Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the frustration

of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listener, discretion is advised.

June 2025, Newark, Delaware. A mother claimed an armed stranger snatched her three-year-old

daughter and spent off in an SUV. An Amber alert is issued, and the entire community searched.

But what followed wasn't a rescue. It was a chilling, unraveling of lies.

As investigators pilled back the layers, a darker truth emerged, that the real danger came

from inside the home. This is Nola's story. Now Newcastle County Police and the FBI, they

worked through the night working to find three-year-old Nola Dinkins.

Multiple tips came in, we're told, but investigators say the mom's initial story of what happened was simply not true.

Nola Dinkins was born October 29, 2021 in Indiana, to parents, Darian Randall and Dominique Dinkins. However,

Randall and Dominique were not in a relationship when our story takes place and hadn't been for some

time. In fact, the two had moved onto other relationships. June 10, 2025, 7pm. The Newcastle County Police responded to the 500

block of Gender Road in Newark, Delaware. Darry and Randall was reporting her three-year-old

daughter, Nola Dinkins, had been abducted at gunpoint. Randall would later tell police while she was

driving. She pulled the car over

at a dead end road near a wooded area to calm Nola down after the little girl was getting upset.

Out of nowhere, a white man Randall didn't recognize, approached with a handgun, saying he wasn't

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