Lester Holt

But since police hadn't taken an interest in the case, James put together highlights of the calls, and Kate posted them on Facebook.

Because that's my only way out.

None of you know me.

James also used an AI-generated voiceover on the clip to suggest this might not be the first time Allison was involved in a murder plot.

Within a couple hours, we had 7,000 views, and then it just kept going.

Most importantly, presumably the police are going to see this video.

Yes.

And hear about it.

I tagged them in the post.

Oh, that'll do it.

That'll do it.

There you go.

Hi, this is Detective Palmer with the Pekin Police Department.

I have to let you know, just my phone calls are recorded.

I'm not sure why it was never followed up on before, but I am very, very interested in all of what was going on in this situation.

Now you had their attention.

I'm sorry that it took this long for us to jump on the information.

It definitely fell through the cracks and shouldn't have.

But I am going to do my best to look into all of it.

This time, the police moved at warp speed.