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The only official record we have is that at 8:44 p.m. Laura called the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from a movie
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theater about 8 minutes away from Dave's house. She told them that about an hour
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and a half prior, she had an altercation with her husband at their house where he
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held her against her will and threatened to kill her and himself. She said that she tried to leave
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multiple times, but each time Dave grabbed her by the throat and pulled into the house. And she said that he
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tried to choke her three separate times. When she finally escaped, she went to that theater where she was joined by her
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friend. >> Wait, where were the kids that whole time? Honestly, I don't know. It's
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unclear if Stacy is still with them or if they're all still in the car or if maybe Stacy took them away. I don't
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know, but honestly, they're just not even mentioned in the Highland Justice Court report. All I know is that Laura
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is calling from the theater and police go to their house and respond and take Dave into custody.
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But when they do, he's adamant that he did not hurt Laura. He denied holding her hostage explaining that during what
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she called an altercation, she was just feet from the door able to leave and he was sitting, he says, either like on the
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ground or across the room from her. But he did admit that he had her car keys. So she couldn't leave. Yeah, well,
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at least not in the car, it seems. And he also told deputies that he didn't think he had threatened to hurt Laura,
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but he might have said something irrational when he was upset. >> So it's like a he said, she said
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situation. But not quite because there was a witness in the house. A 1-hour and 2-minute long audio recording that Laura
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captured of the whole incident.