CASAREZ: And it is that question police are trying to answer. Was Molly Matheson targeted, or was this a random act? Now, here`s what we do know at this point. Though she lived just two blocks off campus, Molly was not a student at TCU but did know the area very well, having graduated from high school in Fort Worth.
PRIMETIME JUSTICE producer Stacey Newman has been working this story all day. Stacey, this is a very fresh case. The facts are still coming in tonight. What do we know?
STACEY NEWMAN, PRIMETIME JUSTICE PRODUCER: Well, Jean, what we know right now is this 22-year-old, as you said, was found strangled in a bathroom.
She was renting this apartment above a garage behind this home. As you said, this a very upscale community. That community is on edge.
Now, an interesting fact we`ve learned is that police have said they`re looking for a suspect or suspects, and would not comment when asked about possible forced entry that location, Jean, being in a bathroom and being strangled -- was she caught off guard while she was in the bathroom getting ready, or was she dragged into the bathroom against her will and strangled there. We also have not learned yet if this strangulation was manual or ligature.
CASAREZ: And Stacey, we`re looking at right now the home where she had the apartment, renting it above the garage, a very nice area near campus.
Elizabeth Campbell is joining us tonight. She is a reporter for TCU 360. She joins us from Fort Worth. Elizabeth, thank you. First of all, what is the area like that we are watching right now on camera, University Place, where this young woman was strangled?
ELIZABETH CAMPBELL, TCU 360 (via telephone): Well, as you mentioned before, it`s right by campus. There are many TCU students who live on that street. Even more walk past that street every day to get to campus. I walk past that street every day from my apartment. So it`s definitely not an area where you`d expect something like this to happen.
CASAREZ: Wow. Wow. And this assailant, this perpetrator of this vicious crime is loose. Authorities are looking for him tonight. They are searching. This is a very active investigation.
[20:05:00]Elizabeth, what do you know at this point? Because you`re right there near the crime scene. What are the facts that you have gathered from police and law enforcement tonight?
CAMPBELL: So what we can confirm today is she`s actually a Tarrant County College student. She started there last summer in 2016 and she was a full-time student there now, so not a TCU student. But there are TCU students who knew her from home in Arkansas. As of now, TCU police aren`t working with Fort Worth police in the investigation, but TCU announced today that they are stepping up the number of TCU police officers and they`re expanding the areas they`re patrolling around campus.
CASAREZ: Now, Elizabeth...
CAMPBELL: They`ve also hired off-duty Fort Worth police officers to help, as well.
CASAREZ: Very, very important, extremely important. Now, Elizabeth, it`s actually her mother that found her. And just describe for us where authorities are saying that she was strangled in her apartment.
CAMPBELL: So that area -- it`s the apartment above the garage is what her neighbors have told us, and like I said before, it`s an area with lots of TCU students (INAUDIBLE) TCU community (ph). When we were out there covering the story, neighbors were coming up to talk to us. It`s a very "you know your neighbors" kind of area.
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