Interview with Nick, Roadside assistance guy.
AWP - So we just got out of Best Buy after picking up some supplies here in Reno, NV. We're on our way to work the Kiely Rodney case just down the street in Truckee, CA and Nick, a long time supporter fan of ours... appreciate you for coming up to us, possibly has some information in regards to the Kiely Rodney case, so why don't you explain a little bit about what what you may have run into.
Nick - So, my name is Nick. I work at a emergency roadside assistance programme. I got a call up in Truckee, Boca, for a battery call, so pretty much that means the vehicle can't start. So I went en route up there, found the vehicle. At the time I didn't realise that this was a situation until later on but...
AWP - Let me stop you right there. You said you went to Boca?
Nick - Yes sir.
AWP - So, over near Boca lake?
Nick - Yes Sir.
AWP - So, not Prosser Lake? Prosser Creek Lake?
Nick - It's right by Prosser Creek.
AWP - Yeah, so just north? So you went to Boca?
Nick - At first, when I went there, I realised after my test that, you know, everything was working great on the vehicle. At that point in time I did notice that like, she was very hesitant and very sceptical on everything that was going on. She was asking me really weird questions, like in the sense of - 'how do you put on your seatbelt correctly?' and like...okay and she asked me to show her on how to connect it to like her actual belt. After that she was stating on how she was there all night and she can't get her vehicle started due to the fact that, now we both realised, it was in neutral. She was wearing a sweatshirt, so it looks like she has been there for quite a while.
AWP - What colour was the sweatshirt?
Nick - It was a grey sweatshirt.
AWP - Was it dark grey, or light grey?
Nick - It was light grey, yeah. Also, there was a guy there that was with her, at time being. He was wearing a black San Francisco flat top ball cap facing forwards, brown hair sticking out just a little bit on the sides. It was kinda like...they were both kinda at unease, is what it looked like for me, like as if either had like a crazy night or a crazy day...there's something going on, I couldn't know and at the time I didn't realise what was going on, but other than that he was.... I mean a thinner built guy is the best way I could put it, with a bro tank and it was white bro tank. He had some freckles on his face, maybe, or like...like maybe it's like acne or what not, but it was on both sides of his face. Oh and he was also a little bit like shorter than me, so I'm 6ft 3.
AWP - In hindsight, you're realising all of this. When do you think that this took place? Was it before? During the day? After she disappeared?
Nick - To be honest with you, it's either right after she disappeared or right before she disappeared, but it was around noon'ish, like 11 o'clock in the morning when I got out to her. During that period of time....after the period, I told her that I was gonna leave and hope you have a great day. Vehicle - I told her to keep it running for a couple of hours to obviously make sure everything's working good on the vehicle, charging system wise. At that point in time, then I left and a week later is when I saw, at a coffee shop, that she was gone.
AWP - You saw this on a flyer or something?
Nick - Yeah, but then everything spiralled out of control and I got in contact with the detective and tried to do everything I could and... yeah... and then I saw you guys.
AWP - Now we know we probably have a tie to Boca, you know, which was already on my radar. Do you know who placed the call to your roadside company?
Nick - So I don't get details. Calls don't go through me, they go through...
AWP - Dispatch? So, you don't have...
AWP - So, when you were digitally dispatched, did you call them to say you were coming or you just showed up?
Nick - I did call and nothing went through, it went straight to voicemail.
AWP - Do you know if she had a phone on her at the time?
Nick - She did say that her phone was dead and so she used whatever died. Whoever this was, she used his phone. So that's how she did get in contact.
AWP - And what was...you mentioned like she was asking funny questions and acting weird.
Nick - Right and at the time I didn't realise, again, that's..
AWP - Yeah, yeah, I mean, being I... I've been in the towing industry my whole life, so you see a lot of crazy stuff, a lot of weird stuff and it's actually pretty normal, you know. So I can see why at the time it's just....just a normal call.
Nick - She kept on going over that like - 'How do you like, you know, how do you secure your seat belt, like, firmly and like do it correctly' and that's when I...
AWP - When she was asking this - was the guy that she was with right there too?
Nick - He was on the opposite side of the car.
AWP - So he could hear the conversation as well?
Nick - Every single time the guy would come over to us, she would go on to the other side and it was just like a back and forth, like a tag team, but say like one person would come over, she wouldn't stay near him and then they would go vice versa. Or if we were at the front of the car, going about the battery and talking about the battery, he was always on one side, she was on the other. They were never close to each other.
AWP - She was uncomfortable? Yeah, yeah, yeah that screams awkwardness and someone being uncomfortable and when in that the scenario - If he was there with her, he should have been right next to her. If not, if not. Dealing with you the entire time and not not not her. Did she seem high or intoxicated or...?
Nick - I thought that maybe she was either hungover or just had a really rough day. She looked distressed.
AWP - Can you show me on the map where you saw her?
Nick - Absolutely.
AWP - So we're here in Reno. Let's go down to Truckee, there's Prosser, there's Boca. Just drop a pin on the road, exactly where you saw her.
Nick - Boca, you come in...you follow this road down. I think that is a turnout right there Yeah this is it. And so, right there - how she was coming out this way.
AWP - So her front end was facing 84 from A94?
Nick - Yeah.
AWP - And did you leave before her? Or did she leave before you?
Nick - I left before her.
AWP - Was there anybody else around?
Nick - There was people far back here, yes, but not near her, no.
AWP - Did you notice anything in particular in her car at all? I mean...
Nick - I mean, besides perfume bottles and like...yeah actually there was a perfume bottle that was in the centre consul and that was all that I recall to be honest.
AWP - Did she have anything on her keys at all..?
Nick - I don't remember.
AWP - Did you say that you guys have cameras that could possibly get some sort of facial recognition on...
Nick - Yeah, so we do indeed. We have cameras facing front and rear of our vehicles as well as that we do have like audio, so we could pick up audio from inside and outside of the truck. So we did have that and I'm guaranteeing, I mean, my vehicles facing directly towards hers. So that's how I normally do it for my protection.
AWP - What's the window you're giving us, of when this happened?
Nick - Either Friday, Saturday or Sunday, I believe one of the...cos.... the weekends I usually cover Truckee. So, that Friday I also worked in Truckee. So, yeah.
AWP - If you were to make a bet on what day it was, what would you say?
Nick - I.....I mean when I was looking back under my GPS on my phone, where I've been.. I was there both on Saturday and Sunday, farther into Boca.
AWP - Everything you just heard unfolded right here where I'm standing. Talking about where Nick described him parking his service van when he pulled up to give the battery service to Kiely he parked his van right here, facing that direction. Her vehicle was parked right over here, facing A94. That way..
