Matt Murphy

We start at the victim and we work outward.

And who's the first one you check when you've got a deceased girl?

Well, you're going to look at her boyfriend or her husband.

And especially when you've got a pregnant girl that goes dead or goes missing.

And I think they had that 2001 study where murder was the vast majority by an overwhelming margin of the cause of death for pregnant girls.

And so, oh yeah, it's just, I thought you saw that.

You probably did.

You said you got too much going around in your head.

It's very disturbing.

And so, you know, but like, again, you go back to Scott and,

it's easier to work a case when you don't despise the guy that you think did.

You know, when he's polite to you and he's not saying anything bad about your mother or anything like that.

And so you just kind of follow the evidence and like, this is another strike against him.

So when Al played that tape for me, I just thought, this just doesn't sound quite right.

But I've had other guys like this before that I've dealt with where it didn't seem right.

I remember one in particular, he had no reaction whatsoever to his wife and daughter being

missing.

And I thought, gosh, this is kind of freaky.

And but we were able to clear him right away, not only through a polygraph, but we also verified his alibi.

And he was just a cold fish guy.