Mr. Ballin

Minutes later, Hayward sat down at a conference table across from Jerry.

And from the looks of it, Jerry was very rattled.

He kept shaking his head and looking away like he was trying not to cry.

But Hayward was not a particularly gentle interviewer, so he didn't waste time with condolences or tissues, especially because Jerry was an obvious suspect.

He was Barbara's closest friend at school, apparently, and Hayward was sure Barbara was killed by somebody she trusted.

So he just bluntly told Jerry that he needed to know every single thing that happened on the day Barbara went missing.

Jerry was sort of caught off guard by this level of bluntness, but he took a shaky breath

and then explained how he'd borrowed Barbara's car the day before and then dropped it back off at her place on Monday morning around 10 a.m.

And then he went to the library for a few hours.

He then said he was supposed to meet up with Barbara.

They had plans for later that day to hang out, but Barbara didn't show up.

And when he went to her house to check on her, her car was gone.

And so he began walking back home again when he actually saw her car down the block outside of an apartment complex that he didn't understand she would be at.

Like, he didn't think she knew anybody who lived over there.

And he said he walked up to the car, looked inside, and saw there was a note.

He tried the door handle.

It was open.

He reached inside, got the note out, and he read it.

And he said it was a pretty disturbing note.

He thought it was maybe a suicide note.