MrBallen

When they got there, they knocked on the door, they didn't get an answer, and so eventually they forced their way inside, and immediately they discovered that there was nobody home.

However, pretty quickly, once Jimenez walked into the kitchen, he knew coming to this house had put him on the right track.

Because in the kitchen, there was this very random looking pile of clothes.

Jimenez put on his gloves, squatted down, and one by one, he picked up a bandana, a pair of pants, and some shoes.

And he saw that every item in this pile was splattered with blood.

Jimenez was thinking that at this point all he would need to do to close his case was get these items over to forensics and match the blood on these to the blood of his victim.

But the next morning when Jimenez walked into his office, he got two pieces of bad news, one right after the next.

The first piece of bad news was that the forensics did not match.

The blood found on the bandana, the pants, and the shoes was the wrong type.

It didn't belong to Michael.

And the second piece of bad news was that even though Joseph Keyes and David Wynn appeared to be the perfect suspects on paper for this murder, robbery detectives had found one big problem.

When Michael was shot early on Friday morning, Keyes and Wynn were both already sitting inside of a jail cell.

And so, just two days after Michael's body was found, Detective Jimenez found himself back at square one.

Jimenez sat at his desk flipping through reports from the crime scene and hoping he'd stumble upon a detail that maybe he missed.

And after about an hour of doing that, he did find something.

On a list of items found inside of Michael's house, Jimenez saw a cell phone.

At this time in 2003, not everybody had a cell phone yet.

So it wasn't something police immediately looked for when they arrived on a crime scene.

Also, cell phones at this time did not contain the kind of evidence that they would today.

There was no internet access on any of them and people didn't send a whole bunch of text messages or really use them nearly as much as we do now.