SUSPECT KEEPS DRIVING WITH YOUNG MOM DEAD ON HIS WINDSHIELD AFTER MOWING HER DOWN
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kjersten Strang is a devoted mom to a young son, and her social media pages show it. During a bike ride she was struck from behind by the driver of a Nissan Altima, Xavier Rigby.
Without warning, Rigby slams Kjersten from behind, throwing the 38-year-old mother into the air. The force knocked her into the windshield of Rigby's car, trapping her. Rigby does not stop; he continues driving for a mile, to a nearby liquor store.
Police on the scene report Rigby shows multiple signs of impairment, including the smell of alcohol, bloodshot eyes, stumbling, and slurred speech. Rigby also refuses the roadside sobriety test, so police immediately arrest him and haul him off to the Pinellas County Jail. Police charge Rigby with leaving the scene of a crash involving death, vehicular homicide leaving the scene, and DUI manslaughter.
More shocking details surface after Rigby's arrest, unveiling his previous extensive criminal driving record that includes a previous hit-and-run with DUI charges as well.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Lisa Miller - Mother of Samantha Miller, who was killed by a drunk driver on the day of her wedding, April 28, 2023, in Folly Beach, South Carolina
- Joseph Low - Trial attorney and Founder of the Law Firm of Joseph H. Low IV, one of the few attorneys who practice in military, state and federal courts. Former U.S. Marine. Website: attorney4people.com, Instagram: josephlowesq
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker," and featured in hit show "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
- Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, Host of podcast: Zone 7, X: @149zone7
- Kimberly Cockrell - Victim Services Manager at Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Website: MADD.ORG FB: Mothers Against Drunk Driving Insta: @maddnational
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), NEW Podcast "Mayhem in the morgue" launching soon, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
- Sarina Fazan - Four-time Emmy Award-winning TV Anchor & Reporter; Podcast: "On The Record with Sarina Fazan;" YouTube: Sarina Fazan TV
- Dave Mack - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:09.6 | A suspect keeps driving with a young single mom dead on his windshield after he mows her down dead. The young mom dead on his windshield. And he keeps |
| 0:30.1 | driving estimate for miles. Wait for it. In the last four years, he had been charged nine times with road related incidents. |
| 0:45.2 | Why was he behind the wheel? Why is this single mom? She is the sole caregiver for her little boy. |
| 0:54.7 | Now she's dead. |
| 0:56.2 | And all she was doing was riding along on an e-bike, minding her own business until Xavier Rigby crashes into her life. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 1:09.3 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 1:10.5 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 1:24.9 | Kirsten Strang was a devoted single mother whose life revolved around her young son. |
| 1:29.3 | Their days were filled with trips to the beach and creating a fun life for the two until one faithful night shattered their world forever. |
| 1:37.3 | Those photos are killing me. |
| 1:42.3 | It reminds me of the thousands and thousands of photos I took of the twins |
| 1:48.2 | when they were little. According to everyone to whom we have spoken, this mom, Kirsten, lived, |
| 1:57.2 | lived for her little boy. And now she's gone. She is a sole caregiver to her son. |
| 2:06.4 | What's going to happen to him now? And what about her dreams of seeing him graduate from |
| 2:12.4 | kindergarten, then gone to first grade, then middle school, high school, college, and beyond her leading |
| 2:20.9 | him along the way as only one person can do. And that is your mother. Enter the suspect, Xavier Rigby. |
| 2:36.0 | And let me just go out on a limb and say rot in hell, Rigby. |
| 2:41.8 | Yes, he's presumed innocent until proven guilty. |
| 2:45.1 | And I'm going to have a couple of rounds with a veteran trial lawyer named Jacob Lowe in just a moment on this case. But first, I want to go to a |
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