Ashley Flowers

But based on everything she saw and everything Bobby told her, she could no longer reconcile the longtime friend that she thought she knew with the man on the other side of that line during their last conversation.

And girl, same.

Like, I'll link out to Bobby's full interview with police, but I bet what rubbed her the wrong way is what I had a hard time with, too.

In this interview, he's like, oh, you know, I hope there's another guy.

I hope, like, that's the reason.

At least she would be okay.

I mean, you heard him.

But he says he didn't know about anything.

And he mentions Tommy Swinn, but, like, as one of her friends in line with a bunch of other people.

Never says a word about knowing they were having an affair or about following them.

So if he knew that while he was sitting in the room with those detectives, then he was boldface lying to them.

Why?

Why?

But here's the thing.

As recently as 2024, Detective Wright told Dateline that Bobby is no longer considered a person of interest in this case.

But when we tried asking police that same question ourselves, if Bobby was officially cleared, how he was eliminated, as of this recording, we have not heard back.

Now, before we let a claim like Nikki and Tommy possibly being lovers reshape this narrative, I want to be absolutely clear about what is fact and what is rumor.

We still don't know the true nature of Nikki's relationship with Tommy Swint, who, by the way, was married at the time Nikki vanished.

And he was even still married to the same woman when he took his own life after being indicted for Tina's murder.

When I look at the case report, like depending on who we talk to, depending on who police talk to, the story of like his relationship with Nikki, it varies.