April 3, 2023

• Clayton Echard announces publicly via Instagram that he has become a real estate agent in the Phoenix/Scottsdale areas

May 17, 2023

• Laura contacts Clayton on LinkedIn, inquiring about real estate properties

May 20, 2023

• After a flirtatious exchange of text messages, he invites Laura over. Both partake in THC gummies. Laura Owens and Clayton Echard reportedly engaged in a non-penetrative sexual encounter. Laura later claims Clayton raped her, but she refrained from pressing charges.

May 21, 2023

• While viewing properties the next day, Clayton tells Laura that hooking up the night before was a “mistake” and he wanted their relationship to remain strictly professional. Laura begins to cry uncontrollably. She wants to pursue a relationship, but at the very least, to have Clayton be her real estate agent. No paperwork claiming to be Laura’s real estate agent was ever signed

May 22, 2023

• Clayton feels uncomfortable with Laura’s behavior and declines to be her real estate agent. He then transfers Laura to another agent 

May 25, 2023

• Laura incessantly contacts Clayton, which prompts Clayton to threaten to call the police and block Laura’s phone number

May 30, 2023

• Owens sent Echard a photo of a positive pregnancy test, later claiming she was pregnant with twins.

May 31, 2023

• Laura takes an at-home pregnancy (hCG) test. After initially claiming it yielded a negative result (source), she later states a faint positive line was present

June 1, 2023

• Laura visits Banner Urgent Care in Scottsdale, AZ. Laura produces a positive hCG test. Which she sends to Clayton

June 4, 2023

• Clayton contacts Laura’s mother (Jan Black/Elizabeth Naylor/Elizabeth Owens), requesting to speak on the phone. Jan states Clayton needs to give the relationship a chance before she’d be willing to talk to him

June 17, 2023

• Clayton agrees to meet with Laura. He then asks her to take an hCG test, with which she complies. The result is positive (source)

June 21, 2023

• When confronted with evidence that anti-seizure medication can cause a false positive hCG test, Laura disagreed.

June 28, 2023

• Laura emailed Clayton entitled “Having the baby if I don’t hear back tonight,” in which she states that having sex with her is the safest thing he can do, as she is already pregnant with his child. She also said she would have an abortion only if he agreed to give her a chance in a relationship.

July 1, 2023

• Laura sends Clayton an email entitled “The final opportunity to consider abortion.” In it, she sends Clayton a Dropbox link with “Pregnancy evidence.”

 July 2, 2023

• Laura emails Clayton’s parents, inviting them to attend an ultrasound appointment (image; source). In her affidavit dated April 16, 2024, Laura asserts she visited Planned Parenthood in Mission Viejo with her mother on July 2, 2023. In a response to Clayton’s legal counsel, Planned Parenthood confirms that while Laura did have an appointment scheduled for July 2, she canceled it. During her testimony at the trial on June 10, Laura altered her narrative, claiming instead that she had gone to a Planned Parenthood in LA on that day (source) *All Planned Parenthood locations in LA are closed on Sundays*

July 10, 2023

• Laura sends Clayton a photo of her alleged ultrasound from Planned Parenthood (image)

July 19-23, 2023

• Laura competes in multiple events at the Blenheim Summer Festival on her horse Scirocco 91

July 23, 2023

• Laura, along with her attorney David Gingras, states she passed two “less than hand-sized fetal sacs” on this date. Laura reportedly consulted a telehealth doctor, who advised her that an in-person visit was unnecessary. Additionally, Laura claims to have texted photos of the fetal sacs to her sister Sarah and her doctor. In later filings, Laura claimed that she and her sister, Sarah Navarro, deleted these images and declined to provide any evidence of them during the discovery process (source)

 July 24, 2023

• Laura claims to have scheduled an appointment with OB/GYN Dr. Joshua Makhoul. No proof of this appointment has ever been provided (source)

July 31, 2023

• Laura files a police report with Scottsdale PD, stating Clayton has been “threatening, intimidating, verbally abusing, endangering, and extorting her”. When the responding officer suggests Clayton’s number, Laura doesn’t want to because she “wants to know what [Clayton is] thinking” (source)

August 2023

• Owens filed a paternity lawsuit against Echard in Maricopa County, Arizona, seeking child support.

September 2023

• Echard underwent a paternity test, which revealed “little to no fetal DNA.”

October 2023

• Both parties obtained Orders of Protection against each other.

November 7, 2023

• Laura Owens tried to change her name. Application/Petition for Name Change

December 2023

• Owens claimed she had miscarried and requested dismissal of the paternity case.

February 21, 2024

• Owens asserted she had lost the pregnancy in “September or October” of the previous year.

June 10, 2024

• An evidentiary hearing was held. Owens committed perjury multiple times and accused Echard of rape, a claim not substantiated.

June 18, 2024

• Judge Julie Mata ruled in favor of Echard, stating Owens’ claims were fraudulent and referring the case to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for further investigation. The judge has ordered Laura Owens to pay restitution for Clayton Echard’s legal fees, totaling $149,219.76.

September 8, 2024

• Laura Owens filed a Notice of Appeal to Judge Julie Mata’s ruling.

November 14, 2024

• Laura Owens filed an appeal with the Arizona Court of Appeals to overturn Judge Julie Mata’s ruling. 

March 28, 2025

• Laura Owens Appeal Denied

May 6, 2025

• A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Owens on seven felony counts, including fraudulent schemes, forgery, perjury, and tampering with physical evidence.

May 7, 2025

• Owens released a statement denying the allegations, claiming the charges were the result of a coordinated harassment campaign and public pressure.

May 29, 2025

• 9:00 AM Arraignment Hearing

July 11, 2025

• 8:15 AM PreTrial Conference

October 23, 2025

• 9:00 AM – Criminal Court Trial