Mr. Ballin

And at that point, Richard became very serious and said that he needed to come forward because he had a feeling about what had happened to Barbara.

He said, you know, he was a psychic and he had a vision that the gun, the murder weapon, had been thrown in some water somewhere.

Hayward couldn't believe what he was hearing because, you know, the police had not announced the murder weapon was missing.

Richard shouldn't have known they were looking for the murder weapon.

but clearly he did.

So at this point, Hayward did not ask more questions about what his vision said.

Instead, he demanded that Richard account for every single hour of his day on Monday, March 11th, the day that Barbara went missing.

And for the first time, Richard actually seemed genuinely thrown off.

He just sort of stared back at Hayward in what seemed to be complete shock.

And then he said he didn't kill Barbara.

He said he couldn't have.

He was with his friends the whole day.

Hayward just kind of glared at Richard and then slid a pad of paper over to him to write down his friend's information so they could follow up.

And as he watched Richard hurry to jot down some names and numbers,

Hayward felt sure this was their guy.

There was just a mountain of circumstantial evidence here against him.

But he knew they needed something more concrete to actually make an arrest.

So Hayward first would have to check out Richard's alibi and then also test Richard's personal gun, his .357, against the bullets that had killed Barbara.

So he told Richard that for now he could go, but they would need to take a look at his gun.

A few weeks later, Hayward sat at his desk in the sheriff's office, staring at some ballistics results from Richard's gun.