193: The Murder of Nick Howard | USA

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When 18-year-old Nick Howard did not come home one night, his family immediately knew something was wrong. They reported him missing and soon police found his car at the bottom of the Sacramento River. Three weeks later his body emerged. When investigators discovered a life insurance policy to the value of $850,000, they set their sights on the beneficiary: Ralph Marcus, a school friend of Nick’s mother Patty, who never accepted the fact that she had rebuffed his advances. So, how and why was the young Nick Howard killed?
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0:49.1	Is Patty Howard of Sacramento, California woke up one February morning?
0:53.1	She felt something wasn't quite right.
0:55.6	She made her way to the kitchen and noticed that her 18-year-old son Nick was not in
0:59.1	his bed.
1:00.8	This was very unusual, and she knew something must have happened.
1:05.6	She woke her daughter Jamie, who said that she had received a message from Nick around midnight,
1:10.4	saying that it was having car trouble, but that it would be home soon.
1:14.3	She fell asleep before he returned and didn't know if he ever made it home.
1:19.0	The Howard's were close, and there was no reason why Nick would have wanted to leave on
1:22.4	his own accord.
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