Ashley Flowers

So when Arthur is insisting that he doesn't even know why he's being talked to, but then

in the same breath says he didn't kill anybody, he could very well be like putting the pieces together, making an assumption.

Why else would a homicide detective fly across the country to meet with you unless it was about a homicide?

When Detective Jones finally tells him what homicide he's investigating, Arthur says that he remembers Alberta even after 40 years.

Now, he never met her personally, didn't hang in the same circle.

Like, why would he?

I mean, he reminds the detective more than once that he was barely out of high school then and had no business hanging around a career woman like Alberta.

Before he knows how his name was even brought up in this case, he comments to the detective, I've never been with her.

And then the detective asks a cleverly worded question.

Did you work anywhere that summer that she was killed that might have put you in contact with her?

And Arthur says, no, he worked at his dad's funeral home.

So the detective pushes again.

OK, so like no car lots, like you didn't detail cars, like pumping gas, anything like that.

And he says no to all of this.

And in doing the questioning this way, basically Detective Jones is backing him in to like a firm stance that there is no reasonable explanation for his prints to be on or in Alberta's rental car.

But he never mentions prints.

He asks if any of his jobs would have put him in contact with her, specifically her.

And the answer is no.

So the next question the detective asks is, so leading up to her death, what did you know about her?

And this is where the answer is a little odd to me.