Ashley Flowers

Let me step outside, okay?

At this point, Laura steps out and makes a call to the person who has her kids.

And then the audio cuts off.

When the deputies go to arrest Dave, they have not listened to this whole recording yet.

But they show up with a huge police presence, mostly because of the threats Laura accused Dave of making and the weapons that she said he had.

The following body cam audio of their conversation with Dave has been edited for time and clarity, and it's going to pick up at the point where Dave has already been put in handcuffs.

Okay.

My reporter, Nicole, and I found this audio incredibly insightful.

I mean, we could spend all day guessing how Laura felt about her marriage or her safety when leaving that marriage.

But you can only get so much when trying to read between black and white lines on a police report.

To hear it in her own words, I mean, it's hard to overstate how important this was.

So thank you to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for fulfilling this request.

This is how it's supposed to work.

And I think hearing this now raises a lot more questions, not just about Laura's case, but even about Nick Cordova's too.

If you remember from Nick Cordova's episode, Dave had told officers that the gun he had in his office he had just gotten because of a domestic custody dispute that he was having in 2020.

Well, maybe that gun was new, but Dave was pretty clear here.

He had a gun in his office as early as 2013.

Did something just get lost in translation, or should we read more into that?

I also think Laura had a lot of information about Dave's business dealings, information that I think could be critical to understanding how this man operated then and in 2020, maybe even now.

And a couple of questions are top of mind for me coming out of hearing this.