Ashley Flowers

Now, at this time that they find Cheryl, there's still no sign of Andy, though as they secure the scene and get Cheryl to the morgue, searching for him does continue.

But by the wee hours of the morning, they decide they need to break till sunrise.

This is all absolute torture for Andy's dad, Garland.

He got to the scene not long before Cheryl's body was found, and he, like, set out walking the tree line, too, only to be hustled away almost without explanation.

Garland passed away actually recently in October of 2024.

But I found this interview he did with Linda Sheldon Fell for a series that she hosts called Moments of Hope.

And when he's talking to her, he gets choked up because he talks about this HPD officer who actually asked to stay at the scene until the search could pick back up at sunrise.

And he explains that at the first hint of daylight, that officer starts walking the same tree line that Garland walked multiple times the night before.

taking things in, looking for anything that might have been missed in the dark.

I mean, looking for Andy and out there.

All alone, it's that officer who stumbles on this grisly scene.

Because there Andy is, sitting at the base of this enormous tree, tied to the tree with rope.

His legs like stretch out in front of him and he's facing the woods.

And like Cheryl, his throat was slit so deeply though that he was nearly decapitated.

Like the Lake Waco of it all, right?

Yeah.

I thought the same thing.

And listen, for anyone who hasn't listened to our Lake Waco episode, so it was like a two-parter that we did recently.

I'll try and link out to it in the notes or whatever.

But I agree.