Stephanie Ramos

Once when he talked about the scene inside the front door at Drummond Avenue and once about being told that his wife was dead.

In those moments in the interview, Sandy's emotions seemed to match his situation.

A husband who'd lost his wife just two days earlier

And yet, as the interview wrapped up, it was clear that Sandy had done little to ease the detective's suspicions or eliminate himself as a suspect.

And evidence from the crime scene was about to make things even worse for Sandy Prier.

We know what happened right after this interview from entries in the detectives' notes from that day.

Just after the recording stopped, detectives received word their department would be giving a statement on the case to the press.

Leslie's cause of death was officially going to be reported as strangulation and blunt force trauma.

According to investigators, the autopsy had also said that it was possible that Leslie Prier was killed on Tuesday night, the night before her body was found.

Leslie's body was left under hot running water in the shower after her death, likely as part of an attempt by the perpetrator to clean up the scene.

The temperature of the water had sped up the decomposition process, making it hard to be sure of the exact time that Leslie died.

And there was undigested food in Leslie's stomach, pasta.

It fit with Leslie being killed a short time after eating the very dinner that Sandy had just told detectives his wife often made.

Sandy's recollection of his Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning was now in question.

If Leslie had been killed on Tuesday night, and it was still an if, had Sandy driven around town to give himself an alibi?

His entire story depended on Leslie being alive on Wednesday morning, and detectives thought that the evidence suggested otherwise.

In his hotel room, detectives told Sandy what would soon be public information.

Leslie was murdered.

They wrote in their notes that Sandy hung his head for around a minute and then said, I think I know where this is going.

This is state's attorney John McCarthy.