Ashley Flowers

The weekend of April 20th, Dave was going to be taking two of their kids to this wrestling tournament in New Mexico.

And so she was going to use that time to get a new car, to get a rental house, and she planned to move all of her stuff into that.

Now, come that weekend, everything was lined up and ready to go.

The last step would be to loop in the nanny because Laura didn't want Dave to even know where she lived.

So she needed Stacey to agree to kind of be the one to usher the kids between the houses for whatever custody arrangement ended up being made.

Now, the dates of the following events are inconsistent in Gilbert police interviews.

So I'm going to base the stuff I'm about to tell you, this timeline, off of the Highland Justice Court's report, which was taken on Sunday, April 21st.

So, Saturday, April 20th, Laura told Stacey her plans.

And she asked Stacey to take their third son, the one that had stayed home with her, to Stacey's own apartment for the night so that she could get all of her things out of the shared house and into her rental.

And she explicitly told Stacey, quote, not to tell Dave anything.

And Stacey asked Laura if she was sure about the divorce.

And Laura said yes immediately.

quote, everything was taken care of.

So the next day, Sunday, April 21st, when Dave was on his way back home with the two kids, Laura told Stacey to bring their other son back to Dave's so that he would be there when Dave got back.

Now, according to what Dave told police, after he got there, Laura put all three children in the car and told Dave that she was going to take them to the store.

But she told the kids that they were going to

have an adventure and stay at a friend's house.

It doesn't say that explicitly in the police report, but I think that's a fair assumption.

So here's the thing, though.

Laura didn't drive off right away.