Ashley Flowers

I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And we are back with part two of Bonnie's story.

If you missed last week's episode, pause, go back.

You got to know where we've been to know where we're going.

Because where we left off, I am sure it's easy for you to understand why people have been suspicious of Bonnie's husband since she went missing in 1997.

Bonnie and Rick's son, Josh, even admitted to us that for a portion of his life growing up, he wondered if his dad could have done something because he had everyone in his ear telling him as much.

He said he would even be willing to accept that his dad did it if police could prove it, show him any evidence, even a theory of how that actually makes sense.

and show him that they've looked into everyone else.

But they didn't.

So we tried to.

And I think there is an entirely different side to this story that hasn't been told until now.

When I say that police never really looked into anyone else because they were so suspicious of Rick, I also want to be clear that I don't think they ever really did a thorough enough look at Rick to justify their suspicions.

They never searched his house in those early years.

They only searched it in 2000 when Rick was getting the house ready to sell.

The police, I guess, had heard that he changed out the carpet and there might have been a stain on the subfloor.

So they got a warrant, ripped up the carpet, tested the stain, but it wasn't any kind of bodily fluid.

They didn't do any kind of forensic testing in the garage, which like in my mind, if your theory is that he followed her, wouldn't it make sense that something happened in the garage?

No one even bothers to check for that.

And I think the fact that he knew where to look for her and on the route that we know she drove home.