Florida Investigators Turn to Unusual Tool in Two-Year-Old Missing Person Case
The FOX True Crime Podcast
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4.7 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 1 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. |
| 0:03.3 | Officials in Florida are turning to unconventional methods to try to find a mother of three that's been missing for over two years. |
| 0:10.1 | 41-year-old Nicole Baldwin was last seen November 2nd, 2023. |
| 0:13.8 | State, local, and federal agencies have all joined the search, but her whereabouts remain a mystery. |
| 0:18.4 | So now Mount Dora investigators are turning to an Asian small- clawed |
| 0:22.2 | otter named Splash to crack the case. Mount Dora Sergeant Gary Hutchinson says in 30-plus years of |
| 0:28.7 | doing law enforcement using an otter like this as a first, but otters put out bubbles and then |
| 0:34.3 | they inhale the bubbles back in and that allows them to taste the water and alert to |
| 0:39.9 | presence of decomposition. |
| 0:42.0 | It might be his first rodeo, but it's not Splash's first rodeo. |
| 0:44.9 | He's been deployed on 27 missions, six of which resulted in positive IDs of evidence or human |
| 0:49.6 | remains. |
| 0:50.2 | Nicole Baldwin's husband remains a person of interest in the case. |
| 0:52.9 | He's serving a 15-year sentence for child pornography that was found during the initial investigation. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. |
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