Stephanie Ramos

She was running for her life.

My parents had a long hallway between the front door and our kitchen.

There was blood all over the hallway.

It looked like Leslie Prier had struggled against an attacker all across the ground floor until she couldn't.

I know she was killed by the front door.

There was like this, like her, the back of her head was smashed against the wall.

And then there was like bloodstains down the wall.

I think she was just trying to escape.

When investigators started trying to piece together what had happened, they too followed the blood.

They sprayed a chemical called Luminol all over the house.

It glows blue when it comes into contact with even the smallest amount of blood.

Thanks to the Luminol, investigators now saw new clues, previously undetectable to the naked eye.

Big blue swoops and smears where someone had seemingly tried to clean up even more blood.

The luminol showed that Leslie was likely already dead when someone had dragged her body up the stairs and into the shower.

I had to walk through that.

There was still luminol all over the hallway, all the way up the stairs, through the bedroom, my parents' master bedroom.

And I stopped at their bed.

I couldn't do it.

I couldn't go in the bathroom.

I couldn't do it.