Stephanie Ramos

But they still felt Sandy was the most likely option.

That idea that anyone is capable of losing it, Lauren had thought about it.

I mean, of course, I'm not stupid.

I'm 24.

I've heard stories like we were talking about that people can just snap, you know, and then the time frame, the situation in the house.

So those kind of things don't make me think, don't put me at ease of saying I know for a fact my dad's innocent.

And then the other side is like, it's my father.

And my dad was never a violent person, ever.

Lauren was adamant.

Her dad just wasn't capable of killing.

He never hit me.

He never hit my mom, ever.

At her worst.

And it takes a really insane person to just take that next step, besides beating somebody to a pulp or just throwing them to almost being dead.

I mean, that part of it just seems...

And him, like, taking her body, if there's been going to work, no way.

No way.

Investigators told Lauren the case was in a sort of holding pattern.

The cloud of suspicion over Sandy would stay until new information could clear him or confirm him as the killer.

And detectives weren't the only ones holding on to their suspicions about Sandy.