Ashley Flowers

Detective Holtz wouldn't name the woman who wrote the letter or the upstairs neighbor who supposedly confessed to the killing.

He would only tell us that the prior investigators did go to the prison in Massachusetts to talk to said neighbor.

And...

I guess nothing came of it.

But it's hard to say for sure because Detective Holtz hasn't been able to locate any documentation about the interview that took place.

Detective Holtz noted one strange thing about the neighbor, though.

A detail that was equal parts surprising and disturbing.

That woman is out of prison now.

And while Detective Holtz has not been in touch with her yet... It's something that we're still looking into.

Our reporter Laura Frader looked at that too, and she actually tracked this neighbor down.

The neighbor said that she didn't know who Milagros was and said repeatedly that she'd never met her.

But she did confirm that police questioned her about Milagros' death while she was incarcerated.

When Laura questioned her about her supposed confession, she point blank denied it.

She said she never even confessed to killing Milagros.

But that is not the most interesting interview Laura got.

You see, Laura had been trying to reach anyone and everyone who could shed light on Milagros' life and the time after her death.

But it wasn't until the very tail end of her reporting, after she met with Detective Holtz in Bridgeport, that something unexpected happened.

Laura got a message from one of Milagros' granddaughters, not the one found at the crime scene.

This granddaughter was nine when Milagros died, and her name is Vanessa Lind.

And Vanessa was extremely close with her grandmother.