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Eric Schenck: The Estranged Husband at the Center of It All
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Ashley Flowers introduces Eric Schenck — Brittany's estranged but still legally married husband and father of two of her children. Though separated, Eric remained deeply embedded in Brittany's daily life and social world. He frequented the Village Manor Apartments to buy and use drugs, knew Ashley well, and his alibi for the night of Brittany's disappearance was provided entirely by Ashley — just as he served as part of hers. Three weeks after Brittany vanished, a traffic stop in Three Rivers, Michigan, reveals Eric driving Ashley's car with a friend named JJ in the passenger seat. When asked what they've been doing, Eric tells the officer they've 'been out in the damn woods all day' looking for his missing wife. He calls Ashley his girlfriend. Later, when Ashley arrives at the scene, she denies this. JJ tells officers he has a notebook full of names because he's investigating 'some sex trafficking thing' — a comment seemingly connected to their search for Brittany. Officers find needles, needle caps, and a billy club in the vehicle but, being the day before Christmas Eve, give the men a break.
Brittany bought $20 of gas at 6:11 PM on November 30 at the Marathon station on Fawn River Road. That receipt shouldn't have ended up anywhere near Ashley Huley. Yet photos of it surfaced from a garbage bag in Ashley's stolen car — recovered two months after the disappearance. Ashley says she didn't realize its significance until after she'd thrown it away.
A gas receipt for $20 of fuel purchased at 6:11 PM on November 30 — the night Brittany vanished — turned up in Ashley Huley's recovered stolen car two months later.
