Mr. Ballin

It felt like this could have been a mob hit.

A year and a half later, so just before Christmas of 2015, Detective Verriere was in his office in Montpellier when his phone rang.

It was Patrick's older brother, Mark, calling to ask for updates on his brother's case, again.

And Verriere sighed because the truth was, he had nothing new to report.

The body in the cave had been confirmed to be Patrique, and so Verriere had hoped that that discovery would lead to all these new leads.

But after scouring the cave for clues and testing the cigarettes from the scene for DNA and speaking to the teenagers who reported the body, the case just hit a dead end.

Now, the mob-like execution style did line up with a theory that Verriere had that, you know, maybe Patryk had been killed over a gambling debt, you know, by the mob basically, or someone who was affiliated with, you know, organized crime.

But Verriere had never been able to actually uncover any trace of Patryk having any sort of debt that would get him killed.

Also, he still had not been able to identify that mysterious man in the tunnel that Patryk's daughter had mentioned.

And so that left Remy and also Audrey as his only suspects.

and Verriere had placed both of them under surveillance.

But so far, neither of them had done anything suspicious.

So the investigation was now stuck, and Verriere understood that Patrick's family was really out of patience here.

So he was not surprised that when he admitted he still was not ready to make an arrest, Mark snapped.

He told Verriere that if the police weren't capable of solving this, he was going to take matters into his own hands.

Three months later, on a night in March of 2016, Detective Verriere sat down on his couch in his living room to watch something that he'd been warned was coming.

Marc had convinced the producers of a national true crime TV show to do an episode on his brother's case.

And the episode was airing tonight.

And as the show started, Verriere felt a knot of anxiety.

Because Mark knew details about the investigation that were not meant for the public.