MrBallen

They had not publicly revealed that the killer had taken a little swatch of denim from Tanya's jeans.

That was private.

They're looking at this thinking, oh my goodness, like this is the break we needed.

Clearly, that's the denim from Tanya's jeans.

And so Laverne was right to call this in.

This is potentially huge.

Now, obviously Ingram knew that they would still have to get this denim tested to make sure it really was Tanya's.

I mean, it's entirely possible that it was actually Laverne's or John's or was unrelated, but circumstantially, this felt like hitting the jackpot.

And so Ingram watched as his partner picked up the swatch, put it into an evidence bag, and then they left and said they would have it tested and they would be in touch.

The following morning, Ingram was at his desk reviewing all the evidence that they had so far.

And by this point, they had a lot of evidence.

The previous night after finding the denim, they had brought John in for a polygraph test, and he had completely failed it.

The test administrator had even noted that in his opinion, John definitely knew what had happened to Tanya.

So now, realistically, Ingram was just sort of waiting on confirmation that that fabric was a match.

and then at that point they could go and arrest john and when ingram's phone rang he picked it up immediately and it was the lab so ingram sat up straight ready for some good news but the tech on the other line sounded sort of glum and he told ingram that the denim from laverne's car did not match the jeans that tanya was wearing so it was not hers

And at this, Ingram was just completely stunned.

I mean, the idea that they had just found the same unique cut of denim in a car in their main suspect's house could not be a coincidence.

I mean, it was not typical for people to have little swatches of denim lying around.

Like, this is not something that you just happen to have.

It felt sort of specific.