Ashley Flowers

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.

I'm going to go grab coffee and then I want to look at them.

Now, Officer Elliott is leaving as Sergeant Miller was going to get coffee.

Well, fast forward to that night.

Officer Elliott reports back for duty.

It's still August 7th, 10 p.m.

now.

And he goes to pull the prints from Alberta's case.

They're actively working this case.

Like now that he is there, Patterson is literally about to go get Alberta's prints so they can rule out whatever prints are hers.

Like that's how fresh this is.