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The Deck

Nikole Bakoles (3 of Hearts, Utah)

The Deck

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True Crime

4.69.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When duck hunters discovered human remains in an area called Saltair near The Great Salt Lake in Utah in the fall of 2000, investigators began the difficult task of trying to learn the real name of the woman they called “Saltair Sally". It took 12 years for the remains to be identified as those of Nikole “Niki” Bakoles, a 20-year-old mom originally from Washington state. Now, nearly another 12 years have passed, and investigators are still trying to figure out what happened to Niki and who left her by that lake.

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0:00.0

Our card this week is Nicole Bacolas, the Three of Hearts from Utah.

0:08.0

For 12 years no one knew the name of a young woman whose skeletal remains were discovered near a lake in Utah.

0:16.0

Now, Nicole Bacolus has her name back, but her family and the detectives working her case

0:21.6

are still hoping to uncover another name, the name of the person or

0:26.1

persons who left Nicole's body by that lake 24 years ago. I'm Ashley Flowers and this is the deck. So, You're going to. By 2011 Nancy Bacolus had been searching for her daughter Nicky for over a decade. The last time Nancy saw

1:15.0

her daughter was at the end of 1999. She and her three other kids had spoken to

1:20.1

Nicky on the phone a little after that, but they couldn't pinpoint exactly when

1:24.6

Nicki made her last phone call home because at the time they didn't know it would be

1:28.7

the last. The family had once been as close as close could be,

1:33.2

especially Nicki and her little brother James, who was less than a year younger than her.

1:37.6

When we were younger, we were just peas in a pot, you know.

1:41.6

We did everything together all the way up until maybe fifth

1:46.1

and sixth grade when she went off to middle school and I think that our particular bond was

1:51.4

kind of stronger all the way up until that point and then

1:54.1

inevitably like any older sibling would she needed a little independence and so I

1:59.1

kind of turned into the trailing kind little brother but But she always looked after me. She also let me know I was annoying at times, you know.

2:09.0

Like so many teenage girls, Nicki started going to parties and hanging out with boys, but it wasn't until she met an older

2:15.1

guy named Joel that things really took a turn.

2:18.8

She actually met him through church of all places.

2:22.2

Even though Joel was the child of very strict religious parents, he seemed to have quite

2:26.7

a bit of freedom, maybe because of his age.

2:28.9

I mean, he was over 18, so what were his parents really going to do?

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