Ashley Flowers

But I have to wonder, are we like making a wrong assumption there?

About the car being in water.

Because like on its face, you read about this case and it's like, oh, like her car, you know, it was entered into like whatever, whatever database, the license plate or the VIN number.

It's never popped up.

So like it has to be in water because that's why nobody's ever found it.

Maybe not.

So I was shocked when I talked to Josh and we learned that investigators actually messed up in 1997.

Now, he's telling us this and we're like, let's double check.

Turns out he's right.

You see, the way it used to work in 1997 was that an officer would make the report, make a phone call to the auto desk to have a vehicle entered into NCIC.

And it would either get entered as stolen or they would give information to have someone entered as missing.

So it looks like in Bonnie's case, when a deputy called it in here, they only entered Bonnie as missing.

Now they noted that her car was gone too, but I don't think they actually entered the vehicle into the system at the same time.

It wasn't until some point in 1999 when another detective comes across this case and is doing all of his like checks and balances that he discovers the vehicle is not in the system as missing or stolen.

Now, when this was realized, they were able to go back and see if any agency had run the plate in the missing two years.

But no one had.

But to me, it also means that maybe no one was actively looking out for it, which the detective admitted to us was a missed opportunity.

Which is why I think people keep coming back to water.

But like, I don't I don't I just like but we know it's not in the water.

So like if it's an accident, I just have a hard time believing the accident thing.