Ashley Flowers

Transparency.

And that's what he's been giving them.

Like, he doesn't share anything that could jeopardize the investigation, of course, but he has been keeping them in the loop, step by grueling step, which has given them...

Like, all along, this sense of, like, yes, Cheryl's case is actually being actively worked by one of the best.

Yes, which is, like, what so many families want.

And in all honesty, this case is, like, his great white whale.

And he really wants to solve it before he retires.

And, you know, because of all this transparency that he was giving them, Shane actually shared a 2005 email chain with us.

It was between them and Detective Belk, or Detective Belk and Barbara.

And...

In this, Detective Belk lists out all of the men who have been excluded based on the DNA evidence, which at that time was 17 names deep.

He even assures them that in this list, the infamous railroad killer Rafael Resendez has been ruled out thanks to CODIS.

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.