I assumed it was because they found red paint scrapings at the scene of Moochie's death, and a rare color would limit the number of cars that could be culpable.
That.
I mean... these days they can probably match paint scrapings to a specific car (if they have access to that car), but even in 1978 they would've examined the scrapings left behind at a murder scene. Analyzing and ID-ing said paint shouldn't have been a huge deal, even back then.
Once it turned out to be a rare, out of production color, how could they not become suspicious? Especially since there was a car driving around in that small-ish town, belonging to someone who knew the murder-victim and was bullied by him in the past and that car just happened to be painted in that rare, out of production color. You'd have to be a pretty bad cop to *not* follow up on that.
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