the interviews with jessie blodgett s friends revealed nothing new and then detectives in the park case got a huge break. one that would change the course of both investigations. melissa s description of her attacker s van triggered the memory of a deputy who routinely patrolled the park where she was assaulted. deputy myer had approached us and said several weeks ago i was in that park and there was a blue van parked in the exact same spot that you had described. parked the exact same way. at the time, the deputy thought the van seemed suspicious and ran its license plate, but he found nothing alarming and continued his patrol. now, his intuition was telling him the van was the same one involved in melissa s attack. he had no paper record of the plate, but in his squad car, the computer kept a log of old searches and after hours of back tracking bingo.