Morgan Absher

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.

It also happens to be where Michael was living at the time.

And everyone's alarm bells are, like, going off even more.

And so when police confront Michael about this...

Can you guess what he does?

He changes his story again.

He said that Jermaine forgot her phone in his car.

He said he wanted to go through her phone and read her messages, but he didn't know the code to unlock it.

So he claimed that he broke it in frustration.

And then two days later, on Monday, June 18th,

He threw her phone out of his truck at mile marker 94 on Highway 12.