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As detectives dug into Nikki Macau's life after she disappeared, one name kept popping up. Tommy Swint. He was a
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co-orker of hers at the prison, had known her for years, and by many accounts may have crossed the line more
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than once. Some people described him as protective, but others said obsessive. There's an account of him sending
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lingerie to her bridal shower. And Nikki's sister said that years earlier, she walked in on Tommy, pinning Nikki
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against a chair while Nikki screamed for help. But police couldn't prove he had done anything related to Nikki's
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disappearance. And the case somewhat stalled until years later when Tommy got a job
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as a police officer in Ohio. The Richmond police in Indiana who were working Nikki's case warned his
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department he was a person of interest of theirs and Tommy was then asked to resign which he did but he didn't leave
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quietly. He sued and that attention triggered a new tip. In 2007, police were told to look at Tommy for an
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entirely different crime. The unsolved 1991 murder of Tina Marie Ivory. DNA from that scene had been preserved for
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decades. Then when Tommy volunteered his DNA, the lab matched it to semen found on Tina's clothing. And when
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investigators re-examined the tape used to bind Tina, they found Tommy's print. Tommy was indicted in 2010, but before
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police could arrest him, he took his own life. And for many people, that felt like the end of the story. Not just for
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Tina, but for Nikki, too. So many people assumed the answer died with him. But our team wasn't so sure. We decided that
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Nikki's case needed another look.