Ashley Flowers

So he just thought that was par for the course.

In stirring this pot, he pushed himself into local headlines.

And all this renewed attention finally triggered something investigators never saw coming.

A new tip.

A new tip, but not in Nikki's case.

But there would be a connection.

So in late 2007, an informant reached out to Dayton police and said, you should look at Tommy for something much older.

The unsolved 1991 murder of Tina Marie Ivory.

She was a 33-year-old woman found beaten and strangled, wrapped in trash bags and a quilt dumped near a road outside Dayton.

Now, at first, this seems like a long shot, but the crime lab had preserved DNA from the scene for nearly two decades, semen and blood.

What they didn't have was a suspect to compare it to.

Yeah.

And they get him using Nikki's case.

So he's out here raising hell, being like, I didn't know police were even looking at me.

I have nothing to do with this case involving Nikki.

So Richmond PD are like, OK, like.

You know, to help prove your case, give us your DNA.

And he does, not knowing that Dayton police are the ones intending to use it.

So they take his DNA and the lab matches it to the semen on the clothing Tina Ivory was found in.

And the blood evidence found on the quilt that she was wrapped in was either consistent with him or, like, couldn't exclude him, depending on, like, what source you're looking at.