Ashley Flowers

But we have been doing this a long time now together, you and me and the crime junkies.

And I might have bought that ending in 2017 when I was green.

But after covering more than 600 cases, including those in the fan club, and building out a team of investigative reporters, I know an ending like that is too vague to hang your hat on.

After all, we still haven't found Nikki.

So I got to wondering, with our resources now, could our team dig up anything that changes this case?

Are we looking in the right places?

Are we sure that we landed on the right suspect?

When we reached out to Nikki's family to see if they'd be interested in us revisiting her case, I was actually kind of shocked to learn that they themselves had already been asking those same questions.

For them, Tommy's sudden death didn't settle anything.

And in the aftermath, some of them have become far more suspicious of someone else.

So they welcomed our help.

And sometimes, I think if you're in the right place at the right time, the universe just lines up perfectly.

Because even though every records request and interview request was denied by Richmond PD, a trusted source gave us some of the case reports that shed a whole new light on every detail of this case, starting at the very beginning.

In those first few days after Nikki had gone missing, I told you that Nikki's family was suspicious of Bobby.

He was never as helpful as they expected him to be.

He wasn't really doing much to help them look for her.

Instead, he was busy returning Nikki's ring, trying to get her tuition money and canceling their wedding.

Oh, and watching movies.

Or maybe just one movie, but he watched it enough times to be concerning.

Nikki's sister Michelle told us that Bobby was practically fixated on this one particular movie, one that she felt was absurdly inappropriate considering the situation.