TEXAS MOM NIKKI WINDER, CAR FOUND BURNING
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Police in Texas are seeking tips in connection with the disappearance of Nicole “Nikki” Winder, who hasn’t been seen since late February.
Winder, 53, was last seen February 25, at around 3 p.m., leaving her place of employment in Bryan. Police located her 2025 white Chevrolet truck on an oil pad site just after 4 p.m., February 25, off FM 974, north of Highway 21, after it had been torched.
An additional image captured on the same day showed an ATV in the area between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Authorities are hoping the public can help identify the owner. Anyone with information is asked to call the Brazos County Sheriff's Office at (979) 361-4900.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:08.1 | A gorgeous young Texas mom, Nikki Winder, missing. |
| 0:13.2 | This after her truck is found on fire. |
| 0:17.4 | Tonight, where is Nikki Winder? |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you |
| 0:23.1 | for being with us. Nicole Winder, a mother from Brazos, Texas is reported missing after leaving her |
| 0:28.8 | caregiving job abruptly. Tonight, the search is on for a gorgeous young Texas mom. Her truck |
| 0:36.0 | found on fire? Straight out to Dave Matt Crime Stories |
| 0:40.4 | investigative reporter. What can you tell me? Did nobody know she was missing until her truck |
| 0:45.8 | was spotted on fire? That's exactly it, Nancy. That was when they determined that we don't |
| 0:51.6 | know where a Nikki is because the call came in to fire and deputies |
| 0:56.4 | about a truck possibly on fire. When they arrived, when investigators arrived on the scene, |
| 1:02.5 | truck fully engulfed in flames, and of course they start looking for the driver. Well, |
| 1:07.1 | there's no driver, nowhere around. So they find out the car is registered. It's a |
| 1:11.9 | 2025 white Chevy pickup truck. And that's the truck there. They find out it is registered |
| 1:19.0 | to call Winder. And they immediately start tracking back and find out nobody knows where she is. |
| 1:24.0 | The last time she was seen was an hour earlier leaving her place of work. So we have a |
| 1:30.7 | one hour window from her leaving work and her truck on fire. Dave Mack, tell me the fundamentals, |
| 1:38.3 | the who, what, where, why, when, as much as you know them. We know she's got two sons. |
| 1:46.9 | We know, tell me about the location. |
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