Love, Justice, and Survival

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning.

0:51 Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's kJ here and with a really, really good one. I'm pretty excited about this one. I'm not gonna lie to you, but first I've got some shout outs I need to give that. I am so excited to have people following me and being a Patreon member. Miss Sarah Hamrick from West Virginia, Hey Sarah, thank you, thank you, thank you for joining. It means literally the world to me, and I know I say that every time, but it's so genuine. I've got Addie Pritchard from Wisconsin. Hi Addie, so glad to have you, as well as Miss Shelley Marie from Kentucky. Hi Shelley, I hope that you're doing well as well as Miss Holly Roberts from Alabama. Now, Holly, you're talking to an LSU fan, Okay, but I can recognize greatness. Okay, I'll give Nick. I'll give Nick a little Hey. How you doing, Nick? But just no, I'm a tiger at heart. But I'm so happy to have you. Thank you so much, Holly. And then Jessica Wallace from French settlement, Louisiana, which is just down the road and right there on the river. Hi, Jessica, so thrilled to have you with me, as well as Miss Dina mccantz from Oregona. What's it like an organ I've never been. That's I need to get. I need to be better traveled. I'm telling you, it's kind of sad. All right. Well, I'm gonna give those shout outs for today. I've got more coming, so you're on my list.

2:12 If I haven't told you hello, I promise you I'm going to get to you. Just a whole lot of people and not a lot of time. But I also have to tell y'all I have to make an announcement. I will never be a doctor. Uh and we know that because clearly I am not good at anatomy because Jim, before we started, had to go to the bathroom and I said, Jim, go go empty your testicles before we record. Then it occurred to me that that's not where your incomes from, and I started screaming, please, don't clear your testicles, clear your bladder.

2:53 So Jim formal apologies and I'm sorry if that qualifies as harassment because I'm just an it and I'm sorry. Do you forgive me? Oh god, no, you did not on this show? Victims and Jimithy First, Okay, I'm sorry, Jill Man, I was God, I'm an idiot, Okay, But I did my research on this case, okay, So I think what I got going on here is going to be super good. So this case was really incredible to me because there's a lot of stuff going on right a lot of reasons. But for me, this one was insane because it's it's really a testament to what people are willing to do two and four other people, and I you know, man, you just you can never you can never guess what people are capable of doing. And I think we all know that. But this one's going to take place in Hennepin County, Minnesota. So if that's where you're from, hey, all the way out there. And this is based on their annual snapshot what I'm about to tell you, But they're much like many of the parishes and the counties around the US. And yes, I said parish is because Louisiana has those. I guess we're back We're backwards. I don't know, but we have. We have parishes while other people have counties. But as far as crime is concerned, their Sheriff's office focuses on both violent crime reduction and also community outreach, which is huge. Right. Their Major Crimes Task Force seized four hundred and forty seven illegally possessed firearms and over twelve thousand grams of powder fentanyl in twenty twenty three. So crime is something that they really do focus on. And I wanted to give kudos to that area for what they're doing to try to

4:27 protect their citizens. Now, community based policing is something that they believe in, and I'm telling you it's where it's out. It's outreach and building relationships, which is a must in a community where you really care about your people. Matter of fact, our local sheriff. Sheriff are Jason Ard. I was picking up some shirts the other day at Sport and Center, which shout out to Sport and Center, who helps me out with a whole lot of my merchandise. But while I was there, he had one of his deputies that walked in and I kind of turned around. I was like, Hey, what's going on? And he said hey, and then he turned to the owner the Sport and Center and said, look, we're just coming around and checking on our businesses and making sure that y'all, you know, feel comfortable. If you have any problems. We want to know what your problems are. We want to make sure that we're addressing any issues. If you could just give me just a moment and explain to me if you have any issues. And I thought, damn, man, that's where it's at, you know, community outreach. Let's figure out what the problems are and attack it, you know, and stop it. So if we don't do that and we don't build relationships, then we're gonna have idiots just raising we're idiots.

5:30 And they have to see the good in law enforcement. We have to let these young people know that there's good law enforcement out there. And that they can help you, and please, you know, pay attention to that. And no, we're not just out here taking kids out of homes that are full of dysfunction. And then all these kids are going to see is that police are you know, Oh, they take me away from my parents. They don't kids don't realize how shitty their parents are. You know, not all parents, but you know what I mean, the ones that they love their parents with all their might and their parents don't deserve them, you know what I'm talking about. So that's not necessarily the chain of events that's going to take place in this story, okay, but it's gonna play a role in that. So this is gonna have a shooting involved. Okay, So where did this shooting take place? I'm glad you asked. It happened in the parking lot of a Family Wise daycare center in hinnepin Minnesota. And remember, keeping kids feeling safe is the goal in this community, and this daycare center does tons in that community as far as partnering with family service agencies things like Supervised Visitation Network and Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota. So, if you've ever been in a custody dispute or you have an X. That's nuts.

6:43 Okay, we all I think like everybody in their mama has a crazy X somewhere. But you know, in God forbid, you share a child. These supervised visitation networks are imperative to keeping you know, the adults acting right and keeping the child safe, and you know, kind of is what it is. So part of the services of this agency was being a neutral ground for parent visitation where there's required supervision, so for example, divorce parents where one parent is believed to need supervision and doesn't have domicillary custody over the child. So, yes, you need to see your child, be a part of your child's life, but we just don't quite trust you one hundred percent to do the right thing right. So, on April twentieth, twenty twenty two, at approximately seven pm, thirty three year old Nicole Linway parked her vehicle and she bundled up in her jacket. It had fur on the hood.

7:33 She had her little duck boots on. It was kind of cold and rainy that day, and she began walking up to the center. She was there to get her son, who was visiting with his father, when suddenly shots rang out outside of the building, and about that same time, there was a woman named Emily Clancy. And I don't know why, but I just liked her name because it sounds like a detective or something. But Emily Clancy was driving her vehicle in front of the center and she witnessed the shooter, dressed in all black, approached Nicole and then unleash multiple shots on her. So Nicole staggered back, grabbed her neck, and was just in shock of what was going on. So what did missus Clancy do when she saw this? I can tell you this. She did not run. She did what heroes do. She stopped her vehicle, jumped out, and she ran straight up to Nicole to ask was she okay? And I thought, like, damn, that's a woman moment, you know, where you see somebody in need, and to hell with the person with a gun. I'm coming to help this person. Now, mind you, the gunman did run off, but she jumped out and took action, and Nicole was amazingly able to answer, but she replied, no, I'm not okay. I've been shot.

8:48 And she's kind of holding her throat so absolutely stunned. She manages to get to her feet and dials nine to one one. So eventually you hear Emily take over the call and she does as directed by nine one one. She places her jacket over the wound and she's applying pressure until police and first responders can arrive. Now, just a little fun fact, the average response time from dispatch to arrival is usually around seven minutes, which is a lifetime when you have been shot. So where was she shot exactly? She was shot in the arm as well as in the neck. Now she's in tons of pain, she's starting to have a hard time breathing, and incredibly, she is able to walk on her own volition to the ambulance and me telling you this probably does not have the weight it should. But after watching, because I watched the video of her being shot, it is incredible that she was even able to survive this nearly point blank multiple shots that she took look completely blindsided and unable to defend herself in any way. When that first shot hit her, she collapsed to her back and the shooter then steps over her on top of her and fires again. And there's a video of it, a video of it thanks to security cameras, and it's simply stunning to watch

10:20 now. I will post that video on my Patreon if you want to go check that out. Scary, I mean, in seconds, your life can change, and Nicole was not prepared for this. Now, real quick, I want to tell you something. Let's talk real life versus the movies. So in the movies, when someone is shot, they immediately fall to the ground or they blow back three feet. Right, we've all watched the movies and the cars go just randomly flipping even though nothing's you know, put them on a trajectory to be able to flip. And you know, I thought I would address this real quick because sometimes people don't know. And of course, if someone is hit in a vital and a tally anatomical part of the body that's like required for standing, the location could be something like maybe a knee cap, of course they're likely to immediately collapse. But if it's another part of the body like the chest or the head or the arms, people don't fly backwards like in the movies and how they suggest the dramatics of it.

11:18 It's a hard thud as someone's life is ended and they instantly collapse to the ground. So even MythBusters, if you want to go look it up. Even MythBusters tested this in one of their episodes, if you want to go check it out. They took a fifty cow, okay, and they shot a dummy that was in a similar size to the average adult male. And when they shot that dummy with a fifty cow, it was knocked back only two and a half inches. Gentlemen, yes that is a lot, we all agree, but it's no movie drama, okay, no blowback. So I looked at the site of of Godoy or Godoi medical forensics, and it was noted that one neurologist theorized that the reticular activating system, which is located in your brainstem, it becomes overloaded by impulses when you hit. That intense pain from the gunshot and the agony of the gunshot triggers that reticular activating system to send a signal to your legs, which weakens the muscles, and that's what's causing you to instantly collapse. So whatever the reason of why we crumble to our backs when we're being shot or we crumble, other than just being executed with no ability to respond, I know that she wasn't instantly killed because angels were on her side. No doubt. When you watch this video, you two are gonna be like, oh my god, how did she survive it? And she survives the ride to the hospital, but she immediately

12:50 lost consciousness once she was placed in the ambulance. So the reason I was bringing this up is, you know, if you're a hunter, for example, you know you shoot a deer, they don't just fall down, dear, because of that flight instinct in that fight. You know they doom doom, dune. You're listening for that crash, right, and they'll make it a distance before they die. Animals do that, but we as human beings, tend to process that differently. Unless it's an execution shot, we collapse in a protective manner. But also because like I just told you, it's believe the pain triggers our legs to go weak and we fall. So at the hospital, it was found that she had been shot on the right side of the neck as well as through her right forearm. She had a perforated long and severe vocal core damage, and the bullet that entered her neck missed the main artery by one millimeter millimeter. The bullet lodged between her ribs or not. Maybe that bullet but the bullet through the arm, it lodged into her ribs. Her overall condition was listed as critical and people don't typically survive the types of wounds that she had endured. For the time being, she was alive, but her boyfriend, his name was Donovan Ford, was utterly stunned at her condition when he made it to the hospital, so he ran to her side, and he said he could barely see her with all the monitoring equipment and the tubes down her throat, and to say the least,

14:20 she was in really bad shape. And Donovan would know, y'all because not of a medical background or anything like that, but because he was a police officer himself, and he had seen people like this many times on the job. And Donovan wanted answers, just like everybody else did. Why Nicole, Why on earth would someone want to shoot this woman? She has fair skin, blue eyes, she's got long brown hair, and you know, I'm gonna comment on her beautiful straight teeth, those pearly whites. Man, I'm telling you, she is a beautiful woman. Beautiful. I wish I looked like her. She is stunning. And what did she do for a living?

15:03 She was a forensic scientist, which I thought was what that was way cool, right, a smarty pants to say the least, but definitely worked with law enforcement as well as dating a police officer. So Mines wanted to know, was this somehow a possible motive for the shooting. Police couldn't help, but wonder if maybe there was a tie in there that would lay you know, her job kind of layered in there with this or was it a coincidence? They weren't sure, so for your information, though, nationwide, the FBI reports more than fifteen thousand homicides and of those, only nine point seven percent of those victims were killed by strangers nine point seven percent. So while it's not impossible, it certainly isn't likely that this was a just random attack in broad daylight in front of a daycare center. So what about the law enforcement tie? There have been specific the thick cases documented about people shooting people because of their law enforcement role. But this wasn't really a strong thought because she worked in the lab. She wasn't like on the streets giving her face to suspects. She was kind of a behind the scenes employee to say that, you know, to say, I guess the least, but Shout out to all of our lab workers. Shout out to everybody in these crime labs, because you are the science man, you know what I mean, You're the ones that are making it happen. But you wouldn't necessarily have seen her face to go after her. So police at the scene really had not

16:36 much to work with. They had three discharged casings and then they had three live three eighty rounds on the ground and blood. That's what they had. And a three eighty. If you're not familiar, you know, you can look it up. But those are small bullets. Now still can be deadly, but they're not you know, it's not a fifty cowl or something like that. I mean, it's a small gun. So luckily they when doing their investigation, would find out that there was security footage available at Family Wise as well as a perfectly located bank that had a camera that caught it all. So officers obtain that surveillance footage from the parking lot and it shows Nicole sitting in her vehicle and then she's kind of just sitting there doing whatever a little bit before she exits a twenty twenty two black Dodge Ram without a license plate. Arrives and then it parks on the south side of the parking lot, and that's when a person dressed all in black, a hood, gloves, a medical mask, gets out of the truck and then heads behind a fence, where he hides until Nicole gets out of her vehicle. And then as she's approaching that facility on foot, the suspect runs up with face covered from behind her, puts the gun to her neck, shoots her, and then steps on top of her, shoots her again, and then runs off.

17:56 I mean, certainly nothing of help in terms of obvious suspect identification, I mean, well covered, but at least there was a storyline of what occurred there. Now, as most of us know, all of us true crime fanatics out there, shootings often do have a domestic issue involved in them. So police decided to look into Nicole's ex but they didn't have to go far because guess where he was. He was inside the center when the shooting occurred. I mean, he was less than fifty yards away, but he was clearly inside the building, so obviously he can't be two places at once, so it couldn't have been him. He was still questioned, though, and he did have some valuable information to share. His name was Tim Omiker and he was the father of Nicole's five year old son, Callahan. He was a well liked and well respected man in the community, and he worked as a taekwondo instructor, and many referred to him as Master Omacker. So to be called master, you have to obtain I mean, it's respective of which type of organization you're with, but you have to minimum have obtained like a fifth degree black belt to be considered a master. So the people who become masters, they are respected and they understand the five tenants right, courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control, and indomitable spirit, which basically is

19:32 giving one hundred percent in all that you do. So in short, what I'm telling you is this isn't an easy feat to achieve, and someone with this rank has earned the respect they get in that title master. So further questioned, he was very concerned about Nicole. I'm sure they were exes, but that didn't mean they never spoke. Tim did spend a large portion of the questioning when police were talking to him, explaining how frustrated he was and that he himself felt victimized by the family court by the police department. And he also said that he felt victimized by Nicole, and so he kind of said that she was kind of crazy. And when he was asked, you know, well, do you have any idea who would have shot her?

20:12 He said absolutely absolutely, So police are listening,'ra awll ears, what do you mean absolutely? And he says basically that he was concerned because she had told him that a case that she had just worked on recently, it scared her. The guy or the people that were involved in that case. It scared her so much so that she had shut down her social media and she even changed her last name to her middle name and went to the extent of borrowing a gun. So she was afraid. So investigator said, okay, do you have any vehicles that are here or you know, what do you drive y'all? I mean inner circle? You always work inner circle out that's common investigator one oh one. So investigator said, can you list any of the vehicles that you own? And he readily helped them. He even said, look, if you'll drive me to the parking lot out there, I'll show you where my car is. And so they searched his car.

21:08 He was driving a jeep and it was at parked right there at the center. And then he said, I also have a challenger. It's off site. So they went and they searched that car. They found nothing, and so they let him go. Amazingly, the very next day, Nicole regained consciousness, so police rushed up there. They wanted to interview her and talk to her and see what they could find out. But what they were, you know, unfortunately going to find out, was that she could not communicate verbally due to those massive injuries to her throat. But don't you ever think that you're going to go shoot somebody like Nicole and her just say, oh, I can't speak now, ma'am. She said, get me a piece of paper. She pointed, get me a piece of paper and a pen, because I can write all day long. And that is what she did.

21:56 She communicated through pen and paper and what she said was interesting in that the interaction had only lasted seconds when she was shot. But she said, I think it was a female that shot me, and the police weren't sure about that. She said, I really do. I think it was a girl that shot me. And she further explained that she felt like her ex tim would have been behind it. She said, I feel it in my gut Tim is involved, but that was a girl that shot me. So without any other real leads to follow, police decided, okay, well let's go further investigate Tim. But he clearly was not the shooter. But that doesn't mean he wasn't involved. So let me tell you a little bit about Tim. Some attributes about him. Physically fit, I would say, traditionally handsome, he was confident, He had a leader persona charismatic, driven, intense, stylish. He kind of thought himself a pretty boy. His friends that they talked to said he's a great friend and that he draw people in.

23:00 He's that person he walks in the room and everybody wants to talk to him. And so, of course, the more you talk to people and the more you ask, the more you're understanding of the person you're trying to figure out can change. The more people start talking, you know, the more you kind of get an idea about their ways. And so they also found out that he had a reputation as a nightlife guy and that he had a waiting list of women to sleep with him. Now, just how true was this? Just because someone says it doesn't mean it's true. Well, what would you think if I told you he had a certain light bulb involved in his life to help him sort the ladies out? Yes, yes I did. I said a light bulb, because if this isn't the most unattractive thing I've ever heard in my entire life, everyone knew that a purple light.

23:56 If there was a purple light bulb on on his porch, that was his way of letting women know if he was available or not. I'm drinking out of a purple cup right now. I like the color purple. But I'm gonna tell you something. I ain't no damn beauty queen. But there ain't gonna be a day that I show up to your house to see what color you're shining, to see whether I'm gonna be allowed to come sleep with you like bitch, call me put the time in bye bye. However, not everybody's like me, so sexual deviant aside, you are allowed to be a man whore. That doesn't make you a murderer. It's kind of you, as the teenagers will say, it's giving you. But he certainly didn't seem like someone Nicole would have entertained either, So I was just kind of curious how they met. She seems so well put together. I don't want to use the term meek, but she seems Nicole seems and sweet and the girl that's barefoot in a flower dress on the front of a farm, you know what I'm saying, Like just that genuine, just beauty about her, and he just didn't seem like someone she would have just given the time of day two. So I look to see how they met, and they actually met at the gym. He was older than her. They worked out together, and they just struck up a flame. And so she seemed naive in this sense and that maybe, you know, maybe that's why it didn't work

25:30 out. You know, she had to take the time to learn the games that he played and that he was a womanizer and all of that. But before that could happen, they moved in together in early twenty fourteen. He wasn't faithful and she did figure it out. It just took her some time. So after she did figure it out, that's when the fighting was constant. And eventually Nicole wanted out, but she was still young. She was still trying to figure, you know, figure things out, and so she stayed and she kind of had the mindset of maybe they could fix this and he would realize what he had, you know, maybe you know, he's this womanizer, but I'm you know, maybe he'll realize I'm the one and you know, just young girl thinking. So that never happened, just so you know. And if anything, he seemed to be training for a frigging gold medal in the asshole Olympics, and I'm gonna tell you right now he was podium material in that event. Case in point, they decided to take a trip to Vegas, and as he did everything, he ruined the fun.

26:33 He got drunk, then he got out of control. That drunkenness turned into anger, and that resulted in them going up to the room, and then he picked up the lamp and he hommed it at her and smoked her with the lamp. So their trip was just not a lot of fun. When they got back home, his violence didn't get any better either, even if he was sober, so no amount of apologizing would undo his actions and this violent tendency that you had. So his next fit of anger resulted in him throwing her against the wall, and he grabbed her and held her up by her throat while he sneered at her through his clenched teeth. But by now, you know, she's twenty six years old. She had had enough.

27:15 She packed her bags to leave. She made her mind up, it's over. I'm not doing this. And as she left that house one last time, Tim grabbed her by her ponytail and drug her by her hair while she's kicking and trying to get loose into the bedroom. But she was done, done, done, and she was able to eventually get out and she never turned back. But that's when a huge, unexpected wrench was thrown into the mix. A few weeks later, and that would be in the form of two pink lines. That's right, she had finally made it out. But that's when she found out that she was pregnant. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, right, this can't be happening. No, But no matter how scared she was, the answer was still yes. No matter how many tests she took. They were having a baby, whether they wanted to or not. And now she was going to be tied to him for at least eighteen years. Okay, so she was now having a baby, but trust she was never going back to him.

28:26 Now the one thing I will give Tim is that he is consistent and being the massive douche canoe that he had already shown himself to be. That never changed. When Nicole told him, look, I'm pregnant. His response was, well, go have an abortion, and she was like, no, it's not what I'm going to do now. Inside, she was honestly panicked, but she remained steadfast in her role as a mother to be. And baby Callahan was born nine months later on June twentieth. That's my mama's birthday, but June twentieth of twenty sixteen, not the year of my mother's birthday. And he was a big baby, but he was precious and he was perfect, and Nicole was in love at first sight. I kind of got the feeling that the traditional ways of conventional families weighed heavily on the coal and she wanted her son to have a father, even though he sucked as a partner. So as such, she gave little Callahan Tim's last name.

29:26 Although she was the main caregiver and being the woman that she was, she also wanted her son to have a father in his life. She didn't want him to be this fatherless boy. And they didn't get along, but being a dad and a partner, those are different. Maybe he could be the best father to their baby. And she just was like, you know, he deserves a chance, and my son deserves a chance to know his father. So while trying to figure out the parenting plan that was best and what fit their lives, Tim was moving on in his love life sort of. Okay, insert a young girl named Colleen Larson. Okay, a real quick Southern bell lesson for you. In the South, y'all, we have a thing. We have this saying called bless her heart, and it's basically what we say to preface that we ain't mean. We just fixing to be super honest. Okay. Example, let's say a kid talks big about a fight he was in and everybody and their mama knows he got his ass tore up.

30:30 Then we're gonna say something like little, you know, little Ted, bless his heart. He couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. So I mean, you're being honest, but it's kind of mean. Okay, now that you know Colleen Larson, bless her heart, not only did it seem like she fell out of the ugly tree, y'all, but like she may have hit every damn branch on the way down, and compared to Nicole's look, it's almost kind of jarring to see the change the difference between the two. But y'all, looks aren't everything. Maybe she's really good at baking or whatever, who knows. Okay, But something else to note is that Colleen was young. She was freshly turned eighteen, So when Tim was needing a new roommate, Colleen was willing and ready and able to jump at the chance, and she moved in with Tim as a roommate shortly after Nicole moved out. Anyone who knew them was well aware that Colleen was infatuated with Tim, and in a way it made sense because he had been her karate instructor for over ten years. Now. I may not know anatomy as evidenced by my thoughts on Jim haven't used the restroom earlier, but I do know basic math. If she was eighteen years old and he had been her karate instructor for over ten years, that means she was a kid, a little

32:07 kid. When he started having influence in her life, she legitimately idolized him and even continued to call him master omaker even after she moved in with him, And it was also pretty clear to anyone on the outside that Tim was messing around with this young girl what she was seeing as a relationship, though he was just seeing more as an easy piece of ass, just to put it frankly, and it was pitiful. Like one side dedication that Colleen seemed to hold for Tim, it just wasn't reciprocated in that way. So while he was having his cake and eating it too, Tim was also showing his jealous, controlling side, but not for Colleen. He was still wanting control over what Nicole was doing. Nicole, by the way, at this point, was thriving. Her boyfriend. Donovan was an absolute breath of fresh air, kind, generous, loving, a man of integrity, and Donovan had been married before and he was divorced now, but was a good man and he immediately took to little Callahan too, who quickly became his buddy. He loved being with Callahan, and this turned out to be great because Tim was unreliable and he really wasn't a great father. Donovan was a strong male example in Callahan's life and it was just a wonderful thing for Nicole to see happening for her young son, someone who was surprisingly Another blessing though in Nicole's life,

33:42 was that young Colleen. When Tim wasn't interested in Callahan or wasn't there to take care of him, Colleen was always ready to help and even according to Nicole, Colleen seemed to love Callahan. Was very helpful with him. She was kind, she was good to him, and you know, she even watched watched Callahan at the home when Tim wasn't there, and Nicole felt comfortable drop in him off to Colleen for visits. Colleen spent more time with the baby than Tim did. All of a sudden, though, Tim was starting to want Callahan more than usual. Part of his reasoning was that he claimed Donovan was bad mouthing Colleen and trying to ruin his family. So Tim also became increasingly ballsy towards Donovan, even calling him and leaving nasty messages on his phone. Now, I'm not sure if you've ever heard of a term called paper terrorism before, but this is something that's real, and it's something that Tim started using as a tool to make Nicole and Donovan's life a living hell. This included relentless accusations to Child Protective Services against Nicole and Donovan, claiming abuse and even raising mistakes later on and claiming sexual abuse on his son.

35:05 And fueled with these claims that he was making, he also filed paperwork with the courts to get custody of Callahan. His claims were becoming more and more wild, so obviously CPS or Child Protective Services was worried and investigations were now opened on Nicole and Donnaban. First of all, how embarrassing for the both of them. They're both employed in law enforcement. You know, they work with these people basically that are now coming into their lives. Secondly, these investigations that involve CPS, they come into your home, they get into your personal business. You know, they're asking questions and getting to see things that the average person, you know, would expect some privacy in their home.

35:49 So in some cases, I want you to understand, CPS has the ability to get an order signed by a judge to take your child from you. They can place your child in foster care or with another suitable caregiver. So this would be scary for anyone who loves their child. Matter of fact, between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty two, Tim made ten abuse reports against the two, and during one investigation, Callahan the kid told the social worker, my daddy told me to lie and say I'm being abused. That right there, to me is abuse in and of itself. That you would try to coerce a child to lie about abuse, and wouldn't you know it, All investigations that were opened with the claims of abuse were all found to be completely unfounded. The tactic here, though, seems clear Tim would say anything to take Callahan from Nicole. I would think it was more depriving them of the child than it was actually wanting the child. It's one of those games.

37:02 So when these false claims to CPS never bore fruit for Tim, he decided to go a different route. He began filing complaints against Donovan at the law enforcement agency that he worked for, but again it was a nuisance and nothing was ever found to be substantiated. He also made complaints against Nicole, including one saying that she purposefully ran over his foot with her car. So the poor girl was humiliated, you know, because she had to go and she had to answer to this in court. She had to defend herself against this absolutely false claim. Luckily, the judge was no fool and in less than fifteen minutes she was found not guilty. But Tim's crazy was showing and Nicole felt forced to file, you know, for an order of protection, which, let's get real. Orders of protection are useless. All that is is a piece of paper. It's not going to stop a bullet or crazy.

37:57 It's just something that we can, you know, if they break it. Now we have grounds to go put you in jail, but it doesn't stop crazy. All of Tim's actions to destroy Nicole backfired in a big way though, when the judge awarded soul custody to Nicole after everything that had happened. It's kind of an awesome mic drop moment there. The judge also adjusted any visitation that Tim received, ordering that it had to remain limited as well as supervised. The court records from March of twenty twenty two showed that he also had been ordered to pay these visitation costs because it costs money for a supervised visit. So in a final order, the judge also prohibited any contact between Tim and Nicole which required the supervised visitation at a neutral site. Thus why he was at that Center visiting Callahan the day of the shooting. So if it's a fact that Tim wasn't the shooter, it sure seemed like he was the only one with a strong motive for lying or for revenge at least.

39:05 Right. Motive is great, we have a motive, but convictions, those need proof. So the police dug in and they decided to use records to see about that black truck that the shooter drove away in. They went back to that surveillance footage and they decided to back it up even further before the shooting. And when they did, they wanted to say see if there was anything prior in the day that might have looked stranger out of place, and they didn't have to go back too far. It was only six minutes that they had to back up the tape before the shooting happened. That the black truck came slowly driving by, It went back and forth in front of the center, and then dressed in that all black That person shows up a minute or so later in the video walking in front of the center in the all black. This is before any of it even goes down, and knowing what they know now, it appeared the shooter was scouting out the scene by driving by slowly and then later walking by the parking lot, and so this is obvious. This means it wasn't a random attack, which police didn't think anyway, but it just proved how much planning was taking place. Guess what, if you're going to be a liar, you better be a good one, especially when it comes to attempted murder. So police decided to run records for a black Dodge Ram truck and see who all owned one in the area.

40:30 And it was then that they saw a name that dumbfounded them. Tim Tim himself owned one. He had more than two vehicles, by the way, he actually had four vehicles. He never mentioned he owned a black truck. Amazingly, they found he purchased a twenty twenty two black Dodge Ram in January of that year. It's funny he didn't mention this right when he was initially questioned, how do you forget a whole ass vehicle? The answer is you don't. So investigators on April twenty eighth of twenty twenty two confronted Tim with some still shots from the surveillance footage showing that Dodge Ram, and he scoffed at the photos, wholeheartedly denied that that was his truck and almost aggravated at the thought. The police were like, dude, it's your truck, like, quit playing. But that's when he pointed something out, and to his credit, it was true. The truck in the photo didn't have the two decals on the truck that Tim did. Sure enough, it did not have the same decals. So officers were perplexed, but they kept moving forward with wanting more information on his truck, so they were able to obtain a search warrant from the drum Roll. Please GPS data in the truck that Tim owned. Damn your technology, right, I'm kidding, but surely no one's that stupid to take a truck that they know is geared with Wi Fi and

42:01 GPS tracking to a murder scene. So here's what the report showed. They took the GPS of the truck Tims truck and they combined it with his cell phone coordinates because you know your phone has GPS two to get a movement plan. And his black truck was driven to his place of business the morning of the shooting in White Bear Lake. Approximately three hours before the shooting, the shooting took place, and then shortly after it arrived at his place of business, the truck drove straight back to his house in Saint Paul. But remember this, he was in his jeep at the visitation center. Remember they searched his jeep, So how could this be? How did the jeep get from point A to point B? Did he drive the black truck to work and then immediately turn around and go back home, then wait until visitation time and then take the jeep? And why would he do that? When they noticed the black truck drove to the parenting center roughly the same time as he would have been en route in the jeep to go to visitation, So within minutes after the shooting, the truck then drove back to times Saint Paul home, using a similar route it took to get there. And that's when the aha moment hit them. The shooter was in coordination with Tim. They worked at this. They tried to deceive who was at the house and who would possibly

43:32 help him. Only young Colleen lived with him. She was definitely devoted to him, as we've mentioned, but would she kill for him or try to kill for him? They had to do some more. I guess what I'd call reverse engineering to determine what happened prior to the shooting. Also, it couldn't be ignored that the decal difference on the truck was a huge issue. And if this did go to court, that's that plausible deniability that I always talk about. I mean, the truck don't have the same decals. So on April twenty first, twenty twenty two, the day after the shooting, officers set up surveillance on Tim's truck at his workplace and they watched it go into the parking lot. And at the time, the truck had number one a temporary license plate and number two the decals that the shooter truck did not have. So curious as to if any changes had been made to the truck on purpose. Investigators used DMV records as a source of valuable info because sometimes as an investigator, you're searching for something and you don't even know what the hell it is, but you know you're searching for something. And that's the case here when investigators were surprised to find that Tim had applied for a new personalized license plate for the truck, and that was on April nineteenth, the day before the shooting, so the temp tag was a very new change to the truck. On April twenty eighth, police then interviewed Tim again and asked him about the TEMP tag, to which he advised them, yeah, I

45:05 got had to get a new one because my old one was stolen off my truck. The application records, though, when the police went and pulled them, showed this not to be true. Tim also stated that he immediately put the new license plate on the truck and he never took it off. Okay, cool, thanks. So police then went and reviewed surveillance from April twentieth, and guess what it showed Tim driving the truck without a license plate bing, Oh bitch, you can't be a liar and an asshole killer. Boo boo, you gotta pick a struggle. Okay, so it was game on at this point. In that same interview, they had also asked him if he owned any guns, and he never mentioned a three eighty caliber weapon, which is what was used to shooting a cole. It wasn't until he was really pressed, you know, and they were putting that pressure on him that he remembered, oh wait, yeah, I used to have two of them.

46:04 So with this information, police had enough to execute a search warrant at Tim and Colleen's house in Saint Paul. There they did recover multiple firearms, but no three eighty. However, guess what they did find several three eighty discharged cartridge cases, meaning it had been shot. So I'm gonna tell y'all something. I don't own a cat, and therefore I'm not gonna have cat food in my house, just saying, why would you have these spent casings if you don't own the gun. So those cartridges were taken and sent for testing at the Hennepin County Crime Lab and they did determine that these were fired from the same gun as the three eighty discharged cartridge cases at the scene of the shooting. So while this case was coming together nicely, the issue of who was the shooter was the glaring issue that had to be solved. Instigators decided, look, it's imperative we have to have a word with Colleen.

47:02 So when they asked her her whereabouts the day of Nicholl's attempted murder, she was adamant that she had been at home in Saint Paul all day, and that's when the investigator said, oh, okay, thank you. They left and this case was never solved the end. Yeah okay, yeah, right, So she says that she's going to be that she was home all day. So to the surveillance videos, right, put on your cape. Here we go from the stores the day of the shooting, so they kind of go and watch for her. So fun fact, real quick. As of twenty twenty two, the average person is recorded over three hundred times on public surveillance three hundred times. So you either better tell the truth or you better be invisible if you're going to commit a crime. And surveillance footage along the route showed a female suspiciously similar to Colleen driving the same black truck from the shooting. What if it wasn't the same truck though, well interesting it didn't have a license plate on that truck either. What a KWINKIDNK. What are the chances of Colleen driving a black truck with no license plate and the shooter driving a truck with no license plate. That's when the police made the full realization of the events of the day of the shooting. The day before the shooting, Tim applied for a new plate. The day of the shooting, he drove to work. Colleen followed him in the jeep and then she took

48:34 the truck home. Tim's truck had Wi Fi, which meant it could be tracked much like a cell phone. Tim drove the jeep to the family Center, which aligned with his cell phone records. Colleen was driving the truck, which is proven by the WiFi and her cell phone records, and after seven the black truck left the home and it went to the Family Wise Center. Colleen is seen on camera walking around the area before the shooting. Also, this happened the Family Wise employees. I'm telling you, this center seems to do their job. They were questioned by investigators and they named Colleen by name as someone that maybe the police should look into, because they were very well versed in the dynamics of this family visitation case. One final nail in the coffin was that, several hours before the shooting. You're gonna love this, that black truck went to a local KFC to get some fried chicken and it was the same truck from the shooting without any decals on it. You know why, because Tim had already altered the truck. The decals weren't on it.

49:52 He put the decals on after done dun dun so. Tim and Colleen were both arrested and charged with first degree murder and aiding. When NICKI found out that Colleen had shot you know, had shot her, she was literally shocked. She was not surprised by Tim's arrest, but Colleen really the girl that I was handing my child to. At Colleen's trials, which, by the way, she gives me total Jody Arius vibes in the booking photo, y'all need to check that out. She pleaded guilty to ambushing Nicole and to shooting her multiple times, and it was all in a scheme for Tim to get full custody of his son. And these are her direct quotes. I ran up behind her and I pulled the gun, and when she was asked how many times did you fire at her? She said I wasn't counting, and after she dropped to the ground, I continued to fire. She waved her right to a jury trial. She pled guilty, and then when she went for sentencing, her attorney read a statement she had written, and in that statement she took full responsibility for what she did. She said, I want to atone for what I have done, no apology will ever be enough.

51:09 And after that she was sentenced to sixteen and a half years in prison for her role. Now, after more investigation, would it surprise you to know that investigators learned that in February of twenty twenty two, Tim had also propositioned one of his friends to kill Nicole in exchange for fifty thousand dollars, and they were able to prove this through corroborated conversations. Through these interviews as well as multiple witnesses who were coming forward about this, and an examination of phone records, it all laid out together. It made sense. Timothy Emmaker, Omiker whatever, however you want to say it. He refused to testified his trial and then had the audacity to request leniency, and he did what everybody does who irritates me. But he brought up God at the trial, of course he did. And something he said in open court to the judge says so much about him. He said, quote, it's a small thing to be judged by you or another person like narcissistic much. Really, he was sentenced to eighteen years for what he did. A woman who dated Tim in the past two came forward. Now she didn't give her name or anything, but she said that she too was once under his spell, and she

52:42 sees some of herself in young Colleen. Other than shooting someone, she says, I can remember wanting his approval and wanting him to love me too, and I was willing to do anything, not shoot someone. But you know, he has this hold on people. And it seems all of the women in this where we share similar experiences in being manipulated by Tim. But there's also a happy ending and that Nicole survived what should have killed her. Donovan and Nicole also got married and they had a baby together. Callahan now is older, he does know what happened, and Donovan continues to love him as his own son, and they are happily raising little Callahan and their child together in this world. They're doing great now. Nicole said this about Tim.

53:32 She said, he used Callahan as a pawn in his skewed vendetta against me, and he took advantage of a child's love for his own perceived gain, revenge being of the utmost importance to him, even if it meant a lifetime of damage and confusion for his own innocent child. And I think she was spot on ma'am. Nicole was expendable, Colleen was a pawn, and Callahan's life and suffering didn't matter to him. Tim only cares about himself. And not only is Tim an asshole, but his extremely manicured eyebrows are a note for me too. Just you know, Tim is a narcissist to the max, and he thinks himself smarter than everyone in the room, including the investigators, and he thinks so highly of himself, and he reminds me of one of those guys that says things like I'm cut from a different cloth. First of all, bitch, ain't nobody wanting a napkin