When Caitlin Mathis began her freshman year at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, she broke up with Bryant. Bryant did not want to answer no. In the weeks before Jackie Vandagriff’s death, he still showed up at Caitlin’s campus in Denton and was arrested three times. Caitlin also filed a restraining order against him.
Ranger Holland believes Bryant could not handle the rejection of his ex-girlfriend, and that he took revenge on the next woman he could find who looked like Caitlin. That woman happened to be Jackie Vandagriff.
“It would not surprise me if he had mistaken her first … Tell her from behind and think: ‘Man, my ex is here. “And surprised, it’s not,” Ranger Holland said. “But I think all night in his mind, I think that’s what he suggested.”