Ashley Schwamm
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Their first hurdle was keeping a lid on what they were finding.
They didn't want word getting out that this was now a murder investigation.
They kept things vague and didn't reveal the results of her autopsy.
And they said, I don't want to get you riled, but we see some inconsistencies.
So the police are... So they're protecting everyone.
Let us work and let's figure out exactly what happened.
By then, police were already knocking on doors in the Schwamm's neighborhood and beyond.
A girlfriend said to me, did you get the police to ring your doorbell last night?
A lot of the neighbors had the police come to their house asking if they have surveillance video.
We live in a video world, cameras everywhere, doorbell cameras, security cameras.
Is that one of the first things you do is say, let's find out if we can see cars coming and going around the time of the accident?
Because you have a really good timeline of when this happened.
In particular, officers looked for cameras along the 10-mile route from Ashley's house to the crash site, searching for her car.
They quickly hit pay dirt at a ski club in town not far from that ditch.
You find video here at the Alpine Ski Club that seems to be connecting to your investigation.