Beauty Queen Betrayal
On December 15, 2005, 19-year-old college student and aspiring beauty queen Nona Dirksmeyer was found murdered inside her Russellville, Arkansas apartment. Police believed Nona's boyfriend, Kevin Jones, flew into a murderous rage when he discovered a condom wrapper on her kitchen counter. “48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 9/20/2008. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
- Duration
- 41m
- Broadcast on
- 12 Dec 2024
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Good evening, I'm Nona Darksmeyer, Miss Petajean Valley. - She never knew how pretty she was. She was this strong person who was incredibly multifaceted. When she was 13, she came to me, and she said, "Mom, I want to sing." She was really enjoying life. For what seemed like the first time in a long time. - Nona wants to break the cycle of child abuse through prevention and awareness. - Her helping other people gave her more self-worth. - Make the children want to come to school and learn and make them want to be educated. - Miss Petajean Valley, Nona Darksmeyer. - It never really hit me that my girlfriend was a beauty queen. She was just Nona to me. - Nona thinks he's really fun to be with, and he was very supportive of her office, happy about it. - We dated throughout our senior year of high school, and our freshman year of college, and then I moved to Fayetteville, and we continued to see each other on the weekends. - She was very upset about him going to Fayetteville in the fall. I think she felt like she was being abandoned. - In college, it was only an hour and a half away. That's not that far. - Nona was telling me that they were starting to have some arguments, and he was making her unhappy. I didn't know if they'd stay together or not, but certainly didn't expect anything like what happened. (tense music) - Her wounds are consistent with homicides of passion. My name is James Bacon, and I'm the former police chief for the City of Russell Balarco, so. - We went over to Oz apartment at around 615. She had an Instagram phone all day. My mom was with me. We drove there together. We pulled up the apartment. We saw that her car was out front, and her lights were on. Came around the side of the apartment to the back door. Yeah, I just grabbed the door. Tried to pull it open as hard as I could. Then we went inside.
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On December 15, 2005, 19-year-old college student and aspiring beauty queen Nona Dirksmeyer was found murdered inside her Russellville, Arkansas apartment. Police believed Nona's boyfriend, Kevin Jones, flew into a murderous rage when he discovered a condom wrapper on her kitchen counter. “48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 9/20/2008. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.