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Sheldon Ashbrook: His Account of the Night
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Ashley Flowers walks through Sheldon Ashbrook's account of the night in detail. He and Brittany hadn't been in the best place — 'bickering,' as he described it — but there was no explosive fight. Before leaving, Brittany told him something along the lines of 'you're not gonna like me much later,' which he took to mean she was going out to use drugs. He actually offered to drive her himself, but Brittany insisted on taking the car alone — a decision that, in hindsight, may have been because she was meeting someone else. After she failed to return and stopped answering her phone, Sheldon called a friend and his cousin at 9:42 PM and went out searching. Deputies later confirmed this account. He went first to the Village Manor Apartments — where Brittany sometimes went to use drugs — then to Grandma's, then back to the apartments. Finding nothing, he returned home just as police knocked to inform him his car had been impounded. When police told him the car had been found after an apparent crash, Sheldon said he had no idea who Brittany had been with that night.
Sheldon Ashbrook lent Brittany his car that night even though he didn't want to. She told him 'you're not gonna like me much later.' When she didn't come back, he went looking. Police confirmed he spent the evening searching — but his car was never forensically processed before being returned to him.
The car didn't crash — it barely veered into a shallow divot on the shoulder of Fawn River Road. It was still drivable. The cuts on Brittany's feet can't be explained by the wreck. Her mom said she had a habit of jumping out of cars in arguments. Something happened in that vehicle before she ran.
