Morgan Absher

You're not going to take a report over the phone.

Get real.

Take the report.

Take the report.

You're losing time.

Finally, finally we get there.

And that brings us to our second clue, Michael's story.

Due to the confidentiality rules in Montana, we don't know exactly when this interview actually took place, but it is likely that it was in, you know, the first few days of Jermaine's disappearance.

But after the days they already wasted because they wouldn't, you know, take that missing person report.

Here's what Michael said.

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.