Ashley Flowers

Now, just for clarification, like no one has placed this guy in Houston at the time of the murders as far as I know.

But like I know he was in the state in July of 91 when he killed a man in San Antonio.

And that's like three and a half hours away from Houston.

But like, duh, he's the railroad killer.

Right.

Like dude got around.

I don't have any context about like how or why or when he slid on the investigation's radar.

So giant grain of salt here.

I was just like, I was surprised to see his name on that list.

I thought it was worth mentioning.

But here's his name of people who are ruled out.

They're obviously trying.

They're working hard.

By 2007, though, Detective Belk has come to terms with the fact

that his dreams of solving the case before he retires actually might elude him.

He's been with HPD by that point for 20 years and like it's his time.

So he turns in his badge and gun admitting this kind of defeat for him, like his great white whale got away.

But to be a fly on the wall when his phone rings the very next week and he's told that this could be it.

They finally got a hit in CODIS after all these years, except there's always an except, right?

The hit isn't a person that they've linked to his case.