Ashley Flowers

But before we circle back to him, I have to tell you about something tucked so far down in the narrative of this report, I almost missed it.

But the second my eyes hit one name in particular, I froze.

Like, I couldn't believe what I was seeing in the case report because this name was one I knew well.

So, you see, after they found the GMC in Dayton, police made a concerted effort to really try to talk to everyone in Dayton who knew Nikki, right?

Well, one of the people that they get in touch with tells them that some woman named Kay told her she ran into someone else.

I know this is getting a little confluded.

But this someone else told Kay that they were Nikki's godmother.

And this godmother said that Nikki had just got cold feet.

And oh, by the way, Kay has this boyfriend named Jeff Moore.

And Jeff actually just happened to be friends with this disc jockey who was murdered in Ohio the year before Nikki's disappearance.

Her name was Kelly D. Wilson.

That stopped me in my tracks because if anyone's listened to my other podcast, The Deck, they might remember that I covered Kelly's case years ago.

And that case is still unsolved.

Now, the next note in the report says that they talked to this Jeff guy who's like mentioned.

And he's like, yeah, I work construction at the apartments where Kelly was killed and we were friends.

That's it.

Like that's like the end of the summary of their conversation.

This Kelly, Jeff, Kay, none of it sticks.

But I was over here freaking the F out because another weird detail I already knew because I lived in that case is that Kelly's on-air disc jockey name was Nicky.

And the apartment where this Jeff guy worked, the apartment where Kelly was killed in 2000, was Meadows of freaking Catalpa.