Carter Roy

She grabbed a knife and fatally stabbed Johnny in the abdomen.

At least, that's the story both women told Police Chief Clinton Anderson when he brought them in for questioning on the night of Johnny's death.

But according to the book, A Murder in Hollywood by Casey Sherman, Lana didn't want Chief Anderson to question her daughter at all.

She nervously ordered him to only talk to her.

Alana would tell him everything he needed to know.

Chief Anderson insisted that he needed Cheryl's testimony.

So Alana acquiesced, but not quietly.

At one point, when Cheryl was telling Chief Anderson about stabbing Johnny, Alana interrupted, adding that she didn't know what was happening.

Perhaps it was just her nerves getting to her.

She likely hated seeing her daughter go through this terrifying ordeal.

Or perhaps she wanted to make sure it was on the record that she wasn't involved, just in case this testimony was leaked to the press.

In the end, both mother and daughter's testimonies matched up perfectly.

Case closed.

Chief Anderson dismissed them.

Lana was free to go home.

Cheryl, however, needed to stay the night, locked up in the station cells.

Lana was shocked.

She didn't know Cheryl would be detained.

According to author Casey Sherman, Lana thought this was not how it was supposed to go.

Wait, pause.