he had a very big personality. he was always smiling. he was always happy. he liked nice things, nice clothes, nice cars, nice women. nixon primarily sold real estate in grapevine, texas, just outside dallas/ft. worth. it s a very vibrant city, very suburban. there is some money here, but the main focus is the lake. people want to live by it and have very nice homes around it. but david s idyllic life started to unravel one sunday night when his ex-wife walked into police headquarters to report him missing. she said he didn t show up for a dinner meeting with their 10-year-old son that evening, which was very unusual. she said he wasn t returning telephone calls either. david nixon was a great father who kept in contact with his son, even though he was divorced from his wife, and would constantly keep in contact with him.
the tracks were from a dual-axle vehicle, meaning it was a truck with two sets of tires on the back and one set on the front. there s two sets of tires, two sets of different tires, the front and rear. those had dramatically different tire tread impressions. but who wanted david nixon dead? the thing that i ve seen when you re dealing with murder cases is there s generally two reasons people kill love and money. david s ex-wife, donna, had both of these motives. there were problems in david and donna s relationship. obviously, he left her for a young flight attendant, which of course, hurt her deeply. donna would also benefit from david s $500,000 insurance policy until their young son came of age. in crime investigating, one of the cardinal rules is follow the money. and of course, the ex-wife had just been named a beneficiary of
have not talked to him since? have not talked to him since then. it was discovered that he had some gambling debts and he had some troubles with the irs. tracey consented to a search of the house she shared with david. we searched the home with luminol. we did a search with cadaver dogs. they found no evidence of blood, and the cadaver dogs didn t find anything either. but investigators did find one possible clue. as they searched the house, they found electric blanket controls, but they didn t find an electric blanket, which was kind of odd, because they found david wrapped in an electric blanket. a day later, police found david s white lexus abandoned in a supermarket parking lot within walking distance of their house. there was no blood or sign of violence in the car, but something immediately caught
was headed to las vegas where he liked to gamble. you didn t hear from him any thursday night? no, sir. did you talk to him friday? no. nothing saturday? no. have not talked to him since? have not talked to him since then. it was discovered that he had some gambling debts and he had some troubles with the irs. tracey consented to a search of the house she shared with david. we searched the home with luminol. we did a search with cadaver dogs. they found no evidence of blood, and the cadaver dogs didn t find anything either. but investigators did find one possible clue. as they searched the house, they found electric blanket controls, but they didn t find an electric blanket, which was kind of odd, because they found david wrapped in an electric blanket. a day later, police found
name, a decision he came to regret. david wanted to regain control of the house, and tracey wanted to make sure that she kept the house in her name. but there was one seemingly insurmountable hurdle to her being a suspect. in looking at her, investigators had to decide how she could have moved the body. after all, although she was a trim and strong young woman, she was almost half the weight of david, and moving him would have been no easy task. then tracey s neighbors told police they saw a large rental truck parked at their house during the weekend david went missing. are you aware of a moving van be being at your house? i mean, he a moving van? like a u-haul, ryder? yeah. we were getting a truck to move a some large stuff, the pool stuff, pool chairs that the dumpster wouldn t take.