Nancy Moyer: The Car That Stayed in the Driveway
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01:10 There's a glass of wine on the coffee table, half a glass of wine on the coffee table, half finished. A woman's purse is there. Her driver's license is still inside along with her credit cards. Her clothes, her toiletries, all of it is still there. Everything in this house is exactly where it's supposed to be, except the woman who lives in it. Her name is Nancy Moyer. She's a 36-year-old single mother working for Washington's State Department of Ecology. And after her ex-husband arrives that afternoon to drop off her two kids, this is how he finds the place. No forced entry, no sign of a struggle anywhere in the house. And Nancy has been missing for two days already. So he calls the police, an investigation kicks off right away. And yet, it will be years before anyone starts
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03:02 Or if you listen on Apple Podcasts, tap try free at the top of the final hour show page. As always, this show is made and recorded by humans, not AI. This is our first of two episodes on the disappearance of Nancy Moyer. In March of 2009, the 36-year-old single mother wrapped up her workday and made a quick stop for groceries on her way home. A patrol officer happened to spot her unloading the bags from her car. It seemed like a completely ordinary moment, but it would be the last time anyone ever saw Nancy alive. You never expect an ordinary moment to be the last. We don't think much about the sound of the car door closing.
03:46 the groceries hitting the kitchen table, or the television filling a quiet room. Those moments feel so ordinary that they almost don't seem to matter, until they're the only moments left to study. That's what makes the disappearance of Nancy Moyer so haunting. But before we get into what happened to Nancy, and her last seemingly ordinary moments, let's talk about who she was. Nancy Corrine Headland was born on November 22nd, 1972. She grew up in Olympia, Washington.
04:15 She went on to study at Central Washington University, where she majored in accounting. While she was in school, she landed an internship at a garden and agriculture company, and that's where she met her future husband, Bill Moyer. They hid it off. They got engaged after she graduated and married in the late 1990s, making Nancy Headland, now Nancy Moire. Nancy got a job as a financial analyst with Washington's State Department of Ecology. And it seemed like she liked it because she stayed there for more than a day.
04:45 decade. From what we learned, Nancy fit right in. Not just at work, but in most places and things she did in life. She was right around five feet tall, but everyone described her as having a huge personality. Her sister, Sharon Wilbur, called her a social butterfly who loved to laugh. Nancy's co-worker said she was always, and I mean always, in a good mood. And when reporters started asking people about her, the same word kept surfacing. Her former boss, Bev Posten, put it this way. Quote, the word that everybody keeps using is sweet. A friend of Nancy's named Erica Kennedy Plogman said something that stuck with me. She said that the first time she saw Nancy's face on the news, her reaction was, quote, no, not Nancy, it can't be true. Because from the outside, Erica said,
05:34 quote, I thought Nancy has it all. A great job, great husband, great kids. That's the version of Nancy that everyone knew, and that life kept growing. She and Bill had two daughters, Amanda, who goes by Mandy, and Samantha, who goes by Sam. But after roughly 10 years of marriage, things started to sour for Nancy and Bill. I separated in 2007. According to Nancy's sister Sharon, Nancy felt that she'd settled down way too young. She wanted to experience parts of life that she'd missed out on before. Despite parting ways, Nancy and Bill stayed on pretty good terms. They even worked out a custody arrangement between themselves. No courts or lawyers involved.
06:18 The agreement they came to was simple. Bill had the girls on weekends. Nancy had them during the week. And by every account, neither of them ever missed a pickup or a drop-off. So we're not talking about a messy, bitter divorce here. We're talking about two people who were still very much a family and seemed to really respect one another. They just weren't in love like they used to be.
06:38 From all accounts, everybody's description of Nancy, she just seems like this really wonderful and nice person and responsible. Yeah, no, I love to see it. I mean, they had this healthy co-parenting agreement, and I think it's best case scenario here. I know, there's really not much more that you can ask for, you know, when you split up from your partner and there's kids involved. You just want everything to remain respectful, and you want everybody to be responsible and pull their own weight, and that just sounds like what everyone was doing here. Yeah, I agree. And there's that common trope in true crime, right, of like the husband did it, the ex-husband did it. And it seems pretty clear that that's just not the case here. No, not at all.
07:16 And I don't know, it's just cases like this that really baffle me because there's like really no obvious place where things went wrong. Nancy had no known enemies, you know, like we just said, everyone described her super sweet and caring. She was a really great mom. And like we said, her separation was amicable. You know, I just think that it makes things like this even harder because when everything looks, so normal and something like this happens, where do you even begin? Yeah, I totally agree. It's like this weird mixture of like what a wonderful life she was living. But at the same time, there's no conflict to really point to, you know, in an investigation, if you will. So yeah, Nancy and Bill
07:57 lived separately, but they were seemingly happy and they were still located pretty close to one another, which made it easier for their girls. By this point, they were both into Naina, Washington, a tiny town about 75 miles south of Seattle. And with the population of just over 1,500, it was the kind of place where everybody sort of knew everybody. After more than a decade there, Nancy was still working hard at the Department of Ecology and raising her two girls. As far as everyone knew, Nancy wasn't in a serious new relationship,
08:29 and she didn't have problems with anybody. Sharon later said Nancy, quote, had a few dates here and there that I was aware of, end quote. Nothing more serious than this. that. Her life had a rhythm to it. She was often seen smoking on a fold-out chair on her front porch. She kept this long brown coat with fur lining around the bottom that she wore almost every single day in the winter. And she took a lot of walks around her neighborhood. This was so often that nobody would think twice about her being out on foot. Really, nothing about her day-to-day life
08:59 suggested that danger was closing in. I think knowing what we're about to find out in this case kind of just makes it even more devastating because from what we hear, Nancy, kind of had a really peaceful life. She had a really good routine, you know, a job that she seemingly loved. She'd been there for a decade. And she didn't really have any drama or anything like that. So I just feel like that's what makes this case and, you know, what's about to happen so eerie because there was nothing in her life to indicate that she would soon disappear. Before researching this case, I've never heard of Tenino before. And like we said, it's pretty small. So I can just own. only imagine that, you know, everyone there probably felt pretty safe, like, as you typically
09:41 would in, like, smaller towns when you kind of know everybody. And I also think that's, like, another, I don't know, eerie aspect to this case when we find out what's about to happen to Nancy. Yeah, I agree. I mean, and she'd been there for a long time. She had this routine established. She was used to walking out on her own. I think that she felt safe. But I do feel like her leaving the house on foot is really the wild card here. Like somebody who's known to go for walks, I think that complicates things a bit, right? Because her being absent from her home isn't necessarily strange. She could have gone for a walk and something happened. But of course, we'll get all into that. That's true. I mean, once you leave your house, you may have a routine where you kind of walk the
10:22 neighborhood, but literally anything can happen once you step foot on a sidewalk or a public street. In a life like that, one Friday looks a lot like the last, a commute, a grocery run, a quiet night in. Nancy had no idea that investigators would soon pour over every single minute of one of those ordinary evenings, because on Friday, March 6, 2009, she was headed into a completely unremarkable weekend, and she wouldn't come back from it. Did you know the most feared pirate in the Atlantic, the man who terrorized an entire ocean for years, may never have actually killed anyone, or that the real golden age of pirates
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12:42 It's the morning of Friday, March 6, 2009, and Nancy Moyer is in a great mood. She talks to her sister Sharon on the phone before work. They talk about a Mary Kay party and the weekend coming up, totally ordinary stuff. Sharon later says, quote, I spoke to her Friday. She seemed fine. She was in very good spirits that day. And there may be a reason for that good mood. According to another employee at the Department of Ecology, he and Nancy have a date plan.
13:17 for the following evening, Saturday night. This coworker was, in his own words, quote, just absolutely infatuated with her. So here's Nancy heading into the weekend with plans, and a co-worker who is finally getting that first date he's wanted. By all accounts, it's just a normal Friday, the kind you don't really think twice about. Nancy leaves work at about 5.15 p.m.
13:42 It's chilly outside, March in Washington State usually is. Nancy's behind the wheel of the car, pool, driving a colleague home before heading back to her home into 9-0. The ride is routine for the pair. Their conversation is routine, too. After she drops them off, Nancy stops at a place called Dave's Thriftway to pick up wine and food for the weekend. A receipt later found at her house shows that she paid at 6.45 p.m. by check. Then she heads home to the house on the 700 block of State Route 507. A to-9-0 police officer is parked near Nancy's house that night, running radar. and he actually sees Nancy unloading groceries from her car,
14:21 but he claims it's sometime between 9 and 9.30 p.m. That timestamp is something that will gnaw at a lot of people throughout this investigation. Nancy checked out of the grocery store at a quarter to seven, and according to that officer, she wasn't carrying her bags inside until sometime after nine. That's more than two hours we cannot account for. Maybe the officer's timestamp is off.
14:42 Maybe Nancy makes another stop after leaving the store. Maybe she just forgot to get her groceries out of the store. car when she first got home. We really don't know. We will probably never know. But I can say this. That officer sighting will become the last report of Nancy Moyer alive. What are your thoughts on this timestamp? I feel like I am torn because when I hear a police officer noted this, I want to be like, okay, it's like more believable because he's a police officer. Like, why would they lie? Maybe they have like records that they can go back and double check. But I don't know. Something about that is just not really up to me. Yeah, I agree. And I have questions, right? Like, I want to know how this officer recorded it.
15:23 Like, did he, like, why would he even write it down if you just see somebody, like, randomly putting away groceries, right? So is it something he remembered after the fact or something that he actually reported? I don't know. I mean, I think every minute leading up to someone's disappearance is important because it could point to, obviously, you know, what happened. But like I said, these two hours just really confuse me. If the officer was right and he saw Nancy around nine or nine 30, that's just, you know, that's more than two hours that we can't account for. Like I said, maybe he got the time wrong or maybe Nancy was home earlier and just waited to unload her groceries. There's a million logical explanations, but it just drives me crazy that we still don't know.
16:02 Yeah. You know what my other question is, what are the groceries? Because I think that makes a difference between whether or not you can leave them in the car for two hours and do something else. That's true. I mean, if it was like ice cream, we know she has kids, then you can't really leave ice cream in the car for that long. So I don't know. Maybe she was driving home and spotted somebody that she knew and wanted to talk to them. But then my mind is going through all these scenarios. But if that was the case, don't you think that person would come forward and be like, yeah, I talked to Nancy that night? So like I said, there's just a million things that could have happened. But these two hours, it's just a really weird aspect to this case. Yeah, I agree. And I think it
16:38 complicates things just even further. Well, let's go to Sunday, March 8, 2009. That Afternoon, Bill Moyer pulls into the driveway of his estranged wife, Nancy's house. He's with their two daughters, Sam and Amanda. Two years into their separation, Bill and Nancy know the routine. Sunday is when the girls go back to their moms, and today is no different. Her car is in the driveway. The lights and the television are on inside, but something is off. The front door is cracked open, letting the cold march air seep into the house.
17:11 That's not like Nancy, and it's especially unsettling when they go inside and the house is eerily empty. Bill later described the moment like this, quote, the house was as it usually is. I went inside and basically the TV was on and it looked like someone should be home. But kids ran in looking for mom and it was an empty house. Bill doesn't panic though, not at first. And that's because Nancy walking out of her house isn't that strange. In his words, quote, it wasn't unusual. She'd walk in the neighborhood sometime. So I took the kids in and we waited for a few minutes, thinking, oh, she'd come back from a walk, but she didn't. That minute turns into five, then ten. Eventually, Bill decides to take the girls back to his house
17:58 for the time being. Before they go, nine-year-old Sam does something heartbreaking. She has those bags of circus peanuts with her, a candy that she and her mom both loved. She'd saved the last few for Nancy. So she sets the bag down in the coffee table, so they'll be waiting for her mom when she gets home. Years later, Sam will say, quote, I didn't expect her to be gone forever. I think this is the ripple effect that people don't always talk about. I know. I was just going to say that line alone should really stick with everybody listening to this because it's like, it's really those small details that stick with the families. It's not like the outlook of a whole, like the whole tragedy itself, sometimes it really boils down to those last little details that they can remember. In this
18:46 case, the circus peanuts being sat down on the table because she didn't expect her mom to be gone forever. And it just really is sad. And I think that is something that people should be aware of, especially when little kids are involved. Yeah. Well, and throughout this episode, we're talking a lot about how the ordinary turns into the extraordinary, if you will, right? And I feel like this moment really highlights it. You know, the girls are just getting back from their dad's house over the weekend. Mom's not there. She's probably out on a walk. I'll leave my candy here for her. like it just is so heartbreaking to see this family go through this kind of weird scenario that we know turns into this long-term missing person's case. It's just heartbreaking.
19:26 I know. That is kind of like the whole point of this show, like the final moments of someone's like disappearance or the circumstances in this case where it can really just be like another day. Another action that you've done a million times before of this candy that you've shared with your mom that you know she likes. I also can't imagine what Bill was feeling either. I mean, it seems like he knew that something might be wrong, but at the same time, he probably didn't want to panic or scare his kids. Yeah, I mean, especially at that age, too, right? If they're not really realizing what's going on and you're not sure what's going on,
19:58 I don't think that there's any reason to alarm the children like that. So I think Bill did everything right. When Bill gets home, he calls Nancy's family and coworkers. Nobody has seen or heard from her since Friday. It's safe to say that this is not. not like Nancy at all. She has no history of disappearing, no substance abuse problems, and no known mental illnesses that might factor into her disappearance. She's reliable at work, and always calls if she needs to miss a shift. Most importantly, though, she never misses the girl's drop-off.
20:32 Bill knows Nancy would never willingly leave them, especially without notice. So Bill calls the police that Sunday evening. In the next morning, Monday, March 9th, Nancy Moyer, is formally reported missing. He has no idea that 10 years will pass before anyone tells them what they think happened inside that house. The moment a body is found, the clock starts ticking, 48 hours.
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21:38 Real detectives, real cases, real stakes. This is the first 48. New episodes every Thursday. Listen to and follow the first 48. on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. It's Monday, March 9th, 2009, and Nancy Moyer is officially a missing person. The first thing investigators do is go through her house, and what strikes them isn't what's disturbed. It's what isn't. There's no sign of a struggle, no sign of forced entry.
22:21 Thurston County Sheriff's lieutenant, Chris Mealy, says the house looks completely undisturbed. At first glance, everything is exactly where you'd expect it to be. Nancy's white Honda is parked out front. Inside, her purse, her identification, and her car keys are all there, along with her clothes and her toiletries. The main lights are on and so is the lamp beside her bed. Out on the porch, a pack of camel cigarettes sits on the foldout chair where she like to smoke. But one thing is missing.
22:49 That long brown coat with the fur lining, the one Nancy wore almost every day in the winter. It's the one item her family notices is gone. But there's also the coffee table. On it sits a glass of red wine partially finished, as if Nancy had set it down expecting to come right back. And next to it is a second glass, which raises the obvious question. Was somebody else in that house with her?
23:16 Well, investigators fingerprinted both of them. And her fingerprints were the only ones found on both those glasses. So if someone else was in the house, police can't tell who, but they can start narrowing down when Nancy left it. Here's how. Nancy's front door had been cracked open in the March cold, which meant her heating system had been running overtime to compensate. By looking at the spike in the home's heating, investigators concluded Nancy likely disappeared sometime between 9 p.m. and midnight.
23:45 And there's one more thing that points to that window of time. A neighbor reported hearing a hurried female voice and the slamming of car doors around midnight. Just before the car door closed, that same neighbor hears someone say, quote, Hurry up, let's get going. At the time, the neighbor assumed it was just Nancy getting home late. But that may have been the exact moment Nancy Moyer vanished. And if that voice was hers, it may be the last time anyone ever heard her. It's really scary to me when we have these cases where, you know, neighbors possibly hear something,
24:18 but they don't realize until after the fact because it also seems normal in the moment. like this, like try to put yourself in their shoes. It doesn't really sound alarming when you're listening to that. But then, you know, fast forward when you have all of that information and someone turns up missing, that is really scary. Yeah, I agree. And it's like if you hear somebody saying hurry up, that could be anything. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a sign of foul play. It could literally be them like trying to go to a club or something, right? It's a Friday night. We know that Nancy's trying to kind of make up for lost time in her youth. So I could see something like that absolutely happening. True. You know, I also think investigative work like this is genius.
24:58 Using the spike in Nancy's home heating to narrow down when that front door was likely open is something that I never would have thought to do. Same. I was so impressed by that, honestly. Like, that is good detective work right there. Meanwhile, detectives start working through the men in Nancy's life, and one of them keeps coming back into focus. That coworker who says he had a planned date with Nancy for Saturday night. According to him, when Saturday night came and he still hadn't heard from Nancy, he drove to her house. He says when he arrived, the front door was open, but Nancy was nowhere to be found. He called out for her and then just left. He also acknowledged calling her that weekend and leaving a message for her on her answering machine. But here's where his behavior starts to bother investigators.
25:48 During an interview, Detective Ben Elkins asked this person, quote, you knew where Nancy Moyer's body was, would you tell me? And the co-worker says, quote, no. So the detective asks again, just to be sure he'd heard it right, the man chuckles, and again says no. The coworker submits to a polygraph, and the results come back inconclusive. When investigators ask whether he'd be willing to take another one, his answer is, essentially, quote, I don't know. But as unsettling as all of that is, he does have an alibi. He has children of own and they told police their dad was home with him that Friday night. He's never arrested, never charged, and police have never publicly identified him as a suspect. We're not naming him either.
26:34 The same thing can be said for Nancy's ex, Bill. His daughters say he was home with them and he passes a polygraph. He's also never charged. Polygraphs aren't considered reliable enough to prove someone is lying because they measure physical reactions that can also come from nerves or anxiety, which during these moments, like there can be a lot of both of those going on, but police still use them as a tool to guide questioning or generate new leads. And, you know, inconclusive, that result can simply mean that the test couldn't determine truthfulness or deception. It's kind of like this gray area.
27:09 And in this case, I don't really know what to believe because this coworker's behavior is kind of alarming. Like, that's not really typical behavior. Yeah, I mean, I think that you can. say for sure that it's an odd response. But my mind kind of, you know how I am with all these things. I'm like, anything's possible. And I wonder if maybe he was just one of those people that's like overly honest, right? So when a detective is like, you know, if you did kill Nancy, would you tell us where her body is? And he's like, no, like what kind of criminal would do that? Like maybe he's just kind of
27:41 weird. You know what I mean? Maybe he's just one of those people. That's where my mind goes, especially because they validated his alibi. Fair enough. Yeah, that, I mean, that checks out. I think initially I probably judged that maybe a little bit too hard because I probably would not act like that. But like you said, nobody acts the same. You don't really know how you're going to act when you're faced or like when you're put in that position. So yeah, maybe he was just an awkward, brutally honest guy. As you mentioned, you know, he does have an alibi.
28:11 It seems to check out. I don't really think there's much more we can do. Yeah, I agree. Well, and I feel like, you know, going back to what you were saying about polygraphs, at this point, it almost feels like police do it for their own internal knowledge to kind of get an idea of like where to go. Because I think, you know, they're not admissible in court. It's such a hot topic in true crime as it is. And personally, I think it's pretty much junk science. So I think detectives still use them just for like their own guidance, knowing that they can't really be proven. That's true. And that kind of opens up a whole other can of worms. Like they, can issue them. You have every right to decline. Like, you don't have to take one. But if you do, you're right, they can kind of use that and generate their own biases almost. Like, it really is just for their knowledge. And maybe sometimes that's a good thing. Maybe sometimes it's not.
29:02 I don't know. In this case, like, he did have every legal right to be like, I don't really want to take a second one. I know. Well, and, you know, I don't want to completely, like, blow this off. You know, it could really, it's one of those things. It could be everything or it could be nothing. It could be a weird guy, or it could be a criminal, right? That's the hard part, I think. But either way, a polygraph's not going to prove anything in court. With no suspect and no scene to work, the investigation moves outdoors. Search dogs are brought into the neighborhood and they turn up nothing. Then, roughly two weeks after Nancy vanishes, her friends and coworkers organized their own ground search, spreading out through the woods and fields around her house. Along remote roads,
29:45 like Thompson Creek and Johnson Creek. The Sheriff's Department schedules a bloodhound search for the following weekend, and the search effort doesn't stop. Nearly a year later, in January 2010, volunteers organized by Nancy's former boss, Bev Posten, are still homing the wooded areas around Tenino, mapping out new sections to cover. Her friends and family built a website with her photographs and description.
30:11 They start a Facebook page that draws hundreds of members within weeks. The flyers list her text. tattoos, like the hibiscus on her hip and the cherries on her foot, because those are the kinds of details that identify someone when nothing else can. The family puts up a reward that starts at $55,000, and Bev, her old boss, who organizes search after search, says something I've been thinking about a lot. Quote, nothing panned out, but I thought at least I can live with myself. Oh, I mean, I love to see it. It's heartbreaking to see, but I love it when friends and family get involved, they take action right away. Because I mean, to her boss's point, I do think that it creates
30:51 a little bit of peace, knowing that you've done everything that you can. Yeah, yeah. And props to her, because that is not easy to do. Like, it takes a lot to assemble all of these searches, get everybody, you know, organized and cover all of this ground that, you know, I don't really know this area super well, but it might not be super safe depending on, like, the terrain. That is a lot of work that goes into that, let alone the website, the flyers, the money that was raised, you know, it's just a lot. So props to them. And I was really worried about how this was going to go because sometimes, you know, people don't have like a big community that will rally for them. But in this case, I was worried because Nancy was described as like this really, really sweet person who would do
31:32 anything for like anybody. And I'm just really happy to hear that those people who she really cared about also cared about her in the exact same way. Yeah, I love that. It's really really sweet. And I do think that this shows us, again, the power of social media, right? And how amazing it can be to just create a Facebook page and then have thousands of people care about a case. It's almost like magic, I feel. It really is. And I will always stand by the fact that if you have something that like you need help with, you know, somebody in your family goes missing or gets murdered and like it's just unsolved and you need help. Social media is like, in my opinion, like one of the best ways to get help because you make a video, you post it on like TikTok, you know, for example, and people around the world can see it within an hour. And I just feel like that is so powerful. Unfortunately, nothing comes of any of it. Nancy's bank accounts and credit cards go untouched. There's no activity anywhere.
32:28 No calls to family. No sign of her anywhere in the world. Investigators are treating this as a homicide almost from the start. As Lieutenant Chris Mealy explained in those first weeks, they went that route, quote, because the circumstances surrounding her disappearance are so odd, and because the homicide investigation is the most intense investigation we can bring to bear on any type of crime, end quote.
32:51 But a homicide investigation needs something to investigate, and they don't have a body, a weapon, a scene, or a suspect. Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, the wine glasses get bagged, the reports get filed, and the little house on State Route 507 goes quiet. For 17 months, that's where Nancy Moyer's story stops, until a hot August evening in 2010, when a deputy pulls over a pickup truck one mile from Nancy's front door, and finds something in the passenger seat that changes everything.
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