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The tire impressions. worried that shed have to explain why the moving van was parked at her house for an extended period, she parked it at the supermarket and walked home with her dog. on sunday night, she returned to the supermarket, bought trash bags and muriatic acid and identified herself by using her discount card to save 34 cents. that night, she cleaned the truck, doused davids body with gasoline, set it on fire, then exchanged vehicles again and returned home. once in custody, tracey wa...

Was take a long, hard look at her. >> but donna was cooperating fully with the investigation and was an unlikely killer. she also had an alibi for thursday night and friday morning, the estimated time of death. >> as the investigation went along, it was clear that the evidence did not point in the direction of donna. >> davids second ex-wife also had an alibi for the time of davids murder, an alibi confirmed by numerous witnesses. next, investigators questioned davids current girlfriend, 32-year...

When police interviewed david nixons live-in girlfriend, tracey frame, she claimed david was headed to las vegas on the night he disappeared. tracey also revealed she didnt have an alibi for the night david was murdered. she said she was at home alone. >> we, as a family, didnt really know much of anything. he didnt bring her up. i never spoke to her on the phone. she was a mystery to all of us really. >> a background check revealed the two had an interesting past. the couple met at a lake party...

>> it was discovered that he had some gambling debts and he had some troubles with the irs. >> tracey consented to a search of the house she shared with david. >> we searched the home with luminol. we did a search with cadaver dogs. >> they found no evidence of blood, and the cadaver dogs didnt find anything either. but investigators did find one possible clue. >> as they searched the house, they found electric blanket controls, but they didnt find an electric blanket, which was kind of odd, bec...

Large black dog. >> tracey had a large black dog. >> it does seem to be highly coincidental that the same person that youre looking at would also have a black lexus, a white lexus, access to a penske truck and to walk a dog similar to the one tracey frame had. >> because the camera was so far away, there was no way to positively identify the woman. if this was tracey frame, theyd need some way to prove it. >> what happened to david? >> what happened to him? i dont know. why are you asking me tha...

An insurance policy, and the first thing police were going to do, under those circumstances, was take a long, hard look at her. >> but donna was cooperating fully with the investigation and was an unlikely killer. she also had an alibi for thursday night and friday morning, the estimated time of death. >> as the investigation went along, it was clear that the evidence did not point in the direction of donna. >> davids second ex-wife also had an alibi for the time of davids murder, an alibi confi...

When police interviewed david nixons live-in girlfriend, tracey frame, she claimed david was headed to las vegas on the night he disappeared. tracey also revealed she didnt have an alibi for the night david was murdered. she said she was at home alone. >> we, as a family, didnt really know much of anything. he didnt bring her up. i never spoke to her on the phone. she was a mystery to all of us really. >> a background check revealed the two had an interesting past. the couple met at a lake party...

It wouldnt fit. she panicked and left, leaving the tire impressions. worried that shed have to explain why the moving van was parked at her house for an extended period, she parked it at the supermarket and walked home with her dog. on sunday night, she returned to the supermarket, bought trash bags and muriatic acid and identified herself by using her discount card to save 34 cents. that night, she cleaned the truck, doused davids body with gasoline, set it on fire, then exchanged vehicles agai...

Large black dog. >> tracey had a large black dog. >> it does seem to be highly coincidental that the same person that youre looking at would also have a black lexus, a white lexus, access to a penske truck and to walk a dog similar to the one tracey frame had. >> because the camera was so far away, there was no way to positively identify the woman. if this was tracey frame, theyd need some way to prove it. >> what happened to david? >> what happened to him? i dont know. why are you asking me tha...