True Crime with Kendall Rae
A Fitbit Helped Solve This Murder?! The Case of Nicole VanderHeyden
09 Jan 2025
In May 2016, 31 year-old Nicole VanderHeyden, a mom of three, was found dead in a field. Initially, her boyfriend was suspected as they had been in a fight, but his FitBit data showed that he was elsewhere during the murder. That's when they realized someone else's DNA was on Nicole's body. -- This episode is sponsored by: Rocket Money SKIMS - select “podcast” in the survey and select our show in the dropdown menu that follows! Nutrafol - promo code: KENDALLRAE Check out my foundation: Higher Hope Foundation: https://www.higherhope.org/ Watch my documentaries: 530 Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUWkmOjNLk Apartment 801: https://bit.ly/2RJ9XXr True Crime with Kendall Rae podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3rks84o Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jC66pr Shop my Merch! https://kendallrae.shop Check out my other podcasts: Mile Higher (True Crime) @milehigherpod YouTube: https://bit.ly/2ROzJcw Instagram: http://instagram.com/milehigherpod The Sesh (Current events, a little true crime, pop culture, and commentary) https://bit.ly/3Mtoz4X @the_seshpodcast Instagram: https://bit.ly/3a9t6Xr *Follow My Social!* @KendallRaeOnyt Instagram: http://instagram.com/kendallraeonyt Facebook: https://bit.ly/3kar4NK True Crime TikTok: https://bit.ly/3VDbc77 Personal TikTok: https://bit.ly/41hmRKg REQUESTS: General case suggestion form: https://zfrmz.com/yg9cuiWjUe2QY3hSC2V0 Form for people directly related/ close to the victim: https://zfrmz.com/HGu2hZso42aHxARt1i67 Join my discord to chat with other viewers about this video, it’s free! https://discord.com/invite/an4stY9BCN C O N T A C T: For Business Inquiries - [email protected] Send me mail: Kendall Rae 8547 E Arapahoe Rd Ste J #233 Greenwood Village, CO 80112
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Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime Kendall Rae. It is 2025. Here we are. Cannot believe it. That number just sounds insane. Is anyone else still just living in like 2020? I mean, mentally, I feel like I'm in like 2018. But anyway, welcome back. I hope you guys all had an ace holiday. And if you're new to the show, welcome. I'm happy to have you here. So guys, today we are jumping into
in for the year with a case that was requested on my members only request form. And I started looking into it and it's one of those cases where I thought it was going one way and I was pretty confident about that. And then as I learned more and more details, It completely shifted. I don't want to give anything away, so I'm going to jump right in here.
But this is definitely a case that needs more awareness. More people should know about Nicole's story and what she went through at the end of her life. It is just so tragic. Nicole seemed like an awesome person. She was a mother and she was a great mother. And the fact that her children have to live the rest of their lives without her is...
don't even have words for that before i jump into her case though i wanted to thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart who participated in our holiday matching program raising funds for my foundation higher hope we were able to raise quite a bit and then of course we matched it and this is all going to go towards projects and grants for the upcoming year so really appreciate that if you are interested in making a donation you can do so at higherhope.org
And we are super, super grateful. But let's go ahead and get into Nicole's case. And I want to start out, as I always do, by telling you more about who she was. So most of the time, Nicole went by Nikki. And she was born on March 29th, 1995, to her parents, Steve and Vicky. And she was raised just outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin, alongside her three siblings.
She had one sister, Heather, and then two brothers as well, Brent and Brandon. And she's been described as... a very loving and incredibly intelligent person. Like I said, she's a mother. She's also a daughter, sister, and friend. And she was so, so very loved.
After graduating from Denmark High School back in 2003, Nikki went on to attend the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she earned her bachelor's degree in both science and education. And with her degree, she was able to pursue her passion in life, which was helping others and making an impact on them. So what better career field for her to be in than education? Nikki was a teacher.
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