Stephanie Ramos

There were three formal sit-down interviews between Sandy and the detectives.

The first was two days after Leslie's death, which we talked about in our last episode.

The second was the one you've just heard a few days later.

And the third interview came three weeks after Leslie's death.

In this last interview, Sandy wore a white shirt and black tie.

It was a little after 5.30 in the afternoon, and he'd come straight from work.

In the weeks since that second interview, and as the target on his own back grew bigger and bigger, Sandy kept responding to the investigators' requests, and there were a lot.

The detective's notebook from the Prier case is littered with calls to Sandy, visits to his work, and lists of information the police wanted from him.

He'd given them everything they'd asked for, but everyone has their limits, and Sandy Prier was about to reach his.

Detectives had called him in, this time to ask about some messages on the Prier's answering machine.

They wanted Sandy to bring in the tapes,

You can hear in the tape, this isn't what detectives expected.

Sandy, their number one suspect, who has been eager to cooperate for weeks, suddenly mentions a lawyer and declines to say anything.

The change in Sandy brought a change in the detectives too.

They finally spelled out what had gone unsaid in all their other conversations.

We think you killed your wife.

They asked Sandy to come clean.

It's a terrible thing.

It is a terrible thing.

Here, the investigators ramp up the pressure as if they know this might be their last chance to try to get Sandy Prier to confess.