MrBallen

So Jimenez got up from his desk and walked to the evidence room to get the cell phone.

And once he had it, he went straight to the single most useful piece of information the phone contained.

And that was the call log.

The detective began scrolling through the list of people Michael had spoken to before he died, and at the top of that list was the phone number for a contact listed as Amber Trudell.

Jimenez read the name and immediately felt a jolt of excitement.

Michael's friends had said that his girlfriend was named Amber.

He had meant to track her down, and now he was staring down at, very likely, her phone number.

Jimenez took the cell phone and went back to his desk.

There, he used his own phone to dial Amber's phone number, but there was no answer.

It just rang and rang and finally went to voicemail, which was very disappointing.

So Jimenez left the voicemail and asked Amber to please call him back at her earliest convenience.

After he hung up, Jimenez just stared at the call history list again.

And as he did, he noticed something curious.

Michael had been killed on Friday morning, but his last call, which was to Amber, was made on Wednesday night.

It seemed bizarre to Jimenez that there was this weird gap in time leading up to Michael's death.

It was hard to imagine that all day Thursday, Michael hadn't spoken to anyone.

And as he thought about this, he also found it to be kind of suspicious that Amber had not already come forward to talk to the police, considering that her boyfriend had been murdered.

And so Jimenez began dialing numbers from Michael's contact list in his phone, including Michael's ex-wives and his adult kids, asking about Amber, looking for any information he could.

But it seemed like no one really had any information about who this person was and what her role was in Michael's life.

So by the time Sunday came to a close, Jimenez had a new hunch about where he should focus his investigation.