Deborah Atrops

And neither was her ex-boyfriend, Jeff Rehberg.

Jeff Rehberg, not present.

But the lab said Bob Atrops could not be excluded as a contributor to that DNA mixture.

Prosecutors admit, while the DNA from Debbie's coat excludes Freeburg and Pearson, it does not make a complete case against Bob Atrops.

It was a very fact-intensive case.

Another one of those pieces, they say, is the mud.

This murder was connected to mud.

Her body was covered in mud.

There was mud on the outside of the car, on the inside of the car.

The FBI lab, which examined this evidence, concluded that the mud on Debbie's car tire did not match the mud where her car was found.

However, that mud on the tire, they said, was indistinguishable from the mud from Bob's lawn in color, composition, and texture.

This is evidence prosecutors say that Bob was lying when he said Debbie did not come to his house the night she went missing.

According to the defendant's interview, she had not been to his house for about 10 days.

Bob Atrops hadn't spoken to police about the case since that final conversation with detectives in 1990.

But in 2022, he agreed to talk to the cold case team.

Investigators asked Bob about those calls to friends and family that didn't appear on his phone bill back in 1988.

Bob now said he had used an MCI calling card to make those missing long distance calls from home.

Prosecutors say Bob didn't have that MCI calling card in 1988.

And what's more, Prosecutor Chris Luhmann says this story doesn't make sense.

In 2023, prosecutors brought the case to a grand jury who voted to indict.