Post Mortem | Who Wanted To Kill Nicki Lenway?
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I'm Anne Marie Green, welcome to 48 Hours Post Mournum. I'm joined today by longtime correspondent Erin Moriarty to discuss her latest episode. Who Wanted Nikki Lenway Dead? Hi Erin, thank you so much for joining us again. Oh, I wanted to be here. This is a particularly great case. And there are always things that we can't include in the hour so we can talk about it here. Well, I always have questions. What about this case stood out to you? What drew you to it? Well, first thing, we have a 33-year-old victim and she survives. I mean, we don't have that very often at 48 hours. But in many ways, she was an unusual victim. She was actually a member of the Minneapolis Police Department. And because of that, that raised all kinds of possibilities. This is a woman who was shot point-blank. And the big question was, was this a robbery that went wrong or was this connected to work? I mean, there were so many possibilities. Oh, and you know, the legal issues were great. So that's what made this show special. Yeah, you don't often get an opportunity, quite frankly, to talk to the victim. I mean, she survived this, which is remarkable. I want to get to, you know, who investigators initially thought was behind this. But first I want to play a quick recap of the episode. On April 20th, 2022, Emily Clancy was driving home from dinner with friends when something across the street caught her attention. I saw a person run up to another person and then I heard two bangs and that other person collapsed. Emily sped through the intersection and pulled up next to the victim. I opened the door. I said, "Are you okay?" And she said, "No, I've been shot." The victim was 33 year old Nikki Lenway, a crime scene investigator for the Minneapolis police. She was on her way to pick up her five-year-old son when she was shot. She was in a lot of pain. She was having a hard time breathing. Where's the victim? Who's shot? Emily did her best to help Nikki until first responders arrived. So we've got in, that's coming right now. Emily told police what she thought had happened. It maybe looked like a robbery or something that was so fast. Take it to the hospital, Nikki lost consciousness. But she recovered. We do work for the police department. Did you think it might have something to do with work? You know, I know a lot of people ask me that. I knew that this could happen, but I didn't want to believe it would.
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48 Hours correspondents Erin Moriarty and Anne-Marie Green discuss the case of the crime scene investigator, Nicki Lenway, who found herself in the center of her own attempted murder plot. This episode last aired on 10/10/23.