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Back inside a headquarters, Detective Jimenez walked quickly to the burglary division.

He rapped on the open door of one of the offices there and caught the attention of a detective at a desk.

Jimenez explained the case he just caught, laid out his theory about a home robbery gone wrong, and then asked the detective if he had any recent robberies on or around North Sparkman Boulevard.

And the second Jimenez mentioned North Sparkman Boulevard, he saw this detective's eyes light up.

He shot straight up in his chair and very excitedly said that yes, he did in fact have something.

Just five days earlier on Sunday, he had arrested two men, Joseph Keyes and David Wynn, for robbing a home in that exact same neighborhood.

But that wasn't all.

First of all, Keys and Wynn lived in a house that was just a mile away from Michael's place.

And most importantly, one of the items these two men had stolen was a guitar.

Jimenez knew this was a great starting point.

So he got Keys and Wynn's home address from the detective.

Then Jimenez returned to his own desk and began filling out an application for a search warrant.

While he waited for a judge to approve his request, Jimenez's phone rang.

It was one of the officers who'd been knocking on doors over on North Sparkman Boulevard.

The officer told Jimenez that nobody in the area heard any gunshots or any unusual noises coming from Michael's house early on Friday morning.

And nobody seemed to have seen Michael at all for a day or two.

However, one neighbor told police that on Thursday afternoon, Michael must have been working in his workshop because they'd heard his compressor going.

So, the neighborhood canvas had not produced a witness to the killing, but they were starting to build a picture of Michael's final hours.

Jimenez thanked the officer for the good work and hung up the phone, feeling satisfied.

Less than one full day into his investigation, and he already had a very promising working theory, he had a search warrant application out to a judge, and he was refining, you know, his victim's final moments to really get a sense of what actually happened here.