MrBallen

Then one March afternoon in 1994, Ingram was in his office at the sheriff's department going over some paperwork when his desk phone rang.

When he picked it up, it was the prosecutor who'd worked Tanya's case.

And the prosecutor said they'd just gotten a very strange letter about Tonya's murder.

And as soon as the prosecutor described the letter's contents, Ingram felt sick to his stomach.

Ingram had been right to worry that he and his partner and really the whole legal system had potentially just gotten something wrong with this case.

You know, it just felt like there was something left unsaid.

There was some loophole, there was some loose end something, but he didn't know what it was.

It would turn out

The thing that was wrong was Laverne.

Because their star witness, Laverne, was not just this sweet older lady afraid of her abusive boyfriend who had come forward and told the truth despite the consequences.

That wasn't really the story.

In fact, basically everything she told Ingram and his partner was a lie.

What was true and what ultimately drove Laverne to do what she did

was she really wanted to break up with John, but she didn't know how to do it.

And so what she ultimately did to attempt to rid herself of John was to frame him for murder.

And at first she did an incredible job.

She read everything she could, little details about the murder in the news.

She also snuck a peek at Ingram's list of evidence during that early interview that was done at her apartment.

And so that's how she knew about that swatch of denim they were looking for.

And she also just happened to take a few really lucky guesses.