Kendall Rae

Sonia's brother Jacob said to the press, I knew from the beginning Noam wasn't the place to have the trial.

Jurors attended the same church as Matt Owens.

I knew there could be some kind of buddy-buddy system going on there.

But of course, prosecutors weren't going to give up.

and Matt Owens was tried for a second time.

This time, his defense attorneys actually requested the change of venue, which I think is an interesting choice for them, but a big win for Sonja.

But the judge agreed, and the trial was moved to Kotzebue, Alaska, and it began on October 17, 2005.

And this time, both sides presented their sides of the case again.

But something really interesting happened after the prosecution rested their case.

Officer Weyivana was chatting with one of his neighbors, who started asking about the case.

And that's when he casually dropped a bomb.

He asked him if a woman named Charlotte had ever said anything about finding Sonia's ID in Matt Owen's room.

Which, hearing that, you're probably really confused and...

Way of Anna was too, because no one knew anything about this.

And you might be asking, who even is Charlotte?

Well, she's a family friend of Owen's, and when him and his wife separated, she rented him a room.

She also happened to be friends with Way of Anna's neighbor.

And one day, she told him that she had seen Sonia's ID card with his belongings, which was the same one that was later found at the shootout scene.

And even though this was a big piece of information, and I mean big,

Investigators weren't sure if it could still be used in the trial since the prosecution had already rested its case.