WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Nina Ingram Part 4 0:00:46.480 --> 0:00:48.001 School of Humans. 0:00:49.241 --> 0:00:53.000 Helen Got Murder Line actively investigates cold case murders in 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.200 an effort to raise public awareness invite witnesses to come 0:00:56.241 --> 0:01:00.121 forward and present evidence that could potentially be further investigated 0:01:00.121 --> 0:01:03.761 by law enforcement. While we value insights from family and 0:01:03.801 --> 0:01:07.720 community members, their statements should not be considered evidence and 0:01:07.761 --> 0:01:11.520 point to the challenges of verifying facts inherent in cold cases. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.800 We remind listeners that everyone is presumed innocent until proven 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.080 guilty in a court of law. Nothing in the podcast 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.080 is intended to state or imply that anyone who has 0:01:22.161 --> 0:01:25.601 not been convicted of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing. 0:01:26.241 --> 0:01:27.121 Thanks for listening. 0:01:28.681 --> 0:01:32.000 In twenty twelve, six years after twenty one year old 0:01:32.001 --> 0:01:35.361 college student Nina Ingram was strangled at her apartment in Fable, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.801 there was an arrest and a man named Rico Cone 0:01:38.881 --> 0:01:42.721 was charged with Nina's murder, but after a key witness 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:47.441 died suddenly, the criminal case against Rico was dismissed, and, 0:01:47.681 --> 0:01:51.040 as we said last week, Rico's legal team filed a 0:01:51.081 --> 0:01:55.481 civil lawsuit against the Fayeteful Police Department, suing several officers 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.721 who worked on his case, as well as employees. 0:01:58.281 --> 0:01:59.721 At the Arkansas State Crime Lab. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.400 The lawsuit alleged that the case against Rigo Cone was weak, 0:02:04.761 --> 0:02:07.921 that there was no physical evidence against Rico Cone, and 0:02:08.001 --> 0:02:12.361 that the witness, Randy Applewhite, had told Rigo's legal team 0:02:12.481 --> 0:02:15.041 that she was not at all sure that Rico had 0:02:15.041 --> 0:02:20.881 committed the crime. Eventually, the entire case against Rico Cone 0:02:21.201 --> 0:02:25.241 was sealed by a judge, and eventually the civil lawsuit 0:02:25.321 --> 0:02:29.881 was voluntarily dismissed. Now, as we said last week, the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.841 lawsuit is obviously only one side of the story, but 0:02:34.081 --> 0:02:36.961 there are a lot of details in the civil lawsuit 0:02:37.201 --> 0:02:40.680 about investigations that were done by Rigo's attorneys for both 0:02:40.721 --> 0:02:44.560 the civil and criminal lawsuits, and about leads that the 0:02:44.601 --> 0:02:49.041 Fayetteville Police Department allegedly failed to follow up on. One 0:02:49.081 --> 0:02:51.761 of them was a person described in the lawsuit as 0:02:51.761 --> 0:02:54.561 a person of interest be who, from reading through the 0:02:54.561 --> 0:02:57.721 events of the case file, appeared to match the description 0:02:58.081 --> 0:03:01.081 of Jarvis Allen Harper, a man who worked with Nina 0:03:01.241 --> 0:03:03.721 Ingram at the Sixth Street Walmart at the time she 0:03:03.801 --> 0:03:06.960 was murdered. So we went back and tried to figure 0:03:07.001 --> 0:03:10.361 out how did Jarvis's name first come to the attention 0:03:10.481 --> 0:03:13.761 of the Fayetteville Police Department, and if there were other 0:03:13.841 --> 0:03:18.201 leads or other people who should have been investigated, what 0:03:18.361 --> 0:03:19.641 else did the police miss. 0:03:23.361 --> 0:03:24.441 I'm Catherine Townsend. 0:03:24.841 --> 0:03:27.881 Over the past six years of making my true crime podcast, 0:03:27.921 --> 0:03:30.841 Helling Gone, I've learned that there's no such thing as 0:03:30.881 --> 0:03:34.481 a small town where murder never happens. I have received 0:03:34.601 --> 0:03:37.801 hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking 0:03:37.801 --> 0:03:40.881 for help with an unsolved murder that's affected them, their families, 0:03:41.161 --> 0:03:44.081 and their communities. If you have a case like me 0:03:44.121 --> 0:03:46.401 and my team to look into, you can reach out 0:03:46.401 --> 0:03:48.601 to us at our Helen Gone Murder line at six 0:03:48.681 --> 0:03:51.481 seven eight seven four four six one four five. 0:03:51.881 --> 0:03:53.841 That's six seven eight seven four. 0:03:53.721 --> 0:03:57.201 Four six one four five, or you can send us 0:03:57.201 --> 0:04:02.241 a message on Instagram at Helen gonepod. This is Helen 0:04:02.281 --> 0:04:47.921 Gone Murder Line. Between the time of the murder and 0:04:48.041 --> 0:04:51.721 Rico Cone's arrest in twenty twelve, there were several tips 0:04:51.721 --> 0:04:54.801 in the case file that police received. One of the 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.040 strangest happened on July twenty ninth, two thousand and seven, 0:04:58.521 --> 0:05:02.521 when the Fayetteful Police Department Criminal Investigation Division received an 0:05:02.521 --> 0:05:07.241 anonymous letter. The handwritten letter was addressed to the Investigation Department, 0:05:07.561 --> 0:05:12.681 but investigation was misspelled. The letter was postmarked Fort Smith, Arkansas, 0:05:12.761 --> 0:05:16.041 on January twenty sixth, two thousand and seven. The letter 0:05:16.121 --> 0:05:18.641 stated that the author of the letter had left Arkansas 0:05:18.721 --> 0:05:21.241 in February and just moved back to the area and 0:05:21.281 --> 0:05:24.601 heard about Nina Ingram. The letter writer said they used 0:05:24.601 --> 0:05:28.001 to have a class with Nina. They wrote, quote it 0:05:28.121 --> 0:05:31.641 probably doesn't mean anything, but a guy always weirded her 0:05:31.641 --> 0:05:33.721 out at Walmart when he would come into the store. 0:05:34.241 --> 0:05:36.880 She said his last name once it was odd, like 0:05:36.961 --> 0:05:39.361 dipper or deeper end quote. 0:05:39.801 --> 0:05:41.681 The letter was signed a friend. 0:05:42.481 --> 0:05:45.640 The detective stated that that the letter appeared to be suspicious, 0:05:46.201 --> 0:05:49.441 first because the letter writer was outside of Northwest Arkansas 0:05:49.921 --> 0:05:53.041 and because Nina had only attended classes at the Northwest 0:05:53.041 --> 0:05:57.080 Community College in Bentonville. Secondly, the detective who filed the 0:05:57.121 --> 0:06:00.561 report believed that the letter was connected to another event, 0:06:00.921 --> 0:06:04.361 a call that Detective Gentry got on January tenth from 0:06:04.401 --> 0:06:08.001 a lawyer named Michael Robbins who lived in Russellville. Now 0:06:08.041 --> 0:06:11.281 it turned out that Michael Robbins was the defense attorney 0:06:11.361 --> 0:06:14.721 in the unsolved cold case murder a beauty queen, Nonah Dirksmeier, 0:06:15.281 --> 0:06:18.161 one of the biggest unsolved coal cases in that region. 0:06:19.041 --> 0:06:22.561 When the detective talked to Michael Robbins, Michael told police 0:06:22.601 --> 0:06:25.320 that his office had collected a condom wrapper in connection 0:06:25.361 --> 0:06:27.880 to Known As case. He said they had a private 0:06:27.961 --> 0:06:31.801 laboratory test that condom for DNA, and he offered to 0:06:31.841 --> 0:06:34.961 allow the Fayetteville Police Department to run the sample against 0:06:35.001 --> 0:06:38.441 any unknown samples they may have in the Ingram investigation. 0:06:39.641 --> 0:06:44.081 Michael Robbins told police he believed that the cases could 0:06:44.081 --> 0:06:47.601 be connected somehow, since Nina and Nona were close in 0:06:47.681 --> 0:06:51.761 age and both college students, so this. 0:06:51.601 --> 0:06:53.001 Could have been a huge lead. 0:06:53.801 --> 0:06:56.001 Could there have been some kind of a connection between 0:06:56.081 --> 0:06:59.441 Nina and Known As cases? Could Nina Ingram have been 0:06:59.561 --> 0:07:03.241 murdered by a serial killer? The detective noted in his 0:07:03.361 --> 0:07:06.681 report that he didn't think so. He told Michael that 0:07:06.721 --> 0:07:08.520 they weren't going to take him up on his offer 0:07:08.841 --> 0:07:12.241 because the DNA from Nina's case had been identified. He 0:07:12.361 --> 0:07:16.881 later contacted the fifth Judicial District prosecutor, and the prosecutor 0:07:16.961 --> 0:07:20.921 told the detective he believed that Michael was possibly trying 0:07:20.921 --> 0:07:24.401 to cast suspicion on Known As stepfather, a man named 0:07:24.441 --> 0:07:28.001 Dwayne Deeper, but the prosecutor said they had no evidence 0:07:28.001 --> 0:07:31.041 that connected known as stepfather Dwayne Deepert to the crime, 0:07:31.681 --> 0:07:35.521 So essentially, they suspected that Michael may have been behind 0:07:35.521 --> 0:07:38.641 this letter in some way because they suspected him of 0:07:38.681 --> 0:07:42.161 trying to sway the police's suspicions in Nina's case toward 0:07:42.241 --> 0:07:46.321 Dwayne Deepert. That's just the detective's theory, as he noted 0:07:46.361 --> 0:07:49.801 in the report, but it's an example of something that 0:07:49.961 --> 0:07:52.481 on the surface may appear to be a credible tip, 0:07:52.961 --> 0:07:59.241 but ends up being just another red herring. We talked 0:07:59.241 --> 0:08:02.121 to Nina's boyfriend at the time of the murder, Josh Stewart, 0:08:02.241 --> 0:08:06.801 about Nina's routine. Josh said that with Nina's life between 0:08:06.801 --> 0:08:09.881 her business classes at college, her job at Walmart, plus 0:08:09.961 --> 0:08:12.681 all the people who came into the store, Nina had 0:08:12.761 --> 0:08:15.321 a lot of men who she interacted with on a 0:08:15.361 --> 0:08:18.121 day to day basis, and a lot of them seemed 0:08:18.161 --> 0:08:20.641 to have their eyes on her in one way or another. 0:08:21.281 --> 0:08:25.321 We asked some questions about Nina's apartment. Josh said that 0:08:25.441 --> 0:08:27.561 one of the reasons why Nina went back to her 0:08:27.601 --> 0:08:30.041 apartment so often was to feed her cats and change 0:08:30.041 --> 0:08:33.160 the litter. Because Josh's apartment was not big enough for 0:08:33.241 --> 0:08:35.961 Nina's cats. He said, that's why they were looking for 0:08:36.001 --> 0:08:39.521 a new place, somewhere large enough for Nina, Josh, and 0:08:39.560 --> 0:08:43.680 her cats to live. The day Nina's body was found, 0:08:43.841 --> 0:08:46.680 we know that her front window was open a couple 0:08:46.680 --> 0:08:50.201 of inches, but Josh said that he found that odd 0:08:50.321 --> 0:08:53.921 because he said that, in his opinion, Nina would not 0:08:54.121 --> 0:08:55.241 have left her window open. 0:08:56.121 --> 0:08:58.320 I've always thought it was so weird that he was 0:08:58.401 --> 0:09:01.041 able to get through that window, because she would not 0:09:01.121 --> 0:09:03.800 have left the window open because she was cautious and 0:09:03.881 --> 0:09:07.921 she had a job where she had to confront people, right, 0:09:08.481 --> 0:09:10.800 That's really key to this whole thing. I've never understood 0:09:11.201 --> 0:09:13.881 with the screen on the window and it being open. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.321 It's like, why, if you're going to commit a crime 0:09:17.441 --> 0:09:19.881 like that, why would you leave the window open. 0:09:21.041 --> 0:09:24.800 But a census worker had also observed Nina's window being 0:09:24.841 --> 0:09:27.841 open when she was canvassing Nina's apartment building in the 0:09:27.961 --> 0:09:31.121 days before she died. Now it's possible that the open 0:09:31.161 --> 0:09:34.321 window was something Nina had started to do recently, or 0:09:34.601 --> 0:09:38.041 just an oversight a way that someone could have slipped in. 0:09:38.841 --> 0:09:42.001 But in general, Josh said that Nina was very aware 0:09:42.041 --> 0:09:43.321 of her own personal safety. 0:09:44.201 --> 0:09:46.921 They train, so she just females that are in that 0:09:46.961 --> 0:09:48.801 line of work with Walmart, they train them say hey, 0:09:48.961 --> 0:09:51.280 there's just some of the extra precautions that you have 0:09:51.361 --> 0:09:53.361 to take when you're in this type of work. And 0:09:53.441 --> 0:09:56.441 you know, her boss at the time was female. She's 0:09:56.641 --> 0:09:59.361 very aware of what could happen when you're confronting people, 0:09:59.841 --> 0:10:03.321 you know, and that can have life altering impact on 0:10:03.361 --> 0:10:06.001 their lives, right, and what that could drive as far 0:10:06.041 --> 0:10:06.881 as emotional wize. 0:10:07.761 --> 0:10:11.121 Josh also told us that someone crawling through that window 0:10:11.521 --> 0:10:13.881 didn't make a lot of sense to him because while 0:10:13.961 --> 0:10:17.361 Nina's apartment was in a quiet neighborhood, it still would 0:10:17.401 --> 0:10:20.241 have been hard to do in his opinion, without being noticed. 0:10:20.961 --> 0:10:23.641 Here's the thing about a front window. Though that front 0:10:23.681 --> 0:10:26.920 window would have faced inwards to the courtyard of the 0:10:26.961 --> 0:10:30.881 apartment complex at ten thirty on a Friday in a 0:10:30.961 --> 0:10:34.001 college town that time, that in time of year, there's 0:10:34.001 --> 0:10:37.761 going to be people around, so much's climbing through a window. Yeah, 0:10:37.881 --> 0:10:41.001 you can probably do it, but it's not a smart 0:10:41.241 --> 0:10:42.321 time and place to do it. 0:10:43.721 --> 0:10:47.641 As we said last week, detectives believed that Rico Cone 0:10:47.641 --> 0:10:50.761 had knocked on Nina's door and forced his way inside, 0:10:50.841 --> 0:10:55.081 but the viscap FBI profile stated that the killer was 0:10:55.121 --> 0:10:57.921 probably someone who knew Nina well and was aware of 0:10:57.921 --> 0:11:02.561 her schedule. If someone was hanging around her apartment, it's 0:11:02.681 --> 0:11:05.481 possible that they spotted the open window and saw a 0:11:05.521 --> 0:11:11.041 point of entry and were waiting for her inside. After 0:11:11.161 --> 0:11:14.241 Nina was murdered, detectives did interview some of her colleagues 0:11:14.241 --> 0:11:17.721 at Walmart, but apparently Jarvis was not one of them. 0:11:18.081 --> 0:11:20.401 There is no mention of Jarvis in the case file 0:11:20.441 --> 0:11:23.841 pages we've seen. He apparently did not appear on police 0:11:23.921 --> 0:11:26.721 radar until August of two thousand and eight, when, as 0:11:26.761 --> 0:11:30.441 we talked about last week, his girlfriend, Nikki Perry, called 0:11:30.481 --> 0:11:33.280 the police to ask for a restraining order against Jarvis. 0:11:33.961 --> 0:11:37.361 When police talked to her, she claimed that on August second, 0:11:37.441 --> 0:11:40.601 two thousand and eight, Jarvis had installed a camera. She 0:11:40.761 --> 0:11:43.160 said that he monitored her movements in and out of 0:11:43.201 --> 0:11:46.281 the front door twenty four hours a day. Nicki said 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.881 that Jarvis had tied her hands together with black drawstring 0:11:48.961 --> 0:11:50.881 cords that he had taken from a pair of his 0:11:50.921 --> 0:11:54.361 workout shorts, and then sat on top of her pulled 0:11:54.361 --> 0:11:57.521 a gun on her and interrogated her after accusing her. 0:11:57.441 --> 0:11:58.841 Of lying to him. 0:11:59.241 --> 0:12:02.841 At the time, Jarvis's address was on Wes Sycamore, not 0:12:03.041 --> 0:12:06.681 far from Nina's residence, but there was something else at 0:12:06.681 --> 0:12:10.201 that resonance. In the living room, Jarvis had a framed 0:12:10.201 --> 0:12:14.040 photo of Nina Ingram. The detective who interviewed Jarvis in 0:12:14.081 --> 0:12:16.641 two thousand and eight apparently didn't clock the frame photo, 0:12:17.041 --> 0:12:19.641 and none of this came up again until twenty twelve, 0:12:19.881 --> 0:12:23.081 when Rigo Cone's attorneys were working on his defense and 0:12:23.161 --> 0:12:24.401 later his civil suit. 0:12:25.241 --> 0:12:26.641 When the detective. 0:12:26.201 --> 0:12:29.321 Talked to Niki about the photo, she told police that 0:12:29.401 --> 0:12:32.041 when she asked Jarvis about it, he told her that 0:12:32.081 --> 0:12:33.841 he had it because Nina was a friend of his, 0:12:34.321 --> 0:12:37.681 and also he said he was good friends with her boyfriend, Josh. 0:12:38.521 --> 0:12:41.761 Jarvis told Nikki that he had worked with Nina at Walmart. 0:12:42.001 --> 0:12:44.881 He said that he quote was pretty sure he knows 0:12:44.921 --> 0:12:47.361 who did it, but that it could not be proven 0:12:47.921 --> 0:12:52.001 end quote. In my opinion, someone with a definite connection 0:12:52.041 --> 0:12:54.920 to Nina Ingram, who worked with her and her boyfriend, 0:12:55.241 --> 0:12:57.961 who was accused of choking his girlfriend with the court 0:12:57.961 --> 0:13:01.641 of his athletic shorts and to allegedly exhibited violent behavior 0:13:01.841 --> 0:13:05.961 would be worth checking out. We know that, according to 0:13:06.001 --> 0:13:09.321 the autopsy report, Nina was strangled with an object that 0:13:09.401 --> 0:13:12.081 was between one sixteenth of an inch and one eighth 0:13:12.121 --> 0:13:15.361 of an inch wide, and that the murder weapon was 0:13:15.441 --> 0:13:30.001 never found. So the civil lawsuit gave some more details 0:13:30.041 --> 0:13:32.800 about the photograph of Nina that was found in Jarvis's home. 0:13:33.481 --> 0:13:35.920 He had moved since Nina's murdered, and he took the 0:13:35.921 --> 0:13:38.681 photo of Nina with him. It was in the living room, 0:13:38.881 --> 0:13:42.281 prominently framed and displayed next to the front door, hanging 0:13:42.401 --> 0:13:45.681 on the living room wall. And Nina wasn't the only 0:13:45.721 --> 0:13:49.241 woman that Jarvis had photos of. The lawsuit stated that 0:13:49.361 --> 0:13:53.761 Jarvis had photos of several female coworkers. Nicki also told 0:13:53.801 --> 0:13:56.841 police that Jarvis had photos of several other women in 0:13:56.881 --> 0:13:59.721 a filing cabinet next to his computer. One of them 0:13:59.761 --> 0:14:02.201 was a blonde, white female who he told her was 0:14:02.241 --> 0:14:06.121 a missing person. It's not clear whether the blonde missing 0:14:06.201 --> 0:14:08.961 woman was a coworker. That's something that we're trying to 0:14:08.961 --> 0:14:12.401 find out. We don't really know anything else about the 0:14:12.401 --> 0:14:15.321 other women in the photographs, but there are a couple 0:14:15.361 --> 0:14:19.321 of potential clues in that case file. In twenty thirteen, 0:14:19.801 --> 0:14:22.681 Jarvis told detectives that one of the women in the 0:14:22.681 --> 0:14:25.761 photos was a female cousin of his who died after 0:14:25.801 --> 0:14:29.881 her car crashed into a tree and caught fire. Apparently, 0:14:29.961 --> 0:14:33.601 according to the police report, Jarvis described that crash as 0:14:33.681 --> 0:14:37.441 the first run in he had with detectives, again, though 0:14:37.881 --> 0:14:39.881 no mention of why he would have had a run 0:14:39.921 --> 0:14:42.881 in with the police. Nicki also remembered that the name 0:14:42.961 --> 0:14:45.401 mc millan was written on the bottom front of one 0:14:45.441 --> 0:14:48.521 of those photos, but so far we haven't found anyone 0:14:48.641 --> 0:14:51.241 with that last name who may have been the mystery woman. 0:14:52.401 --> 0:14:55.441 So we know that Jarvis and Nina worked together at 0:14:55.441 --> 0:14:59.281 the Sixth Street Walmart. But how close were Jarvis and Nina. 0:15:00.161 --> 0:15:03.401 Nicki told detectives that Jarvis told her that Nina was 0:15:03.441 --> 0:15:05.681 a good friend of his and that he was also 0:15:05.841 --> 0:15:10.521 close friends with her boyfriend, Josh. But later when police 0:15:10.561 --> 0:15:13.881 interviewed Jarvis, he said, yes, he'd worked with Nina. He 0:15:13.921 --> 0:15:16.001 had worked at Walmart for ten years, so of course 0:15:16.041 --> 0:15:18.521 he knew her, but he denied that they were close. 0:15:19.881 --> 0:15:22.681 After the domestic incident involving Jarvis and Nikki in two 0:15:22.721 --> 0:15:26.121 thousand and eight, police did do some further checking into Jarvis. 0:15:26.881 --> 0:15:30.161 Nicki told detectives that Jarvis wasn't working the week Nina 0:15:30.241 --> 0:15:33.761 was murdered, according to the lawsuit, on August seventh, two 0:15:33.801 --> 0:15:38.241 thousand and eight, Detective John Gentry requested all of Jarvis's 0:15:38.241 --> 0:15:41.601 employment records from the Walmart Legal department, covering the months 0:15:41.641 --> 0:15:44.561 of April, May and June of two thousand six all 0:15:44.601 --> 0:15:47.641 the way to January two thousand and seven. This request 0:15:47.961 --> 0:15:50.441 was made specifically in reference to the two thousand and 0:15:50.521 --> 0:15:52.801 six Nina Ingram homicide investigation. 0:15:54.241 --> 0:15:57.001 Jarvis was at work the day Nina was murdered. 0:15:57.401 --> 0:15:59.641 He clocked out of a Sixth Street Walmart at seven 0:15:59.761 --> 0:16:03.721 thirty seven pm on April twenty first, twenty sixteen. He 0:16:03.841 --> 0:16:06.761 didn't come back to work until April twenty fourth, two 0:16:06.801 --> 0:16:10.441 thousand and six. He was absent the entire weekend following 0:16:10.481 --> 0:16:15.001 the homicide. Jarvis told Detective Carlton in one interview that 0:16:15.081 --> 0:16:17.521 he could not remember whether or not he was working 0:16:17.681 --> 0:16:20.361 or where he was the week of Nina's murder. He 0:16:20.481 --> 0:16:23.201 said in another interview with police he was camping at 0:16:23.281 --> 0:16:26.921 Devil's Den during that time. Now, as part of their investigation, 0:16:27.281 --> 0:16:30.121 Rico's attorneys got in touch with the superintendent of Parks 0:16:30.161 --> 0:16:33.521 at Devilsden State Park. It was stated in the law suit, 0:16:33.641 --> 0:16:36.241 they were able to confirm that there were no records 0:16:36.281 --> 0:16:39.041 in the camping database for that park or any other 0:16:39.161 --> 0:16:42.521 Arkansas State park that showed Jarvis as a registered guest 0:16:42.521 --> 0:16:45.841 from two thousand and six to two twenty twelve. Of course, 0:16:46.041 --> 0:16:48.641 the fact that there was no registration in his name 0:16:48.721 --> 0:16:52.321 does not mean he was not there. But interestingly, there's 0:16:52.361 --> 0:16:55.841 also nothing in the case file about police following up 0:16:55.921 --> 0:16:57.641 with the state parks to see if they could find 0:16:57.641 --> 0:17:02.161 a record of Jarvis being there. Nicki identified one of 0:17:02.161 --> 0:17:05.241 the pictures in Jarvis's filing cabinet as being one of 0:17:05.241 --> 0:17:08.721 his ex girlfriends. Nicki said that this woman also worked 0:17:08.721 --> 0:17:12.921 at Walmart and that Jarvis had beaten this woman badly. However, 0:17:13.161 --> 0:17:16.961 Rico's legal team located Jarvis's ex girlfriend. They spoke to her, 0:17:17.360 --> 0:17:20.761 and this woman denied that Jarvis was ever physically violent 0:17:20.801 --> 0:17:24.041 with her, although she did say she was scared of him. 0:17:24.241 --> 0:17:28.080 And even if this is true, physical or domestic abuse 0:17:28.321 --> 0:17:32.600 does not mean that someone is a killer. Nicki said 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.840 that in addition to using drawstring cords to tie her up. 0:17:36.521 --> 0:17:39.640 Jarvis had used other chords like the one similar to 0:17:39.681 --> 0:17:42.561 Bungies used to tie things down in a truck to 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.760 restrain her in the past. Detectives also spoke to one 0:17:45.761 --> 0:17:49.321 of Nicki's cousins. She said she had seen rope burns 0:17:49.321 --> 0:17:52.641 on Nicky's wrist. She said she'd observe bruising on Nicki's 0:17:52.721 --> 0:17:53.921 legs and collar bone. 0:17:54.121 --> 0:17:56.201 She said Nicki had basically begged. 0:17:55.921 --> 0:17:58.921 Her not to call the police because the cousin said 0:17:59.361 --> 0:18:03.321 Nicki was terrified of Jarvis. When detective Williams talked to 0:18:03.401 --> 0:18:05.801 Jarvis on August twelfth and then on August fourteenth, two 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.721 thousand and eight, Jarvis told detectives he had worked at 0:18:08.761 --> 0:18:11.441 the Walmart on Sixth Street for ten years and knew 0:18:11.521 --> 0:18:14.321 Nina Ingram through work, but he said she was just 0:18:14.361 --> 0:18:18.441 a casual friend and, in his words, like everyone's little sister. 0:18:19.161 --> 0:18:21.481 He said that he knew Josh from working with him 0:18:21.561 --> 0:18:24.481 in the food department. He said Josh taught him about 0:18:24.481 --> 0:18:29.041 store procedures. Jarvis told police he and Nina had a 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.561 brother's sister type relationship. He said everyone looked out for 0:18:32.681 --> 0:18:35.241 Nina and cared about her, and he said that she 0:18:35.481 --> 0:18:38.001 quote could walk into a room and light it up 0:18:38.001 --> 0:18:40.880 with her personality and was just a great person to 0:18:40.921 --> 0:18:41.400 be around. 0:18:41.761 --> 0:18:45.360 End quote. He also told detectives. 0:18:44.761 --> 0:18:47.401 That he and Nina had to be discreet about their 0:18:47.441 --> 0:18:48.561 interactions in the store. 0:18:49.241 --> 0:18:50.681 I'm not really sure what this means. 0:18:51.361 --> 0:18:53.721 It might be a reference to the fact that Nina 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.400 worked in Lost Prevention, so she might have been trying 0:18:57.441 --> 0:18:58.881 to go undercover. 0:18:58.521 --> 0:18:59.041 In the store. 0:18:59.361 --> 0:19:01.400 That might have been what he meant, though it really 0:19:01.481 --> 0:19:05.681 isn't clarified. Police asked Jarvis about the picture of Nina 0:19:05.721 --> 0:19:09.761 on his wall. Jarvis said that Nina's death killed him emotionally. 0:19:10.201 --> 0:19:12.080 He said he had found an employee who had a 0:19:12.121 --> 0:19:15.281 picture of Nina in his camera phone and presumably arranged 0:19:15.321 --> 0:19:18.200 to have it printed out before mounting it. So, in 0:19:18.241 --> 0:19:21.321 my opinion, this is a little bit contradictory here because, 0:19:21.761 --> 0:19:25.121 on the one hand, in this interview, Jarvis tells detectives 0:19:25.121 --> 0:19:27.921 and Nina was just a casual work friend, and yet 0:19:28.241 --> 0:19:31.041 he seemed to have some very strong feelings about her death. 0:19:31.561 --> 0:19:34.360 He said that he was quote torn up, torn to 0:19:34.441 --> 0:19:37.881 pieces over her death end quote, and that other associates 0:19:37.921 --> 0:19:40.881 saw him as being strong and wanted to come talk 0:19:40.921 --> 0:19:43.201 to him about how they felt, because they were all 0:19:43.241 --> 0:19:47.361 scared and terrified that someone as radiant as Nina could be, 0:19:47.921 --> 0:19:51.241 that someone could do that to her. Jarvis seemed to 0:19:51.281 --> 0:19:53.881 be saying that having pictures of people who passed away 0:19:54.161 --> 0:19:56.521 was just something he did from time to time. He 0:19:56.641 --> 0:19:59.041 told detectives that another lady in the store had passed 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.600 away and that he had been looking for a picture 0:20:01.641 --> 0:20:05.880 of her as well. Then, according to the lawsuit, in 0:20:05.881 --> 0:20:10.080 twenty ten, Jarvis's name came up again in connection with 0:20:10.161 --> 0:20:14.561 Nina's homicide. In that year, a detective with the Washington 0:20:14.601 --> 0:20:18.200 County Sheriff's Office emailed a sergeant at the Fayetteville Police 0:20:18.201 --> 0:20:22.441 Department with a tip about Jarvis. Apparently, an employee of 0:20:22.441 --> 0:20:25.721 the Washington County Detention Center was approached by someone he knew, 0:20:26.121 --> 0:20:29.081 a woman named Robin Fleener. She worked in the gardening 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:33.241 department of the sixth Street Walmart. Robin told police she 0:20:33.281 --> 0:20:36.080 had worked with Jarvis, and that Jarvis had been quote 0:20:36.521 --> 0:20:39.321 bragging that he knows who killed Nina Ingram and that 0:20:39.401 --> 0:20:41.481 he thinks it's funny that the police do not have 0:20:41.561 --> 0:20:44.001 any leads end quote, and. 0:20:43.961 --> 0:20:44.840 There was something else. 0:20:45.601 --> 0:20:50.161 Robin told police that Jarvis told her that Nina stood 0:20:50.241 --> 0:20:53.321 him up for a date one time and it angered him. 0:20:53.721 --> 0:20:56.721 It does appear as though, according to the civil lawsuit, 0:20:57.241 --> 0:21:00.521 the police did some investigative work on this lead. They 0:21:00.641 --> 0:21:04.361 generated Google map printouts of both of Jarvis's residence from 0:21:04.361 --> 0:21:06.961 two thousand and two to two thousand and six. They 0:21:07.041 --> 0:21:11.521 found that both residences were within walking distance of Nina's 0:21:11.521 --> 0:21:16.161 apartment complex the law coaud apartments. As Rico's civil lawsuit 0:21:16.201 --> 0:21:19.961 was gearing up, his attorneys claimed to have interviewed several 0:21:20.001 --> 0:21:22.121 people who had worked at Walmart at the same time 0:21:22.161 --> 0:21:26.561 as Jarvis, who quote reported very similar and disturbing tales 0:21:26.601 --> 0:21:31.561 about his bizarre and frightening, threatening, stalking, controlling, and harassing behavior, 0:21:31.961 --> 0:21:35.241 and especially towards those women whom he may have felt 0:21:35.241 --> 0:21:38.321 had somehow rejected or wronged him in some form or 0:21:38.321 --> 0:21:43.321 fashion end quote. The attorneys also talked to Robin, Jarvis's 0:21:43.361 --> 0:21:46.920 co worker, who talked to police in twenty ten. She 0:21:47.201 --> 0:21:51.080 told Rico's legal team that Jarvis always gave her the 0:21:51.121 --> 0:21:55.401 creeps that Jarvis had reportedly stalked another employee. This woman 0:21:55.641 --> 0:21:58.161 is named in the lawsuit, but were not naming her here, 0:21:58.761 --> 0:22:02.001 so Rico's legal team located this woman and interviewed her, 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.681 and also talked to the father of an employee who 0:22:04.681 --> 0:22:06.961 had been a miner who had worked at the Sixth 0:22:07.001 --> 0:22:11.561 Street Walmart store. This father apparently had threatened criminal charges 0:22:11.601 --> 0:22:16.361 against Jarvis over alleged stalking behavior toward his daughter. Robin 0:22:16.561 --> 0:22:20.281 had also told police that she remembered Jarvis missing work 0:22:20.401 --> 0:22:23.801 the day after Nina's murder. She remembered this, she said, 0:22:23.921 --> 0:22:28.400 because this was atypical for him. Again, this was confirmed 0:22:28.481 --> 0:22:31.481 by the police request for data from Walmart that showed 0:22:31.481 --> 0:22:33.840 that Jarvis was out of work until. 0:22:33.601 --> 0:22:34.600 April twenty fourth. 0:22:35.601 --> 0:22:40.400 The woman police spoke to who Jarvis allegedly stalked said 0:22:40.441 --> 0:22:43.681 that there had been complaints from multiple other female associates 0:22:43.801 --> 0:22:47.441 in the store. She said Jarvis often said, I just 0:22:47.481 --> 0:22:50.920 take care of women. She told Rico's legal team that 0:22:50.961 --> 0:22:54.561 on one occasion, Jarvis called her and told her it's okay, 0:22:54.681 --> 0:22:58.241 you can sleep tonight. Then he told her he was 0:22:58.281 --> 0:23:00.840 sitting outside her apartment and that he was going to 0:23:00.921 --> 0:23:03.080 watch to make sure everything was okay. 0:23:04.001 --> 0:23:05.881 She said that she called. 0:23:05.561 --> 0:23:08.721 Apartment security on him on more than one occasion after 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:13.961 noticing him outside her residence watching her, and she stated 0:23:14.001 --> 0:23:16.041 that Jarvis had what was known as a red file 0:23:16.201 --> 0:23:20.481 in Walmart store records. The red file supposedly had details 0:23:20.481 --> 0:23:25.201 of these alleged complaints from other female employees, but Rico's 0:23:25.201 --> 0:23:27.801 attorneys were unable to get a copy of that file. 0:23:38.561 --> 0:23:42.880 Rico Cone's civil lawsuit questioned why the twenty twelve police 0:23:42.921 --> 0:23:46.961 case file contained no references to Detective Carlton, the lead 0:23:47.001 --> 0:23:51.281 detective on the case, conducting a thorough investigation into Jarvis Harper. 0:23:52.201 --> 0:23:55.521 The lawsuit stated that this quote would certainly seem to 0:23:55.561 --> 0:23:59.561 be the most logical place to at least start end quote. Now, 0:23:59.601 --> 0:24:02.401 obviously this is just their opinion. It's only one side 0:24:02.401 --> 0:24:04.400 of the story, and we don't have access to the 0:24:04.401 --> 0:24:09.080