Ashley Flowers

I was just like, I was surprised to see his name on that list.

I thought it was worth mentioning.

But here's his name of people who are ruled out.

They're obviously trying.

They're working hard.

By 2007, though, Detective Belk has come to terms with the fact

that his dreams of solving the case before he retires actually might elude him.

He's been with HPD by that point for 20 years and like it's his time.

So he turns in his badge and gun admitting this kind of defeat for him, like his great white whale got away.

But to be a fly on the wall when his phone rings the very next week and he's told that this could be it.

They finally got a hit in CODIS after all these years, except there's always an except, right?

The hit isn't a person that they've linked to his case.

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.