Delia D'Ambra

One picture was just of Brandon, and the other was just of Lisa, and they'd presumably been taken by one another.

In the images, they're each smiling and posing in the bed of the pickup truck with a light-colored and a dark-colored sleeping bag next to them.

The foreground of the pictures appear to show that the flash was on when the pictures were taken because both Lisa and Brandon have whitish light concentrated on their faces and clothing.

The background of both images is pitch black, which suggests they were in the desert at the time the photos were taken.

The sheriff's office stated that the images are likely the last pictures of them alive.

Authorities have since stated that they don't think anything untoward or unusual was occurring at the time the pictures were taken.

I've put the photos in the blog post for this episode, and if you're listening in the Crime Junkie fan club app, you should be able to see them too.

In addition to those photos, there was another photo on the disposable camera which was mostly overexposed, but in one of the corners, it did show a light fixture in some kind of building.

However, investigators at the time could not determine what kind of business or establishment that building was, or what kind of light fixture was in the image.

When I first saw this picture, it almost looked like a reflection or something, but there's no doubt a light or a lamp of some kind is in the upper right-hand corner.

But the rest of the image is just difficult to interpret because it's so overexposed.

You guys take a look for yourselves and let me know what you think in the comments for this episode.

It's possible the picture was a misfire from when Brandon and Lisa got the camera.

or it very well could have been a clue that was somehow connected to the perpetrator.

But at the time it was discovered, authorities had no real way of knowing what the overexposed image meant.

Despite all this new information feeling really important though, the announcement about it didn't really seem to move the needle much because several more years passed and during that time there were no significant updates.

On the 19th anniversary of the crime, in October 2022, the sheriff's office was still asking the public for tips and information, and things seemed as stagnant as they'd always been.

But then, in September 2023, what I would consider to be something of a bombshell came out.

A commander for the sheriff's office told ABC 15 Arizona reporter Ashley Paredes that a new detective who'd been working on the case for a few years, as well as some of the volunteers in the agency's cold case division, were regularly reviewing evidence in the case and had been double-checking what physical evidence was sent out for further evaluation and forensic testing.

At that time, the agency confirmed that one item of evidence retrieved from the crime scene was at a DNA lab being tested.