106: MISSING: Niqui McCown

Detective Perspective

Derrick Levasseur

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On July 22, 2001, 28-year-old Niqui McCown went to do laundry in Richmond, Indiana, just weeks before her wedding day. After finishing her laundry, she planned to go home and work on wedding invitations, but she never made it back.

The next morning, her fiancé reported her missing. For months there was no trace of her, until November, when her SUV was found abandoned in Dayton, Ohio, with her clean laundry still folded inside. But Niqui was nowhere to be found.

More than twenty years later, Niqui’s disappearance remains unsolved. Her family is still searching, holding onto hope that one day they will finally learn the truth and bring her home.

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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,
1:50.0	please consider subscribing whether you're watching on YouTube or listening on Apple Podcasts,
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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