Ashley Flowers

After she left, Carl says that he fixed the boys some food and let them play for a bit.

Then around 4 p.m., he dropped them off at the Broadway Theater, only a few miles away, for a double feature.

Carl says that he was back at the house when Margie arrived home from work at around 5.30 p.m.

Now, she wasn't psyched to find out that he dismissed the babysitter and dropped the boys at the movies, but she didn't have time to argue about it.

She had plans that night.

So she was out the door by 6.30 p.m.

It's possible Margie had their shared vehicle that night because Carl was getting around in an old-school-looking red station wagon that he borrowed from a friend.

That's how he was able to go back to the theater to pick up the boys at 7.45.

He told police that he waited outside the theater in his car until 9.30 a.m.

When almost two hours had passed with no sign of Terry or Alan, Carl said that he assumed maybe Margie had picked them up, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to investigators who have looked at this case.

Carl says that he just went home after this and didn't realize anything was wrong until Margie got home.

But, like, what did he think she would have been doing with the boys during that time after he got home and realized they weren't there?

Carl knew that Margie was out on a town that night.

Did he think Terry and Alan were, like, hanging out at the bar all night with their mom?

The picture Carl was painting wasn't making a whole lot of sense.

But by continuing to talk to people in the boys' neighborhood, investigators were starting to see a different picture come into focus.

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