MrBallen

Now, at this point, Ingram's mind was whirling.

I mean, if this was all true, it was huge for this case.

I mean, potentially, this just solved the whole murder.

I mean, this is what happened potentially.

But he also knew, you know, right now it was just one woman's story.

You know, he needed actual proof.

He couldn't just take Laverne's word for it.

So he asked Laverne if he and his partner could just go ahead and search the apartment.

And as soon as Laverne nodded, the detectives jumped to their feet and got to work.

Laverne led the detectives down the hallway to the master bedroom.

And then from there, she backed off and just, you know, let the men get to work.

And the detectives, they immediately split up and spread out to cover more ground.

Ingram had actually brought along a list of stuff that they were theoretically looking for.

And one of the things on his list was a swatch of denim from the front buttons of Tanya's jeans.

It had been missing when they found her, like it had been intentionally cut out, which was obviously pretty unusual.

And it made him think that Tanya's killer had taken a trophy or something.

But after a few minutes of searching around the bedroom, Ingram did not see this denim patch.

In fact, he actually didn't see anything at first glance that connected John to Tanya.

Until he went over to look through this cardboard box of papers and began sifting through them.

And when he pulled out a torn piece of scrap paper and read what was on it, he froze.