A senior Louisville police officer knew that Gladys had called Alberta, that she came over, and that they went out to eat together — all before he had spoken to Gladys or any member of Alberta's family. Nobody in the investigation seemed to think that was as strange as it was.
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Within a week of the murder, police set up roadblocks on the bridge and spoke to 222 motorists — and two of them, bakery workers Peter Baker and Robert Bostock, said they'd seen a white car and a marked Louisville police car stopped together at the center of the bridge at 4:35 AM, just after Alberta was estimated to have entered the river. No officer ever came forward to explain what they were doing there. Ashley's analysis is damning: if Alberta was already dead, the backseat was covered in blood — any officer who stopped that car would have known something was catastrophically wrong. The police-car sighting is compounded by another red flag: a senior Louisville police officer knew that Gladys had called Alberta and that they went out to eat together, all before he had spoken to Gladys or any family member.
Two witnesses saw a white car stopped at the center of the Sherman Minton Bridge at 4:35 AM the morning of Alberta's murder, with a marked Louisville police car pulled up directly behind it.
A senior Louisville police officer knew about Alberta's movements with Gladys on the night of her murder — including that Gladys called her and that they went out to eat — before he had spoken to Gladys or anyone in Alberta's family.
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