFFICERS DROVE BY THE CAR -- A BLUE BUICK PARK AVENUE 1237 01:08:38,585 --> 01:08:40,553 ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS OR UNUSUAL ABOUT THE CAR? 1238 01:08:40,553 --> 01:08:42,389 >> NO. THEY RAN THE TAG 1239 01:08:42,389 --> 01:08:44,557 NOTHING POPPED UP. >> Reporter: BENZICK RAN THE 1240 01:08:44,557 --> 01:08:46,159 PLATE AGAIN. WHO'S THAT COME BACK TO -- 1241 01:08:46,159 --> 01:08:48,328 >> I RAN THE PAPER TAG IT CAME BACK TO A 1242 01:08:48,328 --> 01:08:52,165 REGINALD KEMBRO, SPELLED K-E-M-B-R-O. 1243 01:08:52,165 --> 01:08:54,868 AND I CHECK THAT INDIVIDUAL, AND IT COMES BACK TO AN OLDER BLACK 1244 01:08:54,868 --> 01:08:57,070 MALE THAT DOESN'T MATCH THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPICIOUS 1245 01:08:57,070 --> 01:09:02,008 PERSON THAT WAS REPORTED IN THE PARK 1246 01:09:02,008 --> 01:09:09,015 >> Reporter: HOWEVER, IT DID MATCH THE OWNER'S SON -- 1247 01:09:09,015 --> 01:09:11,651 REGINALD KIMBRO, K-I-M-B-R-O AND BENZICK SOON FOUND OUT THAT 1248 01:09:11,651 --> 01:09:14,921 REGGIE KIMBRO WAS NOT ONLY SEEN DRIVING THAT BUICK -- HE WAS 1249 01:09:14,921 --> 01:09:18,725 ALSO A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A HOMICIDE OVER IN FORT WORTH. 1250 01:09:18,725 --> 01:09:22,529 SO NOW YOU'VE CONNECTED THAT CAR TO REGGIE KIMBRO, WHO IS A 1251 01:09:22,529 --> 01:09:31,237 SUSPECT IN MOLLY MATHESON'S MURDER 1252 01:09:31,237 --> 01:09:33,940 >> RIGHT IT'S AT THAT MOMENT WHEN WE KIND 1253 01:09:33,940 --> 01:09:36,076 OF HAVE THIS EUREKA MOMENT WHEN I REALIZE REGINALD KIMBRO HAD 1254 01:09:36,076 --> 01:09:38,778 KILLED MEGAN GETRUM. >> THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR 1255 01:09:38,778 --> 01:09:41,481 MEGAN GETRUM THE 36-YEAR-OLD WAS AT THE PARK 1256 01:09:41,481 --> 01:09:44,184 THE NIGHT OF APRIL 14th, THEN VANISHED 1257 01:09:44,184 --> 01:09:46,686 >> Reporter: MEGAN GETRUM'S MURDER MADE THE NEWS FOR A FEW 1258 01:09:46,686 --> 01:09:49,089 DAYS AND FORT WORTH DETECTIVE 1259 01:09:49,089 --> 01:09:51,257 KYLE SULLIVAN HAD SEEN THE REPORTS. 1260 01:09:51,257 --> 01:09:53,393 IT DIDN'T SEEM CONNECTED TO ANYTHING IN HIS WORLD UNTIL THE 1261 01:09:53,393 --> 01:09:56,129 PHONE RANG >> I HAD RECEIVED A CALL FROM 1262 01:09:56,129 --> 01:09:58,865 ANOTHER PLANO DETECTIVE WHO ASKED ME IF I HAD HEARD ABOUT 1263 01:09:58,865 --> 01:10:01,401 THE BODY FOUND IN THE LAKE I TOLD HIM THAT I HAD, AND HE 1264 01:10:01,401 --> 01:10:03,770 INFORMED ME THAT REGINALD KIMBRO'S VEHICLE WAS 1265 01:10:03,770 --> 01:10:07,574 SEEN IN THE PARK THE NIGHT SHE WENT MISSING 1266 01:10:07,574 --> 01:10:10,310 AND THAT'S WHEN ALARM BELLS WENT OFF. 1267 01:10:10,310 --> 01:10:14,047 >> Reporter: AND YOU GET A BAD FEELING IN YOUR STOMACH, DON'T 1268 01:10:14,047 --> 01:10:17,817 YOU? >> OH, YES 1269 01:10:17,817 --> 01:10:20,520 I KNOW ALMOST WITH 100% CERTAINTY HE WAS PROBABLY 1270 01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,156 RESPONSIBLE FOR IT >> Reporter: HE WALKED OUT OF 1271 01:10:23,156 --> 01:10:25,925 THAT INTERVIEW WITH YOU AND COMMITTED A MURDER 1272 01:10:25,925 --> 01:10:28,595 >> YES >> Reporter: THAT'S NOT A GOOD 1273 01:10:28,595 --> 01:10:31,331 FEELING. >> NO, IT'S NOT. 1274 01:10:31,331 --> 01:10:33,600 >> Reporter: IT HAD BEEN 13 DAYS SINCE REGGIE KIMBRO STORMED OUT 1275 01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:35,669 OF THE FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT 1276 01:10:35,669 --> 01:10:37,837 DETECTIVES STILL DIDN'T HAVE ANY FORENSIC RESULTS BACK ON MOLLY, 1277 01:10:37,837 --> 01:10:42,175 JUST THOSE ELECTRICITY RECORDS SUGGESTING KIMBRO HAD STARTED 1278 01:10:42,175 --> 01:10:45,979 HER WASHING MACHINE THAT NIGHT NOW WITH NEWS OF ANOTHER MURDER, 1279 01:10:45,979 --> 01:10:51,951 DETECTIVES REALIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT HAD WAITED TOO LONG. 1280 01:10:51,951 --> 01:10:54,220 >> I WENT AHEAD AND ISSUED A MURDER WARRANT FOR THE MURDER OF 1281 01:10:54,220 --> 01:10:59,259 MOLLY. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY THE 1282 01:10:59,259 --> 01:11:01,728 PLANO S.W.A.T. TEAM. >> Reporter: REGGIE KIMBRO WAS 1283 01:11:01,728 --> 01:11:05,465 ARRESTED AS HE LEFT HIS FATHER'S HOME IN PLANO AND BROUGHT BACK 1284 01:11:05,465 --> 01:11:08,168 TO THAT SAME FORT WORTH INTERROGATION ROOM 1285 01:11:08,168 --> 01:11:10,904 >> YOU'VE BEEN ARRESTED FOR MURDER, THE MURDER OF 1286 01:11:10,904 --> 01:11:13,606 MOLLY MATHESON OKAY 1287 01:11:13,606 --> 01:11:16,876 UH, I WROTE THAT WARRANT JUST TODAY. 1288 01:11:16,876 --> 01:11:20,113 >> Reporter: THIS WAS THE MOMENT WHEN THE FORMERLY LOQUACIOUS 1289 01:11:20,113 --> 01:11:24,918 REGGIE KIMBRO CLAMMED UP >> WITH THESE RIGHTS IN MIND, 1290 01:11:24,918 --> 01:11:27,153 WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK TO ME ABOUT IT 1291 01:11:27,153 --> 01:11:30,390 >> NO. >> DO YOU REQUEST YOUR ATTORNEY? 1292 01:11:30,390 --> 01:11:33,660 >> YEP >> Reporter: ONE QUESTION 1293 01:11:33,660 --> 01:11:35,895 TROUBLED THOSE FORT WORTH DETECTIVES BACK THEN AND TODAY 1294 01:11:35,895 --> 01:11:38,565 COULD KIMBRO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED SOONER, PREVENTING THE DEATH OF 1295 01:11:38,565 --> 01:11:41,101 MEGAN GETRUM TARRANT COUNTY PROSECUTORS 1296 01:11:41,101 --> 01:11:44,671 PAGE SIMPSON AND ALLENA BANGS SAY ABSOLUTELY NOT 1297 01:11:44,671 --> 01:11:46,673 >> AT THAT POINT, THEY HADN'T DEVELOPED ENOUGH PROBABLE CAUSE. 1298 01:11:46,673 --> 01:11:48,808 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE CELL PHONE INFORMATION. 1299 01:11:48,808 --> 01:11:50,443 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE DNA >> Reporter: SO THERE'S NOTHING 1300 01:11:50,443 --> 01:11:54,280 FORT WORTH COULD'VE DONE TO HOLD HIM? 1301 01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:59,119 >> THE THING THAT FORT WORTH DID -- AND THAT COULD HAVE 1302 01:11:59,119 --> 01:12:02,922 WORKED OUT -- IS THEY CALLED THE DETECTIVE ON THE ORIGINAL PLANO 1303 01:12:02,922 --> 01:12:05,091 CASE AND SAID, "YOU HAVE PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST HIM ON 1304 01:12:05,091 --> 01:12:07,427 THAT AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT." >> Reporter: AND PLANO WOULDN'T 1305 01:12:07,427 --> 01:12:11,631 DO IT. >> THEY DID NOT DO IT. 1306 01:12:11,631 --> 01:12:17,437 >> Reporter: CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY WOULD PLANO REFUSE TO 1307 01:12:17,437 --> 01:12:20,306 ARREST REGGIE KIMBRO WITH FORT WORTH SAYING, "WE WANT YOU TO 1308 01:12:20,306 --> 01:12:22,509 TAKE THIS GUY" >> IF YOUR QUESTION FOR ME IS, 1309 01:12:22,509 --> 01:12:26,279 "WAS THERE PROBABLE CAUSE TO MAKE AN ARREST FOR A SEXUAL 1310 01:12:26,279 --> 01:12:30,083 ASSAULT," THERE ABSOLUTELY WAS >> I HAVE TO ASK YOU, IS WHAT 1311 01:12:30,083 --> 01:12:32,752 YOU SAID TO ME ABOUT THE REPORT AND THE -- 1312 01:12:32,752 --> 01:12:35,955 EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID TRUE? >> YES 1313 01:12:35,955 --> 01:12:39,225 LIKE - >> OKAY. 1314 01:12:39,225 --> 01:12:42,529 >> THIS IS STUPID. >> IF YOU LOOK AT THE -- THE 1315 01:12:42,529 --> 01:12:46,266 FINAL INTERVIEW WITH OUR VICTIM IN PLANO AND THE DETECTIVE, HE 1316 01:12:46,266 --> 01:12:49,602 CLEARLY DID NOT BELIEVE HER. >> Reporter: ONLY AFTER KIMBRO'S 1317 01:12:49,602 --> 01:12:52,739 ARREST DID FORENSIC EVIDENCE SEAL THE DEAL. 1318 01:12:52,739 --> 01:12:54,874 >> MOLLY HAD INDEED BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED 1319 01:12:54,874 --> 01:12:58,144 >> Reporter: BY HIM? >> BY HIM. 1320 01:12:58,144 --> 01:13:01,414 >> Reporter: THEY ALSO FOUND KIMBRO'S DNA ON THAT UNDERWEAR 1321 01:13:01,414 --> 01:13:04,150 IN THE WASHING MACHINE AND IN THE SHOWER WHERE THEY FOUND 1322 01:13:04,150 --> 01:13:07,387 MOLLY'S BODY AND THEN THE TOXICOLOGY CAME 1323 01:13:07,387 --> 01:13:10,323 BACK >> WELL, IT SHOWED THAT MOLLY 1324 01:13:10,323 --> 01:13:13,893 HAD THE DATE RAPE DRUG, OR GHB, IN HER SYSTEM. 1325 01:13:13,893 --> 01:13:17,697 >> Reporter: SO SHE INVITES HIM OVER 1326 01:13:17,697 --> 01:13:21,501 HE COMES OVER. AND THEN AT SOME POINT, HE GIVES 1327 01:13:21,501 --> 01:13:24,704 HER GHB AND RAPES HER? >> YES 1328 01:13:24,704 --> 01:13:27,407 >> Reporter: AND I GUESS DURING THAT, KILLS HER? 1329 01:13:27,407 --> 01:13:30,643 >> YES >> Reporter: DNA EVIDENCE ALSO 1330 01:13:30,643 --> 01:13:33,880 SHOWED MEGAN GETRUM'S BODY HAD BEEN IN THE TRUNK OF KIMBRO'S 1331 01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:37,650 BUICK AND THAT HE HAD SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER. 1332 01:13:37,650 --> 01:13:43,623 FOR YEARS, REGGIE KIMBRO HAD EVADED PROSECUTION 1333 01:13:43,623 --> 01:13:45,792 NOW TWO WOMEN WERE DEAD. AND SOME LAW ENFORCEMENT 1334 01:13:45,792 --> 01:13:50,397 AGENCIES HAD QUESTIONS THEY NEEDED TO ANSWER 1335 01:13:50,397 --> 01:13:52,799 >>> COMING UP -- >> Reporter: WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE 1336 01:13:52,799 --> 01:13:56,102 IS THAT YOUR DETECTIVE DID NOT BELIEVE THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE 1337 01:13:56,102 --> 01:14:00,140 AND SENT THIS GUY BACK OUT ONTO THE STREET WHERE HE COMMITTED 1338 01:14:00,140 --> 01:14:03,043 TWO MURDERS. >> WHAT HE HAS TO GO BY IS WHAT 1339 01:14:03,043 --> 01:14:06,579 DOES THE EVIDENCE SHOW >> YOU HAVE DNA. 1340 01:14:06,579 --> 01:14:09,382 YOU HAVE STRANGULATION MARKS THERE IS CERTAINLY PROBABLE 1341 01:14:09,382 --> 01:14:09,549 THERE IS CERTAINLY PROBABLE CAUSE. 1342 01:14:30,570 --> 01:14:32,672 IN THE TARRANT COUNTY JAIL, CHARGED WITH THE CAPITAL MURDER 1343 01:14:32,672 --> 01:14:35,909 OF MOLLY MATHESON. DETECTIVES WERE ALSO CONVINCED 1344 01:14:35,909 --> 01:14:40,213 HE'D KILLED MEGAN GETRUM LESS THAN A WEEK LATER. 1345 01:14:40,213 --> 01:14:43,650 NOW, REMEMBER THOSE SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM 1346 01:14:43,650 --> 01:14:45,585 THAT WERE NEVER PROSECUTED >> THE MINUTE THAT 1347 01:14:45,585 --> 01:14:47,754 DETECTIVE SULLIVAN WRITES THE WARRANT FOR REGGIE, WE GET HIM 1348 01:14:47,754 --> 01:14:50,990 ARRESTED THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, ALL THESE 1349 01:14:50,990 --> 01:14:53,159 CASES JUST START BOMBARDING, YOU KNOW, BEING FILED ALL OF A 1350 01:14:53,159 --> 01:14:56,396 SUDDEN WITH NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT'S -- WAS EVER 1351 01:14:56,396 --> 01:14:58,098 OBTAINED BESIDES MOLLY'S DEATH AND MEGAN'S DEATH. 1352 01:14:58,098 --> 01:15:04,537 >> Reporter: VICTORY HAS A THOUSAND FATHERS 1353 01:15:04,537 --> 01:15:11,044 >> EXACTLY >> Reporter: SOUTH PADRE ISLAND 1354 01:15:11,044 --> 01:15:16,850 AND PLANO SUDDENLY BOTH INDICTED KIMBRO FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT. 1355 01:15:16,850 --> 01:15:21,421 AND A THIRD SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE AGAINST HIM THAT HAD LINGERED 1356 01:15:21,421 --> 01:15:24,624 FOR YEARS IN NEARBY ALLEN, TEXAS, ALSO NOW MADE IT TO A 1357 01:15:24,624 --> 01:15:28,428 PROSECUTOR'S DESK. KIMBRO WAS STARING AT THE DEATH 1358 01:15:28,428 --> 01:15:31,664 PENALTY FOR MOLLY'S MURDER THEN IN MARCH OF 2022, JUST 1359 01:15:31,664 --> 01:15:34,367 BEFORE TRIAL, KIMBRO PERHAPS SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL. 1360 01:15:34,367 --> 01:15:38,104 IN ONE WHIRLWIND SESSION, HE PLED GUILTY TO EVERYTHING. 1361 01:15:38,104 --> 01:15:41,374 THESE PROSECUTORS MADE SURE HE WOULD NEVER WALK THE STREETS 1362 01:15:41,374 --> 01:15:44,611 AGAIN. >> LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE TO OUR 1363 01:15:44,611 --> 01:15:48,448 CASE, THE MURDER OF MOLLY MATHESON 1364 01:15:48,448 --> 01:15:51,685 IT IS LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE TO THE MURDER OF MEGAN GETRUM 1365 01:15:51,685 --> 01:15:55,488 IT IS A LIFE SENTENCE FOR THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF KATLIN COATS, 1366 01:15:55,488 --> 01:15:58,191 AND THEN 20 YEARS FOR THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MELISSA WINTON. 1367 01:15:58,191 --> 01:16:00,360 AND THEN 20 YEARS ON TWO OTHER CASES IN COLLIN COUNTY, ONE FOR 1368 01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,495 THE ALLEN CASE, AND ONE FOR A VICTIM WHO CALLED IN TO POLICE 1369 01:16:02,495 --> 01:16:07,934 AFTER MOLLY'S MURDER WAS ON THE NEWS 1370 01:16:07,934 --> 01:16:13,340 >> Reporter: WERE THE TWO OF YOU OKAY WITH THAT 1371 01:16:13,340 --> 01:16:15,241 >> UH, VERY MUCH SO. HE IS NOT GONNA OCCUPY ANY SPACE 1372 01:16:15,241 --> 01:16:17,711 IN MY HEAD I'M NOT GONNA THINK ABOUT HIM 1373 01:16:17,711 --> 01:16:19,879 AGAIN. >> BASICALLY HIS VOICE HAS BEEN 1374 01:16:19,879 --> 01:16:23,683 SILENCED AND WHEN I REALIZED THAT, I 1375 01:16:23,683 --> 01:16:27,487 THINK THAT SORT OF WAS LIKE, "YES, THE PLEA DEAL. 1376 01:16:27,487 --> 01:16:34,561 THIS IS THE BEST ENDING THAT WE COULD HAVE TO THIS WHOLE 1377 01:16:34,561 --> 01:16:38,965 ORDEAL." >> Reporter: FOR MEGAN'S MOM, IT 1378 01:16:38,965 --> 01:16:45,939 HELPED A LITTLE. >> IT DID HELP TO HAVE THE -- 1379 01:16:45,939 --> 01:16:49,142 MR. KIMBRO SAY THAT HE WAS GUILTY 1380 01:16:49,142 --> 01:16:52,445 IT DID HELP. AND, UM, I'M CONTENT THAT HE'LL 1381 01:16:52,445 --> 01:16:55,682 SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN JAIL 1382 01:16:55,682 --> 01:16:59,486 >> Reporter: YOU HAVE THREE DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS. 1383 01:16:59,486 --> 01:17:02,722 IN SOME CASES, POLICE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT GOING 1384 01:17:02,722 --> 01:17:04,858 FORWARD, AND IN OTHER CASES, PROSECUTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT 1385 01:17:04,858 --> 01:17:07,027 GOING FORWARD. IT'S NOT FAIR TO SAY THAT YOUR 1386 01:17:07,027 --> 01:17:08,661 DAUGHTER'S DEATH WAS AT THEIR HAND 1387 01:17:08,661 --> 01:17:10,864 BECAUSE IT WASN'T. BUT IT MIGHT KIND OF BE AT THEIR 1388 01:17:10,864 --> 01:17:12,432 FEET BECAUSE IF THEY'D DONE 1389 01:17:12,432 --> 01:17:14,668 SOMETHING, WE MIGHT NOT BE HERE TODAY. 1390 01:17:14,668 --> 01:17:16,836 >> THEY HAD A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE THAT 1391 01:17:16,836 --> 01:17:18,705 CHOICE AND EACH OF 'EM, FOR WHATEVER 1392 01:17:18,705 --> 01:17:21,141 REASON, CHOSE NOT TO >> Reporter: NORMALLY AT 1393 01:17:21,141 --> 01:17:23,309 "DATELINE," WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TROUBLE PERSUADING LAW 1394 01:17:23,309 --> 01:17:26,046 ENFORCEMENT TO SIT DOWN WITH US. BUT THAT WASN'T THE CASE ON THIS 1395 01:17:26,046 --> 01:17:28,682 STORY. WE DID SPEAK WITH FORT WORTH PD, 1396 01:17:28,682 --> 01:17:31,384 WHICH WAS THE AGENCY PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR LOCKING UP 1397 01:17:31,384 --> 01:17:34,087 REGGIE KIMBRO. EVERYONE ELSE, PARTICULARLY THE 1398 01:17:34,087 --> 01:17:38,858 DEPARTMENTS THAT EXAMINED RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS 1399 01:17:38,858 --> 01:17:42,228 AGAINST HIM, WERE CONSIDERABLY MORE RELUCTANT 1400 01:17:42,228 --> 01:17:46,066 THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN SOUTH PADRE ISLAND WHO DIDN'T 1401 01:17:46,066 --> 01:17:49,269 PROSECUTE KATIE COATS' CASE IN 2014 WOULD NOT DO AN INTERVIEW 1402 01:17:49,269 --> 01:17:53,073 NEITHER WOULD SOUTH PADRE ISLAND POLICE 1403 01:17:53,073 --> 01:17:56,309 THE ALLEN POLICE DEPARTMENT ALSO DECLINED OUR INVITATION BUT IN A 1404 01:17:56,309 --> 01:17:59,079 STATEMENT SAID THEY ARE NOW BETTER EQUIPPED TO INVESTIGATE 1405 01:17:59,079 --> 01:18:01,748 ASSAULT CASES. WE ASKED TO SPEAK WITH PLANO 1406 01:18:01,748 --> 01:18:04,484 DETECTIVE JON HOFFMAN ABOUT HIS INVESTIGATION INTO THE 1407 01:18:04,484 --> 01:18:07,687 2012 ASSAUL OF MELISSA WINTON. WE WERE TOLD NO. 1408 01:18:07,687 --> 01:18:10,023 BUT PLANO POLICE CHIEF, ED DRAIN, DID AGREE TO AN 1409 01:18:10,023 --> 01:18:16,363 INTERVIEW. BACK IN 2012, HE WAS ASSISTANT 1410 01:18:16,363 --> 01:18:21,801 CHIEF IN CHARGE OF ALL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS 1411 01:18:21,801 --> 01:18:24,938 I APPRECIATE YOU SITTING DOWN AND TALKING WITH US. 1412 01:18:24,938 --> 01:18:27,240 A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE ON THIS CASE DID NOT WANNA DO THAT 1413 01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,943 >> I UNDERSTAND. >> Reporter: WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE 1414 01:18:29,943 --> 01:18:33,213 IS THAT YOUR DETECTIVE DID NOT BELIEVE THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE 1415 01:18:33,213 --> 01:18:36,483 AND SENT THIS GUY BACK OUT ONTO THE STREET, WHERE HE COMMITTED 1416 01:18:36,483 --> 01:18:40,153 ADDITIONAL ASSAULTS AND TWO MURDERS. 1417 01:18:40,153 --> 01:18:41,888 >> WELL, IT'S NOT A MATTER IN HIS MIND OF WHETHER HE BELIEVED 1418 01:18:41,888 --> 01:18:45,258 HER OR NOT WHAT HE HAS TO GO BY IS WHAT 1419 01:18:45,258 --> 01:18:47,293 DOES THE EVIDENCE SHOW AND HE HAS TO HAVE EVIDENCE TO 1420 01:18:47,293 --> 01:18:51,064 SUPPORT MOVING FORWARD WITH AN ARREST 1421 01:18:51,064 --> 01:18:53,800 >> Reporter: THE CHIEF ALSO SAID MELISSA WINTON STOPPED 1422 01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,503 COOPERATING. >> THE CASE DID NOT GO FORWARD 1423 01:18:56,503 --> 01:18:59,739 BECAUSE THE VICTIM SAID SHE DID NOT WANT HIM TO PRESENT THE CASE 1424 01:18:59,739 --> 01:19:01,875 TO THE GRAND JURY. >> Reporter: WELL, BUT THE 1425 01:19:01,875 --> 01:19:04,611 VICTIM SAID THAT, ACCORDING TO HER, BECAUSE SHE COULD TELL YOUR 1426 01:19:04,611 --> 01:19:07,313 DETECTIVE DIDN'T BELIEVE HER - >> RIGHT - 1427 01:19:07,313 --> 01:19:10,583 >> Reporter: AND, YOU KNOW, AT ONE POINT ASKED HER IF SHE -- IF 1428 01:19:10,583 --> 01:19:13,820 SHE ENJOYED SOME PART OF THE ASSAULT, WHICH MADE HER FEEL 1429 01:19:13,820 --> 01:19:17,023 LIKE, "I CAN TELL WHICH WAY THIS IS GOING, AND WHERE IT'S GOING 1430 01:19:17,023 --> 01:19:19,292 IS NOT IN THE DIRECTION OF BELIEVING ME 1431 01:19:19,292 --> 01:19:21,928 WHERE IT'S GOING IS IN THE DIRECTION OF BELIEVING THE GUY 1432 01:19:21,928 --> 01:19:24,631 THAT I'M ACCUSING. >> WE DID NOT HAVE THE EVIDENCE 1433 01:19:24,631 --> 01:19:26,800 TO SUPPORT -- THE PROBABLE CAUSE TO GET AN ARREST, TO ARREST 1434 01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:29,903 KIMBRO THAT'S JUST THE FACT 1435 01:19:29,903 --> 01:19:32,772 >> Reporter: PROSECUTOR ALLENNA BANGS, IN NEIGHBORING TARRANT 1436 01:19:32,772 --> 01:19:36,576 COUNTY, DISAGREES. >> YOU HAVE AN ACUTE OUTCRY. 1437 01:19:36,576 --> 01:19:39,779 YOU HAVE A SANE EXAM YOU HAVE GRASS IN THE HAIR, 1438 01:19:39,779 --> 01:19:44,117 PHYSICAL BRUISING INJURIES AND THEN YOU HAVE DNA. 1439 01:19:44,117 --> 01:19:47,387 YOU HAVE STRANGULATION MARKS YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO IS 1440 01:19:47,387 --> 01:19:50,090 CONSISTENT INTERVIEW AFTER INTERVIEW. 1441 01:19:50,090 --> 01:19:53,059 THERE IS CERTAINLY PROBABLE CAUSE WITHIN THAT SEXUAL 1442 01:19:53,059 --> 01:19:55,061 ASSAULT. AND AGAIN, FAST FORWARD, HE PLED 1443 01:19:55,061 --> 01:19:58,264 GUILTY TO IT >> Reporter: WE SPOKE WITH 1444 01:19:58,264 --> 01:20:00,467 TARRANT COUNTY PROSECUTORS, WHO SAID YOU ABSOLUTELY DID HAVE 1445 01:20:00,467 --> 01:20:03,703 ENOUGH PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST REGGIE KIMBRO. 1446 01:20:03,703 --> 01:20:07,474 >> WELL, IN -- I -- YOU KNOW, I CERTAINLY, UH, RESPECT, UH, 1447 01:20:07,474 --> 01:20:10,710 A.D.A. BANGS' OPINION. BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, ON MY STAFF, 1448 01:20:10,710 --> 01:20:13,980 I HAVE AN ATTORNEY WHO WORKED GRAND JURY FOR MANY, MANY YEARS 1449 01:20:13,980 --> 01:20:16,649 IN OUR COUNTY. AND SHE SAID IT IS NOT THAT 1450 01:20:16,649 --> 01:20:20,453 CLEAR CUT THAT WE HAD THE PROBABLE CAUSE TO DO THAT. 1451 01:20:20,453 --> 01:20:23,189 >> I HAVE TO ASK YOU, IS WHAT YOU SAID TO ME ABOUT THE REPORT 1452 01:20:23,189 --> 01:20:26,960 AND THE -- EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID TRUE? 1453 01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:29,662 >> YES LIKE - 1454 01:20:29,662 --> 01:20:32,899 >> OKAY. >> THIS IS STUPID. 1455 01:20:32,899 --> 01:20:37,237 >> I THINK MELISSA DID PICK UP ON THE FACT THAT, UM, HE MAY NOT 1456 01:20:37,237 --> 01:20:39,939 HAVE BELIEVED HER. BUT HE DOES HAVE AN OBLIGATION 1457 01:20:39,939 --> 01:20:42,609 TO LET HER KNOW, "THESE ARE THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE WITH THIS 1458 01:20:42,609 --> 01:20:44,778 CASE." >> Reporter: I KNOW YOU'RE NOT 1459 01:20:44,778 --> 01:20:46,680 TELLIN' ME THAT YOU GUYS WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT 1460 01:20:46,680 --> 01:20:48,548 HERE, 'CAUSE I THINK YOU WOULD IF YOU HAD THIS TO DO OVER 1461 01:20:48,548 --> 01:20:51,284 AGAIN. >> THE THING THAT WE'D NEED TO 1462 01:20:51,284 --> 01:20:56,222 DO DIFFERENT IN -- IN -- IN THE 2012 CASE IS HOW THE DETECTIVE 1463 01:20:56,222 --> 01:20:58,892 TALKED TO THE VICTIM >> Reporter: NOW, REMEMBER, FIVE 1464 01:20:58,892 --> 01:21:02,128 YEARS LATER, FORT WORTH POLICE ASKED THAT SAME DETECTIVE TO 1465 01:21:02,128 --> 01:21:05,965 ARREST KIMBRO AFTER HE WALKED OUT OF THAT INTERVIEW. 1466 01:21:05,965 --> 01:21:09,169 THEY CALL YOUR DEPARTMENT AND SAY, "CAN YOU HOLD HIM ON THE 1467 01:21:09,169 --> 01:21:11,838 MELISSA WINTON CASE? AND YOUR DEPARTMENT SAYS, "NO, 1468 01:21:11,838 --> 01:21:16,076 WE CAN'T." >> WELL, I DISAGREE WITH THAT 1469 01:21:16,076 --> 01:21:18,345 DECISION NOT TO GET -- NOT TO GET A WARRANT AT -- AT THAT 1470 01:21:18,345 --> 01:21:20,480 POINT FOR SURE I THINK THAT WE SHOULD'VE MOVED 1471 01:21:20,480 --> 01:21:23,750 FORWARD TO TRY TO GET A WARRANT BECAUSE WE DO HAVE ALL THAT 1472 01:21:23,750 --> 01:21:26,519 OTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION >> Reporter: CHIEF DRAIN SAYS 1473 01:21:26,519 --> 01:21:30,256 HIS DETECTIVES ARE NOW BETTER TRAINED AND WOULD DO THINGS 1474 01:21:30,256 --> 01:21:34,227 DIFFERENTLY TODAY. AFTER KIMBRO WAS ARRESTED FOR 1475 01:21:34,227 --> 01:21:41,634 THE TWO MURDERS, MELISSA CALLED DET. HOFFMAN TO SAY SHE WANTED 1476 01:21:41,634 --> 01:21:46,539 TO PRESS CHARGES AND HIS TONE SEEMED TO HAVE 1477 01:21:46,539 --> 01:21:49,676 CHANGED CONSIDERABLY >> AND LET ME TELL YOU, I -- I 1478 01:21:49,676 --> 01:21:52,912 WILL BE YOUR ADVOCATE ON THIS. >> Reporter: HE ADMITTED 1479 01:21:52,912 --> 01:21:56,149 REGGIE KIMBRO HAD FOOLED HIM >> I'LL JUST BE COMPLETELY 100% 1480 01:21:56,149 --> 01:22:00,453 HONEST WITH YOU. THE WAY HE LIED WAS CONVINCING 1481 01:22:00,453 --> 01:22:06,426 YOU SHOULD SEE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE POSITIVE THIS 1482 01:22:06,426 --> 01:22:10,764 YOUNG MAN COULDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG. 1483 01:22:10,764 --> 01:22:12,899 >> MM-HM >> I KNOW BETTER 1484 01:22:12,899 --> 01:22:16,169 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE HOFFMAN IS STILL ON THE FORCE AT 1485 01:22:16,169 --> 01:22:19,939 PLANO PD BY CHOICE, HE IS NO LONGER 1486 01:22:19,939 --> 01:22:23,176 INVESTIGATING SEX CRIMES REGGIE KIMBRO DID NOT WANT TO 1487 01:22:23,176 --> 01:22:26,980 TALK WITH US ANY MORE THAN SOME OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES 1488 01:22:26,980 --> 01:22:30,350 THAT FAILED TO PURSUE HIM. EVEN SO, WE MAY NOT HAVE HEARD 1489 01:22:30,350 --> 01:22:33,486 THE LAST OF HIM. POLICE AND PROSECUTORS ARE 1490 01:22:33,486 --> 01:22:36,723 LOOKING INTO HIS PAST TO SEE IF THERE ARE OTHER VICTIMS. 1491 01:22:36,723 --> 01:22:40,460 THIS ISN'T JUST HAPPENING IN TEXAS. 1492 01:22:40,460 --> 01:22:43,697 ACROSS THE COUNTRY, RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY 1493 01:22:43,697 --> 01:22:46,433 UNDERREPORTED CRIMES, IN PART BECAUSE WOMEN OFTEN FEEL THAT 1494 01:22:46,433 --> 01:22:49,135 THE PROCESS OF FILING CHARGES IS DIFFICULT, UNPLEASANT, OR 1495 01:22:49,135 --> 01:22:52,906 HUMILIATING. AND THEY'RE AFRAID THEY WON'T BE 1496 01:22:52,906 --> 01:22:56,142 BELIEVED AND THIS STORY SEEMS TO FIT THAT 1497 01:22:56,142 --> 01:22:58,945 PERFECTLY. >> THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THAT 1498 01:22:58,945 --> 01:23:01,881 CAUSES RAPE. AND THAT'S A RAPIST. 1499 01:23:01,881 --> 01:23:04,818 IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WEAR IT'S NOT WHERE YOU ARE 1500 01:23:04,818 --> 01:23:08,621 IT'S NOT IF YOU DRINK. ALL THOSE THINGS ARE IRRELEVANT. 1501 01:23:08,621 --> 01:23:11,324 THE NEXT STEP IS WORKIN' WITH PROSECUTORS TO SUCCESSFULLY 1502 01:23:11,324 --> 01:23:15,161 PROSECUTE THESE CASES. BUT THAT STARTS WITH EDUCATING 1503 01:23:15,161 --> 01:23:18,398 THE JURY POOL. THE JURORS HAVE TO UNDERSTAND 1504 01:23:18,398 --> 01:23:23,303 THAT IF A GIRL'S NOT ABLE TO CONSENT, THAT IS RAPE. 1505 01:23:23,303 --> 01:23:26,072 >> Reporter: REGGIE KIMBRO WILL SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN 1506 01:23:26,072 --> 01:23:30,210 PRISON NOW FAMILIES ARE DEALING WITH 1507 01:23:30,210 --> 01:23:33,613 THE WRECKAGE HE LEFT BEHIND AS WELL AS THE SENSE THAT THOSE WHO 1508 01:23:33,613 --> 01:23:37,083 WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN DID THE OPPOSITE, 1509 01:23:37,083 --> 01:23:44,991 PUTTING A RAPIST AND MURDERER BACK ON THE STREET AGAIN AND 1510 01:23:44,991 --> 01:23:47,160 AGAIN. >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 1511 01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:50,930 OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY 1512 01:23:50,930 --> 01:23:52,565 AT 9:00, 8:00 CENTRAL. AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU 1513 01:23:52,565 --> 01:23:56,336 EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS." 1514 01:23:56,336 --> 01:23:59,806 I'M LESTER HOLT. FOR ALL OF US AT NBC NEWS, GOOD 1515 01:23:59,806 --> 01:24:00,040 FOR ALL OF US AT NBC NEWS, GOOD NIGHT.