Natalie Morales

And because she worked at the hotel, she was able to show the responding officers surveillance footage.

And it showed, you know, the shadowy figure of a guy apparently slashing the tires.

But because the surveillance footage was a little bit grainy and you couldn't make out his face very clearly, Lakewood police said it was too unclear.

They couldn't see him and they couldn't identify, in fact, that it was Rickman.

Now, all of these instances are examples that Megan Driscoll, the Choi family attorney, says were clear violations of the no contact order.

In fact, Driscoll says Gloria would eventually give Lakewood police a seven page document that listed all the ways she said Rickman violated the no contact order.

This is an important lesson that we can all take away from this story.

I mean, she really did document everything in that seven-page list, including screenshots with text messages, numerous missed calls that she kept getting from his friends, from blocked numbers or numbers that were not identifiable.

And by the way, according to Megan Driscoll, that seven page document, the prosecutors never even saw it because it was found later in a sealed envelope in a police file.

Prosecutor Greg Greer said he had never even seen it.

It wasn't opened or found until after the homicide conviction.

Megan Driscoll told us this was sadly as foreseeable a tragedy as it could possibly be.

We should point out the Lakewood Police Department said they couldn't really identify Billy Rickman as the man slashing the tires and walking away.

But Russ Hicks said the official training says that in domestic violence cases, you know, they generally do escalate in nature.

And the official response is always protect the victim.

So he does not believe, you know, that the procedures were followed.

And while one officer said he drove around and he was looking for Rickman's car, there apparently was

was no record of that.

And there didn't seem to be more of an attempt to find him.

Well, Russ Hicks says the one thing that the police absolutely failed on was that in a situation like this, you put out a Bolo alert, be on the lookout.