Jack Lawrence

to this crime.

No forensics, no DNA, and no murder weapon is ever found.

The only evidence against him is the statements from two individuals, Detective Rivard's informant and the wife of the victim, Ophelia Gonzalez.

Now, we will cover Ophelia in an upcoming episode, but right now we're going to focus on this informant.

So Detective Jim Rivard's informant is on the stand.

The man who says he was smoking weed with Junior when he brags about killing the victim.

The informant says Junior's exact words were, he wouldn't have wanted to be the one who cleaned up the mess in that pickup.

And Junior's attorney gets up and while questioning him says, I asked you a question and you've given a different answer.

Could you explain that please?

And the informant then says, oh yes, I've been diagnosed with CRS disease.

When asked to clarify what CRS was, he says, I told them I can't remember shit.

It's fair to say this informant didn't quite turn out to be the star witness the prosecution was hoping for.

There's one juror that's popped up on a couple of these shows that have, you know, The Wrong Man and the other show that looked into your case.

And he said that after this guy testified and came out with this can't remember shit diagnosis, he said that, for me, that kind of completely just struck him, his testimony, what to completely just struck his testimony off completely.

So what happened?

Why did this informant go from apparently telling Detective Rivard that he'd heard Junior confess to this crime, and that Jim had his man, to getting up on the stand and acting somewhat belligerent?

Well, in June of 2018, a TV show called Wrong Man aired in the United States.

It was a six-episode documentary following three cases of different men who claimed to be innocent.

Episode one and two featured the case of Evaristo Salas Jr.

During the filming of this show, investigators tracked down this informant who decided he wanted to talk.