Ashley Flowers

Not just people in her life, but, like, every felon who gets brought in.

Honestly, even people brought in on lesser charges.

Like, this doesn't have to be a part of their record, but we should compare them to these, like, known suspect prints.

Not bad ideas.

Right.

Also, he says, we should get prints from her Thunderbird that was in the shop.

See if any of the prints match.

Like, maybe she knew the guy before.

Maybe we can, like... Or, like, rule out people from the rental place.

Precisely.

So...

Crack of dawn, Lancaster pops into the fingerprint lab to talk to the officer who is in charge over there, Officer Elliott.

And as far as I know, no one else is in the room when this happened.

So I'm just left to imagine the way that the air was sucked out of this room.

The look on Officer Elliott's face as he has to tell Detective Lancaster that they don't have all the prints anymore.

And then he gives the reason why.

He says that on the morning of Saturday, August 7th, he was just finishing up his overnight shift when two people came into the lab.

A Sergeant Miller with the department and a technician with the last name Patterson.

Now, technician Patterson had pulled the print cards from Alberta's case out and was going to go through them.

But Sergeant Miller told him, you know what, just leave the prints alone.