Episode 330: Nikki Cheng Saelee-Mccain

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the early hours of May 18, 2024, a 39-year-old mother of four vanishes after last being seen at her mother-in-law’s home in Redding, California. Just days earlier, she had shared plans to divorce her abusive husband and rebuild her life. When her family stops hearing from her, alarm bells ring, especially given her husband’s history of violence and erratic behavior. Detectives soon discover her truck abandoned in a remote area, raising even more questions about her disappearance. In episode 330, Jac and Alexis delve into the unsettling details of Nikki Cheng Saelee-McCain’s disappearance, her fight to escape an abusive marriage, and the unanswered questions that still haunt her family.

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0:00.0	The first degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:03.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	You see it on the paper.
0:11.0	You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	Anytime she leaves him for a couple days he automatically texts me or chloe and just says
0:27.0	please tell nicky that i love her tell her that i'm sorry tell her that i'll change tell her go to
0:31.9	rehab i'm i'm gonna get clean all these things or he has, come by my house and be like, hi, is Nikki here?
0:39.7	And we're like, oh, hello.
0:41.0	No, she's not here or whatever it happens to be.
0:43.3	So this time, he didn't do any of that.
0:46.2	And he just says, have you heard from your sister?
0:48.6	I think she's missing.
0:49.9	I think that was like when we were like, okay, he doesn't ever write that. I think he knows
0:54.2	that she's missing. So I think that was really one of the flags that was completely different for
0:58.8	what he would normally talk to us about or like ask us when she would try to get away from him
1:03.5	for a little bit. Welcome to the first degree, the true crime podcast that you might end up on. My name
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