both pavlinac and sosnovske were separately interviewed by law enforcement, and pavlinac was sent home with a recording wire, which police hoped to use in order to record sosnovske implicating himself in conversation; however, sosnovske failed to implicate himself. in subsequent interviews, pavlinac told law enforcement that on the night of january 21, she had received a phone call from sosnovske, who told her he was "in trouble" and asked her to meet him at a truck stop in troutdale. upon her arrival, she claimed that sosnovske was hiding between two large trailers, and that the body of bennett lay wrapped in a blanket at his feet. pavlinac initially thought she was ill, but was told by sosnovske that she was in fact dead. pavlinac claimed the two rolled bennett's body into a shower curtain that she had brought with, and disposed of her body along the old columbia river highway, around east in the columbia river gorge. she also stated that before disposing of bennett's body, sosnovske cut a piece of fabric from her jeans to keep as a souvenir.