As things would have it, Sharon's mother Doris Hall also worked as a secretary for the prestigious Quinn & Peebles law firm in Kansas City.

Sharon had told Boldizs that he should tell the cops he was alone when he found the body, but he eventually caved as they started asking what he was doing in a lover's lane alone at midnight (Sharon had pulled Patricia's skirt up to her waist to make it look like she'd been raped).

Investigation of the crime scene continued as detectives tried to find the murder weapon and the through-and-through bullet. They eventually located a .22 rifle round buried in the dirt near where the body was found. The gun remained missing and unaccounted for. They also searched nearby buildings as detectives believed Patricia had been killed elsewhere and her body dumped where it was found. White flecks in her hair, initially thought to be powder residue, turned out to be fly eggs. Underneath Sharon's Thunderbird were pieces of wild grass, suggesting it had been driven off-road somewhere recently.