Custody Battle Turned FAILED Murder Attempt: The Survival Story of Nicki Lenway

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Nicole (Nicki) Lenway was a crime scene investigator for the Minneapolis Police Department and a mother to her 5-year-old son, Callahan. Things in her life were going well with the exception that her ex-boyfriend, Tim Amacher, was trying to destroy her. They dated for many years but broke up after Nicki had had enough of his toxicity. But, a month after breaking up Nicki found out she was pregnant. After having her son, Nicki hoped that co-parenting would work, but Tim seemed uninterested. That is until she got into a new relationship with MPD officer Donovan Ford. Only then did Tim seem to care about his child. But he went about it in the worst way possible. He began making false claims that Nicki abused their son, and got CPS involved. CPS and a judge obviously believed that Nicki WASN’T abusing Callahan, and gave her full custody. So what did Tim do? He got his new girlfriend to try and kill Nicki. But she failed. Nicki survived being shot twice and lived to get justice. Both Tim and Colleen are in prison and will remain there for many, many years.

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0:44.2	We're gonna be talking about Nicole Lenway,
0:47.0	who was a crime scene investigator
0:49.2	who survived a failed murder attempt, it is just an insane story.
0:56.2	Nicky's story is a story of survival.
0:59.3	It's a story of a woman who fought for years for her child and I am just so inspired by Nicole Lenway.
1:08.5	I think she is such a tough person and such a great role model and I'm happy to share her story with you today and I'm going to start off here by going back to 2012 when Nicole first met him Amaker him was an instructor in Taekwondo master at World Taekwondo Academy in White Bear Lake
1:28.6	which is just north of St. Paul Minnesota and it was here at the studio that Tim and Nicky first met.
1:35.2	And the way Nicky describes them meeting is that she was not super interested in him at first,
1:41.5	but he really pursued her.
1:44.2	He was very charming, very sweet, and eventually they ended up in a relationship.
1:49.7	And that relationship really developed quickly because a little over a year later in
1:54.8	early 2014 they moved in together and they continued dating for the next year or so
2:00.1	but things started to go south pretty quickly.
2:03.7	The relationship, like I said, may have started out fine,
2:07.8	but it didn't take long for Tim to start showing his true colors.
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