Suspicion quickly focused on Tylar and Colver. On June 16, 2009, they were discovered at The Shops at Tanforan in San Bruno, California, and taken into custody. Officers found them changing their clothes behind a dumpster. Their hotel room in San Francisco held what CBS News called "a bizarre mixture of Froot Loops, cake, and rat poison," which the couple had apparently eaten in an attempt to fulfill their mutual suicide pact. Additionally, police found condoms, marijuana, a suicide note, and a DVD of the film Donnie Darko.
