MrBallen

So these were all very straightforward questions and it was highly suspicious to Ingram

that John apparently just couldn't answer them, at least not cleanly.

And really, the rest of his interview went the same way, with John giving mostly just vague non-answers to everything Ingram asked, no matter how binary the question was supposed to be.

And Ingram was just sort of struck by how nonchalant John seemed whenever he responded, even though, I mean, he was being questioned about his connection to a murder.

This was not a time to be nonchalant.

This was a time to be forthcoming.

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.