When Crew showed up at my apartment that night for a late dinner and a beer, I wanted to ask him a million questions. Namely, not about the murder investigation and Tyler, but what it was like to fire Robert.

His generally unhappy attitude, not really like him, told me he'd likely been stonewalled, as had his previous comment earlier in the day. I let things go, dying to know but showing amazing restraint if I did say so myself. Whatever was going on for Crew at the ...