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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Gorgeous PHD student stalks new boyfriend, shoots him dead over breakup

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 36 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,Jim Elliott - attorney with Butler Snow, legal counsel for various Georgia municipalities and other governmental entities. www.butlersnow.comDr Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly Hills, follow on instagram at DrBethanyMarshallJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network Levi Page - Investigative reporter Crime Online

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0:00.0

Talk about a bad date.

0:11.8

That is certainly perfume on the pig.

0:14.8

This is a euphemism.

0:16.5

Think about it.

0:17.5

A Chicago P.H.D. student allegedly stalks her boyfriend after a try to check a three-month

0:27.1

relationship and a three-month relationship.

0:31.6

What's that?

0:32.6

That's 90 days.

0:34.6

Stalks him with horrible, horrible consequences.

0:41.6

How did this whole thing get started?

0:50.3

Listen.

0:51.3

Nijinsky Dix is a 37-year-old P.H.D. student at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

0:55.7

He's been pursuing a doctorate in criminology, law and justice in Chicago, while also working

1:00.0

as an employee at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she's the director

1:04.7

of a talent search program called Trio.

1:07.5

In the midst of all this, she's also been dating a man named Terry Hickman.

1:10.7

They didn't date for long, according to Terry's family.

1:13.3

They dated for about three months.

1:15.3

But the 44-year-old Hickman broke up with her in May.

1:18.1

Do you ever just have a sixth sense about somebody your day and you can't really put your

1:22.3

finger on it, but you know, you've got to break up.

1:26.2

Think about it.

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