Blaine Alexander

By the time police finally sat Barrett down for an interview, Jerry Salters had gone from patrolman to detective.

He conducted the interview.

And how did he respond?

What did that tell you?

The maintenance man did give them something highly suspicious, something he shouldn't have known, what police call holdback information.

It's details of the crime scene that only the killer would know and investigators would know.

He tells us about the ligature that was used and that she's badly beaten.

And that's not information that's been publicly released.

At least we believe so in the moment as we're conducting this interview.

Did he volunteer this holdback information?

He did during the course of the interview.

But he disavows having anything to do with Tara Baker's death and sticks to his story.

And again, there was no forensic evidence to link the maintenance man or anyone else to Tara's brutal death.

And what do you do?

We flail for years, believing that William Brian Barrett's involved in the death of Tara Baker and just not having enough to get a warrant for his arrest.

So the infuriating cycle continued.

Questions, no answers.

Something would have to change.

And when it did, somebody new was asking the questions.

You are getting new information.