Mike Bauer

So we ask him what he thinks about the possibility of foul play.

I refer to myself as a mushroom.

They just feed me a little bit of poop every once in a while.

I wasn't in the know on that whole thing.

I've never heard the mushroom poop metaphor before.

Yeah, you know, you feed you a little bit of poop and you grow a little bit.

At first, the mushroom poop analogy went way over my head.

It sounded like a Southern expression my mom just forgot to teach me.

But then it clicked while I was watching The Departed, the Martin Scorsese movie about corruption within the Boston Police Department.

I think what Megardly is saying is that he doesn't ask a lot of questions because he prefers to be kept in the dark about things that don't concern him.

And who can really blame him?

I mean, law enforcement agencies are not exactly known for their culture of transparency.

That file, you'd have to get special, special permission to touch that file.

Dave Rathbun, Ajay's former partner, says the sheriff's department is unusually protective of the Ajay case file.

And they don't even like to hear you talking about it.

Well, to me, that's what you would call a red flag.

So Rathbun asked his buddy, a retired detective working cold cases for the Sheriff's Department, to review the Ajay case.

Could you maybe grab that case file?

And he went, oh, no.

I said, what do you mean, oh, no?