MrBallen

However, despite Ingram's very high suspicion of John, realistically, the only evidence he had on John, at least at this point, was all circumstantial and so was not nearly enough to actually arrest John.

What they needed in order to do that was some form of hard evidence that directly connected him to Tanya's murder.

So ultimately, at the end of this interview, you know, despite how weird the whole thing had been, Ingram just sighed and told John that for now, he could go.

Four days later, Ingram had just gotten to his office for the morning when his desk phone rang.

He picked up and was surprised to hear Laverne's voice on the other end.

But before he could ask her what this was about, Laverne told him she had found something in her car that morning and felt like he needed to see it.

And when she told him what this thing was, Ingram said he would be right over.

Then he immediately hung up and ran to find his partner.

As he drove to Laverne's, he found his heart was racing.

I mean, over the last few days, they hadn't found any additional evidence to prove John was their killer.

In fact, if anything, they had actually lost some evidence since that note they found inside of John's things in his house ended up being a dead end because their analysts couldn't actually match the handwriting to John.

So they didn't know for sure if it was him.

But now, based on what Laverne had just told him on the phone about what she found in her car...

He was pretty much positive that this was the break he needed.

Within the hour, Ingram and his partner were standing in Laverne's garage with Laverne staring into the open trunk of her car.

Laverne had told Ingram that she kept her car and really her whole life very, very clean, like her apartment's clean, everything's clean all the time.

And when she went into her car that day, she noticed there was a little swatch of denim sitting in the trunk.

And she knew that she had not put it there.

And considering she was sort of on high alert about John and about his connection to this murder, it just seemed like something worth flagging to police.

And for Ingram and his partner, as they're staring into the trunk at this little swatch of denim that looks very much like the swatch of denim they were secretly looking for,