that he was napping at his mother s house. the phone call story meant george was lying and was certain he talked to the store owner at the shop and the brief conversation must have taken place a few minutes before barb was killed. the embarrassing thing about the nugget of a clue is that mike told the same story to the police in 1990, the day after the murder. what looked like a case breaker in 2007 had simply slipped through the cracks back when. they had it in the case file all along. there it was. a record of his july 14th phone call to the police. he stated he called comic world around 5:30 and talked with the owner, michael george. that is the piece that was missing. it was a piece that had flaws as evidence. there were no existing phone logs to corroborate the story or pin down the time he said that