Ashley Flowers

I'm assuming for the laundry machines.

Now, before she left, she looked totally normal.

Things seemed fine.

But they obviously didn't stay that way.

Because just a little while later, we know that Nikki got back in her car and drove this short distance to her parents' house where she told her mom that she felt uncomfortable.

Some guys at the laundromat had been bothering her, like wouldn't leave her alone.

Yeah, she said she could like take it out, dry it there or whatever because she had a machine at her place.

But Nikki didn't.

So she goes back and according to the Dayton Daily News, at about 3 p.m., someone sees her back at the laundromat.

But I don't think they're like, whoever's seeing her, the witness, they're like staying there or have eyes on her for a long time because we just have this like brief confirmation that she's there at three and then that's it.

We don't know when she finished or if she left or when she left or if she left alone.

We just know that as the afternoon wore on, she never made it back to her apartment, didn't return to her parents' house to pick up her then nine-year-old daughter, Peyton.

And by early evening, her family had started to worry and they began calling around trying to find her.

And with no luck, they end up filing a missing persons report with the Richmond police that next morning.

And even though she was in the prime of her life with a daughter, she was about to get married.

Like, I mean, the wedding was just around the corner.

She had no history of disappearing like this.

For some reason, the family said the police didn't initially think that something bad had happened.

They kind of figured that she would just come home when she was ready.

Yeah.