Ashley Flowers

They weren't wrapped up in anything shady.

And everyone loved them.

But Cheryl's loved ones do offer up a couple of names that pique detectives' interest.

Let's call them Lance and Erin.

So Lance is the boyfriend of a friend that Cheryl had been kind of on the outs with recently.

Dude, like, I guess, skipped town the morning after Cheryl was found.

More than the town, he skipped the whole country, like, took off for St.

Lucia.

And it seems like this was no planned holiday either.

Lance's girlfriend tells him that she didn't even know anything about this trip.

Like, he didn't even...

mentioned that he was going to go to St.

Lucia.

Yeah, so when detectives end up reaching him on the island, he agrees to come back to Houston.

He sits down for an interview, and when they ask him for a DNA sample, he's cool with that too.

When the comparison gets run, Lance is ruled out.

He's not their guy.

Which leads me to Aaron, who, ironically enough, is the kid of a cop.

Or maybe a former cop, not totally sure.

He is Cheryl's ex from, like, middle school and high school.