Chris McDonough

So that should have been a red flag also for the investigators.

So, Nancy, I think here's what's going to happen.

Right now, the investigation has compressed.

That's what we would call it.

Meaning, you know, the task force where there was a command center for both the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff's Office, you know, had assembled together in one working group has now split into two.

There have been investigators assigned from the Pima County Sheriff's Office who my best estimate is going to be the same homicide team that was called out from the very beginning.

They are now pulled back into their own agency where they'll be working alongside probably one FBI agent.

And then the FBI has pulled back into the Phoenix headquarters where they're going to establish their own little, you know, war room is what we'll call it.

And from there, both of those agencies will work simultaneously.

Both of those agencies will work together, but they will be working in tandem on any type of investigative leads that come in.

So I think at this point, what I believe...

is going to be pivotal in relationship to solving this investigation.

First of all, it's gonna have to go back to re-interviewing all the other folks that you started to interview from the very beginning.

Because the reason for that is,

the investigation may have uncovered additional information like digital footprints, DNA, and all of that stuff that's starting to come back.

Well, you may have an original statement from somebody early on

So it's imperative that investigators go back and they sit down with the initial witnesses that they spoke to in the very beginning, because a lot of times witnesses also will recall events that they forgot.

you know, to tell investigators and that, you know, you just never know.

There could be one word that could change the course of the entire focus.

And then I think that when the DNA starts to come back and depending on what type of DNA they're trying to, you know, get, that could take a little bit longer.