he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn t even remember receiving it, and he wouldn t have answered a call that wasn t that he didn t know the number. reporter: and when investigators looked at beard s phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller s cell. it had been, uh, erased. he explained that away by saying that he, the night before, had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it was a little bit suspicious to me. did you start to come down really hard on him? like, i don t we re not buying your story? it wasn t hard. it was more like i was trying to say, let the truth out, because he was having physical like, his stomach was rolling. and i was saying, mike, just let the truth come out. let it come out. it wants to come out. let the truth come out. it s not adding up. you got to stop. you hear your body right now. your body s telling you that you re not telling the truth. just get it out. reporter: while investigator lambert was speaking
murder. that kind of just alerted us right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. he denied any type of involvement. he even denied receiving the phone call. they never talked. did that seem odd to you? that did seem odd. he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn t even remember receiving it, and he wouldn t have answered a call that wasn t that he didn t know the number. reporter: and when investigators looked at beard s phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller s cell. it had been, uh, erased. he explained that away by saying that he, the night before, had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it was a little bit suspicious to me. did you start to come down really hard on him? like, i don t we re not buying your story? it wasn t hard. it was more like i was trying to say, let the truth out, because he was having physical like, his stomach was rolling. and i was saying, mike, just let the truth come out. let it come