Annie Elise

She told them that she had gone out with friends.

She got home around 8.30 p.m.

She and Keith went through their usual bedtime routine and went to sleep like always.

But that sometime around 3.30 a.m., their youngest son, who, by the way, was just 18 months old, he started crying and wouldn't go back to sleep.

All three of their boys, as a matter of fact, had colds.

They were under the weather.

So Darlene decided to just go lay with them in their room to kind of help him settle down, help all of the boys go back to sleep, and just kind of rest easily through the night.

She ended up turning on the TV and eventually they all fell asleep.

She then said that at around 5.15, she woke up, but she rolled over and kind of dozed back off, which let's be real.

If you've got toddlers, if you've got young kids, every extra minute of sleep counts.

I get it.

Even if you feel like it's time to wake up, you'll turn over, go back to sleep.

Hell, I did it this morning.

But at about 5.45 a.m., she finally got up.

And as she walked into the main area of the house, maybe heading to the kitchen or going for coffee, something like that, something just stopped her cold in her tracks.

Because that's when she noticed that Keith's gun cabinet was completely empty.

And she knew that all of the guns had been there the night before.

And now they were just completely gone.

So panic began to set in.

And Darlene said that she started yelling for Keith, expecting him to come running.