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There's one person that may be tied to Nikki Macau's disappearance that almost no one talked about. After we released
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our very first episode on Nikki 8 years ago, her daughter Payton told us something that stuck with us all these
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years. She said there was another woman at the prison, someone connected to Tommy Swint. And if Tommy had answers,
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maybe this other woman did, too. That woman is Darlene Williams. Darlene worked at the prison with both Tommy and
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Nikki. She was Nikki's friend and she was also having a long-term affair with Tommy, one that was still happening when
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Nikki disappeared. And here's where it gets complicated. People described Tommy as obsessed with Nikki. And according to
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the case reports, Nikki may have kept Tommy close, possibly even used his credit card, and may have been intimate
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with him at least once. But Darlene told police that she believed she was the only other woman in Tommy's life.
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because by the way, Tommy was married to someone else entirely. Now, co-workers later said Nikki and Darlene had been
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fighting before Nikki went missing and that Nikki even left work upset on her last day of work. Now, Darlene denies
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that, but there's one thing she can't deny. According to her own statement to police, she was one of, if not the last
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person to talk to Nikki before she went missing, which is something we never knew before our reporters dug in. So,
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does this alleged call change