Ashley Flowers

What?

Or maybe she's just hiding out at her best friend's house.

Someone should probably check there.

So his theory is everything?

Everything but foul play, it seems.

I don't think anyone gets, like, a clear answer about that.

That's the thing.

To the Mondragons, the whole thing sounds less like a husband trying to find his wife and more like somebody trying to rapidly workshop explanations.

On top of that, while he's coming up with all the ways that she could have just walked off on her own,

He finds time to criticize their search effort, saying that they're looking in the wrong places, places Melissa wouldn't go because she didn't know them well.

And he keeps bringing up his confirmed alibi, even though nobody is asking him about it.

So, being the crime junkies that the Mondragons are...

They start recording their interactions with Mark in the one-party consent state of New Mexico.

Starting with a call that Trudy made to check on Sierra the next day, Sunday.

And she shared that recording with us.

No matter how upset Mark gets, Trudy tries to keep calm.

And, you know, she's not being confrontational at all.

She is in information gathering mode.

She wants to keep him talking.

And that's when he says something that catches her really off guard.