No Body, No Crime
Invisible Choir
Reach Freaks
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On May 23rd, 2014, social butterfly Nichole “Nikki” Burgess stopped replying to calls and texts. It was so unlike her, that her friends and boyfriend immediately grew concerned and reported her missing. When police searched her home, they found signs of a struggle – but no indication of what had actually happened to the aspiring Instagram model. And while they found abundant circumstantial evidence pointing at a possible homicide culprit, investigators’ greatest challenge may have been proving that Nikki was even dead…
Written by Angela Jorgensen, Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway. View the full episode source list at https://www.invisiblechoir.com/listen/nobody
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| 0:00.0 | Reeks. |
| 0:06.0 | Invisible choir explores detailed depictions of violence and murder and is not appropriate for all |
| 0:12.0 | audiences. |
| 0:13.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:15.0 | There's no murder until you say there is. |
| 0:20.0 | As the state indicated, there is no body, there is no cause of death, there is no manner of death, |
| 0:24.8 | and they will not be able to prove it. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, pop superstar Taylor Swift talked about how she came up with some of the |
| 0:44.9 | lyrics in one of her hit songs. Specifically, she wanted to honor her good friend Esti |
| 0:50.5 | by dropping her name and by citing some of Esti's personality traits, like the fact |
| 0:55.8 | that her favorite restaurant was the Olive Garden. |
| 0:59.5 | The finished result was all about Esti getting murdered. |
| 1:03.0 | Swifties, you already know the song I'm talking about, the one with lyrics like |
| 1:08.0 | Esti wasn't there, Tuesday night at Olive Garden at her job or anywhere. |
| 1:14.0 | He reports his missing wife. |
| 1:16.0 | And I noticed when I passed his house, |
| 1:18.0 | his truck has got some brand new tires. |
| 1:21.0 | On our 2020 album, Evermore, Taylor's Son tires. missing after a confrontation with her husband. Everybody knows he killed her but |
| 1:34.9 | since the police can't locate Esti's body nobody can do a thing about it. In |
| 1:41.9 | reality so-called no-body homicides do exist. This refers to a |
| 1:47.3 | scenario in which prosecutors charge someone with a murder, even if they've |
| 1:51.3 | never actually recovered the alleged victims remains. |
| 1:55.0 | Interestingly, an analysis by a homicide expert of nobody crimes found that when these kinds of cases go to trial, |
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