LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Timothy Winterholler was released from jail more than two months after his girlfriend was found dead in Jefferson Memorial Forest. Now, he wants to tell his side of the story.

Winterholler was arrested a few days after Lynnden Bray's death and charged with arson. Police said he admitted to setting a fire inside her car.

But what really happened to her?

In mid-July, Bray's dogs and car were found in the forest. Winterholler reported she was missing to the police, and, a day later, she was found dead.

Winterholler's case was dismissed once a grand jury found there was not enough evidence to indict him. He didn't want to talk on camera for this story, but through Facebook messages, he said he had to leave town because of death threats.

"Detectives and the forensic team ruled it Suicide," he wrote. "Forensics don’t lie and yet I still get harassed and threatened with my life cause people can’t accept the truth. I miss her worse than anyone and I don’t deserve to be under the gun."

Kandy Bray, Lynnden's mother, said she doesn't think her daughter's death was a suicide.

"They told me it didn't add up," Kandy Bray said in July. "Those were their exact words: 'Things are a little weird, and they're not adding up.' She was not found in the typical way that you would assume someone who hung themselves was found. It was different. It's not like it was obviously a suicide, and I'm in denial. That was not the case at all."

Louisville Metro Police said its investigation into Lynnden Bray's death still open as detectives wait on test results.

Kandy Bray said investigators are still looking at her car and information from her phone.

"I already went through a 6-hour interrogation with Louisville Homicide," Winterholler wrote. "It is on record, they know everything that happened that day and even have my cell phone with locations and times to validate my statements, they have the truth and that isn’t gonna change, I wasn’t charged cause I didn’t do it, my heart is broken too and I just want to heal if possible."

Police said there is no timeframe on when test results will be back.

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