Back when the investigation began, police had gotten tons of reports about

suspicious vehicles in and around Ada's neighborhood, none of which ever

really amounted to anything.

But one of those vehicles was a white-paneled truck or van.

And detectives had confirmed that at least one white truck had been parked at the

Herodines hours before Ada went missing, sometime between

9 and 10 a.m. that Wednesday. That one belonged to a contractor who put insecticide on their lawn.

But a jogger who lived in the same development

told police he saw a white truck at Edas sometime

between three and four p.m.

That was the man that I mentioned in episode 2 who wasn't sure about what day he saw it and maybe because of that uncertainty

It seems like detectives dismissed the whole lead

But that was before they knew that Terry had owned a white van at the time, a 1979 Chevy. And just like that, the white vehicle sighting quickly shifted from a minor detail to a top priority for police. This is episode 7 means motive and opportunity. Now right away, investigators ran into a big problem with Terry's white van, which was that

he didn't have it anymore.

One of his employees had totaled it in an accident the previous July.

And the guy who bought it after Terry had traded it in

sold it to someone else who quickly sold it to another person.

Plus, it turns out Terry had refurbished it sometime

before the accident, though it wasn't clear when.

So by the time, police did get their hands on it, they probably didn't have high hopes of recovering anything.

And though they didn't find incriminating evidence like blood,

there actually was some stuff that belonged to Terry still in the van.

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