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Here's a question for you. Why would an intruder leave pickles behind? The night
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before Rachel Hansen was shot, somebody broke into her apartment while she was asleep. They didn't steal anything. They
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didn't hurt her. They just ran when she woke up. But they did leave something behind in the kitchen. This brand new
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unopened jar of kosher dill pickles. Now, Rachel thought this incident was strange but harmless. maybe just
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somebody who was looking for her former subletter. But then the next night, she's murdered in that same apartment.
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And days later, when Rachel's parents were allowed to go back into the apartment, the pickle jar was still
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sitting on the counter. So, they assumed that police like fingerprinted it or at
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least photographed it. But they hadn't. Her mom later asked detectives about it and they said, "What pickle jar?"
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I believe someone within the department at least knew about the pickles because there is this body cam clip where an
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officer walks through the apartment at some point and says no pickles and that's it. No evidence log, no photos,
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no testing. And I wonder why something like that left behind, something especially something as strange as this
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was not treated as evidence.