Ashley Flowers

I don't know why, but she went back into the house.

And what happened in the hour or so that followed is different depending on which sweetman is narrating.

The only official record we have is that at 8.44 p.m., Laura called the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from a movie theater about eight minutes away from Dave's house.

She told them that about an hour and a half prior, she had an altercation with her husband at their house where he held her against her will and threatened to kill her and himself.

She said that she tried to leave multiple times, but each time Dave grabbed her by the throat and pulled her back into the house.

And she said that he tried to choke her three separate times.

When she finally escaped, she went to that theater where she was joined by her friends.

Honestly, I don't know.

It's unclear if Stacey is still with them or if they're all still in the car or if maybe Stacey took them away.

I don't know.

But honestly, they're just not even mentioned in the Highland Justice Court's report.

All I know is that Laura is calling from the theater and police go to their house and respond and take Dave into custody.

But when they do, he's adamant that he did not hurt Laura.

He denied holding her hostage, explaining that during what she called an altercation, she was just feet from the door, able to leave.

And he was sitting, he says, either like on the ground or across the room from her.

But he did admit that he had her car keys.

Yeah, well, at least not in the car, it seems.

And he also told deputies that he didn't think he had threatened to hurt Laura, but he might have said something irrational when he was upset.

Not quite, because there was a witness in the house.

A one-hour-and-two-minute-long audio recording that Laura captured of the whole incident.