A father is found dead in his home by his ex-wife, so police must unpack a complex family dynamic.Season 32, Episode 2Originally aired: February 26, 2023Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WatchSnappedPodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What led to the discovery of Ken Nix's body?
It's very clear this family, these women are very close to each other. There appear to be a weird and very close nexus between them.
But will this tangled loyalty come undone from the inside out?
He starts to relay that there's more going on here that you need to be aware of.
She had foreclosure on her house. Her cars were being repossessed. This is out of desperation.
He said, if you do not give me the money, he said, I will kill you and hide your body.
The only narrative we have left is one of premeditated, cold-blooded, calculated murder.
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Chapter 2: What were the initial findings at the crime scene?
March 21st, 2016, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. At 9.11 p.m., 911 operators receive a frantic call from 69-year-old Judith Nix.
My ex-husband, he's passed away. It looks like the gun's lying by his left hand. What's his name? Kenneth Nix, N-I-X. Where is he at in the house? He's in the master bedroom. Okay, and you had a key to let yourself in? Well, I've got a garage door open. Um, I dropped by to bring him some chicken for supper, and I'm his ex-wife, really. Sure. Been suicidal at all?
Yes, he's got so many health issues that neuropathy is getting so painful that he just can't deal with it anymore.
Chapter 3: How did investigators determine the cause of death?
Officers with the Broken Arrow Police Department arrive at the rural home of 69-year-old Ken Nix.
When they arrive, they find Judith Nix in the front yard, and she looks distraught.
Judith directs the officers towards Ken's bedroom in the back of the house.
Upon arrival, there was Mr. Nix deceased in the master bedroom with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head, and there was a gun underneath his hand. Mr. Nix had an injury to the left temple, blood running down his face. There was blood on his shirt that he was wearing.
After seeing that it was a suicide, they call out the detectives to come out and investigate.
As investigators arrive, a tearful Judith tells them that she feared this day would come.
Judith says he suffered from this chronic medical condition. He was in a tremendous amount of pain. He was very unhappy.
My dad was on methadone because he has neuropathy and a lot of pain issues.
According to her, he had talked about shooting and killing himself. And initially, you know, it looked like a suicide. But questions are clicking in your mind that, you know, is this really a suicide or is it something else?
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Chapter 4: What evidence raised suspicion about Judith Nix's story?
He had six siblings. My father was the oldest.
During his childhood in Lake Charles, he loved to restore cars as a hobby and tinkered with vehicles and motorcycles in general because he was very much into motorcycles.
After high school, Ken followed his love for mechanics and attended technical school, where he honed his skills before opening up his own service station.
My dad was a very good mechanic. He was the youngest Texaco gas station owner in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Ken was hoping to find someone to share his success with. And in his 20s, he met Monita Moriarty and fell in love.
My dad told me that when he first met my mother, Monita, It was at an apartment complex. My father and my mother were married in 1966. And then I was born February 20, 1967. And then a year later, had my sister. Just a year right after that, we moved to Tulsa to be closer to my grandmother. After that, they had my brother.
I remember seeing a lot of videos of us as young children, and my father and mother just looked happy. Eventually, there were some issues, and I know that they got separated. So me and my brother and my sister were living in an apartment with my mother, Minita.
Unfortunately, on August 29, 1974, tragedy struck the family.
And during that separation, I was age seven. My mother called my father and said that she was going to commit suicide. And my mother did commit suicide. I remember my father being there. And he took us home. And we never saw our mother again.
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Chapter 5: What family dynamics contributed to the investigation?
I asked my father, I said, dad, why do you keep getting married all the time? And he said, son, I want you guys to have both a mom and a father figure, and I'm going to try it till I get it right.
While his marriages may have failed, Ken's professional life flourished. In 1980, he started his own business.
He opened up Inland Divers business, a commercial scuba diving business.
Inland Divers had salvage capabilities so they could pull vehicles out of the water or boulders near a dam. He could do anything and make money.
But even with all that success, Ken never gave up searching for love. And in 1984, he met Judith Bailey, a divorced mother of two daughters, 16-year-old Angela and 12-year-old Shelly.
My sister Kim was going to go to a sleepover. When my sister was being brought home, Judith met my father. And I guess there was an attraction there.
When Judith met Ken Nix, she was not looking for romance.
Growing up, Judith spent most of her life in church and studying, kept to herself.
She was born and raised in Texas, and then she moved to Tulsa near her parents.
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Chapter 6: What revelations came from Judith's daughter Shelly?
Shortly after having two kids, Judith and her husband divorced. There was drinking and infidelity, and well, Judith just couldn't take it anymore.
Judith was reluctant to commit to anything serious, but Ken pulled out all the stops.
Ken introduced Judith to scuba diving, and it became a shared passion between them.
They were very much into diving. Judy was wonderful. I never heard them fight. But in my previous moms, there were fights, you know, around us. But with Judy, I never noticed any issues.
A year after meeting, they married in February 1985. And shortly after, Judith moved in with Ken and his kids.
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Chapter 7: What shocking claims were made by an insider?
I was probably 13 by the time she moved in.
Her two daughters, Shelly and Angela, chose to stay with their father who lived nearby.
They had another high school they went to and friends. So it just was good for their rhythm.
Once the newlywed phase ended, Ken and Judith got down to business. They focused on the growth of inland divers.
She became part of the business with the administrative side and then going to the sites with him.
For years, both their business and family life were thriving. But after almost three decades of marriage, the couple found themselves unable to meet on common ground.
My father raised me and my brother to being able to be on our own and not dependent on anybody. But Judy coddled her kids, financed her kids anytime they had a problem. And that caused turmoil between my father and Judy. So communication between the two was diminishing.
Judith and Ken divorced in 2011, ending 26 years of marriage. But even after five years of being divorced, the couple had a hard time letting go.
She had went and bought her own house, but Judith was still staying at my dad's house sometimes.
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