Nicole Parsons Bucki, 27, was found dead in her Providence apartment just after midnight on September 11, 2001. Neighbors who entered the unit discovered her fully clothed in the bathtub with a hairdryer in the water, a scene first thought to be suicide. Detectives judged the scene staged: knickknacks were wrapped and packed in suitcases and clothes were in bags as if she were preparing to leave.

An autopsy determined Nicole had been murdered. There was water in her nasal cavity consistent with drowning, signs of strangulation, and a hemorrhaged pancreas from blunt force trauma; there was no evidence of electrocution. Investigation attention quickly turned to Nicole’s ex-boyfriend after witnesses reported recent arguments, visible bruising on Nicole, him being dragged from her apartment, a bail-released assault arrest on September 10, and neighbors seeing him try to enter her unit hours before she was found. He was never charged in the homicide. The case was later hampered by reported loss of evidence by the Providence Police Department, and no arrests have been announced.

Did anyone in Providence know Nicole or see anything on the night of September 10–11 that could help bring answers?