Ashley Flowers

So I think that's important, too, because it's not like the water like loosened the glue.

Right.

It more than likely means that the wig was secured on with pins.

So why wasn't the wig on her head when she was found?

The autopsy said that Alberta had a cut on her forehead right near her hairline that looked like she was maybe jabbed with a stick.

Other than that, there was nothing out of the ordinary about her hair.

There wasn't a report of any pins or combs to hold down the wig.

So, like, I keep coming back to, was there a wig?

Gladys did provide a similar wig to police, so they knew what they were looking for.

Now, to be clear...

Flora said that the family never suspected that Gladys actually committed the murder, but they did know that she was in debt.

So they think that someone maybe paid her to get Alberta out of the house that night.

And she took the job to help pay off her debts, not thinking that anyone was going to kill Alberta.

I think it depends on who's paying you, right?

Like, who would you be pointing the finger at?

Are they scary people?

Are they powerful people?

I mean, maybe that's not even what happened.

There is actually one theory that the family heard about from a detective that could explain a lot, including the missing wig.

In the year after Alberta died, there was supposedly this guy in a Chicago jail who was planning to confess to being involved in Alberta's murder along with two other people.