Ashley Flowers

Now, it's unclear to me whether, like, police had talked to him or not talked to him.

But he was clear that the letter, at least, like, that this had never come up.

He was surprised by it.

Which I was kind of shocked that he wouldn't have gotten word of something like this.

But he made it clear that he was not romantically involved with Nikki, that there were no arguments of any kind, and that in his words, she was an exceptional employee who earned high marks on her evaluations.

Yeah, I agree.

And I know detectives were able to determine like a couple of things about this letter.

Really just that it was postmarked from Dayton, Ohio.

So like, again, we're still focused on the Dayton area.

That's where the car is found.

And I know they tried to process under the flap area for prints.

But they didn't get anything.

So all in all, based on what we have, detectives conclude that like this Nikki Warden rumor or whatever isn't true.

And the report even like notes that the allegations didn't seem credible and that they can say kind of what we're saying, that this appears to be an attempt to push the investigation in a different direction.

But it's also worth considering, too, that maybe this was just a hoax because whoever wrote the letter didn't even spell Nikki's last name correctly.

I had that same question because this is coming two years later.

Like what?

Things have stalled by that point.

And so I had the exact same thought.

Like what is happening that you're like, oh, I need to do something.