MrBallen

After she hung up with police, Laverne was very shaken up.

I mean, her heart was still racing.

I mean, this was a very risky thing she was doing.

Because she had no way of knowing if what she had just given authorities was enough to arrest John.

If it wasn't, it was entirely possible that John would discover this betrayal of her calling the police about him, implicating him in a murder, and he would probably just continue his abuse, if not amp up his abuse of Laverne.

And so the way she saw it is either what she just did was going to end the chapter with John and he was going to go to jail for murder,

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.