MrBallen

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.

And so there just had to be more to this than met the eye.

And even though Ingram tried to work out some kind of reasonable explanation for why that swatch was there,

The only thing that actually made sense was that the fake denim was planted there.

And so feeling a mix of, again, shock, but also just frustration here.

I mean, he thought he was so close to solving this thing, and now he was sort of back to square one.

Ingram realized that the next stop had to be Laverne's.

He needed to go speak to her again.

Later that morning, Ingram and his partner were once again back in Laverne's living room with a very nervous-looking Laverne sitting across from them.

This time, Ingram was going to be a little tougher on her.

Because he now knew that, you know, whatever she had told him before very likely was not the full story.

And as soon as Ingram asked Laverne point blank if she had planted that evidence, that denim inside of her car, Laverne just kind of looked back at him and her face began to sort of quiver.

And then she just started sobbing.

And she told them she was so, so sorry.

She explained that she had cut up some jeans and put that front button part in her car and pretended to have found it so that they'd be able to arrest John.