Ashley Flowers

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Hi, Crime Junkies.

I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And welcome back.

Last episode, I told you about the murder of Nick Cordova in Gilbert, Arizona.

In 2020, Nick and his business partner, Dave Sweetman, were the only ones at their office when two masked men came in and shot Nick execution style in the back of the head.

Dave walked away from the attack and sought out $8 million in life insurance money with quote-unquote sign-off from Nick's wife, Alicia.

Except she alleges that someone forged her signature.

And it took years of fighting in court for her and their kids to see any share of that life insurance money.

Now, Alicia told police that Nick was worried before his death.

Worried about things like Dave taking money from the business.

First $30,000, then $15,000.

Nick thought someone was following him, and he half-heartedly joked to her that maybe Dave was going to hire a hitman to collect the insurance money.

But despite sharing all of this with police, they seemingly never considered Dave a suspect because they had surveillance video of Nick's murder, and it was not Dave who pulled the trigger.

So there was really never much of an investigation done into Dave that we can see from the redacted files.

There was never any mention of the prior civil suits that he was involved in, where he was made to pay out over $10,000 to various people.

And there was no mention of Dave's late wife, Laura Sweetman, who died seven years before Nick.