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When he gets to the station before the recorded interview with him begins, investigators give him a heads up like,
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"Oh, by the way, it wasn't just a neighbor who saw you on her porch. It was the victim herself who IDed you."
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Ernest emerges from his front door, blinded by a cruiser's spotlight. And as the sheriff arrests him and places him
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in the back of a car, a deputy notices that he reeks of alcohol, but he is coherent enough to answer questions
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after he's read his Miranda rightites. They ask him, "Is anyone else inside?" "No," he says. "My wife's at a dog show
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2 hours away. Were you at Linda's house earlier tonight?" "No." But when the sheriff says, like, "So, if a neighbor
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told me that they had seen you on the front porch earlier, then you're saying that neighbor would have been lying."
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And this is when Ernest starts backtracking, saying, "Well, oh, actually, yeah, I did go over there to
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talk to her husband about a boat dock, but Linda said that he wasn't home, so I just left." Okay, your name is written
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in her blood. >> But he I don't think he's pieced that together yet. Like I don't think he
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knows that she's the neighbor who saw him. I mean, he knows what he did to Linda. So I think in his mind she should
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not be alive. Linda is dead.