mike renaud's story was the missing puzzle piece that detectives had been looking for years. s alibi that he'd been napping at his mother's at the time his wife was murdered -- around six pm. renaud's phone call story meant george was lying. renaud swore that he'd talked to the store owner at the comic book shop and their brief conversation must have taken place just minutes before barb was killed. the embarrassing thing about this nugget of a clue was that mike renaud had told the very same story to the police back in 1990, the day after the murder. what looked like a case-breaker in 2007 had simply slipped through the cracks back when. they'd had it in the case file all along. in clear handwriting, there it was, a record of renaudÂs july 14 phone call to the police: "mr. renaud stated that he called'comic world'... (around) 5 30 and talked with the owner michael george. >> well, that's the one piece that was missing. even so, it was a piece that still had flaws as evidence. there were no existing phone logs to corroborate his story or to pin down the exact time he said he pl