Mr. Ballin

But at this point, Verrier had no choice but to let Remy go.

As Verrier watched Remy leave, he knew he was running out of time here.

I mean, two weeks had already passed since Patrick's disappearance, and every day the odds of finding him alive got worse.

So out of desperation, Verrier decided to circle back to the very start and speak again to Audrey Louvet.

I mean, being the last person to see Patrick before he went missing?

Audrey was an obvious person of interest, but Verriere wasn't sure what more he could learn from her.

The local police had already questioned her at the very beginning of the investigation, and Verriere had already watched that interview tape a number of times.

But Verriere knew he just had to take a shot, so he picked up the phone and he called Audrey into the station.

Later that same afternoon, around 2 p.m., Verriere sat across from Audrey in the same room where he just interviewed Remy.

He said hello to her and he started the recorder, and then he asked her to explain her history with Patrick again.

And at first, her answers were all just like they'd been on the tape.

She said they had met eight years ago in 2006, and they dated casually for a while before losing contact.

And then, just a few weeks ago, she happened to pass the bar where they first met, and it made her think of Patrick.

So she'd called him up out of the blue to ask how he was doing, and they'd ultimately made plans to see each other again.

She described their date as being a short walk around the park.

after which patrick had walked her to the bus stop and then headed off presumably to go back to a scooter and to head off to his daughter's dance recital and that's when verrier interrupted and he asked audrey to tell him specifically which direction patrick had headed off after dropping her off at the bus stop and audrey sat there for a minute and then she said you know i i can't remember

And this really bothered Verriere because here was this person who should be able to tell him the most about Patrick's last moves.

And she had basically nothing useful to offer the investigation.

So Verriere just sort of dropped the polite tone and really went after her.

He told her he wasn't buying her act and that she needed to tell him everything she knew right now