WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Nina Ingram Part 1 0:00:46.480 --> 0:00:51.961 School of Humans. Helen Got Murder Line actively investigates cold 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.361 case murders in an effort to raise public awareness invite 0:00:55.401 --> 0:00:58.761 witnesses to come forward and present evidence that could potentially 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.961 be further investigated by law enforcement. While we value insights 0:01:03.001 --> 0:01:06.160 from family and community members, their statements should not be 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.961 considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts 0:01:10.041 --> 0:01:14.041 inherent in cold cases. We remind listeners that everyone has 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.160 presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 0:01:17.961 --> 0:01:20.840 Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply 0:01:21.041 --> 0:01:23.601 that anyone who has not been convicted of a crime 0:01:24.121 --> 0:01:27.121 is guilty of any wrongdoing. Thanks for listening. 0:01:29.561 --> 0:01:32.200 It was April twenty first, two thousand and six, and 0:01:32.281 --> 0:01:35.161 twenty one year old college student Nina Ingram was coming 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.521 home after a long day. 0:01:37.481 --> 0:01:40.920 Nina had a very busy life. She was two years into. 0:01:40.721 --> 0:01:45.001 Her business degree at Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, Arkansas. 0:01:45.241 --> 0:01:46.840 She also worked at Walmart. 0:01:47.241 --> 0:01:50.001 She was part of the Lost Prevention team, basically a 0:01:50.041 --> 0:01:54.161 security officer. That night, Nina had worked her shift at 0:01:54.161 --> 0:01:58.241 the Walmart supercenter on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard in Fayetville. 0:01:58.921 --> 0:02:01.320 She got off work at nine pm, picked up some 0:02:01.401 --> 0:02:03.881 fast food, and then went to hang out with her 0:02:03.881 --> 0:02:07.681 boyfriend Josh Stewart at his apartment. They hung out for 0:02:07.721 --> 0:02:11.121 a little while, but Josh later told detectives that Nina 0:02:11.161 --> 0:02:15.081 seemed quiet, like something may be on her mind. She 0:02:15.281 --> 0:02:18.441 said that nothing was wrong, she was just tired. When 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.800 she left Josh's house between ten thirty and eleven pm, 0:02:22.001 --> 0:02:25.761 she was driving Josh's pickup truck. Josh later told police 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.721 they often swapped vehicles. Surveillance camera showed that Nina pulled 0:02:29.721 --> 0:02:33.601 into her apartment complex a little after ten pm. She 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.800 got out of her vehicle and walked toward her unit, 0:02:36.441 --> 0:02:38.960 Unit one on the ground floor of the Law Quad 0:02:39.001 --> 0:02:42.721 apartment complex. The officer would later observe from what he 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.681 saw on camera that as Nina left the vehicle and 0:02:45.721 --> 0:02:48.440 walked toward her apartment that nothing seemed to be out 0:02:48.441 --> 0:02:51.800 of the ordinary. But the next day, April twenty second, 0:02:52.161 --> 0:02:54.761 no one heard from Nina. She didn't respond to her 0:02:54.801 --> 0:02:57.800 boyfriend's text. Josh also tried to call her and left 0:02:57.801 --> 0:03:01.800 several boys mails, but Nina never replied, and then she 0:03:01.961 --> 0:03:04.481 didn't show up to give her brother Nelson a ride 0:03:04.521 --> 0:03:08.761 to school, which Nina did often. When she failed to 0:03:08.801 --> 0:03:10.881 show for her shift that day at Walmart that was 0:03:10.921 --> 0:03:13.841 supposed to start at one pm, her family started to 0:03:13.841 --> 0:03:18.961 get seriously worried. At around two pm, Nina's other brother, Noah, 0:03:19.001 --> 0:03:22.521 and his roommate Chad Williams, drove over to Nina's apartment 0:03:22.561 --> 0:03:25.161 to check on her. They knocked on the door, but 0:03:25.321 --> 0:03:30.081 Nina didn't answer. Nina had two cats, family members later 0:03:30.121 --> 0:03:32.921 told police she had a habit of opening the front 0:03:32.921 --> 0:03:35.121 window just a crack so that the cats could get 0:03:35.161 --> 0:03:37.721 some mayor. The window to the right of the front 0:03:37.721 --> 0:03:40.521 door was open about two to three inches and unlocked, 0:03:41.001 --> 0:03:43.521 so her brother pushed the window all the way open 0:03:43.801 --> 0:03:48.161 and crawled into the kitchen. Chad waited outside why Noah 0:03:48.321 --> 0:03:51.401 unlocked the door and the dead bolt, which were both locked. 0:03:52.081 --> 0:03:56.721 Seconds later, he heard Noah scream. Chad went in through 0:03:56.761 --> 0:04:00.281 the now unlocked front door and raced back into Nina's bedroom. 0:04:00.881 --> 0:04:03.321 He and Noah saw her lying face up on the 0:04:03.321 --> 0:04:07.401 bed with what Chad described as very visible red scratches 0:04:07.521 --> 0:04:11.761 and bruises around her neck. Chad told police he knew 0:04:11.801 --> 0:04:18.321 immediately that Nina was dead. This case involves a lot 0:04:18.361 --> 0:04:20.721 of twists, and turns. But we're going to try to 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.161 figure out was Nina Ingram murdered by a serial killer? 0:04:24.801 --> 0:04:28.361 Was this a random attack, or was it someone she knew. 0:04:29.241 --> 0:04:32.361 I'm Catherine Townsend. 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Immediately after Nina's brother Noah and Chad found 0:05:56.641 --> 0:06:00.440 Nina's body at around two nineteen pm, Chad called the police. 0:06:01.081 --> 0:06:03.921 Detectives raised to the scene at the Law Quad apartments. 0:06:04.521 --> 0:06:07.440 They started taping up the crime scene and canvassing residents, 0:06:07.961 --> 0:06:10.001 but it was a pretty quiet apartment complex. 0:06:10.441 --> 0:06:11.241 Police found out. 0:06:11.361 --> 0:06:14.440 Only a few neighbors knew Nina and they hadn't seen 0:06:14.481 --> 0:06:18.200 anything out of the ordinary. Nina was very close to 0:06:18.241 --> 0:06:21.721 her family. Her mother, Judy, told a local news station 0:06:22.001 --> 0:06:25.241 that her daughter did not drink or do drugs. She 0:06:25.361 --> 0:06:29.121 called Nina quote an outstanding Christian girl with no enemies 0:06:29.361 --> 0:06:34.561 end quote. Nina Ingram was born and raised in Lillian, Texas. 0:06:35.121 --> 0:06:37.361 Right before she started her freshman year of high school, 0:06:37.761 --> 0:06:40.241 she moved to Fayettville, Arkansas, with her mom and two 0:06:40.241 --> 0:06:43.681 of her brothers. Even though her father and other brothers 0:06:43.721 --> 0:06:47.801 stayed behind in Texas, she stayed in close contact with them. 0:06:48.121 --> 0:06:50.840 Detectives talked to police at the walmart where Nina worked. 0:06:51.481 --> 0:06:54.601 They determined she was well liked by most of the staff. 0:06:55.241 --> 0:06:58.841 A friend of hers named Freddie Hollingsworth told detectives he 0:06:58.921 --> 0:07:01.281 wondered if Nina could have been targeted by someone she 0:07:01.361 --> 0:07:06.121 busted for shoplifting, but detectives found that unlikely. Of course, 0:07:06.201 --> 0:07:09.441 they wanted to talk to Nina's boyfriend, Josh. Pretty Much 0:07:09.521 --> 0:07:12.921 everyone said Nina and Josh were very happy together and 0:07:12.961 --> 0:07:16.041 had a great relationship. A friend of Nina said they'd 0:07:16.041 --> 0:07:19.161 considered moving in together, and Nina had even talked to 0:07:19.201 --> 0:07:23.841 one coworker about possibly marrying Josh, though things weren't perfect. 0:07:24.321 --> 0:07:28.841 Another coworker told police Josh had recently gone through Nina's 0:07:28.841 --> 0:07:31.921 phone to see who she had been talking to. When 0:07:31.961 --> 0:07:35.961 detectives interviewed Josh, they asked about the night of Nina's death. 0:07:36.841 --> 0:07:39.761 Josh said that on April twenty first, Nina called him 0:07:39.801 --> 0:07:42.241 from work. She told him she would come by his 0:07:42.321 --> 0:07:44.321 place afterwards and some food. 0:07:44.961 --> 0:07:45.361 He said. 0:07:45.401 --> 0:07:48.601 She arrived shortly after her shift at Walmart with Firehouse 0:07:48.641 --> 0:07:51.841 subs and a Taco Bell bag. Josh said Nina ate 0:07:51.881 --> 0:07:54.601 the Taco Bell food and he ate the Firehouse sub food. 0:07:55.001 --> 0:07:56.601 He said they hung out for a little while. 0:07:57.041 --> 0:07:59.761 He estimated she left his place between ten thirty and 0:07:59.801 --> 0:08:05.161 eleven PM. Throughout the investigation, Josh was completely cooperative. He 0:08:05.281 --> 0:08:09.521 also voluntarily gave his DNA to police. He let investigators 0:08:09.561 --> 0:08:12.001 know he was available to talk with them at any time. 0:08:12.921 --> 0:08:19.521 Law enforcement quickly cleared him. One big question that detectives 0:08:19.561 --> 0:08:23.441 had was how did the killer get in. Detectives began 0:08:23.521 --> 0:08:26.681 formulating a theory that Nina's attacker had lay in wait 0:08:26.721 --> 0:08:28.921 for her near her door when she came home that night. 0:08:29.361 --> 0:08:31.921 And then rushed her as she went into her apartment. 0:08:32.521 --> 0:08:35.841 When Nina's brother Noah arrived, the door was locked. He 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.521 specifically told detectives he had to unlock two locks, both 0:08:39.560 --> 0:08:42.001 the regular door lock and the dead bolt to let 0:08:42.121 --> 0:08:46.800 chat in. No signs of struggle Inside Nina's apartment, there 0:08:46.841 --> 0:08:50.081 seemed to be nothing out of place, but to be fair, 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:54.721 the living room was barely sparse, with just a love seat, barstool, bookshelf, 0:08:54.761 --> 0:08:57.681 and a few other items, so it is possible the 0:08:57.761 --> 0:09:00.521 killer could have forced Nina inside that apartment and back 0:09:00.560 --> 0:09:05.761 to her bedroom without necessarily knocking things over. Nina had 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.040 been brutally strangled, but there were no signs of sexual 0:09:09.081 --> 0:09:12.561 assault and nothing had been taken from her apartment, at 0:09:12.680 --> 0:09:17.201 least nothing obvious. Nina's purse was found near her body. 0:09:17.601 --> 0:09:20.761 There was five dollars inside that purse, so the motive 0:09:20.841 --> 0:09:24.641 did not appear to be robbery. There was a cigarette 0:09:24.641 --> 0:09:28.081 butt found in a flower pot outside. Detective said it 0:09:28.121 --> 0:09:31.641 appeared to have been there for some time. Nina's keys 0:09:31.681 --> 0:09:34.841 with her key ring were also found inside the apartment, 0:09:35.601 --> 0:09:38.401 so we're wondering how did the killer get in, but 0:09:38.521 --> 0:09:40.921 also how did the killer get back? 0:09:40.961 --> 0:09:41.801 Out. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.361 The cracked window at Nina's apartment had a screen on it. 0:09:46.041 --> 0:09:48.401 Noah had removed it to crawl through the window because 0:09:48.441 --> 0:09:51.361 the door was locked. After he was done, he left 0:09:51.361 --> 0:09:55.321 the screen lying outside. Police noted the back bathroom window 0:09:55.401 --> 0:09:58.721 was also unlocked, but detectives said it was difficult to 0:09:58.761 --> 0:10:02.200 open and they didn't see any of the dust there undisturbed, 0:10:03.001 --> 0:10:06.601 so the killer likely came in and out through either 0:10:06.641 --> 0:10:11.800 the front door or front window. Unfortunately, police found no fingerprints. 0:10:12.401 --> 0:10:16.161 They did find something in a dumpster outside, a single glove. 0:10:16.681 --> 0:10:18.601 They tested a hair on that glove and found that 0:10:18.641 --> 0:10:21.481 it didn't match Nina's DNA and they were unable to 0:10:21.521 --> 0:10:25.401 find a match for it. Detectives noticed a footprint that 0:10:25.481 --> 0:10:27.401 seemed to be out of place against the back of 0:10:27.441 --> 0:10:31.081 the front door. They saw a scuff mark about thirty 0:10:31.121 --> 0:10:33.841 one inches from the bottom of that door, but they 0:10:33.841 --> 0:10:36.681 were unable to find more footprints from the interior in 0:10:36.721 --> 0:10:39.881 the front kitchen. In the report, it stated that was 0:10:39.921 --> 0:10:42.801 possibly because there were layers of dust and cat hair 0:10:42.961 --> 0:10:45.160 on the kitchen floor, which made it difficult to get 0:10:45.201 --> 0:10:49.681 any imprints. Did Nina's assailant kick the door shut behind him, 0:10:50.321 --> 0:10:52.801 or could that have been a random print from some 0:10:52.921 --> 0:10:58.201 time before this. Detectives had no idea that surveillance footage 0:10:58.201 --> 0:11:02.281 in Nina's apartment complex showed her arriving home in Josh's 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:07.321 white pickup truck just before ten fifteen pm. However, according 0:11:07.321 --> 0:11:10.361 to the police report, the quality of the footage was 0:11:10.401 --> 0:11:14.281 so poor detectives couldn't really identify any other vehicles in 0:11:14.321 --> 0:11:17.801 the parking lot during that crucial time period. The detectives 0:11:17.841 --> 0:11:20.481 did ask the FBI to enhance a couple of images, 0:11:20.881 --> 0:11:24.800 but there's no indication that that led to anything. When 0:11:24.881 --> 0:11:28.041 Nina got out of her car, it appeared on that 0:11:28.041 --> 0:11:32.081 surveillance tape that she was alone, but the surveillance footage 0:11:32.121 --> 0:11:37.161 did not reach her apartment door. One thing that Josh 0:11:37.201 --> 0:11:40.241 said about his and Nina's last night together was that 0:11:40.321 --> 0:11:42.040 she seemed to be in a little bit of a 0:11:42.121 --> 0:11:44.961 quiet mood that night, and several other people she saw 0:11:44.961 --> 0:11:48.321 that day said she was acting like something might be wrong. 0:11:49.121 --> 0:11:52.800 Josh also told detectives before Nina left his house that night, 0:11:53.201 --> 0:11:56.361 she used his computer to communicate with someone. He did 0:11:56.401 --> 0:11:59.641 not know who that person was, so police got search 0:11:59.641 --> 0:12:03.721 warrants for both Josh and Nina's computers, a Compact Presario 0:12:03.961 --> 0:12:05.241 twenty one hundred laptop. 0:12:05.881 --> 0:12:07.361 They also took Nina's cell. 0:12:07.201 --> 0:12:10.040 Phone and looked through it, but apparently they found nothing 0:12:10.081 --> 0:12:14.281 of evidentiary value in any of those devices. There was 0:12:14.561 --> 0:12:17.361 one odd thing, which we'll come back to later. There 0:12:17.401 --> 0:12:21.160 was a message from someone named Joey. It read quote, 0:12:21.681 --> 0:12:25.921 I see be careful, be one hundred percent sea and 0:12:25.961 --> 0:12:30.601 they wrote sea like cya end quote. So who was 0:12:30.681 --> 0:12:34.641 Nina communicating with? Could Nina have been talking to her killer? 0:12:45.921 --> 0:12:49.561 A question detectives were trying to answer was was Nina's 0:12:49.601 --> 0:12:53.681 killer a stranger or someone she knew. There were a 0:12:53.761 --> 0:12:57.281 lot of men in Nina's orbit, male friends, co workers, 0:12:57.321 --> 0:12:59.881 and people who passed through the store every day, her 0:12:59.921 --> 0:13:03.681 friends told detectives. Because Nina was an attractive woman and 0:13:03.761 --> 0:13:06.681 she was a nice person, she got hit on a lot. 0:13:07.241 --> 0:13:10.761 Police talked to a census worker named Jianne Marillo. She 0:13:11.041 --> 0:13:13.801 had talked to Nina at her door on April nineteenth. 0:13:14.481 --> 0:13:17.521 Janne said before she talked to her, she had seen 0:13:17.561 --> 0:13:20.161 a tall, white, slender man with dark hair go into 0:13:20.201 --> 0:13:23.161 the apartment with Nina. She said the guy stayed in 0:13:23.161 --> 0:13:26.241 the back bedroom while she and Nina spoke. The census 0:13:26.321 --> 0:13:28.881 worker also said that every day that she was at 0:13:28.881 --> 0:13:32.801 that apartment complex, Nina's window was cracked open, and every 0:13:32.841 --> 0:13:36.201 time there was a cat sitting at the window. It's 0:13:36.321 --> 0:13:40.001 not clear whether or not police ever identified who this 0:13:40.081 --> 0:13:42.081 man was at Nina's apartment complex. 0:13:42.641 --> 0:13:43.401 We wondered if it. 0:13:43.401 --> 0:13:45.641 Could have been her boyfriend, Josh, but police talked to 0:13:45.761 --> 0:13:47.680 Josh and he said that he had not been to 0:13:47.761 --> 0:13:50.961 Nina's apartment complex in months. Normally Nina would stay at 0:13:50.961 --> 0:13:54.361 his place. It could have been Nina's brother, but nothing 0:13:54.401 --> 0:13:56.761 that we saw in the case file addresses this issue, 0:13:56.801 --> 0:14:02.521 so we don't know. Everyone in Nina's life was baffled 0:14:02.641 --> 0:14:05.801 about who could want to hurt her. Everyone seemed to 0:14:05.841 --> 0:14:08.560 love Nina. She seemed to have a truly kind heart, 0:14:08.721 --> 0:14:11.081 and she always went out of her way to help people. 0:14:11.961 --> 0:14:15.121 At the same time, some people who knew Nina described 0:14:15.161 --> 0:14:18.841 her as a loner. Police talked to her professors at school. 0:14:19.081 --> 0:14:22.241 They said that she was friendly, she would interact in class, 0:14:22.601 --> 0:14:24.921 but they said she didn't seem to have one particular 0:14:25.001 --> 0:14:28.321 friend or group of friends, that she mostly stayed to herself. 0:14:29.081 --> 0:14:31.681 At work, it was the same story. She was friendly 0:14:31.721 --> 0:14:37.001 and professional, but also no nonsense. We talked to Nina's cousin, Danielle, 0:14:37.561 --> 0:14:41.161 and she said Nina was a little bit misunderstood that way. 0:14:41.201 --> 0:14:43.801 It wasn't that she was standoffish, she was just a 0:14:43.841 --> 0:14:47.521 little bit shy. Danielle said that Nina genuinely cared about 0:14:47.521 --> 0:14:49.721 people and she was a very good listener. 0:14:50.641 --> 0:14:53.601 The summer that she was fifteen, she came down and 0:14:53.641 --> 0:14:56.001 lived with us for the summer in Douglas. Came down 0:14:56.041 --> 0:14:59.721 from Arkansas and at the time, my mother had a 0:14:59.761 --> 0:15:02.681 pizza restaurant, and Nina and I spent that whole summer 0:15:02.721 --> 0:15:04.601 working for my mom making pizzas, and we had so 0:15:04.681 --> 0:15:08.041 much fun. That was probably the best summers ever. And 0:15:08.121 --> 0:15:10.801 Nina was always a hard worker, though she never never 0:15:10.801 --> 0:15:12.041 shied away from doing a job. 0:15:12.361 --> 0:15:13.081 I wouldn't call her. 0:15:13.001 --> 0:15:15.281 An introvert her. She was a very social person, but 0:15:15.361 --> 0:15:17.161 she didn't need to be the spotlight. She was a 0:15:17.201 --> 0:15:20.641 really good listener. She didn't feel the need to have 0:15:20.681 --> 0:15:23.201 a lot of attention on her. But because of that, 0:15:23.641 --> 0:15:25.921 everyone really trusted her and wanting to be friends with her, 0:15:25.921 --> 0:15:27.601 because she just had a way of putting people at ease. 0:15:28.361 --> 0:15:30.441 She just made people feel comfortable in their own skin. 0:15:31.401 --> 0:15:34.521 She didn't have to impress her or you know, put 0:15:34.521 --> 0:15:36.761 on a mask with her. She was just like, whoever 0:15:36.801 --> 0:15:37.561 you are, I love you. 0:15:41.681 --> 0:15:45.441 Reading between the lines of these police reports, it seemed 0:15:45.521 --> 0:15:47.601 like a lot of the men who knew Nina were 0:15:47.601 --> 0:15:50.001 attracted to her and wanted to ask her out, but 0:15:50.081 --> 0:15:53.001 either she was oblivious to it or she didn't want 0:15:53.041 --> 0:15:56.481 to encourage it. A co worker gave an example. They 0:15:56.521 --> 0:15:58.241 said one day, Nina had to go to court for 0:15:58.281 --> 0:16:01.521 some reason. Afterwards, she went straight to work her shift. 0:16:02.121 --> 0:16:04.601 They said that on that day, Nina was dressed up 0:16:04.601 --> 0:16:07.841 more formally. The co worker told investigators he made some 0:16:07.961 --> 0:16:10.281 kind of comment about her looking good that day and 0:16:10.401 --> 0:16:13.641 asking why she didn't dress like that every day. Nina 0:16:13.721 --> 0:16:16.881 said something about not wanting to be hassled. She didn't 0:16:16.881 --> 0:16:19.401 want people to ask her out. She just wanted to 0:16:19.401 --> 0:16:22.081 do her job. The coworker, by the way, was not 0:16:22.161 --> 0:16:23.641 the one who made the comments to Nina. 0:16:23.681 --> 0:16:25.401 He was just telling police what happened. 0:16:26.561 --> 0:16:29.321 Police spoke with the assistant manager at the walmart Nina 0:16:29.401 --> 0:16:34.481 worked at in Rogers, Bobby Blackbird. She talked about an employee, 0:16:34.801 --> 0:16:39.241 Casey Ake. Bobby said Casey played online poker with Nina 0:16:39.401 --> 0:16:42.161 and that quote, everyone knew he was crazy about her. 0:16:42.401 --> 0:16:43.721 End quote. 0:16:43.721 --> 0:16:46.121 Bobby said she believed Casey was in love with Nina. 0:16:47.001 --> 0:16:50.441 Casey had talked about asking Nina out, but then seemed 0:16:50.441 --> 0:16:52.601 to back off once Nina started dating. 0:16:52.361 --> 0:16:53.841 Her boyfriend Josh. 0:16:54.281 --> 0:16:58.441 After Nina died, detectives searched Casey's home and found nothing. 0:16:59.201 --> 0:17:01.521 But I did see when they talked about the search 0:17:01.521 --> 0:17:05.120 in their reports, they specifically mentioned taking a look at 0:17:05.120 --> 0:17:07.241 his shoes and then putting them back in the closet. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.440 They didn't find anything on that search, but they seemed 0:17:10.481 --> 0:17:13.160 to be clearly trying to figure out who left that 0:17:13.201 --> 0:17:18.921 footprint scuffed on Nina's door. According to Nina's autopsy, her 0:17:19.001 --> 0:17:22.521 cause of death was ligature strangulation. The manner of death 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.961 was homicide. The medical examiner, doctor Charles Kocis, said that 0:17:27.041 --> 0:17:30.841 Nina was strangled with some type of ligature, something between 0:17:30.921 --> 0:17:34.561 one sixteenth and one eighth of an inch wide. The 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:39.161 autopsy provided a few more clues. Whatever happened inside that apartment, 0:17:39.801 --> 0:17:43.480 it seemed to have been a violent struggle. Nina was 0:17:43.521 --> 0:17:46.120 five feet nine inches tall and weigh one hundred and 0:17:46.120 --> 0:17:49.680 fifty one pounds, so depending on how large her killer was, 0:17:50.161 --> 0:17:53.201 this might not have been an easy fight. By the 0:17:53.241 --> 0:17:56.080 time her body was found, rigor mortis had left the 0:17:56.121 --> 0:18:00.401 body and there was marked lividity. Police believed her killer 0:18:00.481 --> 0:18:02.601 murdered her on the bed and then left her there, 0:18:03.041 --> 0:18:05.721 and the time of death was consistent from when Nina 0:18:05.761 --> 0:18:08.401 got home on the night of the twenty first. Police 0:18:08.401 --> 0:18:12.200 believed her body had not been moved since then. The 0:18:12.241 --> 0:18:15.160 autopsy noted Nina had several scratches on the front of 0:18:15.161 --> 0:18:19.121 her neck, and scratches around the mouth and chin, mostly 0:18:19.201 --> 0:18:22.401 on the left side of her face, and distinct ligature 0:18:22.441 --> 0:18:26.281 grooves on both sides of her neck. One rumor that 0:18:26.361 --> 0:18:29.561 started going around after the murder was that Nina's throat 0:18:29.601 --> 0:18:33.201 had been slit. This was not true, but it was 0:18:33.281 --> 0:18:37.241 one that was repeated by people for years. I'm guessing 0:18:37.281 --> 0:18:40.001 that rumor might have started because of those marks that 0:18:40.041 --> 0:18:43.681 were found on Nina's neck at the crime scene. Chat 0:18:43.921 --> 0:18:47.920 said that they looked like cuts. According to the autopsy report, 0:18:48.521 --> 0:18:51.841 Nina had another heavy abrasion just below her left ear, 0:18:52.521 --> 0:18:54.961 and there were two more abrasions on her chest near 0:18:55.001 --> 0:19:00.561 the clavicle. Those two big bruises on her clavicle were unexplained. 0:19:01.241 --> 0:19:03.961 This is just a guess on my part. I think 0:19:04.001 --> 0:19:06.960 it is possible that Nina's killer could have sat on 0:19:07.001 --> 0:19:10.561 her or pressed their knees down onto her chest. The 0:19:10.601 --> 0:19:15.281 medical examiner noted she had petikia or hemorrhaging in her eyes, face, 0:19:15.601 --> 0:19:19.161 left leg, and left arm that were consistent with strangulation 0:19:19.361 --> 0:19:24.521 or asphyxia. Particial hemorrhaging was also present on the interior throat, muscles, 0:19:24.561 --> 0:19:29.401 and larynx. In addition, her hyoid bone was damaged. There 0:19:29.401 --> 0:19:33.440 were no defensive wounds on Nina's hands and no trauma 0:19:33.481 --> 0:19:35.961 to any part of the body except the neck, chest, 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.120 and face. The contents of her stomach were consistent with 0:19:40.201 --> 0:19:43.600 her last meal from Taco Bell. More and more in 0:19:43.721 --> 0:19:47.041 investigators were thinking Nina came home and right when she 0:19:47.121 --> 0:19:49.801 was at her door, or right after she came inside, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.360 the killer pounced. Her cell phone was found still in 0:19:53.401 --> 0:19:56.121 her pocket, so she never had a chance to even 0:19:56.201 --> 0:19:59.121 try to call for help. The attack must have come 0:19:59.161 --> 0:20:02.561 as a complete shock, and detective still had. 0:20:02.401 --> 0:20:03.241 No murder weapon. 0:20:03.961 --> 0:20:06.761 They found a belt in the kitchen trash can, but 0:20:06.961 --> 0:20:09.361 there was no DNA found on it except for Nina's. 0:20:09.801 --> 0:20:12.481 Presumably it was also ruled out as the murder weapon 0:20:12.521 --> 0:20:15.481 because it was too wide. Remember the murder weapon was 0:20:15.521 --> 0:20:19.281 one sixteenth to one eighth of an inch wide. They 0:20:19.321 --> 0:20:21.921 also tested other things in the house, including the mini 0:20:21.961 --> 0:20:26.481 blind cords, but again they found no foreign DNA. All 0:20:26.561 --> 0:20:28.881 of the fingerprints they found in the apartment were Nina's 0:20:29.041 --> 0:20:32.121 except for one partial palm print, and it was not 0:20:32.201 --> 0:20:35.600 a match to anyone in the DNA database. So, along 0:20:35.641 --> 0:20:39.360 with no murder weapon, police still didn't have a motive. 0:20:40.401 --> 0:20:43.321 It did not appear that Nina had been sexually assaulted. 0:20:43.881 --> 0:20:47.881 She was found fully clothed, wearing a blue Royals T shirt, jeans, 0:20:47.881 --> 0:20:50.321 and a jogging suit jacket. She had her broad and 0:20:50.361 --> 0:20:54.160 underwear on. They appeared to have been undisturbed. There was 0:20:54.281 --> 0:20:57.640 semen found in Nina's vagina, but the fluids were found 0:20:57.681 --> 0:21:00.400 to have been a mixture of her DNA and Josh's DNA. 0:21:01.041 --> 0:21:04.080 He told the investigators they had consensual sex the night 0:21:04.121 --> 0:21:07.281 before when she stayed over at his place. Again, there 0:21:07.281 --> 0:21:09.840 were no signs of sexual assault or of trauma to 0:21:09.881 --> 0:21:12.681 her vaginal area. There was no blood or semen found 0:21:12.721 --> 0:21:17.241 rectley or orally. Investigators also found no blood or semen 0:21:17.281 --> 0:21:20.441 on her t shirt, jean jacket, shoes, bra or underwear. 0:21:21.361 --> 0:21:24.481 They tested other items, including the bedding, the bed and 0:21:24.481 --> 0:21:27.441 her miniblinds for blooder semen, but found no trace on 0:21:27.481 --> 0:21:31.080 any of them either. Detectives did find some hairs inside 0:21:31.121 --> 0:21:34.401 the apartment, but forensic testing showed they were all either 0:21:34.481 --> 0:21:39.521 Nina's hairs or her cat's hairs. Detectives were canvassing the 0:21:39.521 --> 0:21:44.401 apartment complex because maybe her killer didn't rush her inside 0:21:44.441 --> 0:21:47.001 the apartment. Maybe it was someone she knew and they 0:21:47.121 --> 0:21:50.241 knocked on the door and she let them in. Did 0:21:50.321 --> 0:21:53.920 her killer lock the door behind themselves, because if so, 0:21:54.201 --> 0:21:57.801 that would presumably mean they would need a key. Police 0:21:57.881 --> 0:22:01.521 obviously considered this possibility. They were trying to figure out 0:22:01.641 --> 0:22:05.761 who had keys to Nina Ingram's apartment. On April twenty third, 0:22:05.801 --> 0:22:08.481 the day after Nina's body was found, police talked to 0:22:08.481 --> 0:22:12.281 the management company for the apartment complex, Mansfield Properties. They 0:22:12.361 --> 0:22:15.561 found out that the maintenance worker for that complex was 0:22:15.601 --> 0:22:18.121 a thirty one year old man named Billy Gray. They 0:22:18.161 --> 0:22:20.481 went to his house and he voluntarily agreed to come 0:22:20.481 --> 0:22:23.521 to the Fville Police Department for an interview. They asked 0:22:23.521 --> 0:22:27.521 Billy about service request for Nina's apartment apartment number one. 0:22:27.681 --> 0:22:30.481 Billy Gray said he had been to that apartment complex 0:22:30.521 --> 0:22:33.361 in recent weeks to make repairs to apartments number five 0:22:33.441 --> 0:22:36.321 and number forty two. Apartment five, by the way, was 0:22:36.401 --> 0:22:39.561 Nina's upstairs neighbor, but he said he did not remember 0:22:39.561 --> 0:22:43.121 making any repairs in apartment number one. He said all 0:22:43.161 --> 0:22:46.521 repairs were documented by the property management company and that 0:22:46.681 --> 0:22:49.880 before repairs were made they had to fill out work orders. 0:22:50.401 --> 0:22:52.761 They also kept a record of problems that were reported 0:22:52.761 --> 0:22:57.201 by tenants. Billy said on April fourteenth, he checked out 0:22:57.241 --> 0:22:59.641 the law Quad Master keys to make some repairs in 0:22:59.681 --> 0:23:03.241 the complex. Billy Gray showed detectives the place where the 0:23:03.281 --> 0:23:06.321 master keys were kept at the Garden Park apartment shop. 0:23:06.881 --> 0:23:11.721 He also voluntarily gave DNA samples. Police searched Billy's residence 0:23:11.761 --> 0:23:15.161 after he gave his consent. They found nothing of evidentiary value, 0:23:15.241 --> 0:23:18.721 so he was also cleared. When detectives talked to the 0:23:18.761 --> 0:23:22.120 manager of Mansfield Properties, he also said something else that 0:23:22.161 --> 0:23:25.401 I found interesting. He said that Nina's unit, apartment number 0:23:25.441 --> 0:23:28.401 one had been rented to a construction company for two 0:23:28.441 --> 0:23:31.640 months and then it sat vacant for a month before 0:23:31.761 --> 0:23:34.601 Nina moved in. Police got the name of the guy 0:23:34.601 --> 0:23:36.920 who rented the apartment for the company. His name was 0:23:36.961 --> 0:23:41.120 Henry Jordan Junior. They apparently did more investigating into the 0:23:41.121 --> 0:23:44.161 company and its records, but they didn't see to find 0:23:44.161 --> 0:23:47.801 any leads there. They found one glove in that dumpster 0:23:47.881 --> 0:23:50.961 outside Nina's apartment, but the DNA on the glove was 0:23:51.001 --> 0:23:57.921 never identified, another dead end. The investigation seemed to stall, 0:23:58.041 --> 0:24:02.401 but in twenty twelve, six years after Nina Ingram was murdered, 0:24:02.921 --> 0:24:18.640 someone was arrested. Nina's family laid her arrest in a 0:24:18.721 --> 0:24:23.241 pastel high neck dress, probably to camouflage the ligature marks 0:24:23.281 --> 0:24:27.120 on her neck. Over the years, her mother, Judy Ingram, 0:24:27.481 --> 0:24:30.441 spoke out about the devastating loss of her daughter. She 0:24:30.681 --> 0:24:33.961 encouraged people to keep Nina's memory alive. She wrote a 0:24:34.001 --> 0:24:36.721 book about Nina's life and death called The Brightest Star. 0:24:37.401 --> 0:24:39.681