Jed Rosenzweig

An a new Instagram post, the SNL writer says the LAPD has shifted the case to a homicide investigation after informing the family that his sister, Christina Lynn Downer, has died, marking a tragic turn months after she first went missing.

In a video message posted to social media, Robert Smigel’s cigar-chomping puppet says there were plenty of reporters on the scene, but “only one had another man’s hand up his ass—sorry, two: me and Todd Blanche.”