Johnny Gowdy

And then after she died, I wrote pretty much like 150 songs in like four months.

She would like this band a lot.

She wouldn't like you though.

I was on tour, and my phone rang from a number I didn't know, and I answered it, and this guy said, Hi, my name is Detective Tom Wallace from the Austin Police Department.

Don't worry, you're not in trouble.

Detective Walsh had news.

I was like, wow, they're reopening my mom's case and this guy that's got it, it is amazing.

I saw him just really quiet and reserved.

I never thought of him as someone that had the capacity really to hurt another person.

He just had this amazing studio.

He had like the best studio in town.

And I was like the only 16-year-old kid that could go by there any time.

I thought he was a nice guy.

People around town that knew me at times might have said, you know, I think Dennis did this.

And I would always be like, really?

Like, he's such a like a nondescript kind of dude.

You thought he was a wimp.

I thought he was kind of wimpy, yeah.

But to Johnny, Detective Walsh was no wimp.

When I first met Tom Walsh, it was like this guy was actively, you know, working on this case.