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a chair, grab a beer. Let's talk some true crime. There are few bonds that run as deep and
enduring as the connection between sisters, even when the two share only one common
parent, for example, a father. The relationship can often transcend [music] blood and evolve into one of
mutual affection, respect, and lasting friendship. It was surely this sincere, loving union
that 26-year-old Nikki Collingbourne >> [music] >> was seeking when she opened her heart
and her home to her much older half-sister, [music] Yvonne Caylor. Aside from a brief and unsuccessful
period >> [music] >> of less than a year when Nikki moved to America to get to know her sister,
the two remained largely estranged. That is until 2015 >> [music] >> when Yvonne Caylor returned to her home
country of England >> [music] >> and big-hearted Nikki couldn't resist offering her sister [music] a place to
stay. This is True Crime Garage. >> [music] [music] >> Nicola Collingbourne was [music] known
to friends as Nikki. Friends and family calling her Nikki, she was born in 1989 to parents Renee and Leonard.
A kind, loving woman, the 26-year-old would do just about anything for her extensive family, which included
sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews, along with her mom and dad. She had a half-sister
Yvonne Caylor, who is 27 years her elder, with whom she shared her father. But she had scarcely known her sister
Yvonne, who was already an adult when Nikki was born, and Yvonne had moved to America while Nikki was still a toddler.
Sadly, the two half-siblings lost their father in 2012, a loss that felt keenly by Nikki, who had been raised by him and
her mother. Nikki worked as an assistant at a local preschool. She loved working with
children and was a natural with them. She was kind, funny, and loving. Nikki's naturally bright and sunny
nature drew all of the children in the family to her, and she was a central figure to her large extended family.
Nikki also cared for her mother Renee Hibbert Jones, driving her to and from her regular medical appointments at
Lister Hospital. The hospital was about 5 miles from Nikki's flat in Ivel Court in Letchworth Garden City. Renee, her
mother, she struggled with severe respiratory illness and was in poor health, depending on her daughter to help so she
could attend her appointments. This is just further proof here, Captain, that this young woman she's always reliable
and she's selfless in nature. Yeah, she tries to do right by others and but you have to remember, no good deed
goes unpunished, my friend. >> And we should note that Nikki was particularly close to two of her adult
nieces. This is Jodie and Leanne. In addition to a 5-year stint as an assistant at the Tiny Hands Preschool,
Nikki's Facebook profile list her as having been a shop assistant and something known as a fire watch / hole
watch, which are apparently separate attendant positions designed to protect workers in high-risk environments such
as welding, cutting, or grinding. In essence, Nikki served as an emergency lookout for steamfitters and
welders, identifying potential hazards and initiating an emergency response should one be needed. Perfectly on brand
for her protective and giving nature. >> I just want to point out these are two places I wouldn't work. Somewhere you
could mangle your hands and someplace known as Tiny Hands. >> Earlier we mentioned Nikki's
half-sister. This is 53-year-old Yvonne Caylor. So, we're going to go back a bit here, Captain, and set the
table for our beautiful listeners. Yvonne Caylor was born in Britain in the early 1960s.
She moved to the United States in the early 1990s. She found work there as a welder, a
physically demanding job where she met the man she would eventually marry. Now, for decades America was Yvonne Caylor's
home. Caylor spent most of her adult life abroad before returning to the UK in 2015.
Given the vast age gap between these two half-sisters and the fact that Nikki was
just a toddler when Yvonne left for the United States, it's unlikely that they had formed any
real meaningful relationship before Yvonne headed across the Atlantic. So, while Yvonne was making her young
adult life in the States, we have little Nikki growing up in the UK. As said, the two shared a father but were
separated by a 27-year age gap and the vast ocean between them. Far across the Atlantic,
again, we have Nikki, the much younger half-sister, growing up in the UK. They were, for all intents and purposes,
strangers. A strange by circumstance and Yvonne Caylor's decision to live abroad. This
disconnect no doubt weighed heavily on the younger sister. Nikki yearned for a connection,
a situation that Nikki would seek to correct the first chance she got. In September of 2011, the sisters would get
that chance to reconnect when Nikki traveled to the United States. In an effort to get to know her
half-sister she barely remembered, she traveled there. And filled with hope, Nikki made the journey to the
United States to live with Yvonne, dreaming of finally building that sisterly bond that the two never had.
The reality though fell devastatingly short of the dream. The reunion quickly deteriorated.
So, before long here, Captain, this reunion soured and a bitter fallout shattered any chance of a relationship.
Some speculated that Yvonne Caylor was jealous of Nikki's life in the UK, particularly the strong relationship
that she had with their father, a bond that Yvonne Caylor herself never had the chance to develop. But, whatever
the reason, the rift was so profound that in August of 2012, less than a year after arriving,
tensions had escalated and the two clashed to the point that Nikki returned home to the United Kingdom. Then 3 years
later in 2015, Caylor is going to return at 52 years of age to England. And this will bring us closer
to the start of our timeline here. So, that's your background information. We now have both half-sisters living in the
UK. There was some thought here, Captain, that Yvonne Caylor possibly may have returned due to some
sort of back injury from her demanding job as a welder. Now, despite the previous tensions
between the two and the unresolved nature of their relationship, Nikki, ever hopeful and very giving kind
person, she opened up her home to her older sister. And they initially stayed together at
their late grandmother's house, but Nikki soon found her own place. This was a small apartment at flat number 16 in
the Ivel Court block at Letchworth Garden City. And so she invited her half-sister Yvette Keylor to move in
with her there at her flat. The peace between the two, this uh glorious living situation,
maybe predictably, it didn't last. Just a few months into their new living arrangement, a ferocious argument
erupted, leading Nikki to make the difficult decision to evict her half-sister Yvette from the flat.
The conflict escalated dramatically on the evening of October 3rd, 2015. Yvette Keylor, thrown out of the
apartment, went directly to the local police, accusing Nikki of assaulting her. Though officers
suspected the complaint might be bogus, they were obligated to investigate the claim.
So in the early hours of Sunday, October 4th, this is at 2:07 a.m., Nikki is arrested. During her interrogation, she
gave a starkly different account of the evening's events. She explained to police that Yvette
Keylor had become highly agitated, and their argument spiraled out of control when Yvette destroyed Nikki's iPad,
smashing it to the ground. Nikki described her own attempts to remain calm as Yvette Keylor lashed out,
pinning her against a wall and threatening to kill her. This was the final straw. Nikki gathered her sister's
belongings, took them to the front door, and told her to leave. In response, Yvette grabbed a mop, threatened to
shove it down Nikki's throat, and then grabbed Nikki's laptop and stormed out. As Nikki slammed the door shut, Yvonne
Keyler began beating on it trying to get back inside. >> Now, first of all, I don't want to die
by having somebody shove a mop down my throat. But, if I'm following what's happening, so
Nikki gets her own place, she invites her her half sister to stay with her. Mhm. I don't think a lot of people would
know this, but in England, you have to have the right to rent. So, it also could have been a situation where Keyler
just didn't go through the necessary steps to be able to rent a place on her own, so that's maybe why
Nikki felt obligated to give her a place to stay. And then, I think there was also, like,
whatever she was paying, she wasn't paying, and they weren't getting along. So, this just escalates things even
further. Yes, and the result, according to what Nikki is telling police, is this
violent altercation between the two, resulting in a busted iPad, and then Yvonne Keyler
beating on the door after storming off with Nikki's laptop. So, obviously, this is a direct
contradiction to Yvonne's story, which she had told police, and they painted Nikki as the aggressor.
Right, and all you have to see as the police is the busted iPad and the missing laptop, and you go, well,
somebody might not be telling you the whole truth here. And I don't know if they interviewed other persons
to sort out what happened here, but the result is going to be that the police found Nikki's version of this
story much more credible. And the reason why I question if they had talked to other people as we do know
that these two half sisters are described as almost polar opposites where Nikki is described as this person
who is caring. She's she's a caregiver by nature. She likes helping other people.
We see her inviting her half sister into her flat to live there. And Yvette Kayler is described as
somebody who is quick-tempered, easily agitated, and gets upset quite easily to the point that she has been
known to lash out. Yeah, some people would say a real bitcherini. Remember Nikki was picked up based off of
Yvette's complaint to the police. After they hear her side of the story, find her version to be much more credible,
Nikki is going to be released by police and was back at her flat by 8:00 p.m. that same evening. Now, when she gets
back to her apartment, upon returning, she made a chilling discovery. The door frame was damaged, a clear sign of
forced entry. Right. And of course, she's suspecting her sister was responsible.
So, she checked her belongings and realized that some of the items some of her items had been stolen.
On October 6th, Nikki filed a formal complaint accusing Yvette of burglary. Yvette Kayler was arrested, but denied
but denied everything. The investigation, however, quickly uncovered a link. Okay, so cell phone
records connected Yvette Kayler to a locksmith, a local locksmith named Barry Crosby. When police talked to Barry
Crosby, he tells them that on October 4th, a woman had contacted him claiming to be locked out of her flat at Ivel
Court. He had accompanied this woman to the flat and then forced the door open at this woman's request.
>> [laughter] >> He shouldn't have done that. Well, he stating he believed that it was her
home. Now, >> Right. months later, this we're going to go out to December 30th, 2015.
This Mr. Crosby positively identified Yvon Kayler as being the woman that had hired him to
force open the door to this flat. So, he he identifies Yvon Kayler from an identity parade
as that very customer. Right. So, so Nikki is trying to charge her with burglary,
but she's not charging her with assault? >> Correct. That's my understanding here. I love the term
identity parade. It sounds like like Mardi Gras compared to here, obviously, we have a police lineup or a
photo lineup. Yeah, or maybe it sounds like a Midwest emo song. More evidence regarding the situation came forward.
Nikki's mother, Renee Hibbert Jones, informed police that she had received a call from Yvon Kayler on October 6th.
In that call, she says that Yvon had asked her to lie about who owned the property that Nikki had
reported stolen. And phone records confirm the call took place despite Yvon later telling police
that the call did not happen and that she did not ask Renee to cover for her or lie about the property. Right. So,
basically what law enforcement is getting a sense of is Kayler's not going to tell us the
full truth on on any situation. Exactly. On on three different occasions regarding three different scenarios,
they believe she's lied each time to them. Well, like I said, she's a real bitcherooniedoonie.
Now, even while out on bail, apparently Yvonne Kayler could not stay away because in November of 2015, she
violated a strict no contact order by calling her half-sister Nikki saying, "We need to talk." Before a frightened
Nikki hung up the phone and then immediately reported the breach to police. Yvonne Kayler was subsequently
charged with that burglary charge and attempting to pervert the course of justice. We're going to hear
some fantastic terms like that here in this international true crime story. Yeah, and I I know there was a court
order not to make contact, but they had a falling out before in America, so maybe this is just another falling out.
And sometimes even with family members you know very well, sometimes there takes a
readjustment. So, sometimes there's some misunderstandings and with family members people go too far.
So, even though you have a court order, I'm I'm going to say hey, I I I understand why somebody would reach out
even if there is a court order just to say, "Hey, can we fix this situation?" >> I get it.
And I know what you're talking about, but I also feel like there's misunderstandings and there's
fallings out fallings outs and there's [snorts] and then there's violent altercations
with the the threat of killing someone and ending one's life. Yeah, yeah, very bad that you break the iPad. Very
bad you steal a laptop. But when people threaten other people's lives, and I know some people just go
and and fights, you see it all the time on YouTube videos where some guy that doesn't even know the other
guy, they get into a bar fight, and the one guy's going, "I'm going to kill you." And does he actually mean that
he's going to kill him? Probably not. But I think what we've learned over the years, just take every death threat to
the the most extreme serious level you can, right? Start there to at least protect yourself. And if
Kaylee was really sorry, she could have contacted her mother. There's probably other people that she could have
contacted and said, "Hey, I'm sorry that it went down this way." I would just be
curious of where Kaylee was staying at the time. Cuz like I said, I think there's
certain rules. And maybe because she was a citizen of England, she probably still had her
status that maybe she could rent from some other place. Well, and you know, we've had a lot of discussions about no
contact orders, strict no contact orders, especially lately here in the garage. And
this is certainly, as you pointed out, Captain, a unique situation because they are blood relatives. I mean, they are
sisters, half-sisters, but they are sisters. And we all have experienced, I I would believe most of us have
experienced times where some family members don't get along. And I think the the thing here is, though, regardless of
how strict the no contact order is, there are means and ways and avenues for proper communication, right? That you
could you could extend the olive branch without getting yourself in trouble. You
know, if you call if you were to contact the police or attempt to get I don't know how or who is in charge of signing
off on these strict no contact orders in England, but here it's often a judge and
you can contact law enforcement. You can contact or attempt to contact a judge and say, "Look,
I would like to I know that we have a no contact order, but I would like to apologize or I would like to try to mend
fences here. I would um can we get can we set up a mediator and talk through a mediator? Can we have some kind of
sit-down meeting where maybe there is a member of law enforcement present so the
other person doesn't have to feel threatened and we can talk like civilized individuals." And for whatever
reason, Yvon didn't choose to use those avenues. And so, what I think we're seeing here
is while Yvon may have wanted to talk to cool things over, I don't suspect that's what she was
attempting to do, but what we can see and surmise from these actions of these two
is that Nikki did feel threatened by her much older half-sister. And threatened to the point of she didn't
want to talk to her, hangs up the phone, and immediately reports the breach to the local authorities.
>> Yeah, none of us were there the time that they got into a physical altercation. We weren't there
when Kaylee threatened Nikki. And so, we won't know the severity of that or or how Nikki felt about about
that attack or confrontation. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> All right, we are back.
Cheers, mate. Hey, you know, if if you asked me to get a pair of underwear, I'm back in 2
seconds. Cheers to you and the back and cheers to you, Colonel. Cheers to you as
well. I'm not sure what that means, but We venture on here. Hey, if you have questions, you can ask them to the
table. >> It is what it is. It is No, but so when I was looking into this case because like you said, Kayler
moves to America and she works in America from for a time period and she's married. So then I'm assuming at some
point she gets a divorce or at least they're separated. And what I've kind of gathered from this it seems like Nikki
wanted to have some kind of relationship like you said, she had a relationship with her mom and father, which Kayler
didn't have. But I I almost assume this is just maybe maybe I'm assuming too much, but it
seems like a situation where Kayler's life wasn't going the way Kayler wanted her life to go. And she saw this young
family member that I think she felt like okay, I maybe exhausted all my resources
and burned all my bridges here in America and I've used as many individuals as I could. So, now I'm
going to try to use Nikki as a gateway to all the other family members so I can then use them and sponge off them.
Real sponger. Well, on April 16th, 2016, Yvette formally pled not guilty at Cambridge Crown Court. Remember,
she's still facing those charges. So, that case is placed on an 8-week warned list, meaning her trial could begin at
any point starting from May 23rd. For Nikki, this seems to be of no comfort to her. The knowledge that her
sister was free on bail left her terrified. She began barricading herself inside of her home, piling furniture
against the door each night. Keep in mind, she is has accused her older sister of forcefully entering her home.
And so, she has while she's afraid of this woman, she has that in the back of her mind that she made her way in here
once, she could make her way in again. And she even sent photos of her makeshift fortress, if you want
to call it that, to her nieces. Remember, she's very close to Jodie and Leanne. She said to these nieces
that she could only hope and pray that it would be enough to protect her if Yvette decided to return to the flat to
exact revenge. Well, I agree with you. It's the her breaking into the apartment that's of concern, but again, we have a
physical altercation. We weren't there. We don't have video footage of it. So, I think
that was probably a lot more violent than what the the police have said it was or what Kaylor even says it was
because it it struck That to me is what really struck the fear into Nikki. Mhm. Yeah. I'm just picturing Yovan Kaylor as
the big bad wolf huffing and puffing and blow your house in. The morning of May 23rd,
2016 arrived. This would be the first day the trial could be called. Nikki started her day off
by taking her mother Renee to her regular doctor's appointment. This is at Lister Hospital. Again, this is very
close to her home. Of course, promising to return later that day to pick her mother up. After dropping off her
mother, Nikki returned home to her flat number 16. Later that afternoon, a worried Renee called her granddaughter
Jodie. Nikki had not returned to pick her up from the hospital. And also, she's not answering her phone. And of
course, this is completely out of character for the otherwise dependable and thoughtful Nikki. Jodie tried
calling and texting her aunt, but there was no response. So, then she drives to the flat that evening. Right.
>> But upon seeing the Nikki's car parked in its usual spot, she Not good. >> believes She believes that everything is
fine and that maybe her aunt just needed some space. So, she decided to give her
that space and she leaves. But, the next day, with still still no word from Nikki, the
family's concern turned to panic. Three family members used a spare key to enter
Nikki's flat that evening, they were met with a horrifying sight. Nikki's lifeless body was on the kitchen floor
clad only in her underwear. Nikki was found lying face up on the floor of her kitchen
and a grotesque amount of blood pooling around her. The 26-year-old is positioned on her
back, her feet facing the door, a discarded bath towel on the floor in the hall. Scattered on the floor around
her are numerous shards of ceramic pottery. A knife is also found in a bottle of
bleach, and Nikki's wrists were scored with deep deliberate wounds, leaving family members to wonder whether
their beloved Nikki could have possibly taken her own life. Curiously, Nikki also held a small brush
by its handle in her right hand, the type of brush that comes with a dustpan and brush
a dustpan and brush set. The family members dialed 999, the British equivalent of 911,
and police arrive at the scene just minutes later. Well, if you're ever visiting the UK, you can call 911
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some pounds, if you will. Well, so back to Nikki's case, you have if it was the Ellen Greenberg case, Mhm. they would
have just ruled it a suicide and moved on. Moved on, yeah. It looks like a suicide to me. That's how we do it in
the states. But, like you said, there's these shards of glass, and I have a couple of thoughts on the bleach. It
makes you wonder was Nikki going to take a shower, was she cleaning the bathroom, or was this a homicide
scene that somebody was trying to use the bleach to clean up? If they were trying to clean up, they weren't
doing a good job or didn't do a good job. And this ceramic shards of glass, this is coming
from a cooking pot that was shaped like a chicken. And I believe law enforcement actually pieced
back the the pottery back together. Yes, they did. Almost like a jigsaw puzzle. And from my understanding here,
Captain, at the scene we have a bathtub that is partially filled with water or filled
with water, and the thought was that she would have been attempting to get ready to take a bath. And like you
had said, the broken pieces would turn out to be fragments of a chicken-shaped kitchen pot or casserole dish. So, we
have Detective Inspector Graham McMillan of the Beds uh short for Bedfordshire Police
Department arrives on the scene after the family calls emergency services. He takes one look at Nikki lying on the
floor, wrist brutally slashed, and concurs that it might be a suicide. Given the brush in Nikki's hand, law
enforcement also surmises it could possibly be that she accidentally cut herself while attempting to clean
up. thankfully, police investigate the crime scene, recovering ceramic shards and
other evidence for forensic examination. The body is removed and sent for autopsy.
But the postmortem told a different story and the evidence found would reveal a very different
outcome than suicide or accidental death. Yeah, again in the Ellen Greenberg case like
the the autopsy was that done correctly? Don't think so. Here they're saying, "Well, we're doing
the autopsy and so now we're getting evidence that she most likely didn't take her own life."
But the other key piece of evidence that they didn't have in the Ellen Greenberg
case is we have CCTV footage of the the hallways of the apartments on that floor.
Where they they did have some surveillance in the apartment of the Ellen Greenberg case but not on that
floor. Yes, and we're going to dive into that. I want to get into this pathology
report that the pathology report is inconclusive in terms of pointing to a single injury that caused Nikki's death,
but it absolutely indicates foul play at the hands of another. There there was a
gash on the back of her head approximately 4 cm in length with a few parallel cuts along the back
of her neck. So, her skull had been fractured but it could not be confirmed that it was severe enough to kill her.
However, Nikki was hit with such force that it was enough to render her unconscious.
Pathologists suspect that she had been attacked by a third party who picked up something ceramic with both hands and
wielded it as a weapon striking her forcefully on the back of her head. Additionally, the postmortem reveals her
wounds were not self-inflicted. It is concluded that someone had possibly staged
the scene to make it appear as a suicide or possibly an accident. In the end, it
was determined that Nikki had suffered fatal wounds by the violent actions of a third party as stated in the report. In
other words, Nikki Colvinborn had been murdered. Yeah, so if I'm picking up what you're putting down,
these marks or cuts to her wrist are possibly done after the initial attack. Correct. So,
they determine what what they couldn't see at the scene is this trauma to the back of her head, to
the back of the skull. Right. >> And again, they're able to determine that she would have been knocked out and
therefore she didn't accidentally cut herself, she didn't purposely cut herself. Someone had knocked her out and
then used the knife on the wrist. Yeah, and I think if you're an investigator, you go into this scene
and you see her laying there, like you said, she's only in her underwear, and there is a towel nearby, so you have
again, some possibility that it could be a suicide or is it a homicide, and then because
she's found with basically no clothes on, you you think maybe it could be a sexually
motivated crime until you see that the bath water, to me anyways, right? And the towel, yeah. Right. And so, to
me it's like, okay, and then the location of her is basically in the entranceway of her
apartment. Mhm. So, you can go, okay, well, now we're putting the pieces of the story together. She looks like she's
about ready to take a bath and she hears something at the door or somebody's knocking at the door, so now
she has to answer the door. And so that's where you need to start asking for ear witnesses and eye
witnesses and then collecting any camera footage that you can. And and I don't want to try to I'm not trying to make
light of this at all, but this like is so much like out of a Matlock, an old Matlock storyline, where you show up to
the scene and you're trying to piece together what happened, pun intended, because they
have to piece together this chicken pot casserole dish. But you're looking at the scene and
you're like, "Okay, what's going on here? Was she filling up the tub?" And a lot of times, unfortunately, when people
take their own lives, slit their wrists, they they do it in the bathtub. And so was that what our victim here was
doing? Or did she drop this, knock this pot over, she's attempting to clean it up,
and then accidentally cuts herself? You're You're trying to sort it out without the knowledge of that massive
wound or that that that terrible head injury. And then once you discover that head injury, you're now going, "Well,
she probably was in the process of getting ready to take a bath and some something interrupted that. What could
have interrupted that?" So let's get into this investigation and and down the road that you were going here, Captain.
We We have the Beds I'm going to shorten these uh nicknames here. The Beds, the Cams,
and the Herts Major Crime Unit. This is a tri-force collaboration of regional police departments. They take over the
case. Forensic analysis began to piece the puzzle together. Blood found on shards of the broken
ceramic pieces that were found at the scene, the chicken pot, contained DNA from two
people. So one sample, of course, matched our victim, Nikki, and four other samples matched an unknown individual. A
tiny amount of DNA that did not belong to the victim was also found on that knife that was in the bleach bucket. And
police recovered a letter that was discovered in the flat in which Nikki had told her doctor she was living
in extreme fear of her half-sister, Yvonne Kayler. Now, the breakthrough in this case came
from the CCTV footage, the closed-circuit TV footage that the captain had referenced.
Well, also, law enforcement is going to find out pretty quickly all there's a protective order against
Kayler. And that Nikki basically said she "burglarized my apartment, so now we have these charges." So, they're going
to get this connection to Kayler pretty quickly. >> Investigators watched footage from the
morning of the now determined to be murder. And what are they seeing on this footage?
They see shortly before 8:30 a.m. a figure appeared in the lobby of Ivel Court. It was apparently a man dressed in a
high-visibility jacket with ginger hair, glasses, and a beard. He walked directly to Nikki's door and
knocks on the door. Nikki answered the door and as we now know, she was getting ready for a bath, answers the door
wearing a towel. Nikki probably startled, so she frantically, I'm guessing, tries to slam the door shut,
but it's of no use because the larger and stronger figure forced their way inside the home.
Now, this same individual is later seen leaving Nikki's flat. This would be several hours later. This time
carrying a bag with them, which they did not have on the way in to the flat. >> Yeah, so this individuals
they're at the time of the murder. They have taken items with them. >> [clears throat]
>> Not only just this the still images, but even the video footage, like to me it just looks like a
a guy in his maybe I'd say mid-40s, a little overweight, wearing a work boots, almost like a work
outfit. >> If you had me, and I think you'll agree with me, Captain, if you had me look at
it through very blurred vision, I would say it's a man. Right? And then when you
look at it clo- more closely, it appears to be a person in disguise. That's going to be
really the driver for this investigation as to where it's going to take them, the
investigation's going to take them. Like you said, they already have a lot of things to point them in the direction of
the sister, of the half-sister, with the exception of well, this for most parts appears to be a man on
the CCTV footage. Yeah, but then once you start looking at the build of this individual
and the height of this individual, you start going like you said. And also like you have
almost like reddish hair, like reddish-brown hair, like a wig, and then like this really dark brown
beard, and then these weird glasses. So, I think once you start looking at the height and the weight and comparing
that with Kayler, you start going, is this not a man, but is this Kayler in disguise? Well, what what they get is
they call in Nikki's nieces, the two that she's close to, Jody and Leanne. The police show the CCTV footage
separately to both of these women, and both of them have a very similar reaction, like immediately. So, Leanne
instinctively says, that's not a man I'm seeing, that appears to be a woman in disguise. And then Jody is even more
certain about what she believes she's saying seeing. She says that not only is that a man
a woman in disguise dressed as a man, she said that's my my aunt, Yvonne Kayler, padded up and masquerading as a
man in the video. And so, police are going to arrest Yvonne Kayler on suspicion of murder. Now, while she's
in custody, they're going to talk with her. A search of her phone and laptop revealed she had been looking up flights
to America via Spain, so probably planning to flee the country. And when she's confronted with the CCTV footage,
they show her the same video, and they say, you know, we got people telling us that that's you in this video.
And she says, not this is not me, and her words were, quote, I may be fat, but I'm not bowlegged.
I may [laughter] be fat, but I'm not bowlegged. And she insists it's weird because she
she has a British accent, but she kind of sounds like a hillbilly version of a British accent. I was going
to attempt to do that until you said hillbilly version. I have no idea how I I I I I I I I I
>> Anyway, to spare the listeners my poor but I'm not bowlegged. >> but I'm not bowlegged. Now, so she
insists that what she's seeing on the in the video is a man. Yeah. And she says that if it were her,
you know, cuz they're like no no this is you. Come on now. We know this is you. And
she goes no, if it if it were me the boobs would be sticking out on the figure that you're seeing here.
Yeah. But she can deny deny deny like she has before before before but her denials
crumble quickly because lab results are going to come back. They got blood on four pieces of that
ceramic chicken pot which was matched to her to Yvette Kaylor. Right. And they theorize
that while she was smart enough to remove pieces of that ceramic casserole dish the chicken pot that she
believed may have contained her blood she was dumb enough to leave a few pieces behind that did in fact
contain her blood placing her at the scene of that attack and therefore the murder. But this drives me
a little crazy. Because we know that she had to put some time and effort into gathering up items to
create a disguise. Mhm. And it's one thing to go hey well I got some black pants I'll put those on but you you got
to get some kind of worker vest. You got to get a wig. You got to put your hair up. You got to get some
glasses. You got to get a beard. And then you commit this crime and we got this bottle of bleach.
So by if we view that as evidence that she's trying to clean up the murder scene.
It seems like she went to all these great lengths to get in and I don't even think that
the the disguise was to have a ruse against Nikki. No, I think it was just to dress herself
up just to dress herself up enough for the cameras. Exactly. And that's what police would later say. You're spot on
here, my friend, because police would later say like we think that based off of what we could see when Nikki answers
the door and her reaction to what she's seeing that she must have realized, "Oh,
snap. I just opened up the door and this person's in disguise. Why would they be
in disguise? Oh, not only are they in disguise, but it appears to be my angry, violent
sister in a strange disguise." Now, this is going to lead to what's what's very quickly becoming one of my favorite
things. Another identity parade. I hope they throw candy at these. So, on August 25th, so let me go back just a
second here. I'm jumping the gun. On May 28th, 2016, Yvonne Caylor is formally charged with
the murder of her half sister. Tragically, in the weeks of follow her the murder, Nikki's mother, Renee
Hibbert Jones, passed away. On August 25th, 2016, the owners of the Harley Quinn Costume Hire,
name of a store, this is Susan Jones and Richard Rosendale, they pick Yvonne Caylor out of an
identity parade as a woman who was a customer in their store and they say she was in there buying the disguise
that she would use to commit the murder back in April back on April 22nd. Wow. >> So,
yeah, so So here's the a little more context for that story. So apparently Yvon Kaylor is making
preparations. So this is an indicator of first-degree premeditated murder. Right. Because this takes place in
April. On April 22nd, 2016, the owners of the store say Yvon Kaylor walked into their Harley Quinn Costume
Hire. This is a fancy costume {slash} dress shop. And she tells them that she's looking
for costumes for herself and for a man. And she's there to buy some costumes. And she leaves the store having
purchased a curly ginger wig, a pair of heavy-framed glasses, and a Van Dyke style beard and goatee.
So with these purchased items here, Captain, with this disguise and some padding to alter her figure, remember
the boobs can't stick out, and a high-visibility workman's jacket, Yvon Kaylor would become
unrecognizable as a woman via CCTV footage or cameras or maybe even the casual observer.
But apparently not to her half-sister. Well, it's just back to the premeditation. Yes, buying a the costume
in April, it's like cut got her instead of got him. Got her. But I would say dressing up and going to
the apartment, to me, that that's enough for to true to make it first-degree murder
cuz there was premeditation cuz you dressed up going into the apartment. It it it's alarming how premeditated
this was. When you drag it that far back in the timeline. Yvonne Caylor's trial began in November
of 2016. This is the Luton Crown Court. We have prosecutor John Price who laid out the Crown's case to the jury of
seven men and five women. He detailed the bitter history between the two and the upcoming
burglary trial. And stating that Yvonne Caylor's clear motive was to silence the key witness
against her. And you know, I I would say probably also seeking some form of revenge here. He showed the jury the
CCTV footage pointing out the crude disguise and the fact that the person was wearing gloves in late May, a clear
attempt he says to hide their identity from the cameras and potential of fingerprints.
Price described how Yvonne Caylor had murdered her sister and then spent three hours inside the flat staging the scene
and left with a bag of evidence though she had missed the crucial blood-stained shards. On December 8th, Yvonne Caylor
took the stand in her own defense. Imagine that. You would If I told you this story, Captain,
I know you would wager a Franklin that this woman would take [laughter] she would take the stand and deny, deny,
deny, right? So Liar, liar, pants on fire. Right? You must be lying cuz your pants
are on fire. When when she takes the I've been told it's called the witness box, she's hobbling up to the witness
stand because she's she's got a walking stick. She adamantly maintained her innocence claiming a back injury would
have made it impossible for her to overpower her younger sister. She denied ever being in the costume shop. She
denied calling a locksmith. She denied returning to Nikki's flat after she was evicted. She denied all this stuff even
though we have evidence and eyewitnesses. I mean, we have a locksmith saying, "Yep, that's the lady
that let me that told me that she was locked out of her apartment. I'm the one that helped her break in. We
have the store owners also saying, "This is the lady that came in to buy this costume."
It's ridiculous how some of these people can just lie and lie and lie and and I I just wonder, I'd love to know
what's inside their head. Like, are they are they thinking, "Well, if I just lie about this, people are
going to believe me?" I mean, it's ridiculous. Makes you think of Casey Anthony a bit, huh?
And also, great song, Shaggy, "It Wasn't Me." It wasn't me. It wasn't me. I don't
know what she's talking about. Wasn't me. But Casey Anthony, another bitcheroonie bitcherooniedoonie. On
December 14th, both sides gave their closing statements. The defense argued the evidence was circumstantial and that
analyst that they called had suggested the figure on the CCTV could have been a man. The prosecution countered, {quote}
"That was disingenuous, distasteful deceit by the woman who had entered Ivel Court that morning and
murdered her sister." {end quote} The jury retired on December 16th after just 7 hours of deliberation, they
returned and on the 19th of December 2016, Yvon Caylor was found unanimously guilty of the murder of her half sister,
Nikki. Two days later on the 21st, the judge handed down her sentence. Appalled by her complete lack of remorse, he
looked directly at her and said, "You are a violent, dishonest, deceitful person, and ultimately a selfish,
heartless killer." And quote. He sentenced her to life in prison with a minimum term of 20 years. And as she was
led away, Yvette Kailer stone-faced swore at Nikki's family members in the public gallery. Her family,
the very foundation of Nikki's life, had finally seen the truth brought to light
and the person responsible for her death held accountable. Yeah. It's It's very tragic because Nikki did seem to want a
relationship with family members, and she wanted to help her family members, like you said.
Because Kailer went to the states so early in Nikki's life, they didn't have much of a relationship. So, I don't
think she realized what kind of individual she was getting involved with. >> It's
2026. Several years have passed since the jury delivered justice for the murder of
Nikki Kailer. And her story, a tragic tale of a fractured family bond that began years earlier, spanning two
continents, and culminating in a meticulously planned act of violence, her killer wrapped in a disguise but
caught on camera, and caught when the plot was foiled by good, solid police work. More than anything, Nikki wanted
to be a mom herself, and everyone in her orbit agreed she would have made a great
one. But tragically, Nikki would never get the chance to have her own children because of her violent, selfish, and
disgusting half-sister Yvette. And while we cannot bring Nikki back, and she will
forever be missed, it is solved cases like this that gives us hope that unsolved homicide cases with
perpetrators caught on camera like the murder of Chelsea Small in November of 2013 in Taylor, Michigan,
Missy Beavers in April of 2016 in Midlothian, Texas, and then we have the disappearance of
Jennifer Kesse in January of 2006 in Orlando, Florida, as well as the more recent Nancy Guthrie case reported
missing February 1st in Tucson, Arizona will result in locating the missing women and bringing all offenders to
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On May 23rd 2016, police responded to a flat where a dead young woman was found by her family. The evidence found at the scene proved this to be a homicide. Police were able to quickly recover CCTV footage from building where the victim had lived alone. The footage showed a man on his way to murder 26 year old Nikki Collingbourne. Next to Nikki's body detectives located fragments of the now infamous murder weapon.

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Brief Summary

Nikki Collingbourne was murdered by her half-sister Yvonne Caylor after a tumultuous relationship and escalating tensions.

Key points

Sisters Reunite. Nikki Collingbourne opens her home to her estranged half-sister Yvonne Caylor, seeking connection.
A Bitter Fallout. Nikki's attempt to reconnect with Yvonne leads to a violent altercation and police involvement.
Burglary Charges. Nikki files a complaint against Yvonne for burglary after discovering items missing from her flat.
Nikki's Terrifying Reality. Nikki barricades herself in fear of her sister Yvette, who has been released on bail.
The Discovery. Nikki's lifeless body is found by family members, leading to a shocking investigation.
CCTV Footage Reveals All. CCTV footage shows a figure entering Nikki's flat, leading to a breakthrough in the case.

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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