Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And I have an interesting one for you today. One where I ask you to put aside old tropes and quick judgments and listen all the way to the end of the story. Because you just might find the thing that I have come to learn over the years,

that when you go beyond the surface level of a case,

things are never as simple as they appear.

Because this case, on its surface, seems like one that you might have heard before.

A tragic tale.

Old is true crime.

Woman tells her husband she wants a divorce.

Woman goes missing.

And husband does and says all the wrong things which make everyone around him think that he is so guilty of a crime that

they can't prove even happened. He eventually dies under a cloud of suspicion and the case is still

unsolved. But if the husband did it and it was that obvious, why couldn't police make

their case? For just a moment, I want us all to consider something. What if the reason this case

hasn't been solved isn't because answers went with her husband to the grave? What if it's because no one ever looked for

answers in the right place? And if we could step back and reconsider what we think we know,

is it possible to finally find Bonnie Lee Schultz?

No. I'm. I'm. In the summer of 1997, Bonnie Lee Schultz found herself in a position that many women have.

She had gotten married young to her high school boyfriend and jumped quickly into the role of homemaker,

following her husband's job wherever it took them.

And over 26 years of marriage, she raised two kids who she loved more than anything.

But no amount of love from them back could fill the space that she felt growing between her and her husband Rick. It wasn't the kind of thing that I think happens all at once because

of something said or done. It's this lifetime of small decisions that send two people growing

in separate directions. But there came a time for Bonnie when I think finding a way back to each other probably

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