Ashley McArthur First Interrogation, by phone. September 2017

Timeline of Events:

August 16 2017: McArthur allegedly forges and deposits a $34,000 cashier’s check into a joint bank account.

September 8, 2017:
• Wright’s girlfriend, Casandra Waller, last hears from Wright in a text message while she was with McArthur.
• McArthur is seen on video at Tom Thumb supermarket driving a silver Ford F250 truck.
• McArthur’s cell phone puts her in the area near Britt Road, where her family’s farm is.

September 9, 2017:
• McArthur seen in Home Depot purchasing concrete and potting soil.
• Cell phone records show McArthur in area near Britt Road.

September 14, 2017: Wright reported missing to Pensacola Police Department by Waller.

September 15, 2017: McArthur’s first interview by the Pensacola Police Department.

September 16, 2017: Detectives discover the $34,000 deposit in bank records.

September 18, 2017: Detectives reach out to Wright’s ex-husband, Jeff Wright.

October 19, 2017:
• Search warrant executed at 2201 Britt Road, where human remains were found with Wright’s jewelry.
• A warrant for McArthur’s arrest is signed by Judge Robinson.
• McArthur is arrested for second-degree murder.

October 20, 2017: McArthur’s bond set at $1 million.

November 7, 2017: A grand jury returns an indictment for First-Degree Premeditated Murder and McArthur is held on no bond.

February 2, 2018:
• Judge grants motion for pretrial release.
• McArthur is released on a $400,000 bond with conditions she is to submit to GPS monitoring and reside at her mother’s home in Gulf Breeze.

March 2018:
• McArthur is charged with Arson, Racketeering and Fraud, crimes that reportedly occurred before the alleged murder.
From 2015-2017, McArthur was reportedly lining her pockets with stolen money.
• While managing her family business, Pensacola Automatic Amusement—which serviced entertainment machines and jukeboxes for various clients in the Pensacola area for 40 years—McArthur embezzled thousands of dollars from two local businesses.
•Fire breaks out at PAA the day McArthur was supposed to meet with the local businesses about the missing revenue.

January 25, 2019:
• McArthur is convicted of Racketeering and Fraud but not Arson.
• She is remanded to custody of the sheriff.

February 21, 2019: McArthur is sentenced on those convictions: 84 months, or 7 years, in state prison and three years of probation.

August 26, 2019: The case of Florida v. Ashley Britt McArthur for the murder of Taylor Wright begins.

August 30, 2019: The defendant Ashley McArthur is found guilty of first-degree murder and was sentenced to the mandatory sentence of life in prison.