Mr. Ballin

But he also now knew that very likely their crime scene was contaminated now because the kids went in there and touched a bunch of stuff.

But, of course, he did not tell the kids that he was in any way annoyed with them or that they had done anything wrong.

Instead, he just told the kids to go inside and change their clothes and then give the clothes that had blood on them to the forensics techs because they needed to collect them as evidence.

and he also told the kids to not go anywhere near their mother's bedroom.

Candace nodded and stood up and grabbed her little brother by the hand, and as they walked back towards the house, a sheriff's deputy came up to Faust and told the detective that he should also make sure to talk to Bonnie's oldest child.

She had a 15-year-old son whose name was Bradley.

That evening, Detective Faust paced down the hallway of the Pima County Juvenile Court Center, holding a file folder in his hand.

When he opened the door to a small office, a teenage boy was already there waiting, and Faust recognized him from the mugshot in the folder he had as Bradley Sanborn, Bonnie's oldest child.

Faust walked in, and as gently as he could, he told Bradley that his mother was missing.

And based on the blood and the knife they'd found in her bedroom, she'd likely been viciously attacked, kidnapped, and she could even be dead.

So Faust knew that Bradley could not have attacked his mother because he'd been here in the juvenile detention center the whole time the attack took place.

But Faust had done some digging on Bradley's friends.

He slapped the file folder he was carrying down onto the desk in front of Bradley and began flipping through it.

showing Bradley the information he'd found about, in particular, his friend Jason Horbachevsky.

Jason was a known gang member, and according to several informants, he was known for carrying a knife around.

And sometimes, apparently, he would pull that knife out and stab himself in the side of the head.

And so Faust wondered out loud if the knife they'd found in Bonnie's bedroom was Bradley's friend Jason's.

And maybe the attack on her was retribution for his mother calling the cops on Jason and Bradley that morning.

But when Faust looked at Bradley for his reaction,

He saw there were all these tears rolling down his cheeks, and Bradley choked out that he really didn't know anything, and as much as he argued with his mom, he would never hurt her.