We knew he was guilty from the start.
The problem was that his gang has such a tight and violent control of the community, nobody would talk.
This from documentaries last year.
Actually, this guy is not the same ex-bf who had been on our radar(the one who had moved to Iowa and who the authorities had ruled out early on, despite his also being a criminal thug)....this indicted suspect is a different thug. She was rumored to have been involved with someone local, but we couldn’t figure out who at the time....
That’s what I was going to say. Everyone knew it was the boyfriend from the beginning.