Ashley Flowers

They've linked his case to another case.

A brutal, like with a capital B, sexual assault case also there in Houston.

So this guy is still there?

Not so fast.

The sexual assault wasn't recent.

In fact, it happened two months before Cheryl and Andy were killed.

I have no idea why, but the victim's sexual assault kit was never processed for 17 years.

Yes.

And it wasn't the only one sitting untested either.

I mean, far from it, although that's like a whole nother podcast.

Now, the good news in this, though, is the victim in that sexual assault case was still alive when detectives went and tracked her down in Galveston County.

Her story is so basically she got off work as a dancer at a club at around two o'clock in the morning, one morning in June of 1990.

According to reporting by Lindsay Wise in the Houston Chronicle, she was staying at her pilot boyfriend's place and he was off like flying a plane somewhere.

So she came home to an empty house, apartment, whatever.

Or at least it should have been empty.

So she walks in, kicks off her shoes, has a bite to eat downstairs, and then heads upstairs to go to bed.

And that's when this man lunged out at her from a dark room.

I mean, it is the stuff of actual nightmares.

And here, I think the best thing to do is just have you read an account from Wise's reporting.

When the whole thing was over, he forced her down onto the floor and told her that she better stay there because he might be gone in minutes, he might not be, and it would be bad for her basically if she like got up while he was still there.