The following podcast contains dramatizations of actual events.

Certain situations, dialogue, names, and locations may have been changed.

Some scenes are graphic in nature.

Listener discretion is advised. Up next, a single mother doesn't survive a life-in-death struggle.

It was, what, everywhere. I mean, all over the liver room, the walls, the back back door she fought for her life probably the

longest fight to death that I ever investigated no one can believe this woman would

be a target for murder.

I was immediately taken into a detective car,

and he asked me, do I know of anybody

that would have wanted to harm,y and I'm like harm Nicky

Evidence shows the killer is uncomfortably close to home

We'd get into physical obligations all the time.

I almost get a little teary I know about it because I knew. So, Nicky Whitehead's life was full of obstacles from the moment she was born.

Nicky Whitehead's life was born in prison, you know, she's the oldest of five siblings.

Unlike her brothers and sisters, Nicki was not raised by her mother.

Her mother was behind bars for most of

Nicki's childhood. She wasn't in the same household as her siblings. What she

didn't know and I even said like oh my goodness Nicki you didn't know you was

born in prison so that's how you was in the custody of your grandmother.

This made for some rocky times during Nicky's teenage years, but she was determined to have some

stability in her life.

She graduated from cosmetology school and opened her own hair styling business in an Atlanta suburb.

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