106: MISSING: Niqui McCown
Detective Perspective
Derrick Levasseur & Square Mile Studios
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On July 22nd, 2001, |
| 0:11.0 | 28-year-old Nikki McCown went to do laundry in Richmond, Indiana, |
| 0:15.2 | just a few weeks before her wedding day. |
| 0:17.5 | After finishing her laundry, she planned to go home and work on wedding invitations, |
| 0:22.0 | but she never made it back. The next morning, her fiancé reported her missing, and for months |
| 0:27.7 | there was no trace of her until November, when her SUV was found abandoned in Dayton, Ohio, |
| 0:33.0 | with her clean laundry still folded inside. Nikki was nowhere to be found. |
| 0:39.0 | More than 20 years later, Nikki's disappearance remains unsolved. |
| 0:43.1 | Her family is still searching, holding on to the hope that one day they will finally learn |
| 0:47.4 | the truth and bring her home. |
| 0:49.0 | Music The Hey, everyone, welcome back to Detective Perspective. My name is Derek Lavasser. I'm a licensed private investigator and former police detective. Each week I'll be covering an unsolved case and story format. |
| 1:29.9 | I'll then give you my perspective on the investigation and provide contact information for the individuals or organizations connected to the case |
| 1:37.2 | so that if you have any tips, you can contact them directly and maybe you can help solve a case. |
| 1:42.7 | So if you're someone who's interested in true |
| 1:44.4 | crime specifically unsolved cases and you would like to hear my opinion on those investigations, |
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| 1:54.7 | Spotify, or whatever platform you use. Okay, Nikki McCown, I'm not going to spend too much |
| 2:00.3 | time on this intro. This case is pretty |
| 2:02.8 | cut forward. We don't know where Nikki is. We do not have a body. There are a few suspects in this |
| 2:09.6 | case, a few people of interest. And yet we sit here 20 plus years later. We have nobody in custody, |
| 2:14.9 | no one being held accountable for whatever happened to Nikki. Was this a homicide? Or did Nikki take off because she felt the pressures of being in a marriage that she didn't want to be in? We don't know. And then it takes an unexpected turn and you're left wondering, okay, well, where do we go now? So I want to cover everything. I want to get your opinions on it. I want to get your wheels turning. |
| 2:34.8 | But most importantly, I want to drive attention to this case because frankly, I had never |
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