>> A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LAWYER,
RAPED AND MURDERED.
HER HUSBAND AT ODDS WITH THE
POLICE.
>> I SAID, "GET OUT OF MY
HOUSE, AND DON'T EVER COME
BACK."
>> A FLASH OF ANGER TURNED A
GRIEVING WIDOWER INTO A SUSPECT.
>> YOU SORT OF SCRATCH YOUR HEAD
AND SAY, "WELL, COULD HE HAVE
DONE SOMETHING LIKE THAT?"
>> WOULD AN FBI PROFILER'S
PORTRAIT OF THE KILLER CHANGE
EVERYTHING?
>> HEAVY DRINKER, DRIFTED FROM
JOB TO JOB, PERSONALITY OF A
SNAKE.
>> WHO KILLED
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER?
A 15-YEAR JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE
AND REDEMPTION.
A MYSTERY IN THE MOUNTAIN.
>> YOUR HEART FEELS LIKE IT'S IN
A VICE, AND IT JUST FEELS LIKE
SOMEBODY'S JUST TIGHTENING THAT
VICE.
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>> HI. I'M PAULA ZAHN, AND
TONIGHT, WE'RE ON THE CASE IN
TIJERAS, NEW MEXICO, JUST
OUTSIDE OF ALBUQUERQUE, WHERE A
YOUNG WIFE DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A
TRACE.
THE CASE WOULD TAKE
INVESTIGATORS ON A TRAIL OF
HORROR ACROSS STATE LINES, BUT
IT WOULD TAKE MORE THAN A DECADE
BEFORE THEY WOULD GET CLOSE TO
LEARNING WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN
THAT QUIET MOUNTAIN TOWN.
THURSDAY, MAY 12th.
FOR CHRIS AND
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER, IT WAS A
TIME TO CELEBRATE.
THE YOUNG COUPLE HAD JUST BOUGHT
A NEW HOME AND WERE PREPARING TO
MOVE TO COLORADO.
>> I RENTED A U-HAUL TRAILER,
AND WE'D PACKED UP THE WHOLE
HOUSE.
AND THAT SATURDAY WAS GONNA BE
OUR 5th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
>> CHRIS GOT HOME AROUND NOON.
NO ONE WAS HOME.
BUT KATHRYN'S CAR WAS PARKED IN
FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
CHRIS CALLED HER OFFICE TO SEE
IF THEY HAD HEARD FROM HER, BUT
NO ONE HAD.
>> I FIGURED, WELL, MAYBE SHE
HAD BEEN PICKED UP BY A FRIEND
OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, TO GO
SOMEWHERE SINCE HER CAR WAS
STILL THERE.
>> KATHRYN WAS A LAWYER, THE
KIND OF PERSON TO DOT HER I's
AND CROSS HER T's.
IT SEEMED OUT OF CHARACTER FOR
HER NOT TO LEAVE A NOTE OR
MESSAGE.
>> AT WHAT POINT DID YOU REALLY
BEGIN TO PANIC?
>> 3:00.
I JUST HAD THE STRANGEST
FEELING COME OVER ME.
FOR SOME REASON, I JUST THOUGHT,
"WELL, I'M GONNA WALK AROUND THE
HOUSE, SEE IF THERE'S ANY
FOOTPRINTS OR SEE IF SHE, YOU
KNOW, MAYBE TOOK OFF IN THAT
DIRECTION, OR WHAT.
>> INSIDE THE HOUSE, CHRIS
NOTICED THAT KATHRYN'S PURSE AND
BRIEFCASE WERE GONE.
BUT HER WEDDING RING WAS STILL
THERE.
SHE NEVER LEFT THE HOUSE WITHOUT
IT.
CHRIS CALLED POLICE.
>> I JUST TOLD THEM THAT I'D
LIKE SOMEBODY TO COME OUT HERE
SO I CAN TALK TO SOMEBODY ABOUT
IT BECAUSE I'M WORRIED ABOUT HER
IN A MAJOR WAY.
>> WHAT WAS THEIR RESPONSE?
>> THEY SENT A DEPUTY OUT AND
FILLED OUT A MISSING-PERSONS
REPORT, AND HE SAID, "WELL, YOU
KNOW, WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES."
YOU KNOW, "IF YOU HEAR
SOMETHING, GIVE US A CALL."
>> CHRIS CALLED FAMILY, FRIENDS,
ANYONE HE CAN THINK OF WHO MIGHT
HAVE SEEN OR SPOKEN TO KATHRYN
THAT AFTERNOON.
NO ONE HAD.
A FULL DAY PASSED WITH NO SIGNS
OF KATHRYN.
CHRIS CALLED POLICE AGAIN.
>> "I'D LIKE YOU TO START COMING
OUT HERE AND TRY TO SEARCH FOR
HER."
AND, "OH, WELL, WE CAN'T QUITE
DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
WE ALWAYS WAIT 48 HOURS BEFORE
WE DO ANYTHING."
AND I'M GOING, "HOLY MACKEREL."
YOU KNOW, "48 HOURS?"
>> CHRIS WANTED MORE URGENCY IN
THE RESPONSE IN THE
INVESTIGATION OF HER MISSING
STATUS, BUT THE TRUTH OF THE
MATTER IS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, ON
THAT PARTICULAR TIME, THERE WAS
JUST SIMPLY SOMEONE THAT MAYBE
DECIDED THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT TO
COME HOME.
>> STILL, POLICE DID RETURN TO
THE RESIDENCE FOR A MORE
THOROUGH SEARCH OF THE HOUSE.
>> NO FORCED ENTRY, NO
RANSACKING OF THE HOUSE, NOTHING
THAT APPEARED TO BE CONSISTENT
WITH SOMEONE BLITZING INTO THE
HOME AND SEIZING CONTROL OF
KATHRYN.
>> CHRIS THOUGHT INVESTIGATORS
WERE MOVING TOO SLOW, SO HE
DECIDED TO TAKE A MORE ACTIVE
ROLE.
HE ORGANIZED SEARCH PARTIES TO
GO UP INTO THE RUGGED MOUNTAINS
NEAR HIS HOME ON HORSEBACK.
>> WE TRAILERED OUR HORSES UP TO
WHERE THEY WERE LIVING AT THE
TIME AND WENT LOOKING FOR HER.
WE SPENT THAT TIME, THAT DAY, TO
NO AVAIL.
WE, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T FIND HER.
>> FLIERS OFFERING A $10,000
REWARD WERE POSTED ALL OVER
TOWN.
FRIENDS AND FAMILY MANNED THE
DOCKWEILLERS' HOME PHONE
24 HOURS A DAY.
>> IT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT CASE
TO THE COMMUNITY.
KATHRYN HAD GRADUATED FROM U&M
LAW SCHOOL.
SHE WAS AN ATTORNEY.
SHE WAS MAKING SOLID, SAFE
CHOICES IN LIFE, AND SO THOSE
ARE THE KINDS OF CASES THAT SEND
SHOCK WAVES THROUGH YOUR
COMMUNITY.
>> POLICE RATCHETED UP THEIR
EFFORTS, TOO.
THEY SENT BLOODHOUNDS TO JOIN
THE SEARCH.
FORENSIC SPECIALISTS DUSTED
KATHRYN'S CAR, WHICH WAS STILL
IN THE DRIVEWAY, FOR PRINTS.
AFTER A FRUSTRATING START, TIPS
STARTED POURING IN.
>> WE MUST HAVE GOTTEN 50 OR 60
LEADS FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS AND
GAVE EVERY ONE OF THEM TO THE
SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
>> WERE YOU CONFIDENT THE POLICE
WERE GONNA FOLLOW UP ON THESE
LEADS?
>> WELL, SURE, YEAH, YEAH.
>> BUT DID THEY?
>> NO.
NO, THEY DIDN'T.
AND I KEPT GETTING EXCUSES.
>> THE SHEER VOLUME OF LEADS
MADE IT DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHICH
ONE DESERVED A CLOSER LOOK.
FOR THE DETECTIVES WORKING THE
CASE, IT WAS A DAUNTING TASK.
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO CATCH
INVESTIGATORS' ATTENTION WAS
SOMETHING KATHRYN HERSELF HAD
SAID TO CHRIS ABOUT A POSSIBLE
BUYER FOR THEIR HOME.
>> A MAN HAD COME BY TO LOOK AT
THE HOUSE AND THAT HE SEEMED
REALLY INTERESTED.
AND SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER HIS
NAME, AND THAT HE WAS GONNA COME
BACK AND SEE THE HOME.
>> THEN, A NEIGHBOR REPORTED
SEEING A RED SPORTS CAR SPEEDING
OUT OF THE DOCKWEILLERS'
DRIVEWAY THE MORNING KATHRYN
DISAPPEARED.
>> SHE SAW A WOMAN ARGUING WITH
A DRIVER.
YOU KNOW, LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE
ARGUING.
>> DID SHE RECOGNIZE THE WOMAN?
>> SHE REALLY COULDN'T SAY FOR
SURE THAT IT WAS KATHY, BUT SHE
KNOWS IT WAS OUR DRIVEWAY.
>> POLICE RECEIVED ANOTHER TIP
FROM SOMEONE WHO LIVED NEAR THE
DOCKWEILLERS' WHO'VE REPORTED
SEEING SOMETHING THAT DAY THAT
SEEMED VERY SUSPICIOUS.
>> SHE WAS DRIVING BY ONE OF THE
INTERSECTIONS SOUTH OF OUR HOUSE
AND SAID SHE SAW A MAN THAT SHE
KNEW THAT HAD A CRIMINAL
HISTORY.
AND SHE SAID, WHEN SHE WENT BY,
THAT THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF HER
NECK STOOD UP.
JUST GAVE HER THE CREEPS.
>> POLICE WERE ABLE TO TRACK
DOWN THAT MAN.
HIS NAME WAS JOHN GREEN, AND HE
HAD A BROTHER, JIM, WHO LIVED IN
THE DOCKWEILLERS' NEIGHBORHOOD.
JIM TOLD POLICE HIS BROTHER HAD
BEEN WITH HIM, WORKING ON A CAR
TOGETHER, THE DAY KATHRYN WENT
MISSING.
NONE OF THE LEADS WERE PANNING
OUT, AND TERRIFYING SCENARIOS
STARTED FILLING CHRIS' HEAD.
>> I IMAGINED HER BEING GANG
RAPED.
I IMAGINED THAT SHE HAD BEEN
TAKEN TO MEXICO AND SOLD.
>> THEN, THREE DAYS AFTER
KATHRYN'S DISAPPEARANCE, CHRIS
RECEIVED ANOTHER CALL.
SOMEONE WHO HAD SEEN THE FLIER
REPORTED SEEING KATHRYN WITH TWO
MEN AT A RESTAURANT IN EL PASO,
TEXAS, ALMOST 300 MILES AWAY.
>> SHE WAS BETWEEN THEM.
SHE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE SHE WAS
HAPPY.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WENT, "HOLY
MACKEREL."
>> CHRIS DECIDED TO GO TO
EL PASO TO PERSONALLY CHECK OUT
THE STORY.
HE BOOKED A FLIGHT.
ONE TIP COMING FROM SOMEBODY WHO
SAID SHE WAS PRETTY SURE SHE SAW
KATHRYN WITH TWO MEN IN TEXAS.
>> MM-HMM.
>> LED YOU ON YOUR OWN
INVESTIGATIVE PATH.
>> MM-HMM.
IT SEEMED LIKE THE MOST CREDIBLE
THING TO THAT POINT THAT I COULD
ACTUALLY DO MYSELF.
>> BUT BEFORE CHRIS COULD LEAVE
TOWN, HE RECEIVED A CALL FROM
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
>> THE LEAD DETECTIVE ASKED ME
TO COME DOWN TO THE POLICE
STATION.
HE WANTED TO ASK ME SOME MORE
QUESTIONS.
I SAID, "SURE, FINE."
>> CHRIS SOON REALIZED THAT
DETECTIVES HAD MORE THAN JUST A
FEW QUESTIONS.
THEY WERE TURNING UP THE
PRESSURE ON HIM.
>> I WENT, "OH, GEEZ.
HERE WE GO."
YOU KNOW, AND --
>> YOU KNEW.
>> OH, GOSH.
>> THEY WERE LOOKING AT YOU.
>> IT WAS --
IT WAS CLEAR AS DAY.
>> THAT'S PROBABLY THE FIRST
PERSON YOU ALWAYS LOOK AT.
YOU SHOULD ALWAYS INVESTIGATE
PEOPLE THAT ARE CLOSEST BECAUSE
YOU USUALLY KNOW THE PERSON
PROBABLY THAT HAS DONE THIS.
SO IT WAS --
DEFINITELY THEY NEEDED TO
INVESTIGATE CHRIS.
>> CHRIS DOCKWEILLER WAS ABOUT
TO BECOME THE PRIME SUSPECT IN
HIS WIFE'S DISAPPEARANCE.
>> KATHY DOCKWEILLER HAD BEEN
MISSING FOR DAYS.
INVESTIGATORS HAD RECEIVED
SEVERAL TIPS, BUT THEIR
SUSPICIONS KEPT COMING BACK TO
THE LAST PERSON WHO HAD SEEN
HER -- HER HUSBAND, CHRIS.
CHRIS DOCKWEILLER'S WORLD HAD
BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
HE WAS SPENDING EVERY WAKING
MINUTE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT
HAD HAPPENED TO HIS WIFE.
HE WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR
EL PASO, TEXAS, AFTER SOMEONE
REPORTED SEEING HER THERE.
BUT BEFORE HE COULD LEAVE,
INVESTIGATORS ASKED HIM TO COME
TO HEADQUARTERS.
THEY WANTED TO TALK WITH HIM.
AND THE INVESTIGATORS START
ASKING YOU QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS
YOU SAID YOU HAD ANSWERED
REPEATEDLY.
WERE YOU FEELING THE HEAT?
>> I JUST WENT, "OKAY.
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND.
I DIDN'T FALL OFF THE TURNIP
WAGON YESTERDAY.
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND."
I SAID, "APPARENTLY, YOU'RE NOT
BELIEVING ME, AND, APPARENTLY,
I'M THE ONLY ONE ON YOUR LIST.
>> WHY DO YOU THINK THEY DIDN'T
BELIEVE YOU?
>> GOSH. I'M THE EASY ONE.
BING, BANG, YOU'RE DONE.
>> TIME AND TIME AGAIN, CHRIS
HAD TOLD DEFECTIVES HE HAD BEEN
IN BUSINESS MEETINGS ALL
MORNING.
BUT POLICE DIDN'T SEEM TO
BELIEVE HIM.
CHRIS WAS SHAKEN BY THE
INTERROGATION, AND HE HEADED TO
EL PASO, DETERMINED TO FIND
KATHRYN ON HIS OWN.
TWO DAYS INTO THE TRIP, HE
RECEIVED A CALL.
KATHRYN HAD BEEN FOUND.
HIS WIFE WAS DEAD.
>> I-I JUST, UH --
I FREAKED OUT.
I RAN OUT THE DOOR.
I HAD SO MUCH ADRENALINE RUNNING
THROUGHOUT MY BODY THAT I RAN
ABOUT THREE OR FOUR OR FIVE
BLOCKS AS FAST AS I COULD.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I WAS
THINKING AT ALL.
>> IT WAS A TRAGIC END TO THE
FIVE-DAY SEARCH.
KATHRYN'S BODY WAS FOUND BURIED
IN A SHALLOW GRAVE IN THE
MOUNTAINS NEAR HER HOME IN
TIJERAS.
>> A COUPLE WHO WERE WALKING
THEIR DOG ACTUALLY FOUND
MRS. DOCKWEILLER'S BODY.
>> THE DOG HAD RUN TO THE SITE
AND STARTED DIGGING.
IT WAS A GRUESOME DISCOVERY.
>> AS WE GO IN A LITTLE WAYS AND
THEN BACK OFF TO THE RIGHT HERE
IS WHERE HER BODY WAS ACTUALLY
FOUND.
REALLY WASN'T VISIBLE TO THE
HUMAN EYE.
YOU COULD SEE JUST A LITTLE BIT
OF HER FACE STICKING OUT THROUGH
THE LEAVES.
HER HANDS HAD BEEN BOUND BEHIND
HER BACK.
AND HER LEGS WERE BOUND.
AND SHE WAS FULLY CLOTHED.
>> INVESTIGATORS CAREFULLY
ASSESS THE CRIME SCENE.
>> SHE HAD BEEN BOUND, WHICH
WOULD SUGGEST THAT THERE WAS
SOME LEVEL OF CONTROL FOR SOME
PERIOD OF TIME PRIOR TO HER
DEATH.
SHE WASN'T IMMEDIATELY KILLED OR
THERE WOULD BE NO REASON FOR THE
BINDINGS.
THERE WAS A SUSPICION THAT COMES
WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT. AS WELL.
>> THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTED KATHY
HAD BEEN STRANGLED TO DEATH.
>> THERE WERE LIGATURE MARKS ON
KATHRYN'S NECK THAT APPEARED
CONSISTENT WITH SOME SORT OF A
WOVEN ROPE MATERIAL.
>> DESPITE THE FACT THAT KATHRYN
WAS TIED UP, SOME INVESTIGATORS
FELT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN
EVIDENCE THAT KATHRYN KNEW HER
ATTACKER.
>> THERE APPEARED TO BE NO SIGN
OF A STRUGGLE.
WE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED SOME KIND
OF BRUISING OR MAYBE ABRASIONS,
AND THERE WASN'T, AND THERE DID
NOT SEEM TO BE ANY DEFENSIVE
WOUNDS.
>> POLICE ALSO FOUND DISTINCT
TIRE TRACKS AT THE CRIME SCENE
THAT LED TO KATHY'S BODY.
BUT BEFORE THEY COULD SECURE THE
AREA FOR PROCESSING, IT STARTED
TO RAIN.
>> AND THE SKIES HAD OPENED UP.
IT WAS POURING RAIN.
IT WAS A MUDDY MESS, AND ANY
OPPORTUNITY THAT WE WOULD HAVE
HAD TO HAVE GOTTEN FOOTPRINTS OR
TIRE TRACKS OF THE VEHICLE THAT
HAD WENT IN THERE WERE GONE.
IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT BLOW TO OUR
INVESTIGATION.
>> WITH PRECIOUS EVIDENCE WASHED
AWAY, DETECTIVES FOCUSED ON THE
KILLER'S CHOICE OF LOCATION.
>> THE PROPERTY THAT SHE WAS
LEFT ON WAS FOR SALE, AND THAT
WAS KIND OF CURIOUS BECAUSE WHEN
YOU UNDERSTAND THE MOUNTAINS AND
THE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF
ACRES THAT SOMEONE COULD HAVE
WANTED TO TAKE A BODY TO AND
HAVE IT HIDDEN AND BURIED FROM A
HOMICIDE, YOU'RE KIND OF CURIOUS
AS TO WHY THEY WOULD PICK A
PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT YOU KNOW
PEOPLE MAY GO TO.
>> THE DETAILS OF HIS YOUNG
WIFE'S MURDER WERE OVERWHELMING
FOR CHRIS.
>> IT'S HOW SHE DIED.
THERE WAS, I BELIEVE, 23 FEET OF
DUCT TAPE ON HER BODY, 18 FEET
OF ROPE.
HOW BOUND CAN YOU GET?
SHE HAD DUCT TAPE OVER HER
MOUTH.
JUST HOW YOUNG SHE WAS AND HOW
MUCH OF A LIFE WE DIDN'T HAVE
TOGETHER.
>> CHRIS' GRIEVING QUICKLY
TURNED TO ANGER WHEN POLICE SAID
THEY WANTED TO QUESTION HIM
AGAIN AND SEARCH HIS HOME FOR A
THIRD TIME.
HE FELT POLICE HAD BOTCHED THE
EARLY STAGES OF THE
INVESTIGATION AND HAD TREATED
HIM AS A SUSPECT WHEN THEY
SHOULD HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING UP ON
VALUABLE LEADS THAT WERE COMING
IN.
AS DETECTIVES SEARCHED HIS
HOUSE, CHRIS REACHED HIS
BREAKING POINT.
>> I DON'T REMEMBER EVER BEING
MORE UPSET IN MY LIFE...
WITHOUT HITTING SOMETHING, YOU
KNOW?
I, UH...
I USED SEVERAL FOUR-LETTER
WORDS.
AND I SAID, "GET OUT," AND I
SAID, "DON'T EVER COME BACK
WITHOUT A WARRANT."
>> YOU'VE JUST DESCRIBED HOW
UPSET YOU WERE.
>> MM-HMM.
>> WAS THERE ANY PART OF YOU
THAT REALIZED HOW MUCH MORE
GUILTY THAT MADE YOU LOOK TO
INVESTIGATORS?
>> I REALLY DIDN'T CARE.
I KNEW THEY COULDN'T PROVE IT.
I REALLY DIDN'T CARE WHAT THEY
THOUGHT ABOUT ME.
I REALLY DIDN'T CARE.
>> WHEN THE AUTOPSY WAS
COMPLETED, IT CONFIRMED THE
EVIDENCE FOUND AT THE CRIME
SCENE.
KATHRYN HAD BEEN SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED AND STRANGLED.
THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS
DETERMINED TO BE ASPHYXIATION.
IT WAS BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE A
VIOLENT CRIME OF PASSION.
AND DETECTIVES BELIEVED THAT
CHRIS DOCKWEILLER, THE MAN WHO
HAD ALREADY FLASHED HIS ANGER AT
THEM, WAS THE LIKELIEST SUSPECT.
>> THERE WERE A VARIETY OF
DIFFERENT LEADS THAT CONTINUED
TO COME IN, BUT IF YOU WERE TO
DEFINE ONE CENTRAL THEME TO THE
CASE, IT REMAINED WITH
CHRIS DOCKWEILLER.
>> EVEN MEMBERS OF KATHRYN'S
FAMILY STARTED TO WONDER IF
CHRIS COULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.
THEY THOUGHT HIS LACK OF EMOTION
AFTER LOSING HIS WIFE IN SUCH A
TERRIBLE WAY WAS COLD-HEARTED
AND SUSPICIOUS.
>> I COULDN'T BRING A TEAR TO MY
EYE.
I JUST FELT THE FLOOD BEHIND MY
EYES, BUT IT WOULDN'T COME OUT
'CAUSE I WAS SO FREAKED OUT
ABOUT BEING THE PRIMARY SUSPECT.
IT PROBABLY TOOK A MONTH BEFORE
I CRIED AT THE CRYPT.
>> THE INVESTIGATION WAS
ONGOING, AND YOU WERE SUSPECT
NUMBER ONE.
>> IT WAS AN OVERWHELMING
FEELING -- HAVING LOST YOUR
WIFE, HAVING LAW ENFORCEMENT
COMING AFTER YOU.
YOUR HEART FEELS LIKE IT'S IN A
VICE, AND IT JUST FEELS LIKE
SOMEBODY'S JUST TIGHTENING THAT
VICE.
>> COMING UP, DETECTIVES CLOSE
IN ON CHRIS DOCKWEILLER.
BUT DID THEY HAVE THE RIGHT MAN?
DID YOU THINK THAT YOU MIGHT END
UP BEING CHARGED IN YOUR WIFE'S
MURDER?
>> IT WAS ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT.
>> 29-YEAR-OLD
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER WAS
STRANGLED AND BURIED IN A
SHALLOW GRAVE.
INVESTIGATORS HAD MADE HER
HUSBAND, CHRIS, THE FOCUS OF THE
INVESTIGATION, BUT COULD THEY
PROVE HE KILLED HER?
POLICE WERE WATCHING
CHRIS DOCKWEILLER CLOSELY, BUT
NOW HE HAD HIRED A LAWYER AND
WAS REFUSING TO COOPERATE.
SO INVESTIGATORS TALKED WITH
PEOPLE WHO KNEW THE COUPLE WELL
AND BEGAN TO DEVELOP A PICTURE
OF A TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP.
>> SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT
CAME OUT ON THOSE INTERVIEWS
SUGGESTED THAT POSSIBLY THEIR
MARRIAGE HAD BEEN STRAINED.
>> CHRIS WAS CALLED POSSESSIVE
AND JEALOUS.
MORE THAN ONE PERSON COMMENTED
ON HIS TEMPER.
POLICE ALSO DISCOVERED THAT
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A CONFLICT
OVER THE COUPLE'S PLAN TO MOVE
TO COLORADO.
>> THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS,
WHETHER OR NOT SHE WAS AS
PASSIONATE ABOUT MOVING AS
CHRIS WAS.
THERE WERE SOME SUGGESTIONS THAT
SHE MIGHT NOT WANT TO MOVE WITH
CHRIS AND SEPARATE AT THAT TIME.
>> AND EVEN MORE DISTURBING WERE
THE TWO LIFE-INSURANCE POLICIES
ON KATHRYN, TOTALING $239,000
THAT HAD CHRIS AS THE
BENEFICIARY.
SOME OF KATHRYN'S FAMILY SAID
CHRIS SEEMED MORE CONCERNED
ABOUT MONEY THAN HIS WIFE'S
DEATH.
>> AND I BELIEVE THAT THE FAMILY
HAD TO PAY FOR HER FUNERAL AND
ALL OF THOSE RELATED EXPENSES,
AND I THINK THAT THERE WERE SOME
BAD FEELINGS THERE.
>> I SAID, "I'M JUST GONNA LET
MYSELF FEEL THESE FEELINGS.
I'M NOT GONNA STIFLE THEM.
JUST GONNA LET THEM COME.
AND SO THEY CAME.
AND I CRIED.
AND I JUST...
HOPING THAT THIS TERRIBLE GRIEF
AND THIS RAGE WOULD GO AWAY.
>> AND IT WASN'T JUST THE POLICE
THAT HAD ZEROED IN ON
CHRIS DOCKWEILLER.
MEDIA STORIES FEATURED HIM AS
THE PRIME SUSPECT.
>> ALL ALONG, IT SEEMED LIKE
THEY WERE FOCUSED ON
CHRIS DOCKWEILLER.
>> AS TIME GOES BY AND NOBODY'S
FOUND AND THE POLICE AREN'T
SOLVING ANYTHING, THEN YOU SORT
OF SCRATCH YOUR HEAD AND SAY,
"WELL, GOSH," YOU KNOW?
"COULD HE HAVE DONE SOMETHING
LIKE THAT?"
>> DID YOU FEEL LIKE PEOPLE
THOUGHT YOU HAD KILLED YOUR
WIFE?
>> OH, WITHOUT A QUESTION.
>> DID YOU THINK YOU MIGHT END
UP BEING CHARGED IN YOUR WIFE'S
MURDER?
>> IT WAS ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT,
EXCEPT FOR FINDING OUT WHO DID
IT.
>> ALL THE PRESSURE TOOK ITS
TOLL.
SIX MONTHS AFTER KATHRYN'S BODY
HAD BEEN FOUND, CHRIS SAYS HE
WAS EMOTIONALLY SPENT.
HE DECIDED TO LEAVE THE STATE.
>> I'D HAD IT.
I WAS JUST MENTALLY DRAINED.
AND I JUST KNEW I HAD TO GET OUT
OF NEW MEXICO BECAUSE I JUST HAD
HAD IT.
>> THE INVESTIGATION WAS AT A
STANDSTILL.
POLICE COULDN'T PROVE CHRIS WAS
THE KILLER, BUT THEY REFUSED TO
CLEAR HIM.
AND WITHOUT ANY OTHER SOLID
LEADS, THE CASE WENT COLD.
>> ANY OF THE SUSPECTS THAT WE
DID HAVE HAD LEGITIMATE ALIBIS
THAT WE WERE NOT ABLE TO
PENETRATE ANY HOLES IN, AND ANY
OTHER LEADS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO
TRACK DOWN, THEY JUST DIED.
THEY JUST TURNED INTO DEAD ENDS.
>> AND 13 LONG YEARS WOULD GO
BY BEFORE A CASUAL GET-TOGETHER
BETWEEN TWO OLD FRIENDS REVIVED
THE CASE.
FORMER FBI PROFILER BILL PETERS
MET WITH THE NEW SHERIFF OF
BERNALILLO COUNTY.
>> WE WERE HAVING COFFEE, AND HE
WAS GONNA START A COLD-CASE
SQUAD.
SAY, "HEY, I'D LIKE TO DO THAT,
BUT I WANT ONE THING UNDERSTOOD,
IS THE FIRST CASE I WANT IS THE
DOCKWEILLER HOMICIDE."
AND HE SAYS, "OKAY."
>> JUST BY COINCIDENCE, PETERS
ALREADY KNEW A LOT ABOUT
KATHRYN'S MURDER.
HE FIRST GOT INVOLVED YEARS
EARLIER WHEN A DETECTIVE, WHO
WASN'T EVEN ASSIGNED TO THE
CASE, DECIDED TO DO SOME DIGGING
ON HIS OWN.
HE HAPPENED TO KNOW ABOUT
PETERS' BACKGROUND AS AN FBI
CRIMINAL PROFILER AND ASKED HIM
TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE CASE FILE.
>> HE BROUGHT IT OUT TO MY
HOUSE.
WE HAD IT SCATTERED ALL OVER THE
LIVING-ROOM FLOOR.
I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP HIM
OUT.
>> PETERS REVIEWED THE AUTOPSY
REPORT, INTERVIEWS, AND
CRIME-SCENE PHOTOS, AND, FROM
HIS UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AS A
PROFILER, WAS ABLE TO DRAW A
CHILLING PORTRAIT OF THE CRIME
AND THE KILLER.
>> WELL, FIRST OFF, WHOEVER DID
IT OBVIOUSLY HAD ABSOLUTE
CONTROL OVER HER 'CAUSE THERE
WAS REALLY NO INDICATION SHE
MIGHT PUT UP ANY STRUGGLE OR WAS
ABLE TO PUT UP ANY STRUGGLE AT
ALL.
ALSO, SHE HAD TAPE PLACED ON HER
MOUTH, AND THAT WAS TO KEEP HER
HOLLERING AND SCREAMING, WHICH
INDICATES THAT THAT WAS BEFORE
THE SEXUAL ASSAULT, BECAUSE HE
DIDN'T WANT HER DEAD WHEN HE DID
THE SEXUAL ASSAULT.
HE WANTED HER ALIVE WHEN HE DID
THAT.
>> AFTER ANALYZING THE EVIDENCE,
PETERS CAME UP WITH A REMARKABLY
SPECIFIC PROFILE OF KATHRYN'S
KILLER.
THINK THE GUY YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
IS GONNA BE A CAUCASIAN MALE,
ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS THE
VICTIM, PLUS OR MINUS A YEAR OR
TWO.
HE'LL BE A DRIFTER, DRIFTS FROM
PLACE TO PLACE.
NOT UNCOMMON, HE'D WORK AS A
ROOFER OR A TRUCK DRIVER OR WITH
A ROAD TRUCKER.
HE IS AN EX-CON.
HE HAS BEEN DOWN HARD FOR THE
SAME KIND OF AN OFFENSE, FOR AT
LEAST A SEXUAL-ASSAULT OFFENSE.
>> NOW, HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?
>> SHE WAS CHOKED WITH A PIECE
OF ROPE.
AND THE ROPE -- THE LIGATURE
MARKS WERE AROUND HER NECK AND
GOT UP TO ABOUT THE EAR, BEHIND
HER, AND DISAPPEARED -- WEREN'T
THERE.
SO THAT ROPE WAS NEVER PULLED
AROUND HER NECK AND TIGHTENED,
BUT IT WAS GRABBED AHOLD AND
PULLED UP AGAINST HER THROAT,
LIKE A BRIDLE.
AND THAT'S WHY I SUGGESTED THIS
GUY'S BEEN AN EX-CON, BECAUSE
THAT'S THE WAY A RAPE WILL GO
DOWN IN A PENITENTIARY.
NOW THAT HE WAS JOINING THE
COLD-CASE UNIT, PETERS WOULD
ACTUALLY BE WORKING THE CASE
HIMSELF, AND HE WOULD USE HIS
PROFILE TO MOVE THE
INVESTIGATION IN A VERY
DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
COMING UP, A NEW SUSPECT WITH
THE PROFILE OF A KILLER.
>> HEAVY DRINKER.
DRIFTED FROM JOB TO JOB.
PERSONALITY OF A SNAKE.
>> KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER'S MURDER
INVESTIGATION HAD BEEN
ABANDONED, REDUCED TO A DUSTY
FOLDER IN A FILE CABINET.
BUT THANKS TO A NEW COLD-CASE
UNIT AND A FORMER FBI PROFILER,
THAT WAS ALL ABOUT TO CHANGE.
BILL PETERS JUST COULDN'T
UNDERSTAND WHY THE ORIGINAL
INVESTIGATION WAS SO FOCUSED ON
KATHRYN'S HUSBAND, CHRIS, AS THE
SUSPECT.
NOT ONLY DID HE NOT FIT HIS
PROFILE OF THE KILLER, HE ALSO
SEEMED TO HAVE A SOLID ALIBI.
POLICE KNEW HE HAD BEEN IN
MEETINGS IN DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE
ON THE DAY KATHRYN DISAPPEARED.
>> HE HAD A PRETTY GOOD ALIBI,
AND WHEN I SAW THAT, I SAID,
"WELL, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY
THEY WERE DOING ALL THIS
QUIDDLING AWAY BECAUSE THEY
COULDN'T DISPROVE HIS ALIBI."
>> WHEN PETERS REVIEWED THE CASE
FILE, HE WAS INTRIGUED BY
SOMEONE POLICE HAD LOOKED AT IN
THE EARLY DAYS OF THE
INVESTIGATION.
HIS NAME WAS JOHN GREEN, AND
THE MORE PETERS LEARNED ABOUT
HIM, THE MORE HE SEEMED TO
FIT HIS PROFILE OF THE KILLER.
>> HE WAS THE RIGHT AGE, HE HAS
THE RIGHT PERSONALITY, HEAVY
DRINKER, DRIFTED FROM JOB TO JOB
TO JOB TO JOB.
WAS MARRIED OFF AND ON.
HAS A PERSONALITY OF A SNAKE.
>> PETERS BELIEVED THE KILLER
WAS A LIKELY EX-CON AND SEXUAL
OFFENDER.
WHEN PETERS AND FELLOW DETECTIVE
GREGG MARCANTEL CHECKED GREEN'S
BACKGROUND, THEY FOUND A LONG
RAP SHEET THAT INCLUDED
KIDNAPPING, ROBBERY, AND RAPE.
>> IT WAS DISTURBING.
I MEAN, THERE WAS A LOT OF
SEXUAL VIOLENCE, A LOT OF ODD
BEHAVIOR IN HIS BACKGROUND.
>> THEY ALSO DISCOVER THAT GREEN
HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF KILLING A
WOMAN IN EL PASO, TEXAS, IN
1977.
THE GRUESOME DETAILS OF THAT
MURDER WERE EERILY SIMILAR TO
KATHRYN'S MURDER.
JOHN GUERRERO WAS A HOMICIDE
DETECTIVE IN THE TEXAS CASE.
>> THERE WAS SOME BRUISING ON
HER HANDS, AND SHE HAD SOME
MARKS UP AROUND HER NECK.
THE CRIME SCENE TELLS YOU THAT
SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO HIDE THE
BODY OR GET RID OF THE BODY.
>> GREEN WAS PAROLED AFTER
SERVING JUST SIX YEARS FOR THE
TEXAS MURDER.
AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM PRISON,
HE DECIDED TO SETTLE INTO
ALBUQUERQUE, WHERE HE HAD
FAMILY.
IN FACT, GREEN'S BROTHER LIVED
JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE
DOCKWEILLERS.
>> IT'S JUST A COUPLE HUNDRED
YARDS UP THE ROAD, ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE STREET.
>> WHEN KATHRYN WAS MURDERED,
DETECTIVES HAD INTERVIEWED BOTH
JOHN GREEN AND HIS BROTHER.
>> THEY GOT TO JOHN'S BROTHER,
AND HE SAID, "WELL, THAT DAY
THAT SHE WAS KILLED, JOHN AND I
WERE RIGHT HERE REBUILDING THIS
OLD CAR."
AND THEY KIND OF KISSED IT OFF,
BECAUSE THEY WERE LOOKING AT
SOME OTHER PEOPLE AT THE TIME.
>> INCLUDING CHRIS DOCKWEILLER.
>> OH, YEAH.
>> IT'S QUITE OBVIOUS THAT
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED
JOHN GREEN'S ALIBI THAT HE HAD
BEEN WITH HIS BROTHER JIM.
>> AT THAT POINT, I'M PRETTY
SURE THEY WERE STILL PRESSING
CHRIS.
THEY WERE JUST STILL REALLY
PRESSING HARD ON CHRIS.
>> BUT NOW, PETERS AND MARCANTEL
WERE DETERMINED TO PRESS JUST AS
HARD ON JOHN GREEN, ESPECIALLY
WHEN THEY DISCOVER THAT AN
EYEWITNESS HAD REPORTED SEEING A
MAN STANDING NEXT TO A BLUE VAN
NEAR THE SPOT WHERE KATHRYN'S
BODY WAS FOUND.
>> JEANS, A T-SHIRT, SANDY HAIR,
CAUCASIAN MALE, STANDING ON THE
ROADWAY, LOOKING BACK INTO THE
WOODS.
>> THAT DESCRIPTION FIT
JOHN GREEN PERFECTLY.
AT THE TIME, GREEN ALSO HAPPENED
TO DRIVE A BLUE CHEVY VAN.
THE PIECES WERE ALL FITTING
TOGETHER, BUT PETERS WANTED
MORE.
HE TRACKED DOWN GREEN'S EX-WIFE
IN TEXAS.
>> SHE HAD ACTUALLY TESTIFIED IN
THAT TEXAS TRIAL THAT HE WAS
CONVICTED OF, AND ONE OF THE
STATEMENTS SHE MADE TO POLICE
WAS, "I WON'T TELL A LIE TO
ANYBODY."
AND I THOUGHT, "WELL, LET ME GO
DOWN AND TALK TO HER, AND MAYBE
SHE WON'T TELL ME A LIE."
>> SO, PETERS MADE THE TRIP TO
TEXAS.
HE WAS SURPRISED BY THE
RECEPTION HE RECEIVED.
>> I THINK SHE WAS JUST WAITING.
IN FACT, I THINK SHE SAID
THAT -- "I WAS WONDERING WHEN
SOMEONE WOULD COME AND TALK TO
ME.
>> GREEN'S EX-WIFE OPENED UP TO
PETERS, DESCRIBING HER UNHAPPY
MARRIAGE.
>> SHE TOLD ME, "HE WAS THE LOVE
OF MY LIFE, AND HE WAS OFF
CHASING OTHER WOMEN ALL THE
TIME."
>> SHE SHARED A PAINFUL HISTORY
OF LIVING WITH AN UNFAITHFUL
HUSBAND AND THEN
MATTER-OF-FACTLY MENTIONED
SOMETHING THAT CAUGHT PETERS OFF
GUARD.
>> ALL OF A SUDDEN, SHE JUST
ASKED ME, "WELL, YOU KNOW ABOUT
THE CALENDAR, DON'T YOU?"
I NEVER HEARD OF A CALENDAR."
AND THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE
RECORDS THAT INDICATED THAT
SHE'D EVER SAID ANYTHING TO
ANYBODY ABOUT A CALENDAR OR A
DAY PLANNER.
I SAID, "WELL, TELL ME ABOUT
THAT AGAIN."
>> SO YOU COMPLETELY PLAYED
ALONG WITH IT?
>> YEAH.
I NEVER HEARD OF THIS CALENDAR
THING BEFORE.
>> PETERS LISTENED INTENTLY AS
THE WOMAN DESCRIBED SOMETHING
THAT HAPPENED NOT LONG AFTER
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER HAD BEEN
MURDERED.
SHE SAID, AFTER DOING SOME
SHOPPING, SHE KNOCKED OVER A
BAG, SPILLING GROCERIES ALL OVER
HER HUSBAND'S BLUE CHEVY VAN.
>> SHE SAID, "I HAD TO GET ON MY
HANDS AND KNEES AND PICK ALL
THIS STUFF, AND SOME OF IT WENT
UNDER THE SEAT.
AND I LOOKED UNDER THERE, AND
THERE WAS THIS CALENDAR."
>> THE BROWN, LEATHER-BOUND DAY
PLANNER HAD A NAME INSCRIBED ON
THE FRONT, A NAME THAT WAS
UNUSUAL AND HARD TO FORGET --
DOCKWEILLER.
>> SHE SAID, "IT WAS THAT GIRL
THAT WAS KILLED IN NEW MEXICO
WHILE WE WERE THERE.
AND IT'S UNDER THE DRIVER'S SIDE
FRONT SEAT OF HIS OLD VAN."
>> IN ALL YOUR YEARS OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT, HAVE YOU EVER
QUESTIONED SOMEONE LIKE JENNY
BEFORE WHERE SHE WOULDN'T LIE TO
YOU, VERIFIES THAT SHE HAD SEEN
THIS DAY PLANNER OF
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER'S IN HER
TRUCK, AND STILL TELLS YOU THAT
SHE'S STILL IN LOVE WITH HIM AND
THAT HE WAS THE LOVE OF HER
LIFE?
AND SHE KNEW HE WAS A MURDERER.
>> YEAH.
I'VE NEVER HAD TO INTERVIEW
SOMEBODY LIKE THAT.
>> IT WAS A STUNNING DISCOVERY.
GREEN'S WIFE SAID SHE CONFRONTED
HER HUSBAND ABOUT IT.
>> HE JUST EXPLAINED IT AWAY,
SAID IT WASN'T ANY OF HER
BUSINESS.
SHE JUST KIND OF LET IT GO
'CAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GO
BACK TO JAIL.
>> PETERS' COLD CASE HAD
SUDDENLY TURNED RED HOT.
HIS NEXT MOVE SEEMED OBVIOUS --
TRACK DOWN JOHN GREEN.
BUT IT WOULDN'T BE EASY.
>> I ASKED HER, THEN, OF COURSE,
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE JOHN
WAS?" AND SHE SAID, "WELL, I
THINK HE WAS IN WYOMING, THE
LAST I HEARD OF HIM."
>> COMING UP, THE SHOCKING
CONCLUSION OF THE MYSTERY IN THE
MOUNTAINS.
>> HE DIDN'T CARE.
HE DOESN'T CARE.
AND I THOUGHT I'D FORGIVE, BUT
ALL THAT RAGE CAME BACK.
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COLD-CASE INVESTIGATOR
BILL PETERS HAD ZEROED IN ON A
NEW SUSPECT IN THE
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER CASE -- A
PAROLEE WITH A HISTORY OF MURDER
AND SEXUAL ASSAULT.
JOHN GREEN HAD ELUDED LAW
ENFORCEMENT FOR YEARS, BUT
PETERS WAS DETERMINED TO BRING
HIM TO JUSTICE ONCE AND FOR ALL.
THE NEW SUSPECT, JOHN GREEN, WAS
A PERFECT FIT TO BILL PETERS'
PROFILE OF THE KILLER.
BUT THE BIG BREAK CAME FROM
GREEN'S EX-WIFE.
SHE SAID, NOT LONG AFTER THE
MURDER, SHE HAD SEEN KATHRYN'S
LEATHER DAY PLANNER IN HER
HUSBAND'S VAN.
IT WAS A POWERFUL DISCOVERY
LINKING GREEN DIRECTLY TO
KATHRYN.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT DAY
PLANNER?
>> DON'T KNOW.
AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT.
SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW HOW JOHN
LIKED TO BURN THINGS," WHICH HE
DID.
>> NOT HAVING THE ACTUAL DAY
PLANNER WAS A SETBACK.
BUT PETERS WOULD NOT HAVE TO
RELY ON JUST THE WORD OF GREEN'S
EX-WIFE.
SHE SAID GREEN'S BROTHER, JIM,
COULD CONFIRM HER STORY.
HOW IMPORTANT WAS TO IT TAKE TO
JIM AT THAT STAGE OF YOUR
INVESTIGATION?
>> WELL, HE WAS THE ONE THAT'S
SUPPOSED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF
THE DAY PLANNER.
WHEN I GOT TWO PEOPLE AND
THEY'RE GONNA TELL ME THAT SAME
THING ABOUT THIS GUY HAVING THE
PROPERTY OF THE VICTIM SHORTLY
AFTER THE HOMICIDE, THAT MAKES
GOOD EVIDENCE.
SO I BOOGIE DOWN TO EL PASO, AND
HE VERIFIED THE EXISTENCE OF THE
DAY PLANNER.
>> THE INFORMATION PETERS GOT
FROM GREEN'S BROTHER AND EX-WIFE
WAS VERY SPECIFIC.
BOTH DESCRIBE THE PLANNER AS
BEING BROWN LEATHER WITH THE
NAME "DOCKWEILLER" INSCRIBED ON
THE FRONT.
PETERS CONFIRMED IT WAS THE ONE
KATHRYN CARRIED BY TALKING WITH
HER CO-WORKERS.
>> A LOT OF THE LADIES THAT SHE
HAD WORKED WITH WERE AWARE OF
THE DAY PLANNER, AND THEY ALL
DESCRIBED IT THE SAME WAY.
>> SO, AT THIS POINT, YOU'RE
PRETTY CONVINCED.
>> OH, YEAH.
NOW THERE'S NO QUESTION IN MY
MIND.
>> BUT HOW HAD GREEN COME IN
CONTACT WITH KATHRYN IN THE
FIRST PLACE?
PETERS' COLLEAGUE,
GREG MARCANTEL, HAD A THEORY.
THE CLUE CAME FROM SOMETHING
KATHRYN HAD SAID ABOUT A
POTENTIAL BUYER FOR HER HOUSE.
>> KATHRYN HAD TOLD CHRIS AT ONE
POINT THAT MAN HAD COME BY TO
LOOK AT THE HOUSE, AND THAT HE
SEEMED REALLY INTERESTED.
I THINK HE CAME BACK.
BUT I THINK HE CAME BACK NOT TO
BUY THE HOME.
I THINK HE CAME BACK BECAUSE,
THE FIRST TIME HE WAS THERE, HE
MIGHT HAVE LIKED KATHRYN MORE
THAN HE LIKED THEIR HOME.
AS A PREDATOR, HE TOOK WHAT HE
WANTED, BUT IT JUST WASN'T THE
HOME.
>> MARCANTEL AND PETERS WERE
CONFIDENT THEY HAD ENOUGH
EVIDENCE TO MAKE AN ARREST.
WHAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE WAS GREEN
HIMSELF.
THEY HAD NO IDEA WHERE HE WAS
UNTIL THEY GOT A FOLLOW-UP CALL
FROM HIS EX-WIFE.
>> SHE CALLED ME AND SAYS, "BY
THE WAY, JOHN HAS MOVED BACK TO
ALBUQUERQUE, AND HE'S LIVING AT
SUCH-AND-SUCH AN ADDRESS."
>> SHE ACTUALLY GAVE YOU THE
REAL ADDRESS.
>> YEAH, SHE GAVE HIM UP TO ME.
>> JOHN GREEN WAS NOW WORKING IN
NEW MEXICO, RIGHT UNDER THE NOSE
OF THE INVESTIGATOR WHO WAS
LOOKING FOR HIM.
PETERS KNEW HE WOULD NOT
COOPERATE WITH THE
INVESTIGATION.
>> I FIGURED THERE'S GOT TO BE
SOME WAY THAT WE CAN GET ENOUGH
PROBABLE CAUSE TO GET
JOHN GREEN'S DNA.
>> THE EVIDENCE ABOUT THE
DAY PLANNER WAS PRESENTED TO A
JUDGE, WHO ISSUED A WARRANT TO
OBTAIN DNA SAMPLES FROM
JOHN GREEN.
>> HE WAS AT WORK WHEN POLICE
CAUGHT UP WITH HIM.
GREEN'S LONE COMMENT CONFIRMED
PETERS' SUSPICIONS.
>> THE ONLY STATEMENT HE MADE
WAS, "YOU GUYS REALIZE MY LIFE
IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS."
>> GREEN'S DNA WAS TESTED
AGAINST THE SAMPLE RECOVERED
FROM KATHRYN DURING THE AUTOPSY.
WHEN PETERS SPOKE WITH THE DNA
TECHNICIAN, HE SAID THE TWO
SAMPLES WERE IDENTICAL.
>> HE SAID, AND I QUOTE NOW,
"LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY -- SINCE
MANKIND CAME DOWN OUT OF THE
TREES, ONLY JOHN GREEN HAS HAD
THIS DNA."
SO I FIGURED, "WELL, THAT'S
CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT
WORK."
>> AFTER 13 FRUSTRATING YEARS, A
SOLID CASE HAD COME TOGETHER
QUICKLY.
GREEN HAD BEEN SEEN IN THE SAME
AREA AS KATHRYN AT THE TIME OF
THE CRIME.
THEY HAD STATEMENTS THAT PUT
KATHRYN'S DAY PLANNER IN HIS
POSSESSION.
AND NOW A DNA MATCH.
THE EVIDENCE LOOKED
OVERWHELMING.
>> HE'D HAVE A HARD TIME
EXPLAINING THAT DAY PLANNER.
HE COULD PROBABLY COME UP WITH
SOME EXCUSE, BUT HE'D HAVE TO
COME UP WITH A PRETTY FANCY
EXCUSE TO EXPLAIN THAT AND THEN
EXPLAIN THE DNA ON TOP OF THAT.
>> IN NOVEMBER OF 2001,
JOHN GREEN WAS ARRESTED AND
CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE
MURDER, KIDNAPPING, AND RAPE.
FOR KATHRYN'S FAMILY AND
FRIENDS, THE ARREST BROUGHT BACK
A FLOOD OF EMOTIONS.
>> I THOUGHT I'D FORGIVEN.
I THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS -- YOU
KNOW, I WAS OKAY, BUT WHEN I SAW
HIS PICTURE, ALL THAT RAGE CAME
BACK.
AND I SAID, "I HAVEN'T FORGIVEN
THIS GUY.
I GOT ALL THIS RAGE STILL.
>> NEWS OF THE ARREST STUNNED
THOSE WHO HAD BEEN FOLLOWING THE
CASE.
>> WE WERE ALL SHOCKED, NUMBER
ONE, THAT THEY'D FINALLY
ARRESTED SOMEBODY IN THE CASE,
AND, NUMBER TWO, THAT IT WASN'T
HER HUSBAND.
>> IT WAS A BITTERSWEET TIME FOR
CHRIS DOCKWEILLER.
HE HAD LIVED FOR MORE THAN A
DECADE WITH THE BURDEN OF BEING
A SUSPECT IN HIS WIFE'S MURDER.
NEWS OF THE ARREST WAS A HUGE
WEIGHT OFF HIS SHOULDERS.
BUT HE STILL THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY
A FIRST STEP IN GETTING JUSTICE
FOR KATHRYN.
>> OH, BY GOSH.
I CAN'T EVEN -- I CAN'T EVEN --
I CAN'T EVEN --
THERE'S NO WORDS -- THERE'S NO
WORDS FOR IT.
IT WASN'T THE FINAL CONCLUSION.
BUT IT WAS A MAJOR SATISFACTION.
>> THE COLD-CASE UNIT BELIEVED
THEY HAD BUILT AN AIRTIGHT CASE
AGAINST JOHN GREEN.
BUT DESPITE ALL THE EVIDENCE,
THE D.A.'s OFFICE WASN'T
CONFIDENT IT COULD GET A
CONVICTION.
>> WE HAD SOME ISSUES WITH THE
CASE.
I THINK EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN
THE PROSECUTION OF THE CASE
BELIEVED THAT HE HAD COMMITTED
THE HOMICIDE.
I DON'T THINK WE FELT THAT WE
HAD ALL OF THE ANSWERS AND OUR
ABILITY TO PROVE IT.
WE HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THAT.
>> PROSECUTORS WERE WORRIED
ABOUT HOW THE EVIDENCE WOULD
HOLD UP DURING A TRIAL.
THEY THOUGHT TESTIMONY ABOUT THE
DAY PLANNER WOULD NOT HAVE THE
SAME IMPACT AS ACTUALLY SHOWING
IT TO A JURY.
>> WE HAD AN EX-WIFE SAYING THAT
SHE HAD SEEN, YEARS BEFORE, A
DAY PLANNER, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE
THE DAY PLANNER IN HAND, SO
DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE A LOT
OF CREDIBILITY, UNFORTUNATELY,
EVEN IF IT'S TRUE.
>> THEY EVEN HAD DOUBTS ABOUT
THE VALUE OF THE DNA RESULTS.
>> WHAT WE HAD WAS THE SPERM,
THE DNA MATCH, IN
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER.
WE KNEW THAT HE COULD SIMPLY
SAY, "I MET HER THE DAY BEFORE.
WE HAD HAD SEX, AND THAT WAS A
THAT.
IT WAS CONSENSUAL, AND I DON'T
KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN REGARD TO
HER BEING MURDERED.
>> THOSE DOUBTS LED TO A
STARTLING AND CONTROVERSIAL
DECISION.
TWO YEARS AFTER HIS ARREST,
PROSECUTORS OFFERED A DEAL TO
JOHN GREEN.
THEY WOULD ALLOW HIM TO PLEAD
NO CONTEST A LESSER CHARGE OF
SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
GREEN TOOK THE DEAL.
>> WE DECIDED THAT IF WE HAD
TAKEN THE CASE TO TRIAL THAT WE
HAD A GOOD CHANCE OF AN
ACQUITTAL OR A HUNG JURY.
AND THAT TOTALLY WAS
UNACCEPTABLE TO US.
SO WE DECIDED TO OFFER A PLEA TO
SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
>> THE PLEA DEAL CALLED FOR
19 YEARS IN PRISON, BUT 9 YEARS
WERE SUSPENDED.
SO GREEN WAS OFFICIALLY GIVEN A
10-YEAR SENTENCE.
>> WE FELT THAT THAT WAS IN THE
BEST INTEREST OF JUSTICE AND,
CERTAINLY, BETTER THAN AN
ACQUITTAL OR A HUNG JURY.
>> AT HIS SENTENCING HEARING,
GREEN'S BEHAVIOR INFURIATED
KATHRYN'S FAMILY.
>> WE WERE ABLE TO TELL HIM HOW
HE'D RUINED OUR LIFE AND, YOU
KNOW, EXPRESS OUR FEELINGS.
SO WE ALL DID.
AND HE JUST SAT THERE,
NONCHALANT, YOU KNOW, LIKE, "I
GOT TO GO THROUGH THIS."
IT DOES MAKE ME ANGRY.
FOR ME, THERE'S NO RELIEF
ANYWHERE.
>> AFTER SERVING ONLY FIVE
YEARS, GREENE WAS RELEASED IN
2007 UNDER THE RULES OF
NEW MEXICO'S GOOD TIME LAW.
HE WAS PLACED ON PROBATION FOR
THE REMAINDER OF HIS SENTENCE.
ALL THIS FOR A MAN WHO
KIDNAPPED AND KILLED
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER JUST A FEW
MONTHS AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM
PRISON FOR KILLING ANOTHER WOMAN
IN TEXAS.
JOHN GREEN ENDED UP PLEADING
GUILTY BUT ONLY SERVED FIVE
YEARS IN JAIL.
HOW DOES THAT SIT WITH YOU?
>> I WENT, UH...
HE WAS OUT ON PAROLE WHEN HE
MURDERED MY WIFE.
WHAT, DO YOU HAVE TO KILL THREE
PEOPLE BEFORE YOU'RE PUT AWAY
FOR GOOD?
DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING.
SHE'S STILL DEAD.
UM...
I CAN'T HUG HER.
>> CHRIS DOCKWEILLER TRIES NOT
TO DWELL ON JOHN GREEN AND
KATHRYN'S MURDER.
BUT HE CAN'T HELP THINKING ABOUT
THE "WHAT IFs" AND THE LIFE HE
NEVER GOT TO SHARE WITH HIS
YOUNG WIFE.
HOW BITTER ARE YOU THAT YOU
NEVER HAD THAT CHANCE?
>> WELL, MY BEST FRIEND'S GONE.
ALL OUR PLANS THAT WE HAD MADE
FOR THE REST OF OUR LIFE, SO
CLOSE TO HAVING THAT DREAM COME
TRUE.
YOU KNOW, UM...
TWO DAYS -- TWO DAYS AWAY FROM
MOVING TO COLORADO.
I GUESS YOU CAN'T LOSE WHAT YOU
NEVER HAD.
SO CLOSE.
>> A MURAL IN
KATHRYN DOCKWEILLER'S HONOR CAN
BE FOUND IN DOWNTOWN
ALBUQUERQUE AT A CENTER FOR
CHILDREN SHE HELPED GET OFF THE
GROUND.
IT'S A FITTING TRIBUTE TO A
WOMAN WHO DEDICATED SO MUCH OF
HER TIME TO HELPING KIDS.
I'M PAULA ZAHN.
JOIN US NEXT TIME WHEN WE'RE
BACK ON THE CASE.