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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Gorgeous PHD student stalks ex-boyfriend, shoots him dead over breakup

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A Chicago Ph.D. student is now facing murder charges after she shot and killed her ex-boyfriend. Nijinsky Dix had been dating Terry Hickman for three months. Police, responding to reports of gunfire, find Dix kneeling beside the bullet-riddled body of the 44-year-old. Joining Nancy Grace today:James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective, Swat officer Lawyer www.ShelnuttLawFirm.comDr. Jenn Mann - Marriage and Family Therapist, Host 'Couples Therapy' and 'Family Therapy' on VH1, "The Dr. Jenn Show” on Sirius XM, Author: "The Relationship Fix: Dr. Jenn’s 6-Step Guide to Improving Communication, Connection and Intimacy", doctorjenn.comDr. Priya Banerjee, M.D.  - Board Certified Forensic Pathologist, Anchor Forensic Pathology Consulting, Assistant Medical ExaminerDan Corsentino - Former Police Chief, Former Sheriff, Served on US Homeland Security Senior Advisory Board, Private Investigator www.dancorsentino.com Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, Lead Stories dot Com, Twitter: @swimmie2009

Transcript

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0:00.0

How does your so-called love life land you behind bars?

0:17.7

And how does a gorgeous PhD candidate go from writing her dissertation to writing an

0:26.6

appellate brief sitting on her bunk in a jail cell?

0:39.6

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:46.9

Dix tells police she doesn't remember how she got to DC.

0:50.8

In fact, doesn't even know how she got to Fort Street here in Southwest.

0:55.2

But according to those court records, she arrived to the apartment on Saturday by 530

1:01.0

neighbors held police.

1:02.2

They heard gunshots and then a woman screaming, please wake up.

1:06.8

Someone help me.

1:08.5

So let me get this straight.

1:10.8

She doesn't know how she got to DC.

1:14.2

She doesn't know how she got to Fort Street.

1:17.7

She doesn't know how she got to the apartment.

1:22.5

She doesn't know how she got to the apartment.

1:31.5

She doesn't know how she got to the apartment.

1:37.0

She doesn't know how she got to the apartment.

1:42.5

Now how did that happen?

1:44.6

I guess she was blacked out the whole way to DC.

1:50.4

Again, I'm Nancy Grace.

1:51.4

Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories.

1:54.3

What a story to tell and trying to make sense out of it is an old star panel James Shelna

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