JA told Det. Flores that he should be looking at Thomas Brown as a suspect.
[Former roommate of TA.]
Yes, in addition to two masked intruders she couldn't pick out of a lineup, she also tried to throw Thomas Brown under the bus.
Det. Flores had to waste valuable time and resources checking it out partly because the crime scene was so gruesome and Travis was so butchered that he wondered if the lying torture-murderess had help doing the deed as he initially couldn't conceive of JA brutalizing TA to that extent without some help.