Ashley Flowers

But Arthur wasn't a California native.

Back in 1965, when he would have been just 17 years old, he was living in Louisville, Kentucky.

His father owned a prominent Black-owned funeral home, the same one that Alberta's body went to.

The Louisville detective now working Alberta's case wasted no time getting on a flight out to L.A.

I mean, this was the biggest, best lead his department ever had.

And whatever was done by his department before, he was charged with solving it now.

And he wanted to talk to Arthur, who is now 61.

And it's kind of a strange interview because when he sits down with him, Arthur insists that he had nothing to do with what happened to Alberta Jones.

While at the same time, like, seeming to kind of have a little more knowledge about the situation than I would expect if he was, like, really in the dark or hadn't thought about this woman in 40 years.

Now, to be fair, when Detective Terry Jones starts this recording, he introduced himself as a homicide detective with the Louisville Police Department.

So when Arthur is insisting that he doesn't even know why he's being talked to, but then

in the same breath says he didn't kill anybody, he could very well be like putting the pieces together, making an assumption.

Why else would a homicide detective fly across the country to meet with you unless it was about a homicide?

When Detective Jones finally tells him what homicide he's investigating, Arthur says that he remembers Alberta even after 40 years.

Now, he never met her personally, didn't hang in the same circle.

Like, why would he?

I mean, he reminds the detective more than once that he was barely out of high school then and had no business hanging around a career woman like Alberta.

Before he knows how his name was even brought up in this case, he comments to the detective, I've never been with her.

And then the detective asks a cleverly worded question.

Did you work anywhere that summer that she was killed that might have put you in contact with her?