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And it's kind of eerie, almost like he was writing about this situation.

It's almost like a thinly veiled confession.

Yes.

It just again pointed in the direction of definitely this couple had something to do with his disappearance and definitely Jason could have snapped.

Chief Rizzo is sure that the lab results from those blood samples taken from the house will prove that Chris was brutally murdered there.

But she's in for bitter disappointment.

when they called me and said, you know, we didn't get anything.

They weren't good samples or had been treated with chemicals or whatever the case may be.

And I remember just being so upset about that.

You know, I was mentally drained a lot.

With her main suspects now gone into the wind, the case seems to have hit a dead end.

But then there's a break.

It turns out that on the night before the Cochran's left town, those private investigators had put a tracking device on the Cochran's truck, which is legal for PIs to do in the state of Michigan.

What made you put the GPS tracker on?

That's one of the most dangerous moments in the whole investigation, I feel, is deploying the GPS unit because of the risk of danger.

What does that danger look like?

What does that feel like?

Like somebody coming out with a shotgun and shooting us on the spot.

There's a lot of things that could go wrong at that moment in time.

I talked to Jim McNeil, and he said, we put a GPS device on the truck, and I need to tell you that.