Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - Dance Mom Goes Crazy - The Nancy Motes story

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

In December 2016, Nancy Alice Motes orchestrated an armed home invasion and kidnapped Alexa Blair, a freshman member of the Kilgore College Rangerettes dance team and daughter of the team's director, Dana Blair. Motes abducted Alexa from her home and held her captive, but Alexa managed to escape after approximately an hour.

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She's 56, living in Texas, and one day in 2015, Nancy gets some crazy news. Her daughter didn't make the high school dance team. So Nancy hears this news, and she is devastated. How could her daughter not make the team? This is the end of the world. Now, her daughter is this girl, Kylie. And why is it so important that Kylie makes this team? Because if Kylie doesn't make the high school dance team,

then she won't be able to later make the local college precision dance team, the rangerettes. And in this area of Texas, being a rangerette is a huge deal. And so anyway, Nancy is pissed off and she is not going to give up on getting her daughter on the high school team. She is going to make sure she eventually becomes, a rangerette. So for months, Nancy goes to the school board and she complains and she demands that they reinstate Kylie like, my daughter was treated unfairly. And she claims that her daughter

was discriminated against because she's tall. I guess Kylie is slightly taller than the other girls, so Nancy is playing the discrimination card. Here's the thing, though, it actually works. The school board ultimately gives up and sides with her and rules that the coach has to let Kylie onto the high school dance team. So then now, coach is pissed. She doesn't like being second guest by the school board. And here's the best part. I guess coach is just a petty person because she says, fuck this, and she resigns over this. But right before she does, she lets everyone on the dance team. Like any student who tried out, she lets them on the team. So it actually floods the team with all kinds of amateur dancers and now suddenly the team sucks. I aspire to be that petty. And so now, since the team

sucks, Kylie or her mom doesn't want her to be on it anymore. So then Nancy transfers Kylie to a different school where Kylie doesn't even try out for the dance team. After all that, I guess she gave up. I don't know. I don't think Kylie ever cared as much about dance as her mom did. But anyway, Now, I assume Nancy's all mad because her precious daughter will never go on to be a rangerette. Now, you would think at this point all this drama would be over. Oh, no, no, it's just getting started. Because about a year later, in 2016, Nancy is driving home from shopping, and she passes by a car, and she spots one of Kylie's ex-boyfriends driving it, and he is with some girl.

And I guess Nancy's like, I need to see who this new girl is that ex-boyfriend appears to be dating. And she decides to turn around and follow him. She even puts on a wig so that he won't recognize her following him. Because I guess she just happens to have a spare wig in her car. So she starts following him for a while. And eventually she stops. And she pulls over and she starts looking him and the girl he's with up on Facebook. I guess she's trying to figure out what's the deal with this new girl.

Okay, now there's this whole gossipy section of this story that I'm going to skip over because it's boring and stupid. All you need to know about Nancy's impromptu Facebook stalking is that she ends up on the page of this girl, Alexa. And now Alexa, she used to go to high school with Kylie, and she was on the dance team with her, and she actually has since gone on to make the rangerettes. So she's now a rangerette. Also, there's Alexa's mom, who will just call her. Alexa's mom and mom is the director of the Rangersettes so maybe maybe Nancy's looking at their Facebook profiles feeling a little jealousy and resentment but regardless Nancy knows that Alexa is possibly friends with ex-boyfriend's new girl and Nancy's like I want information on this new bitch

I'm gonna go get it out of Alexa and then for whatever weird-ass reason in that moment Nancy just snaps She is going to get this information from Alexa. And so she drives right over to Alexa's house because they live in the area. And from here, she makes sure she has her wig on, so no one will recognize her. Then she grabs a pew-poo and a roll of duct tape. Because I guess she keeps those things in her car as well? Then out of her trunk, she grabs a very large, novelty-sized snowman Christmas card. And she keeps a lot of weird shit in her car.

Then she goes and she knocks on Alexa's door. Now, really quick, just to remind you, Nancy is doing all this because she's trying to get information about a random girl who her daughter's ex-boyfriend is dating. It's not even her boyfriend. It's her 18 or 19-year-old daughter's ex-boyfriend. Anyway, so Alexa's mom answers the door. And Nancy has the snowman greeting card covering the lower half of her face. And she's like, hey, can I speak with Alexa? And Alexa's mom doesn't want to be rude, so she invites her in.

And the second Nancy sees Alexa, boom, she pulls out her pew-poo. And they're like, oh shit! Then Nancy takes their phones from them and she starts scrolling through Alexa's contacts looking for this girl's phone number. Then when she doesn't find it, she makes sure Alexa and her mom's wrists are bound with the duct tape she brought. Then she lets them know that she's about to kidnap Alexa. Like, we're gonna take a drive!

But see, Alexa's smart. She's gonna try and get out of this. And she's like, oh, can I grab my shoes first? And Nancy's like, all right. And so Nancy follows Alexa into the other room to get her shoes. And that is when, pow, Alexa's mom rips off the duct tape, and she runs out the door and down the street, and she's screaming, Home invasion, home invasion.

Meanwhile, Nancy forces Alexa into her car, and skr-they speed away. Now, in the car, Nancy continues to be a total nutcase. She's asking Alexa things like, do you think you're perfect because you're a rangerette? And how are you so calm? Is that because of your rangerette training? This woman is insane. Now eventually they pull up to a storage facility that Nancy had previously rented. And she gets out and she forces Alexa inside. And then she has her lay down and she wraps her up with duct tape.

Because now it's time to unalive her. So then suddenly, boom, Nancy puts both her hands on Alexa's neck and she starts choking her harder and harder. Until Alexa passes out. Sometime later, she wakes up and Nancy is still there in the storage unit with her. And she's like, damn, you're still alive? I guess Nancy's disappointed that Alexa didn't die? Anyway, lucky for Alexa, Nancy is apparently late for dinner. I guess she really wants dinner, so she just straight up leaves.

And she leaves Alexa tied up in the storage unit to just die. However, Alexa, she ain't no punk. She isn't about to die in this dusty-ass storage unit. Now her legs are apparently really strong from all those years of dance and all that rangerette kicking she's been doing. And so she uses all her strength and she kicks and she kicks and pow! She breaks the tape from around her ankles. Then she frees her wrists. Then she gets up and she runs the fuck out of that storage unit,

which I guess wasn't locked for some reason? Then she scales two fences and then finally she runs to a random person's house and she asks them to call 911. Meanwhile, Nancy at this point, she's at home. She's chilling. She's eating dinner like she wanted. Like nothing happened. Like she didn't just kidnap someone at gunpoint. And of course, eventually police show up and they're all banging on her door and they question her and Nancy completely denies everything. She's like, what? I didn't kidnap anyone. I don't even know those people. And police, they know she's full of shit. And so bam, they arrest her. Here's her mugshot. And she's ultimately charged with kidnapping, and she takes a plea deal, and she's sentenced to five years in prison.

Also, Alexa and her mom sue Nancy, and she's forced to pay them $575,000. Could for them.