'Sep 27, 2023
Family members of Elaine Nix said they are still hoping new leads will come from sharing Elaine’s story with the public.'
Family members of Elaine Nix said they are still hoping new leads will come from sharing Elaine’s story with the public.
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''Gwinnett County Police said 18-year-old Elaine Nix was found dead after disappearing 24 years ago, and her killer is still walking free.''
''Nix said that on the night that Elaine vanished, she received an angry message on her pager from her then-boyfriend and quickly headed to a payphone on Candler Road in Hall County to call him and talk about it.
Investigators said the phone call to her boyfriend lasted two hours, and early the next morning police found Elaine’s car abandoned at the payphone.
Nine days later police said they found her body in Gwinnett County behind a building off Candler Highway in Gwinnett County.''
“Phone records prove that she was on the phone for a little bit over an hour, but he won’t tell us what they talked about,” Boyd said.
Nix’s naked body was found in a wooded area.
Investigators said there were no signs of trauma, and she wasn’t raped.
However, family members said an autopsy ruled her death an undetermined homicide.
“We were told that a possibility was either suffocation or strangulation,” Boyd said.''