MrBallen

So Laverne had actually been married, but her husband had died of cancer, and she had ultimately met John following her husband's death.

And so when they met, Laverne was very vulnerable and lonely.

And she really hadn't realized the kind of person John was until it was too late.

It had been 10 years now and Laverne still had not, you know, built up the courage to leave him.

I mean, the reality was, is she was just scared of how he would react.

And so she sort of felt trapped.

Now she sat down at her kitchen table with her coffee and she opened up the local paper.

And as soon as she did, the first thing she saw was a big black and white photo of a smiling young woman who likely was in her 20s.

The photo was connected to an article about a recent murder that happened 30 miles away, just northeast of Portland.

The victim had been identified as a woman named Tanya Bennett.

And Tanya Bennett was the girl in the photo.

The article said she had been beaten and then also strangled with a rope, and then she had been left on the side of the highway.

And when Laverne read about the area she actually had been, you know, dumped, she realized it actually was only about a mile and a half down from this famous scenic overlook that Laverne had actually been to before.

Like, she was familiar with this area.

And so Laverne, she's reading the article and she's looking at this picture back and forth and it was like something was sort of forming in her mind.

She just had like this weird sense that she knew something about this case.

And then as she stared at this photo for a little bit longer, it's like it all came together.

And she realized almost certainly that she knew something.

John very likely killed this woman.

And so even though she loved her peaceful, quiet mornings with her coffee, Laverne immediately stood up, she grabbed the phone and she called the police.