MrBallen

or Laverne might wind up being the next dead girl on the side of the highway.

A little over a week later, on the morning of February 16th, Detective John Ingram sat with his partner in a very clean living room in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Ingram was the lead investigator on Tonya Bennett's murder case, and he was there to speak to Laverne, who was sitting on the opposite couch.

And Laverne seemed really nervous.

and kept fidgeting constantly and offering Ingram and his partner refreshments.

It was just very clear that there was a lot on this woman's mind.

So Ingram knew that Laverne had a week earlier called in a tip about the victim's killer.

She thought it was her own boyfriend, John Sosnovsky.

And right now, Ingram was very eager to hear what she had to say about her boyfriend, to basically elaborate and sort of give the full story of why she believed what she believed.

In part because Ingram's case so far had absolutely no other leads, like this was it.

The victim's body had been found on a grassy slope so close to the edge of the highway that you could see her from the road.

but Ingram and his partner had not been able to find any witnesses.

A few people had claimed to have seen Tanya along with some man at a bar earlier in the night before she went missing, but no one had been able to effectively describe that man.

It was just some guy she was with.

And so Ingram and his partner had basically talked to just about anyone they could think of that might've known Tanya.

They'd canvassed her neighborhood, they'd interviewed her family, coworkers, friends, and they still had not been able to find anybody who fit as a suspect.

They also hadn't found any good physical evidence at the scene, like fingerprints or helpful forensics.

So now Ingram was hoping that Laverne was going to be the key to his whole case.

And so eventually, Ingram looked at Laverne and said, whenever you're ready.

Tell me what you know.