 But around this event, she spoke in the present tense about the last time she saw John. Why was she talking in the present tense? Well, it could be that really this was not events from the past that she was truthfully recollecting. She was making up this story as she was talking. Hence, it was in the present tense. So that's why I got interested in it. Now, what I do is prove someone's lie or prove exactly what happened that night.