Colin Hayes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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What the cell site data showed was that he had gone to Large Mountain after going to his family's house, which is an incredibly remote area, and then went back and went to Portland.
There's apparently this type of grass that grows on March Mountain that is used in floral arrangements. And there was a civilian who was collecting the floral grass to sell to florists.
First, there was a set of extensions that were black with some white or kind of silver streaks in them. And that was the last hair color that Nikki had before she went missing. The second was this like high visual yellow, like construction yellow jacket that she was seen in social media posts wearing. And the last thing was there's padded underwear that is consistent for someone who is black.
trans and wants to kind of modify their appearance to look a little bit more feminine and so all of those three things really started to point in the direction of Nikki and
They asked him first to confirm that he had told them everything and everywhere that he had gone that day. And he did. And then they said, well, we have your cell records and we show that you went up to Large Mountain and you didn't tell us about that or something to that effect. And then you can see the wheels process for I think it's about a minute and a half to two minutes.
And then he invokes his right to remain silent.
I was incredibly grateful for the opportunity. It was also a case that kind of hit the kinds of things that I am interested in care about. I was working in juvenile at the time and there's a lot of issues relating to kids who are trans. It is unfortunately common.
that there's violence that results in situations like this where someone finds out that someone is trans, and that's why a lot of people who identify as trans are concerned about passing and being outed as trans.
We don't have him holding the knife. We didn't have a direct confession.
When they got the returns back from his emails, they found these tickets to the Ukraine that were on the same day. So I think it was late in the evening, maybe 11 p.m., leaving Portland that day of June 6th.
We were mostly concerned about how do we prove that he is the one who did this, not somebody else. We had proved that he saw her, that they communicated, that he picked her up and that he drove to Larch Mountain where her body was found. So we could prove this case, but it was going to take a big leap from the jury to accept that he did this and nobody else did it.
When they said self-defense, it became a completely different case.
It hit at the right time where there has been a history of cases of trans victims not being handled appropriately or ending in what people view as a just result. And so we definitely felt that kind of pressure. But I don't think either of us anticipated that it would become like we were seeing like People magazine articles.
It was definitely more pressure than one would want for their first murder trial.
there was no way they were gonna prove self-defense without him taking the stand. I think we felt good, but we had no idea it was coming. So it was really hard.
Because he reacted physically, she then threatened him or was fighting with him physically. He perceived that she was reaching for his gun, which was in grabbing range. And the only alternative for him to make sure that she didn't reach the gun was to try and restrain her with this phone cord and that the phone cord just slipped up and strangled her.
The way that the hyoid bone was located in the extensions that were attached to the phone cord that indicated that that phone cord had been tied around her hair and her neck at the time that the body was disposed of. And it was knotted in a circle, and I think it was about 10 centimeters, which is an incredibly small circle to fit around someone's neck.
My goal in going in was to shut that down. He didn't try to call the cops. He didn't try to call a medical. He didn't try to do anything. He just kind of throws her in the back of the car. So he showed extreme disregard for her as a human, even in his own testimony. I saw that the jurors were tracking along with me at that point. So I think they saw that as well.
What we both noticed automatically is that the only time he got emotional was when he was talking about his like reputation and how he would be personally affected if people found out that he had been with someone who is trans. It wasn't when he was talking about the actual event of killing Nikki. It wasn't when he was talking about when he felt threatened.
He didn't show any remorse, even in his telling of the event.
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