MrBallen

But for now, it was late in the evening, and he knew he had a long day ahead of him tomorrow.

So he shut down his computer and left his office.

The next morning was Saturday, and Detective Jimenez arrived at his office to find that his search warrant application for the home of Joseph Keys and David Nguyen had been approved.

He also found a copy of the autopsy report waiting for him, along with a couple of reports from other detectives who had begun to reach out to Michael's friends and family.

Now Jimenez was very eager to go search Winn and Keyes' house, but first he picked up the autopsy report, flipped it open, and gave it a quick read.

The coroner had found a .38 caliber bullet lodged in Michael's brain.

The star-shaped gunpowder burn around the entry wound meant it had been fired at close range, which Jimenez had already guessed.

And also the coroner noted that the wounds on Michael's hands were indeed very likely defensive wounds.

The most useful part of the report focused on Michael's time of death.

When Jimenez got to the scene and he touched Michael's body, it was warm to the touch, and so he had assumed that very likely Michael had died recently.

Jimenez just didn't know exactly when.

And the coroner was able to confirm that suspicion.

Because Michael had not yet gone through rigor mortis, the coroner was able to establish an actual time of death.

Michael had been shot somewhere between 2 and 3 a.m.

on Friday morning.

And so this information meant that Jimenez could be very specific when he was investigating suspect alibis.

This was great news.

Jimenez rifled through the other reports, which laid out a rough timeline of Michael's activities before his death.

He had taught a yoga class on Wednesday night and gone out for drinks afterwards with some students and a girlfriend who Michael's friends knew only as Amber.

Then on Thursday, he'd apparently spent the entire day holed up inside of a studio working.