Ashley Schwamm

She's here, but we're not.

I'm happy with my decision, but no one else knows it's what I want.

Please don't tell anyone.

Leaving detectives to read between the lines that James wanted Ashley gone so he could start a new life.

It was clear from the text that Alexandra didn't know what decision James was talking about.

There was no indication from his phone or anything that they had been, you know, even if it was cryptic, that there was something going on with the planning?

They ruled out the possibility that she was part of the plan.

Two weeks after James' arrest, the prosecutor upgraded the charge against him to first-degree murder.

For friends like Anne Lockhart, certain moments took on a new, darker meaning.

I have two little chairs and a table in our front patio.

Lindsay couldn't believe her family once loved and trusted this man.

To know that he planned this.

This wasn't like he woke up and then just killed her.

He planned this.

I think that is one of the hardest pills to swallow.

You all are bracing for a trial.

Absolutely.

And it could be a big one with all the evidence and, I mean.

Yes.

The trial we knew wouldn't be for, I think they had said, two years.