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While all of this is happening at the airport, Dawn is over at a local 7-Eleven talking with a cop and he's
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asking if maybe police at the airport can check there for Linda's car. An idea that he says Sam gave him, not the other
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way around. >> Yeah. >> And literally, as they're discussing this, dispatch radios the officer that
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[music] they found the missing woman's car at the airport. >> Well, isn't that convenience? Yeah. And
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>> just in case you're not like fully sick of me bringing up that coroner's conference I went to, I'm just going to
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do it like one more time because one of the things they covered were staged scenes
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>> for legal reasons. Let me put a disclaimer. I'm not saying that this scene is stage.
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>> Just sharing interesting info that I found. But they said that a telltale sign of a stage scene oftent times is
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that someone will lead you to the evidence they want you to find. too. Like, here are all the pieces. It must
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be suicide. >> Anyways, whether this is sus or not to them, finding the beetle does seem to
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light a fire under the Venita Park PD. They finally assign a patrol supervisor, Michael Webb, to work the case.
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And in the early days, they do confirm parts of Dawn's story. Linda's time card shows that she clocked out at 2:16 a.m.
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on Monday, April 22nd. And Don's suspicions were right because she did hang back after work to talk to a guy
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named Randy for a few minutes. He's the co-orker that Don says she's having an affair with, which is probably why she
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was late coming home. But Randy tells police that the conversation was normal and he expected to see her at their next
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shift, which is later that same night. And even though she wasn't at work Monday night, he actually spotted her
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car out early Tuesday morning when he left work. He saw her beetle parked at this strip mall less than two miles from
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her