Ashley Flowers

Yeah.

I don't have all the files.

The only note that I see right before this one was from like a few weeks before when this body had been found in Owen County, Indiana.

Now, it sounds like they were going to run some tests to make sure that it wasn't Nikki.

Obviously, it didn't end up being her.

But maybe someone panicked.

Right.

But like you would think that if it was someone connected to actually what happened to Nikki, they would know where they put her body and they would know that this one in Owen County wasn't her.

Yeah, I guess.

And like Owen County, by the way, is like southwest of Indianapolis.

It's a hike from like this Richmond, Dayton area.

Which is on the east side.

Yeah, now maybe they were just getting word that a body had been found.

I don't know.

Or it's possible this whole thing was a red herring that just, you know, took a lot of time and investigative energy from detectives.

And this wasn't the only thing they were running down.

What seemed much more promising to me were two separate anonymous tips saying that Nikki's remains were in illegal dump sites closer by.

In the first one, the McCown family got a call claiming that Nikki's remains could be located at this site near the intersection of State Road 320 and US 40 in New Paris, Ohio.

Now, the caller refused to give a name or any additional information.

And in the second tip, someone anonymously called the Wayne County Sheriff's Office, again, referencing an illegal dump site over the Ohio state line, possibly even referring to the same one mentioned in the tip before.