In the spring of 2023, Nancy Glover-Warren, a 67-year-old Realtor in Conway, Arkansas, stopped answering calls. Her family started getting texts from her phone saying she had moved to Hawaii, and a Facebook post put her on a beach in Maui. Her son, Raymond Martin Jr., told everyone she was fine and would be back in January.
When her birthday passed in June without a word from her, the family asked police to check on her. In July 2023, Conway police searched the house and found Nancy's body in a freezer in the garage. Police believe she had died months earlier, in April, and that Raymond had been using her bank cards and accounts the whole time.
Ashley and Ricky go through the case from the April disturbance call caught on police bodycam to the texts from "Hawaii," Raymond's confession, and his September 2024 guilty plea to first-degree murder in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
Content warning: this episode discusses murder, financial exploitation, and the handling of human remains.
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