Blayne Alexander

That jittery restaurant worker.

If someone were preparing to commit a crime, they could easily leave their cell phone someplace and then go about and do whatever they meant to do.

Could that have been a possibility here?

No, because the phone was being interacted with.

So they cleared the restaurant worker and zeroed in on what Jay told his good friend Khalid Fears before he vanished.

Since police still couldn't access Jay's social media accounts, a university officer fashioned a workaround.

The university granted access to Jay's college email account so investigators could get his Snapchat data.

Finally, they were in.

Well, kind of.

The Snapchat log only showed the messages Jay received and the username of the sender.

The last message chain began at 5.25 a.m.

And that's a screen name.

RedEye texted, come back.

You coming or nah?

What was it about those exchanges with Red Eye 24 that caught your attention?

To detectives reading between the lines, it appeared Jay thought Red Eye wanted to break off contact with him.

Red Eye responded, you trippin', I do feel bad because we cool, so I ain't trying to end it like this.

Then Red Eye seemed to give in to something Jay asked for, texting, okay, I'll do it.

The detectives wondered if that meant something sexual.

Because we know a lot of things about Jay Lee, and we learned throughout the investigation, Jay Lee would go meet other men and have sexual encounters.