Snapped: Women Who Murder - Nena Bolton

Episode Date: August 1, 2021

Small town McNeil, Ark., is grief-stricken after a retired sheriff is suddenly shot to death; when the case appears to be closed, a killer strikes again, and another local hero is struck down.Season 27, Episode 14Originally aired: June 28, 2020Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WsLCJWqmIebSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wonder East Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. She was a feisty divorcee. To me and of the tale, she was very charming, very beautiful, just,

will tell you what you wanted to hear. He was a sheriff's deputy and a good old boy through and through. Funny sometimes, quiet sometimes, just to know around country boy. It seemed the couple was meant to be. Until one September afternoon brings their romance to a hellish end. There was a polar blood. I didn't know if he was still alive.

She was hysterical. Scrooving. As detectives investigate the death of one of their own, a dangerous pattern emerges. And he said, well, I had to take guns from our several cons. He continued to add to his story, depending on who he was talking to. He was inconsistent. I was blown away. I didn't really know what to think.

But just when detectives think the case is closed, a killer strikes again. This was a very violent murder, and something that murder did with his own hands. Who would do something to this elderly man like this? I can't wrap my head around a who else would do that with somebody who's nothing but you're even? Nestled in the center of Columbia County, McNeil Arkansas is about as small town as you can get.

If you get into any kind of mischief, people will know about it and know about it quickly. For Josh Bolton and his family, Roots Run Deep. When people hear the name Bolton, they mainly think of law enforcement. There were three of us. My father was the first, Terry Bolton, and then my uncle Larry was the second, and then Nachos to pursue the field, and have a career in law enforcement as well.

On September 15, 1998, Josh is a 22-year-old police cadet at the local police department. I just happened to be in the dispatcher's room, talking to the dispatcher, and the phone rang. Now I'm on one phone, rang. The woman on the other end of the line is frantic. I could hear the dispatcher's like,

Nina, you need to calm down. You need to calm down. Josh Bolton recognizes the caller as his aunt, 43-year-old Nina Bolton. She was very frantic in fact. And the dispatcher had to tell her numerous times. I just calm down, tell me what's going on, tell me what's happened.

And that's when the dispatcher looks at me and says, Nina shot, Claire. After a couple of seconds, I realized that she was talking about my uncle, Claire. I was blown away. I didn't really know what to think. And then, I hollered at the chief, down the hall, and told him what was going on.

First responders and law enforcement rushed to the couple's trailer. going on. First responders and law enforcement rush to the couple's trailer. Among them is Artie Talley, the local fire chief, and a close friend of 48-year-old Larry Bolton. Inside, he finds Nina, her 18-year-old son, Robbie, and Larry. Larry was laying on the floor in the pool of blood,

facing down the hall. And then she was trying to do CPR on him. The information I had being relayed from the dispatcher, I didn't know if he was still alive. If he was going to the hospital, what was going on at that time? Born in 1950, Larry Bolton grew up in rural Columbia County, Arkansas. Hey, boys and happy family. We were raised in a church. Chores and, and hunting in

fishing was basically our life. He had the same aspirations as everybody growing up in those days. You know, you'd marry to have a family, get a job. In 1968, Larry married his high school sweetheart Mary Sue. The newlyweds relocated to Houston and welcomed a son Scotty, followed by a daughter Lori. Larry was a very hard worker. He always worked. He was just a well, you know, good provider, a wonderful husband,

and a wonderful father. Larry and I moved around a lot, trying to make ends meet, but we did move back to Arkansas. Back in his home state, Larry followed in his brother's footsteps and began a career in law enforcement. He worked in the jail for a couple of years and then got promoted to deputy. And it was a deputy shareer. But after 18 years of marriage and raising a family, the spark between Mary Sue and Larry was gone. Larry and I divorced in 1986.

After a while, it seemed that we just kind of grew apart, and we agreed to separate. The divorce was pretty hard because I was, you know, so used to Larry being my world. Nearly a decade after his divorce, in the early 90s, Larry started dating a woman named Nina McWilliams. Like the Bolton's, Nina's family was well-known in McNeil. She was in the ward family from McNeil. Her grandfather was the mayor of McNeil. When Nina was a child, she was the apple of her grandfather's

eye. Ralph loved Nina more than anything in this world. She never wanted for anything. By the time Nina reached her teenage years, her grandfather wasn't the only man in McNeil who thought Nina was special. The one thing that stood out about Nina was her jet black hair. Nina knew how to get men on the hook early and she used her sexuality to do that.

At 21, Nina caught the eye of 36-year-old Roger McCalley and the two married in 1977. Their first child, Alan, was born soon after, and in 1980, they welcomed their second child, Robbie. But five years later, the couple called it quits. My parents divorced in 85. I don't have many memories of my father at that age. The divorce set up a pattern that would continue throughout Nina's life. Nina was married a multitude of times.

My mother's relationships were pretty sporadic. There was just me and around all the time. Nina Bolton would marry to get supported so that she wouldn't have to work. When Nina was in between men, she relied on her grandfather's continued devotion to keep a roof over her head. She'd never worked. Nina always lived in Ralph Ward's rental properties.

He knew my mom struggles all her life, from her marital problems to just general life problems. He was always a life coach for me, and a lot of times for her. But when Nina met down to Earth and gentle Larry Bolton, she felt she'd finally found a man to settle down with for good. Larry came from a good Christian family, and he was a Southern gentleman.

Nina and Larry had a whirlwind romance, and in 1992, they married. Out of all the men that she was married to her brought into our life, Larry Bolton was the best. When it came to being a father figure, someone who stood tall, strong. being a father figure, someone who stood tall, strong. However, when Robbie hit his teenage years, he and his law man's stepfather didn't always see eye-to-eye.

Larry tried to keep the front handle me because McNeil, crowd of people, was not the greatest kids in the world at that time. We were pretty rough. In 1993, at 43 years old, Larry retired from the Sheriff's Department. Nina used her connections with the mayor to help Larry secure a new position with the city.

He was working for the water system in Magnil, so he would have been working for our grandfather. About a year later, Nina suffered a fall at a grocery store that left her temporarily bedridden. She had failed over some fruit juice or something that was on the flower and she won a settlement. She did receive a 200,000-arzt settlement. She was pretty well off that time, so everything was getting better.

Nina had stability, both financially and romantically. But just as everything was coming together, it would soon fall apart on the afternoon of September 15, 1998. Following a desperate 911 call from Nina, first responders find Larry Bolton with a single gunshot wound to the head. His head was down the hall. His fate was in the living room.

His head was in a pool of blood. First responders take over but are unable to save Larry. He didn't have a pulse, he was gone. It just hit you hard, it just like somebody hit you with the sledgehammer. And you know, it's like I can't believe this is happening. I was still trying to process what was going on. Why? Why did it happen?

Coming up. Details emerged about Larry Bolton's final moments. Robbie hurt his mother's voice and hurt them arguing supposedly Larry asking for money. But could a mother's love be a shield for the real killer? He was in trouble when Larry was a law enforcement type person. He was running with the wrong people. He was glad that the son of a bitch was dead.

I was under special. People believe that I shot in Kiel Larry Bolton. September 15, 1998. Investigators in McNeill, Arkansas, are on high alert as they race to the crime scene where one of their own, 48-year-old Larry Bolton has been shot and killed. I got notified that we were needed in McNeil, that there had been a homicide and they needed our assistance. We were needed in McNeil that there had been a home side, and they needed our assistance.

When investigator Glenn Sligh arrives, he finds Larry's wife, Nina Bolton, in hysterics, as her 18-year-old son, Robbie, tries to comfort her. At that point in time, she was hysterical. I remember Nina's agreement. Naina is so frenzied that first responders feel she needs immediate medical attention. She was transported to the hospital

to help commer down and to have her checked out. With Naina on her way to the hospital in nearby Magnolia, Arkansas, investigator Sly makes an initial survey of the crime scene. There was a pool of blood and some tiles up underneath his head. There was one hole and there's right temple. And there was a diet coke can that had been overturned. We did found prescription pills around his body as well.

He was shot in the back of the head. And time is right here. He was just laying there in the hallway like he was asleep. A side from Larry's body, there is only one other thing about the scene that catches the investigator's attention. There was quite a list of medications that were found during the crime scene search, and one empty prescription bottle of pro-zack about where Larry was found.

So that was kind of unusual. So that was kind of unusual. Before investigator Sly can proceed, a responding officer approaches him and reports that when he arrived on the scene, Robbie handed over a gun. He'd been given a revolver, 22 revolver, from Robbie. According to Robbie, that gun had been the weapon used to kill his stepfather.

Robbie had given them a weapon that said this is the gun that he'd taken from his mother, that she had used to shoot Larry. MUSIC Investigators slide quickly pulls Robbie aside for questioning. I asked him to tell me what had happened. And he told me a story that he would been asleep in the back bedroom, heard something, and he got up. MUSIC Robbie claims he emerged from his room and found Nina and Larry arguing in the doorway

of their bedroom. I remember hearing some holler, and I journeyed up the hallway and I seen Larry laying up against the wall and hit on a blue shirt. You know, we heard his mother say, I'll give you some more money. I'll write you another check.

Just don't hit me. Just don't hit me. And he looked over his shoulder at me. And I heard something outside, and I walked the door. And when I got to the door, I heard a gunshot. He said Larry staggered for a moment before falling and the hallway where we found him. I did not see her actually shoot Larry.

What I did see as I walked by though, he threw his hand up. I don't know if he was pointing at her or what he was doing. I really can't remember much after that. Because it's like it's all a blur. Everything slowed way down. Robbie says that Nina called 911 and gave him the gun. Artie Talley, I believe, was the first one on the scene. And he was asking me where the gun was.

And I went and got the gun and gave it to Artie Talley. Up until now, investigators have been working on the theory that Larry died in some sort of domestic altercation with his wife. But as investigators' sly begins to interview Robbie, he is struck by the 18-year-old's demeanor. I tried to just get preliminary information from him. He did not seem overly distraught.

He did not seem upset. Then Robbie makes a comment that takes the investigators back. Rob said that he was glad that the son of a bitch was dead. Now, Tony looked dude. He needed to chill out and don't be saying that. Though investigators think Robbie's comment could just be hot air,

they ask him to submit to a gunshot residue test. We would test the palms of the hands, the fingers, and we'd test the backs out of the hand and on up the arm. While officers conduct the test, and we test the backs out of the ham and own up the arm. While officers conduct the test, investigators speak with Larry's friends and former law enforcement colleagues who have gathered at the scene and learn its no secret that Robbie and Larry didn't get along. He was in trouble when Larry was a law enforcement type person. He was running with the wrong people and doing things he shouldn't and Larry would try to correct him and Nina wouldn't like it.

I had gotten in trouble in high school and Larry had grounded me. He took away television, radio, electronics, things of that nature. Nina would give them back to me just in spite of him. Most of the arguments between Larry and Nina were about Robbie and about money and him living there with them and him always being in trouble and just not doing the things that he should do as an adult. I didn't respect Larry at that point,

because my mother told me that I did not have to respect Larry Bolton, because Larry Bolton was only my stepfather. Investigators learned that tensions in the household had grown so strong that three months earlier, Larry left. And Larry's goodbye letter to Nina, he told her that he was going to take $750 out of the joint account so that he could start over,

and he was going to take the truck and the camper, but that's all that he wanted. He had been gone approximately three months. During that time, he made no contact with her. She did not know where he was. with her. She did not know where he was. Now investigators need to find out what brought Larry back to McNeil and back to Nina. We know we have a homicide. We've only got three people in the residence. So you know it's one of two that's left alive that killed the victim.

The information that we're getting at the time was that he had been shot by Nina. At the time, we weren't sure if maybe she wasn't covering for her son, Robbie. But is Robbie telling the truth or covering his tracks. Robbie continued to add to his story, depending on who he was talking to. He was inconsistent. Coming up, detectives learn Nina's side of the story. Larry Bolton was threatening Nina. He was angry with her and started pouring pills down her throat.

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She'd go in and out of hysterics. They're at the hospital. While Nina isn't able to talk, her nurses are. Nina had been sedated at the hospital. She would ask about Larry, and they would remind her that he was deceased. And she would start hollering, oh no, oh no, not Larry. According to the nurses, Nina had given them a play-by-play

of what happened just before Larry was killed. Nina said that Larry showed up at the trailer that afternoon, demanding she give him his fair share of her six-figure personal injury settlement. Nina had had a settlement from a fall at a grocer. Supposedly Larry was demanding some funds from that. Larry Bolton was threatening Nina Bolton, physical harm, over, right in another check.

Nina told nurses she eventually relented, writing Larry a check for $500. According to Nina, Larry flew into a rage when he saw the amount. She said that she was hit by Larry, struggling by him. Nina told her nurses after Larry attacked her, he found another way to torture her. They was angry with her, and started pouring pills down her throat.

Nina responded that she'd write him another check if he wouldn't hit her anymore. According to Nina, Larry then told her he was going to the kitchen to get a knife. But as he left to their bedroom, Nina reached for her revolver. I heard a gunshot, and I ran back to my room. And this one, she shot Larry. I heard a gunshot, and I ran back to my room.

And this one, she shot later. Nina's statement seemed to confirm at least some of the details her son told police the day before. But one element of Nina's account isn't adding up. We paid close attention to her face and her arms. There was really not any evidence on her face or neck and head of being injured at all. Not only that, Nina's doctors tell detectives

they found no traces of medication in Nina's stomach. The only pills that were in her stomach were mouth-sedatives that were given to her by the Magnolia Hospital staff to calm her down after the incident. Armed with contradictory evidence, detectives work to find out if there is any truth to Nina's account. Those who knew Larry have a hard time

believing he would ever raise a hand to Nina or to anyone. This being violent against a woman was against Larry's nature, his character. Larry never was physical with me. During the whole time that we were married, he was very respectful. He never raised a hand to me. He never raised a hand to me. When investigators speak with Larry's brother Terry, they are surprised to learn that when Larry left Nina three months prior to the murder,

it was not due to tension over her son Robbie, but rather Larry's fear of Nina. His words were, brother, I just got tired of sleeping with one eye open. And I had to get out of there. And I said, what do you mean? And he said, well, she was mentally unstable. I had to take guns from her several times. Terry also alleges this isn't the first time

Nina's made unproven claims about being assaulted. In 1993, Nina called the police on one of Larry's fellow sheriff's deputies. She made a claim against another deputy sheriff that he had come to her house while Larry was working and in some way assaulted her. After the state police finished their investigation I called Larry and Nina into my office and made them aware that the investigation was complete and it was unfounded and at that moment, she jumped up out of the chair

and ran downstairs across the street to Larry's car, and she pulled a revolver out of his car and started back across the street. He caught her in the middle of the street and took the gun away from her, put her in the car and they left. He was pretty obvious to me. Her intention was to bring that got in my office

since she made. Terry says Nina's behavior ultimately led Larry to resign from the Sheriff's Department. Larry loved working for the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. He loved helping people. Columbia County Sheriff's Office. He loved helping people. Terry tells police that by the summer of 1998, Larry had enough.

He left Nina and went to Texas, keeping his location hidden from her. She was finally advised by counsel, I believe it was, that in order to find out where he was, she would have to file for divorce. Terry says Nina did just that. And on September 15, Larry returned to McNeil, ready to sign the divorce papers

and collect the rest of his belongings. He told me that he was coming back to town. And he had a payroll check that he needed to pick up from the water department. And that Nina had told him that she had all of his stuff packed up waiting for him. My advice was that he not go to that house. Unless he called the sheriff department

and got a deputy to go with him. I mean, he said, I'll be OK. The more they learn about Nina, the more investigators feel she might just be capable of murder. As investigators begin to put the pieces together, they receive a message from the crime lab. The gunshot residue test that we did on Robbie were snagged. We were able to rule him out. With Robbie eliminated as a suspect, the investigation points directly to Nina as the shooter and detectives are not buying her

claims of self-defense. I think the moment of realization finally came to her. And she realized he wasn't coming back. And that's when she snapped. Just over 24 hours after Larry was murdered, Nina is released from the hospital and placed under arrest. I just couldn't file him. I couldn't understand that. Nina shot my uncle, and to this day, I still don't understand that. Coming up, Nina's family comes to her defense.

Everybody visit her. Because everybody believed the story that Nina had told about what happened. And just as one case closes, another horrifying murder shakes the town of McNeill. He had blood all over his face, all over his hand. It was very aggressive. They made sure he was dead. MUSIC

In September 1999, one year since the murder of Larry Bolton, his estranged wife Nina Bolton stands before a judge, facing first-degree murder charges. She claims self-defense. He was shot in the back of the head. I don't consider that self-defense. I consider that an execution.

But as her trial gets underway, with the threat of life in prison looming, Nina has a sudden change of heart. She changed her mind and played guilty to a lesser sentence. Nina pleads guilty to second degree murder and is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Despite her conviction, Nina's family stands behind her. The family, all stuck by her, and visitors her in prison, they visited her over the telephone and letters. Even the mayor of McNeill, Nina's grandfather Ralph Ward,

does whatever he can to help his granddaughter. Ralph Ward strongly defended her and the public. Ralph Ward was stepping in and getting her a new attorney for an appeal. Ralph Ward was basically bankrolling her being in prison. Then in September 2004, after five years behind bars, 49-year-old Nina's prayers are answered. She made parole her first parole board meeting. So she was processed out pretty quick. We picked her up and brought her back to me kneel.

She lived on Ralph Ward's property in a mobile home. Ralph Ward is living a couple blocks away in his own residence. Ralph was 83 years old and he just took care of her, pay the bills. For nearly two years, Nina sticks to her routine. That is, until the evening of June 15, 2006, when a relative of Ralph Ward shows up at his home just after 10 p.m. One of the family members went over there, the door was cracked open. She walked in and saw him sitting in the chair with blood all over him and just turned around and walked out and called the police.

With in minutes, investigators and first responders arrive to find that the man who served McNeill as mayor for 38 years is dead. He had blood all over his face, all over his hand. It had been stabbed four times in the chest. It was very aggressive. They made sure he was dead. This was a very violent murder, and something that murder

did with his own hands. An asterisk was taken to bludgeon Ralph Ward, and then he was stabbed multiple times. Detectives easily rule out robbery as the motive. We're checking the body out. We find that he's still got jury on. He's got his bill for hold. He's got $100 bill in it.

With the way he had been beaten on the head in the face, plus the stab mark in his chest, it was obvious this person or person wanted Ralph Ward Dan, who would do something to this elderly man like this. Detectives aren't the only ones who want answers. Outside of the mayor's home, a crowd has formed. It's like someone that everyone in the community knew.

And so it drew quite a crowd. Among them is Ralph's granddaughter, Nina Bolton. She tells investigators that she'd been with Ralph just hours earlier. Nina Bolton had carried him to get some ice cream and water, brought him home, and she said she saw him walk in the door, and then she went home. As day breaks, news of Ralph's death begins to spread.

Everybody in MacNeil knew Mr. Ward, and they were all concerned, you know, who would want to do this to him? and they were all concerned, you know, who would want to do this to them? With all of McNeill determined to find out who killed their beloved mayor within just 24 hours of the murder, detectives get a solid lead. Chairs have got to call from a female

stating that the night of the murder, she overheard three people talking about the murder. The caller gives the names of two local women, 19-year-olds Natalie Hutchison and Emily Vaughn. Detectives immediately bring them in for questioning. Initially, both deny knowing anything about Ralph's murder, but under pressure, they begin to waver, starting with Emily. I think I brought up well, you know,

you could probably be charged with something to do with this murder. That's when she said, okay, I won't tell the truth. Emily admits that on the night of the murder, they received an unusual call from their friend, a man named Mochie Smith. Mochie wanted them to get rid of the clothes he had on. Well, they went and picked him up,

which at that time, he told them that he had killed Mr. Ward. Local investigators are familiar with the name Mochie Smith. Shantai Smith, better known as Mochie, was a small town criminal. Both Emily and Natalie disclosed the location where they dumped the clothes. They carried the bag of clothes out on one of the county roads

by Lake Columbia. They rode with us out to where they threw the bag of clothes out. We picked the clothes up, picked two shoes up, and then the knife was thrown in the lake. We never found the knife. Detect the lake when they were found in the night. Detectives arrest Mochie within hours. He was nervous. He trusted these girls, Natalie and Emily, and they give him up.

Backed into a corner, Mochie quickly cracks. But what he says stuns investigators. He told me to need a bolt and then come to him, promised him some large sum of money if he would conspire with her to kill Mr. Ward. Coming up, a calculated plot emerges. There was a lot of assets there to be gained by him, die.

She used a two, like a tire tube to cut the windscreen. It was premeditated. She was planning this murder for quite some time. She is probably the most evil woman that I know of, personally. I know of. I know of. I know of. I know of.

I know of. I know of. I know of. I know of. I know of. I know of. 27-year-old convicted felon Mucci Smith has just claimed that Nina Bolton hired him

to kill her grandfather, 83-year-old Ralph Ward. She was under the impression that there was some land and mental rights and old money and property and vast amounts of family wealth, somehow or another that she was going to have access to on the event of Mr. Ward's death. She said she would collect the large inheritance, and she would give Mootie a million dollars.

There was a lot of assets there to be gained by him dying. Investigators quickly learned that Mootie and Nina had a close connection. Mucci was living next door to Nina, and one thing led to another, and they started a romantic affair. And according to Mucci, Ralph didn't approve. Mucci was a convicted felon, she was a convicted felon. They could not be in a relationship without somebody going back on a parole violation. Ralph had cut Nina's money off. could not be in a relationship without somebody going back on a parole violation.

Ralph had cut Nina's money off. I mean, not giving her money like he used to, because he was upset with her. That's when Moody says Nina came up with the idea of how to reinstate and even increase her cash flow. Nina Bolton had set this up with Mochita Kilogram for her. On the night of June 15th, Mochita says he and Nina set their plan into motion. While she had Ralph in Waldo, Mochita was going to get inside the house,

which Nina had already cut the windowscreen and unlocked the window for Mochita to get inside the house, which Nina had already cut the windowscreen and unlocked the window for Mootie to get in. When Ralph returned home, Mootie was waiting. The attack seemed to hit him with an object, an astray he'd been attempts to stab him with a knife hit or a tree from the kitchen. Plunge is a knife, hit a tree from the kitchen, punches a knife into him, causing his death.

Moody goes back to Nina's house and tells her everything's done. Then he calls Emily and Natalie to come pick up the clothes and get rid of them and not 20 tells them what, you know, what he did. He gives this completed mission, we go get her. She is em�ly to be arrested. Once in custody, Nina refuses to give a statement. She'd gone from being completely cooperative. Oh, you've got to catch the person who did this. Oh, it's terrible.

In a day after the murder, to being, I'm saying nothing. But as news of her arrest spreads, the residents of McNeill have plenty to say. Here it is. This woman's gone to prison for killing her. Her estranged husband. And she gets out. And she's done it again.

That right there is what boggles the mind. It boggles my mind for sure. Ralph Ward strongly defended her and the public with the first murder. And I think it's ironic, and I very sad state. But he was as strong as defender. He was her grandfather. And then she winds up doing away with him also.

This time, detectives and prosecutors are determined to put Nina away for good. But they need more than Mucci's statement to make the charges stick. In his confession, Mucci described a unique tool Nina used to cut the screen on Ralph's window. Mucci described this tool as a place as something and drew a diagram of it. Nina used a tool like a tire tool to cut the windscreen to get it unlocked when Mucci could get in.

They got a search warrant for her car. And when they opened the trunk, this tool was in the back of Mena's car. Then detectives get more evidence against Nina from an unlikely place, the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Tony West was an informant, someone who had been locked up for a time with Nina

and gave us some pretty solid information about Nina's plans to do exactly what she did. She told her specific details that no one else would have known because things weren't released at that point. So that was how the police verified it was true. As the evidence piles up against her, Nina begins to feel the heat. In April 2007, 10 months after Ralph Ward's death, Nina's attorneys inform prosecutors that the 51-year-old is ready to plead guilty. She pled guilty, the first to be murdered, and she was sentenced to 25 years. Mucci was found guilty of the murder and the burglary, and he was given 25 years for the murder and 20 years for the burglary.

While Nina's family stood behind her after Larry's murder, they find her second murder conviction harder to swallow. My mother killed two men that took care of her, stayed with her while she was sick, took care of her when she had nothing, and she repaid them by killing them. I don't have a mother anymore. I honestly did not know who my mother was.

And I was another man to say. Nena is evil. Probably the most evil woman that I know of personally. I can't understand. I can't wrap my head around it. For someone to kill a loved one, let it only hear grandfather. I just can't wrap my head around that. I mean, who else would do that?

It was somebody who's nothing but pure evil. Just evil. In exchange for their cooperation with police and Natalie Hutchison and Emily Vaughn, we're never charged in connection to Ralph Ward's murder. Nina Bolton will be eligible for parole in 2036. She will be needing one years old. For more information on snapped, go to oxygen.com.

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