Morgan Absher

He admitted that he had given Jermaine a ride after they left the bar that night, but he said that she was only in his car briefly before he dropped her off at the Orange Street Food Farm.

The food farm is a grocery store about a five-minute walk from Jacob's place, so this would have made sense if Jermaine didn't want Michael to know she was walking over to someone's house or who she was dating.

But here's the thing.

Michael changes his story about that night later on.

In a later interview with police, he said that he actually left Jermaine eight blocks away from the food farm in a residential area where Jermaine said she was spending the night with a friend named Cassidy.

But detectives never found anyone named Cassidy who lived in that area or

even had a connection to Jermaine.

The police kind of considered that maybe she invented Cassidy as another way to hide Jacob from Michael.

Police did go on to check Jacob's alibi.

That was rock solid.

He wasn't even in Montana the night she disappeared.

So as days tick by with no word from Jermaine, Michael was looking more and more suspicious.

Crazy what happens when jobs are done as they should be.

This key piece of evidence is our third clue.

On June 27th, 11 days into the search, police get Jermaine's cell phone records.

And right away, they see something pretty concerning.

Between 2 a.m.

and 10 a.m.

on June 16th, so after Jermaine was last seen, her cell phone was pinging a tower in Evereau Hill.

This is a densely forested area at the southern end of the Flathead Reservation, north of Missoula.