When a young California girl goes missing and her mom is found murdered, one family seems to be at the center of it all. From a self-declared street preacher to a babysitter with a murderous past, a host of suspicious individuals haunt the story of a missing child, who investigators believe is still alive in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott.

This is the revisited and enhanced edition of one of our early episodes, which features the cases of Nikki and Ariana Fits.

The original edition was recorded in 2020,

and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode on their cases in 2025.

As I'm sure those of you have been listening since the early days of Last Seen Alive have noticed,

our production and audio quality has improved significantly over the years.

Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes.

When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time.

However, our best was not the best, and we've learned a lot since then.

We want to honor those victims by telling their stories with the production quality they deserve.

So, we've been completely remaking all of our early episodes.

I'm talking totally new recordings with any new info or updates included, and we'll be releasing

these episodes on what were previously are off Mondays. So that means there will be an episode of

Last Seen Alive airing every single Monday. It'll alternate between totally new cases we've never covered before,

as usual, and revisited and remade episodes on the Mondays in between.

Yeah, it's definitely opening up a really unique opportunity for us to revisit, update,

and re-experience some of our older cases again.

It does, and since it's been years, many of these cases

do have some updates, you know, whether small or large, that we're able to include. So let's get

into Nikki and Ariana's story. Nicole Fitz, who went by Nikki, was last seen alive on April 1st,

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