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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Killers Amongst Us: Real Life "Hell's Kitchen," Gorgeous Restauranteur Disappears. What happened to Dawn? (part 2)

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dawn Viens disappears after her husband David, says the couple has an argument. Police talk with David Viens and Dawn's friends, but are they taking her vanishing act seriously? Some things just don't add up. And then a friend gets a text. Who's Pixie and why is she starting over in another state?

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0:00.0

Hi guys, Nancy Grace here. Welcome back to Killers Amongst Us, a production of I Heart

0:09.4

Media and Crime Online. She's young, she's beautiful, she's an expert in the restaurant

0:18.0

business, she's got that magnetic personality, charismatic that everybody wants to be around,

0:24.7

the center of attention with little effort on her part. But why would she leave a brand

0:30.2

new restaurant she and her husband have really just started? I'm Nancy Grace, this is Killers

0:38.0

Amongst Us. They fight among themselves, they're married and they work together. She would

0:47.3

just get fed up and bold. Employees say, you know, they fought, they

0:52.2

biggered sometimes in front of the customers, but nothing to write home about. On

0:56.5

the suggestion that Dawn disappears after an argument, leaving with nothing but her

1:02.3

Louis Vuitton bag, a mystery text. Listen. Finally, a friend named Monica comes to police

1:08.4

with a real clue. Hi, what can we do for you? My husband and I have been friends with

1:13.3

David and Dawn since they got here. We're regular at the restaurant. Anyway, I know

1:19.5

that she's disappeared, but I actually just got a text from her. What does it say? It says,

1:25.6

I'm okay. I'm in Florida. I'm starting over Pixie. Can I sit down? Pixie, which is the

1:32.2

nickname that David gave Dawn. That text message in of itself would explain where Dawn was.

1:40.8

And it should relieve the worry from her friend. You're hearing our friends at perfect murder.

1:46.4

So starting over joining me in all star panel Larry Altman crime reporter, Daily breeze

1:52.5

at the time. Now freelance journal. She knows everything about her disappearance from

1:57.8

beginning to end. Justice Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University,

2:03.0

author, blood beneath my feet. Now the star of poisonous liaisons on true crime network.

2:08.8

Chris buyers, former chief of police, John's Creek 25 years as a police officer. Now

2:14.3

PI and polygrapher at Chris buyers investigations and polygraph.com. We're now psychologists

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