Mr. Ballin

And so Faust knew his best shot at finding Bonnie was to, one, identify the car that would normally be in this garage, and then once you have the identity of the car, to go find it.

Once Faust had done his initial sweep of the house, he went outside and he crouched down next to Bonnie's two younger kids, Candace and Brandon.

And both kids were still very shaken up and totally confused.

And so Faust very gently asked them about the last time they had seen their mother.

And Candace said it was around maybe 11.45 the night before when their mom had gone to bed.

But she also added that maybe around 3 a.m., she and her brother Brandon were still up watching TV in the living room and their mom had shouted from her bedroom for them to turn off the TV and go to bed.

She said that when their mom did that, they did get up, they turned off the TV and...

They went to their own bedrooms and went to sleep, and both kids said they didn't hear or see anything until they woke up later that morning and found what they found in their mother's bedroom.

And so this gave Faust something to work with, because it meant, if what the kids were saying was true, that Bonnie must have disappeared sometime after 3 a.m., because that's when she yelled to her kids at 3.

Plus, if the suspect came in through that backsliding door that went right into Bonnie's room, and they were able to do so without waking up the kids, and then after the attack being able to find very likely Bonnie's car keys, because that's the assumption, they found her keys, and then loaded Bonnie into the car and drove off again without waking anybody in the house...

It's suggested that whoever did this, they likely were relatively familiar with the layout of the house and had probably been there before.

So maybe this is somebody that they all knew.

Faust pointed to the blood that was on Candace and Brandon's shirts, and he asked them where it came from.

And Candace would admit that before she called 911, she and her brother had desperately gone looking for their mom in the room, in this horrible bloody bedroom.

But they couldn't find her, and in their efforts to find her, they had gotten blood on themselves.

Now, of course, Faust understood that these kids had been through this horribly traumatic thing, and they were just looking for their mom.

But he also now knew that very likely their crime scene was contaminated now because the kids went in there and touched a bunch of stuff.

But, of course, he did not tell the kids that he was in any way annoyed with them or that they had done anything wrong.

Instead, he just told the kids to go inside and change their clothes and then give the clothes that had blood on them to the forensics techs because they needed to collect them as evidence.

and he also told the kids to not go anywhere near their mother's bedroom.