Mr. Ballin

And considering it was complete luck that her body was even found at all in the area that it was, you know, it really would have been in the killer's best interest to keep quiet and hope her body was never found.

So why would Jerry go to police at all if he was the killer?

So Hayward headed out the door to wrangle some officers.

They needed to go to Provo and have another word with Barbara's roommates.

The next afternoon, just two days after Barbara was found in the canyon, Hayward pulled up to a pawn shop on the outskirts of Salt Lake City.

If he thought he was tired yesterday, well, he was absolutely exhausted now because a lot had happened in the last 24 hours.

They'd gotten in touch with Barbara's family, who were obviously shocked and devastated, but they didn't have any useful information for the investigation.

They didn't know much about Barbara's friends or life at school, so they couldn't say if anybody would have wanted to hurt her.

And they'd had no idea if she had been planning to leave campus for any reason.

But apparently, she was.

Because the handwriting expert had come back and confirmed the note was authentic, and Barbara did write it.

So her plans to leave appeared to be genuine, which is what the note basically was about, if you read it literally.

But for Hayward, after speaking to Jerry, who talked about the tension between Barbara and her roommates and how she didn't fit in, and also after Hayward literally spoke to all seven of Barbara's roommates and they all actually admitted they did not like Barbara...

It made Hayward think that the letter from Barbara should be interpreted literally, that she was just trying to flee campus and get away.

In particular, from her roommates.

But the roommates all had solid alibis for the day Barbara went missing.

So for now, you know, Hayward basically had to rule out the roommates.

But Hayward was not that upset about this because the roommates had actually given him another lead.

According to one of the roommates, right before Barbara had disappeared, she had mentioned that she planned to pawn a turquoise necklace that she owned in Salt Lake City.

So Hayward and some other officers had spent the whole day canvassing pawn shops in that area to see if maybe she had actually gone through with it.