Vanessa Richardson

Continuing to build her web of lies, Dorothea then said that Burt wanted to stay with his sister and her husband and live with them permanently in Utah.

She was racking her brain for ways to keep them off this case.

Despite Dorothea's efforts, Peggy then insisted that she needed to talk to Bert's family.

In response, Dorothea called in a favor with yet another former convict she was acquainted with.

She asked the man to pretend to be a member of Bert's family when Peggy called.

He agreed, and Dorothea gave Peggy the man's phone number.

Still, the call only raised more questions.

Peggy had a hunch something was wrong when she heard the man on the line.

First, the man referred to Alvaro as Bert, but he had no reason to call him by his relatively new nickname.

To make matters worse, the man used his own name instead of the one Dorothea told him to give.

Now Peggy was fed up with Dorothea's games.

She tapped into her network and quickly identified the man on the call as one of Dorothea's ex-con associates.

Peggy was left with no other option than to call the police.

Detective John Cabrera answered her call.

He'd just solved a serial killer case in Sacramento, and when he arrived at Dorothea's boarding home on F Street, he found a cheerful scene with smiles, music, and food.

Dorothea let Detective Cabrera look around and even interview each resident in private.

During his conversations with them, they all said the same thing.

They didn't know anything about Bert, and everything at the home was fine.

Just as Detective Cabrera was getting ready to wrap up this investigation, one of the tenants approached him and shook his hand goodbye.

In that moment, Cabrera noticed that the man had slipped him a note.