Our card this week is Nicole "Nikki" Silvers, the 5 of Diamonds from Colorado. Nicole "Nikki" Silvers was last seen on April 9th, 2014 around 3 a.m. walking into a house in Longmont, Colorado where she had been temporarily living. The 16-year-old has not been seen or heard from since. If you know anything about Nikki’s whereabouts, or what happened to her, please call the Weld County, Colorado, Sheriff’s Office at 970-400-2827. To learn more about The Deck, visit www.thedeckpodcast.com. To apply for the Cold Case Playing Cards grant through Season of Justice, visit www.seasonofjustice.org
Nikki, a happy and free-spirited teenager, vanished in the spring of 2014 and left behind some of her belongings in her open bedroom. Her parents didn't expect her to move back home after realizing the difficulties of working and going to school without any parental support.
Police report Nikki Shields as a runaway and deputies file an alert to notify Weld County if she is found by other authorities, while investigators continue to explore possible leads in the case.
The detectives investigate Nikki's home life and discover that teachers had signed her up for a program to receive clothing donations before her disappearance. Nikki's phone received a text, which was the last one before it was either turned off or died, asking where she was.
After receiving a lead about Nikki Shoholm's disappearance, Weld County authorities followed up by questioning the men who lived at the house where her car had been found, but none of them recognized her or had seen her. In 2016, another law enforcement agency came across her broken down car just a few miles away from her last known location.
The disappearance of Nikki LaDue January, who was last seen by her sister going back inside a house on April 9, 2014, remains a mystery as there are no direct clues as to what happened to her after that point. Jessica, Nikki's friend, told detectives that their conversations that night were normal and that Nikki went back inside the house before she left.