Beth Shelburne

But Colvin and Cummings say that the light brown or copper-colored car quietly drove out of the parking lot.

And there's an even bigger discrepancy.

The driver's side door on Ardragus' very loud black Monte Carlo was broken.

It did not open.

Ardragus and Taforist tell this to detectives.

Investigators impounded Ardragus' car and confirmed the driver's side door didn't open.

Detective Tony Richardson would later testify to this.

But both Colvin and Cummings say that someone got in the driver's side of the car and quietly drove away.

There were other guests at the hotel who spotted cars leaving the area around this time.

But their descriptions were all different.

The only consistent descriptions of the getaway car came from Cummings and Colvin, two people who went to their hotel room windows after hearing shots and looked down into the parking lot.

The investigative file shows that police tried to find the car seen by Colvin and Cummings, but Tony Richardson would eventually tell a grand jury the search was a wild goose chase and that the car didn't exist.

And there's something even more significant about this other hotel witness, Leon Colvin.

He gives police a basic description of the man he saw, 5'10", medium build, who got into the car and drove away.

and khaki or cream pants.

This is the only physical description given of a potential suspect.

But detectives decide that Colvin isn't a witness.

He's a defendant.

As I dig deeper, I learn that Detective Tony Richardson and Leon Colvin are cousins.

And in the first week of the investigation, Richardson decides that Colvin is hiding something