Ashley Flowers

They didn't elaborate on that choice of words.

So we tried reaching Detective Belk, too, who was retired.

We couldn't get a hold of him.

And in all the years, like, since Belk left, I think things have kind of broken down between HPD and Cheryl's family.

So they're not even in the inner circle at the moment.

Which to me doesn't feel like an option.

Like, you don't have to be on the inner circle, but I think they deserve a yes or no.

Like, are you using this new technology to solve my family member's case or not?

That seems like it should be a basic right for a family to get.

Okay, this is 2026, Ashley, now.

And while I still can't tell you what new technology they might have tried or were trying...

I can confirm that it was a DNA match that led to this arrest.

An old school one at that.

Sometime in the past year, apparently, police received a tip that led them to a now 64-year-old man named Floyd William Parrott.

Now, this guy was never on their radar for this case, but he had an interesting past.

He was a suspect in a 1996 sexual assault.

And this is really chilling.

He was charged multiple times with impersonating a police officer.

This was in 1988, 1990, and again in 96.

And investigators now say that he kept doing all of that through the 1990s and into the 2000s.