97. Unfinished: The Murder of Wilma June Nissen

An investigator, determined to identify a Jane Doe. A young woman, determined to meet her birth mother. Their paths would cross in 2006, and a murder investigation would begin.

In October 1978, 23-year-old Wilma June Nissen was found discarded on the side of a road in rural Iowa. For nearly 3 decades, she was known only as Jane Doe.  This week on Method & Madness, we sit down with Wilma’s daughter, Krissi, who has found purpose in advocating for her mother’s cold case.

Call to Action
If you have any information, you can call the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department at:
712-472-8326
Deputy Amy Stoner
[e-mail]

And join Krissi’s page that she has dedicated to her advocacy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/950469630056425/



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to method and madness. This is unfinished. The Murder
of Wilma June Nissen, I'm your host.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Dawn, a young woman finds hidden papers in a desk
drawer and sets out on a journey to find her
birth mother.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
A sheriff pours over a cold case file, trying to
identify a woman found murdered decades earlier. The woman and
the sheriff. Their paths would one day cross, and a
long dormant investigation would finally begin. In nineteen seventy eight,
a woman's body was discovered in a ditch along a

(00:50):
quiet stretch of rural gravel road in northwest Iowa. No idea,
no name, and for nearly thirty years she was known
only as Jane Doe. But this story isn't just about
a cold case. It's about the life behind it. A
woman who slipped through the cracks long before she disappeared,

(01:13):
a daughter who grew up with questions and heartbreak, a
community that came to care, and a team of investigators
determined to give her back her name. This is a
story about what it means to name the nameless, to
demand dignity, and to believe that it's never too late
for someone to matter. This is Chrissy's and Wilma's story.

(01:44):
When Chrissy Atkisson reached out to me about covering her
mother's story, I was immediately drawn to her persistence and heart,
a woman relentlessly searching for truth and for justice. Big
thanks to Jeremiah, Host of Midwest Mystery Files, who encouraged
Chrissy to connect with me. Chrissy spent much of her

(02:06):
life wondering about her birth mother, Wilma June Nissan. By
the time she was seventeen, she made the decision to
search for the woman who gave birth to her in
nineteen seventy seven. This was long before the Internet made
it easier. Obviously, she ran into dead ends, unanswered questions,
and closed doors. But in recent years, Chrissy's mission has shifted.

(02:29):
Now that she's no longer looking for Wilma, she's fighting
for her and despite the obstacles, she's not giving up.
If anything, she's just getting started.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
My name's Chrissy. I am the daughter of Wilma June Nissan.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Wilma June Nissan was born on October nineteenth, nineteen fifty four,
to Charles Clarence Nissen and June Simmons Bradford in San Francisco, California.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Her life was really tragic. She I mean, she'd been
homeless by the time she was age ten. Her mother
left her and her younger sister when they were very young,
and they were left with their father who would lock
them in the closet when he went to work. And
then he got fired and they lived in a car.
I have no idea where he was during the day

(03:17):
or whatever, but he would lock Wilma's disabled sister, she
was deaf and mute. He would lock her in the
trunk and Wilma, at nine or ten years old, would
have to go and forage for food alone. Can you
imagine having a nine year old It's insane. When she
finally thanks thank God. I mean, you hear so many

(03:40):
horrible things about the foster system and it's definitely not perfect,
but for her it was literally lifesaver. I can't imagine.
And I had the privilege to meet her first foster family.
They're amazing people. They're super kind, super loving. She was
ten years old when they got her, and she did

(04:02):
not know how to read. She did not know how
to write, not even her name. She'd never been to school.
She did not even know how to use a fork.
She was not taught basic things that you would teach,
you know, a toddler. It was horrible, but they loved her.
They taught her how to read, they taught her how
to write. I got to see home videos like not

(04:26):
home videos, the old school slide of her first actual Christmas,
and they told she loved them. They loved her. But
Wilma just had worse luck. Unfortunately, the foster mother, Maxine,
developed really bad roomatoid arthritis, and she had Wilma and

(04:48):
a set of twins that they were fostering in Anaheim, California,
and she couldn't foster kids anymore. So Wilma got shuffled
around the system. I know she went to a couple
of facilities, and I know she had at least two
other foster families between ten and eighteen.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Wilma's first foster mother, Maxine, described her as happy, bubbly,
and interested in everything we wanted to do. For the
first time, Wilma had a stable home, a place to
experience the things every child should, food, shelter, and love.
But that stability didn't last. In September nineteen sixty six,

(05:26):
just before her twelfth birthday, Wilma was removed from the
foster home. She cycled through the system again before eventually
being placed with Alice and Vince Hawes of Seal Beach, California.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
And her final foster family is actually the family when
she had me that they adopted me.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
On August eighteenth, nineteen seventy seven, Wilma gave birth to
a baby girl, Crystal Joy Irvin, who today goes by Chrissy.
Chrissy was raised by Wilma's former foster parents, Alice and Vince,
and grew up calling them mom and dad. But even
with a loving home, she was always curious about the

(06:07):
mother she never got to meet.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I looked for her my whole life. You know, before
the Internet existed, I would call I found my my parents.
My adoptive parents would not tell me anything about my
biological parents. So, as you know, snoopy eleven roughly eleven
year olds do. I was snooping through a desk that

(06:30):
had ancient like paperwork in it, stuff that should have
been thrown away. My parents were. They were quite elderly.
They were sixty five and seventy one when I was born,
so they'd lived through the Great Depression, and they never
threw anything away. So I was snooping through paperwork and
I found my something having to do with my adoption.

(06:52):
And I found my biological parents' names and my birth name,
and that started the hunt. I started calling people in
the phone book with the same names. When I was
I don't know, I don't know how old I was.
I was a preteen or teen. I had. Now, mind you,
this is the nineties. There was no Internet yet I

(07:15):
had talk shows looking for her. I had, I mean,
everything and anything I could do. And then when the
Internet came out, I adoption forums and searches.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Back in the nineties, it wasn't unusual to flip on
a daytime talk show and see the words I need
to find my birth mother splashed across the screen. Chrissy
tried everything and still no answers. It wouldn't be until
two thousand and six that Chrissy would finally learn what
happened to Wilma, and over the past nineteen years, she's

(07:49):
pieced together more and more about her mother's short and
deeply tragic life.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
She never had a real family. Her sister was put
into a different group home because of her disabilities, so
she didn't have anybody to fall back on when she
was eighteen. She'd never had stability, she'd never had love.
I think that this is just me speculating, but I've

(08:17):
seen pictures of her with a guy that was working
for my adopted family. She lived there from the time
she was I think fifteen or sixteen till eighteen, and
she does not look happy. But this guy's smiling and
he's got his arm around her, So I think he
was molesting her. I think she she didn't stand a chance,

(08:41):
so I think when she aged out with the first
guy that showed her affection, she was probably very easily,
easily manipulated with how she grew up, So she married
this guy. I don't know how old she was, maybe nineteen.
I had two kids, one of which was his, one

(09:02):
with somebody Else's first one was somebody else as well.
She was married to him, and she started because she
became a sex worker. I don't know if it was
of her own choice or if she was kind of
coerced into it or you know, talked into it.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
In the summer of nineteen seventy three, Wilma married a
man named Donald Wellington. On May tenth, nineteen seventy four,
she gave birth to a baby boy named Michael. Just
seven months later, she gave birth to another child, a
premature baby named Donald. Then, on June twenty first, nineteen

(09:40):
seventy seven, Wilma married Robert Irvin in Long Beach, California.
He has since passed away. That summer, she gave birth
to her baby girl, Crystal.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I was never mad at her forgiving me. People think
I was mad, and I'm like, no, I just wanted
to meet her. I honestly figured that she just I
didn't know I had older siblings that I can't find.
I didn't know I had older siblings. I thought she
just didn't want a baby. I was told a lot

(10:13):
of half truths, and boy, wasn't told much by my
adoptive parents that they probably should have told me. But yeah,
I'd searched for forever, and I found my biological Actually,
a friend of mine's mom found my biological dad when
I was seventeen, maybe maybe I was eighteen. Found him.

(10:34):
I met him a couple times. It didn't feel right.
I asked him about Wilma. He didn't have any information.
I don't think they were together long. I think she
I think she got pregnant with me, and then they
got married because she was pregnant with me. I saw
the wedding picture. It was definitely not a fancy wedding.
But I'm in it.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm just a bump with only a ninth grade education
and no real support system. There weren't any opportunities for
a twenty three year old woman in the late nineteen seventies.
Wilma had survived childhood neglect, abuse, and trauma. Despite moments
of stability and foster care, life never gave her much

(11:15):
of a chance. She was forced to become her own protector,
her own provider. At some point she turned to sex work.
Whether by choice, necessity, or coercion, we may never fully know,
but what's clear is that Wilma was doing whatever she
could to survive.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I was always told that it was pre planned that
my adopted parents. I don't know if they were I
don't know why, other than their generation. There's a lot
of things that they didn't tell me. They told me
that they'd had her her whole life once she got
into botser care, and I know for a fact that's
not true. I got a letter that the Lion County

(11:56):
Sheriff's Fertman found that was from my social workerre to
me when I was a little child, saying that you know,
my parents had fostered me and they couldn't find my
They couldn't find Wilma, so they were gonna allow them
to adopt me. I'd been told that they'd had Wilma
her whole life, almost and that they'd adopted me, and

(12:17):
it's pre planned from birth. They wasn't. I have no
idea how well landed up in the Midwest, but she
left shortly after I was born.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
On the morning of October fourth, nineteen seventy eight, you
may have turned on your radio station and heard the
number one hit Kiss You All Over by Exile, the
songs from the movie musical Grease and the Bege's hits
from Saturday Night Fever had finally moved over, allowing another
group to shine. And along a rural road just outside Inwood, Iowa,

(12:51):
a telephone line crew was working. Nineteen year old Steve
Hassong was laying cable when he spotted something in the
overgrown grass just twenty inches from the gravel road. At first,
he thought it was a mannequin. As he got closer,
he realized it was a body face down in the ditch.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
She was found rigged into a ditch. Her teeth were
smashed out, her lower jaw was missing. It was not
from a wildlife The Sheriff's apartment for many many years
did everything they could try and find out who she was,
but no one ever reported or missing.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
The next day, October fifth, nineteen seventy eight, the Muscatine
Journal ran a short article with the headline woman's body
found in ditch, just four paragraphs long. It reported that
the nude body of a woman had been recovered in
Lyon County. She carried no ide and she was estimated
to be between twenty and thirty years old, about five

(13:51):
foot five, with long, dark blonde hair. Authorities believed her
body badly decomposed, had been lying in the ditch for
close to a month, but some of those early reports
were inaccurate. She was not nude. She was wearing bikini underwear,
green denim pants that were pulled down around one leg

(14:12):
and a pair of white patent leather calf high boots.
A silver ring with gold indentation was on her right
ring finger. There was also a rope tied around her ankles.
An autopsy was scheduled in Rock Rapids. X rays showed
no broken bones, but officials were certain she had been
murdered and left on that road. Hundreds of tips began

(14:36):
pouring in. Concerned relatives from across the region reached out
to the Lyon County Sheriff's Department and the Iowa Division
of Criminal Investigation. Law enforcement combed the road where she
was found, searching for clues, but the sheriff told the
press it turned up nothing. They believed she had been

(14:56):
killed elsewhere, then dragged, possibly by vehicles, to the ditch
where she was found. The position of her body suggested
that her arms and hair were stretched forward, as though
she had been dragged by her feet. Her skull was
sent to a lab in Oklahoma, where a doctor hoped
to reconstruct her face in the hope someone might recognize her.

(15:20):
In the meantime, her remains were placed in a casket
and buried at Riverview Cemetery in Rock Rapids. The headstone
red unidentified female. By April nineteen seventy nine, investigators announced
that the facial reconstruction had failed. They began turning to
other means of identification X rays, footprints, fingerprints. The discovery

(15:44):
of an unidentified woman drew headlines for weeks, not just
in Lyon County, but all across Iowa, from Rock Rapids
to Des Moines. She was one of several women making
the news that fall, all found under tragic, violent, or
mistake various circumstances. In October of that year, headlines reported
the death of Camille Nieu, a twenty year old college student,

(16:07):
found beneath brush and logs north of Des Moines. Camille
had been reported missing after leaving a hair salon headed
to a Greyhound bus station to travel home for the weekend.
She never made it. Although an autopsy was unable to
determine the cause of death, investigators believe she was murdered.
Her case remains unsolved. At the same time, Iowa newspapers

(16:31):
were consumed with the case of a former state resident
who was now making national headlines. John Wayne Gaysey. Gaysey
had lived in Waterloo, Iowa, before moving to Chicago, where
he committed a series of horrifying crimes. By the end
of nineteen seventy eight, he'd been arrested for the murders

(16:52):
of at least thirty three boys and young men. But
in Lyne County, the mystery of their Jane Doe continued,
with no identification and severe decomposition. Investigators faced grim odds,
but they never gave up. By nineteen eighty five, the
case landed on the desk of Investigator blythe Blomendahl. Despite

(17:13):
the minimal leads, Bloemendaal was determined to give this woman
her name back. He began combing through missing persons records,
methodically eliminating cases that didn't match her physical description. In
two thousand and one, detective Jerry Burkey took over after
Bloomendaal was elected Lyon County Sheriff. Still, the Jane Doe

(17:36):
remained unidentified, but not forgotten. She would appear in newspapers
from time to time, always with the same haunting title
Unidentified female. And then, finally, in two thousand and six,
the mystery was solved. Let's take a break. A lab

(18:11):
technician matched Jane Doe's left thumbprint to a card held
by the Los Angeles Police Department. Jane Doe was Wilma
June Nissan, twenty three years old. At the time of
her death. She'd never been reported missing On February sixteenth,
two thousand and six, Sheriff Blomandahal made the announcement to

(18:32):
the public. The story spread locally, then nationally, until it
reached southern California. There, a woman named Starla Patterson read
an article in the Long Beach Press Telegram. The name
leapt off the page, Wilma June Nissan. Starla could swear

(18:52):
she'd heard that name before, mentioned by her friend Chrissy.
Their children went to school together, and Starla had already
been helping Chrissy search for her birth mother, but she
had to be sure. She got in her car, drove
to Chrissie's house and knocked on the door. Chrissie remembers
the moment her life changed forever.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
She comes in and she's like, what's your bungological mob's name?
And I told her and she just starts dramatically crying
and she's like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. And
she handed me the newspaper and it says Jane Do
identified through fingerprint and it has a facial reconstruction and
it was the only one this lady ever did. And

(19:33):
I mean it was it was similar, but they always
try to make them look a little off so that
you remember. They did that kind of uncanny valley thing,
so that you remember. So I saw that and the
headstone for unidentified female, and I think there was a
mugshot of her, and I called the Lion County Sheriff's

(19:55):
department and I told them I could keep on them all.
So they had me go do DNA test and it
was her.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
This is how Chrissy learned what happened to her birth mother,
through a friend reading a newspaper article, a headline that
would bring the tragedy of Wilma's life into the light.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Definitely not what I expected. I expected that she had
that she like I said, she didn't she wasn't ready
for a kid, what I always thought. And I figured
she had moved on and had a family, hernd somewhere
and a new life. And I never never in a
million years thought that she'd been murdered that soon after

(20:35):
I was born in the Midwest.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Once the name was finally revealed, Sheriff Blowman Dahl's relief
was short lived. Now the real work began finding Wilma's killer.
A memorial service was held to honor Wilma properly years
after she'd been buried as Jane Doe. Her first foster family,
Maxine and Marshall Holt, were there, alongside members of the

(21:00):
Rock Rapids community who'd cared about this nameless woman. Her
gravestone was updated. No longer would it say unidentified female.
It now read Wilma June Nisson, our Girl October nineteenth,
nineteen fifty four to nineteen seventy eight. In Sheriff Bloemendal's office,

(21:22):
photos of Wilma adorned the walls, each accompanied by handwritten notes.
He told the press, quote, my philosophy has always been,
from start to finish, that we need to make up
Wilma's life and put it on that wall. My hope
and desire is that wall will lead us to her killer.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I always hope that i'd find her one day. I
could maybe you know, meet her and if she had
a family. You know, I wasn't trying to make her
be my mamam. I just wanted to meet her.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Piecing together Wilma's life and figuring out how she ended
up in Northwest Iowa has been a long, difficult journey
for Chrissy. Here's what she's learned.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
She was in California, just a year prior the Sheriff's
spartmant when it was still Sheriff Blumendaal. They were able
to track down that she had gone with a man
named I think Charles Belt to Atlanta somewhere in Georgia.
No idea how she ended up in that area. She

(22:26):
was working for an escort service that serviced suit falls,
South Dakota and northwest Iowa, Lion County. You know that area,
and it went by playgirls or playmates. A lot of
companies have multiple names in Gumby, so no idea. I
don't know if she got talked into it, or if

(22:46):
maybe she thought she could make some money and go
back to California. And they don't know. They don't know
how she ended up there. At least if they do,
they're not telling me.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
These are the kinds of details that might sound familiar
to someone out there, maybe someone who worked at the
same company in the seventies, or perhaps someone who encountered
a woman named Wilma who sometimes went by the names
Amy or Boots, and how different her life would have
been if evil hadn't come across her.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
I had these fantasies of going meeting her and I
don't know, having dun kept a coffee and talking and
you know.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
In two thousand and seven, Wilma's body was exhumed from
her burial site in Rock Rapids, Iowa, with hopes that
DNA evidence could finally provide a break in the case. Unfortunately,
it had been far too long and the water damage
had destroyed much of the potential evidence. However, one crucial
discovery was made that would later become a key element

(23:55):
in the investigation. Authorities were able to determine Wilma's cause
of death, though that information has not been made public.
While this is a promising lead, it has yet to
bring any closure. What's more significant is the DNA that
has been extracted from Wilma's clothing and even from the
rope found tied around her ankles. Strangely, more than one

(24:20):
person's DNA was identified, and with today's advanced technology, it's
possible this could lead to identifying her murderer. Chrissy firmly
believes that DNA or genealogical testing is the key to
solving the case.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
I was told that they didn't think they were going
to solve the case, and it kind of broke my heart,
but I'm back at it and I'm not stopping. Especially
with the advancements they have, Like I said they have,
they still have the rope that was used to drag
her body into that ditch.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
As is the case with many unsolved homicides, the critical
hurdle is often funding for DNA testing. The process requires
finding a reputable laugh and a law enforcement agency willing
to prioritize the case and supply the evidence.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
I've actually reached out to quite a few genealogists, forensic
genetic genealogists, and varying companies, and I've been told that
they could definitely do something with it, and they could
probably do it without costing the Sheriff's deperment any money.
So I just need to communicate with the Sheriff's depermit
and I'm hoping if I have a sit down with

(25:26):
them that they'll work with me. I mean, the sheriff
can be a rock star and solve the case that
you know that's almost fifty years old while he's brand
new in office.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's a win win, and once again, a family member
finds themselves in the role of advocate, not by choice,
but out of necessity, because somewhere someone decided Wilma's life
didn't matter, and it ended in the most unimaginable way.
Now it's up to Chrissy to ensure Wilma's voice is
heard and that justice is done.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I keep reading everywhere Sheriff's department quotes of it was
an extremely brutal and extremely violent manner of death. It
wasn't quick, it wasn't an accident. Her murder was very brutal,
and I don't know what it was. They won't tell

(26:20):
me what the cause of death was. I understand. I
have people all the time asking me like, oh, well
was the case, I'll say, what was her cause of death?
I'm like, I don't know. I'm told the same thing
the general public is, and I understand that, but oh God,
from what I do now, it just makes my mind
go to the most horrible places because I'm picture her being,

(26:41):
you know, dragged behind a car or just tortured to death,
and it's it's bad. It's not how you want to
think of anyone dying, much less the person that gave
birth to you.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
In two thousand and nine, a man named Joe Van
Gameron was question about his possible involvement in Wilma's murder,
Though he wasn't considered a suspect, he was arrested for
lying to investigators. He'd claimed that he had transported women
in the exotic dance and sex work industry from Sioux
Falls to his home in Iowa. Charges were later dropped

(27:18):
and investigators were no closer to an arrest. How does
a daughter truly find peace and genuinely grieve the loss
of a mother she never had the chance to know.
With each stone Chrissy uncovers, the more pain is revealed,

(27:42):
pain that Wilma endured right up until and including her death.
But Chrissy has found some comfort in some of the
little details.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
It's uncanny how many things we have in common. Like
she had nicknames, and one of her nicknames she went
by Amy's sometimes, and she'll went by Boots, And those
were not I've had a lot of people say that
those were her stage names because she was an escort. No,
she had those names beforehand. Those are other things I
snipped around and found out. But like Boots, I wore

(28:15):
nothing but boots for most my life, in all of
my twenties and teens. The wanderlust to the going off
and just being like, I'm going to go over here.
I mean, I met a guy at a concert right
after I got out of group homes and he lived
in Vegas, and he was like, Hey, they're playing in
Vegas on Halloween. You want to come out. You can

(28:35):
stay with me and I'll pay for your ticket. I'm like, okay,
And I can see her doing the same things. So
I really feel like I'm missing a part of me.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
It must be difficult wondering what could have been.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I totally believe that she would have come back if
she hadn't been murdered, because she did go and marry someone,
and then she'd come back. She'd check in. She stayed
in contact with her first Boster family until she disappeared.
She would go and do wild, spontaneous things, but she

(29:13):
always came back. She always checked in on the people,
the few people in her life that loved her. And
I know, maybe she wouldn't have come back to be
my mom, but I could have at least known her
or met her.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
There have been several suspects and persons of interest over
the years. One such individual was Robert Ben Rhodes, also
known as the Truck stop killer, who was investigated in
part due to his presence in Sioux Falls in nineteen
seventy eight. Despite a prison interview, Rhodes was ultimately cleared
as a suspect. Then, on May second, twenty sixteen, investigators

(29:54):
took a significant step in the case, releasing a photo
of a woman they believe could hold a crew rucial
clue of finding Wilma's murderer. At one time, Sheriff Womandel
had compiled a list of eight suspects, some of whom
were currently incarcerated. Each name on the list represented a
potential lead, but also the frustration of unanswered questions. Here

(30:17):
Chrissy talks about it.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Their suspects and people of interest. They were also escorts.
They went by Sugar and Peaches. They know where Sugar lives.
She's failed three polygraph tests. She denies having anything any
knowledge of it, but they believe otherwise.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
The Lyon County Sheriff said the woman went by the
name Sugar. Detective Jerry Burkei told journalists Angela Knecki in
twenty twenty one that investigators had spoken with Sugar several
times and that she denied any involvement.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
In Wilma's murder.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
He then said, quote, I don't know who I believe
killed Wilma, but I know there are several people who
know who killed Wilma or that were there and saw
Wilma get killed. Now, whether she did it or not,
I don't know whether she knows about it.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
I do believe she knows. Closure is not gonna happen.
Closure is an illusion, but answers would be nice and
to be able to finally lay her to rest. They
exhoomed her in two thousand and seven and she's still
not been reburied. Her body is in evidence.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
I asked Chrissy if she thinks there's anything else listeners
should know.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Hard to piece together when nobody knows anything about her,
and every time they find information about someone they've just
recently died. If only her fingerprints had been run when
they you know, nationally, when they first found her. But
it's I'm still it's it's my mission. I've made it
my mission. It will be solved. I'm not giving up.

(31:55):
Other than I mean, she was. She was a tete,
dirty blonde, liked boots, went by the name Boots went
by the name Amy. I don't know how many others.
She also went by the last name of Wellington and Irvin.
And if anyone knew her, even if they knew her

(32:17):
as if they were a client, I don't care. I
would love to hear from them. I don't care if
it's I hooked up with her once, what was she like?
I don't need the gory details. And I will have
no judgment unless it's somebody unless they killed her. I'm
not going to judge, you know. I I have no

(32:39):
qualms with you know, Oh yeah, I picked her a
pitch iking or I saw her as a client. I
don't care, you know. I just want to know about her,
and I would love to be able to fill in
more gaps, because there are a lot of gaps. Nobody
thought for her. Nobody thought enough for her while she

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was alive, So at least in death, I'm going to
fight for her.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Here is today's call to action. There is a ten
thousand dollars reward offered for information leading to an arrest
and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Wilma
Nissan's death. If you have any information, you can call
the Lion County Sheriff's Department at seven one two four
seven two eighty three hundred. The anonymous hotline is seven

(33:28):
one two four seven two eight three three four and
join Chrissy's page she has dedicated to her advocacy. It's
on Facebook. Help solve my biological mother's murder cold case.
Thank you to Chrissy for sharing your mother Wilma's story,

(33:48):
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Speaker 3 (34:28):
You matter.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
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