Jonathan Hirsch

They contact the college where Bart was just graduating and they discover something interesting.

This is the first wrinkle.

Bart hadn't been a student at Sam Houston University for years.

So the whole party was just a sham.

It was entirely a pretense.

You know, he's on academic probation since his freshman year and didn't complete the credits needed to graduate.

Yeah, I mean, that's what they do.

They go straight to Kent, they tell him what happened and he's stunned and terrified.

And not just that his son lied about this so completely, but that now the cops would be focusing on Bart

instead of whoever really killed his family.

You know, he says, what were you thinking?

Like you lied to us about being in school.

You weren't even near graduating.

How could you have done that?

And in retrospect, he said, like, I must've been an idiot.

How could I possibly have not seen this?

But the truth is we didn't know that there were lies.

So you just didn't tell them and like hope that you would kind of figure it out.

Is that what the.

Yeah, see what I mean about the moral tale?