Considering the sparse landscape, Cass County Detective Dave Gizzy probably didn't have high hopes that this area canvas would yield much.

And for the most part, it didn't.

Locals reported a few incidents, cars idling, people hanging around, but nothing that gave investigators pause,

except when they spoke to a woman

who lived at the first house north of the crime scene. Her name was Connie. Connie told Detective

Gizzy that she used to work as a cleaning lady for the Herodines next door neighbors, the

Dye family. She had gotten the job through a friend of hers who knew Ray died,

and she'd cleaned for them a few times, including in May of 1985.

But she said she had eventually quit, in part because she felt uneasy around Ray's son, Steve.

And as you can imagine, that immediately caught investigators' attention, because Steve was

one of the very last people to see Ada alive.

This is episode 11, The Neighbor.

Okay. This is episode 11, The Neighbor. Detectives had never been suspicious of Steve Die before.

No one had.

He was always just a neighbor.

One of many they'd interviewed to piece together Ada's movements on the day she

disappeared. He had talked to police willingly, undergone hypnosis, even answered phone calls

at the Herodine's house, and he had no violent criminal record, just misdemeanor marijuana

possession and a bunch of traffic infractions. But with Connie's revelation, everything seemed to change.

Suddenly, Steve went from being a helpful witness to someone who needed a much closer look.

Granted, there really wasn't anything pointing directly to Steve, just his loose connection to Connie and her connection to the area

where Ada's remains were found.

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