3 years ago this month, we brought you the story of Nishenhuff, who was murdered

on June 7, 2006. At that point, her case had been cold for 13 years. We covered Nishenh's

case in the Carolina Girl series. There will be a link in our show notes.

To interview Nishenh's family, we drove up to Greenville, South Carolina to meet her mother,

Satcha and her sister, Chikita. We were able to speak with her sister, India, on the phone.

She was living out of state. Nishenh had graduated from Frances Mary and University that spring

with a double major in journalism and Spanish. She had been an active member of Zeta Phi

Beta Sorority, studied abroad, and worked through college, putting money aside so she could

buy her first home. In fact, she'd just gone to see a house in Piedmont, South Carolina

that day, the last day of her life. She told her sister, Chikita, a realtor, that she wanted

to make an offer. Nishenh had been living in an apartment with her boyfriend, Alvin, at

the time. It was an apartment Chikita had lived in while she'd finished school. Then Alvin

had moved in, and Nishenh spent time there with him and his young daughter. It had been

a quiet, warm Wednesday afternoon in Greenville. Alvinh had left to go to the barber shop

and to pick up his daughter. When they returned, they found Nishenh on the floor. She'd been

shot. There were signs of a struggle. A neighbor would later recall that they'd heard screaming,

but they hadn't called police.

Nearby neighbors told reporters that Nishenh had been shot three times in the head. Though

in those earliest reports, the coroner declined to comment on the precise placement of her

wounds, and how many shots there had been. He did verify that she had died of a gunshot

wound. In Nishenh's family, rushed from every corner of the city, and some from even

farther away to reach her.

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