CA- Nichole 'Nikki' Coats, 32, model, told friends she was going out on a date, found deceased in her apt, Los Angeles, 10 Sept 2023

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What to know about aspiring models Maleesa Mooney and Nichole Coats

LOS Angeles residents Maleesa Mooney and Nichole Coats were nearby neighbors both aspiring to be models. The two were found dead in their apartments days apart and many want to know more about the …

www.the-sun.com

• Ashley Vega Sep 18 2023

''Maleesa Mooney, 31, and Nichole "Nikki" Coats, 32, were aspiring models living in the downtown Los Angeles area.

Apart from modeling, Mooney worked as a real estate agent at a Beverly Hills-based agency called Nest Seekers.

Additionally, Mooney was the sister of pop singer, Jourdin Pauline.

Coats worked as an assistant sales manager for an LA brand called HATCH COLLECTIVE.

In 2015, Coats received her Bachelor's degree in Fashion Merchandising from California State University, Long Beach.

Through their modeling aspirations, the two accumulated a hefty amount of followers on their social media accounts.''

''On September 10, 2023, Nichole Coats was found dead in her apartment by her aunt after she stopped responding to texts.

According to her family, she was headed on a date two days before she was found dead.''

 

[otto]

From the link (and quoted previously) this really stands out (imo)

“I couldn’t recognize her,” her aunt May Stevens told KTLA. “I believe it was murder, I really do. One of her legs was up in the air in a kicking position. That’s not somebody who just laid in their bed and died.”

When I read that, I thought it must be rigor, and the body was moved after rigor set in.

However, if she went on a questionable date 2 days before she was found, then it wasn't rigor. Her leg that was "up in the air in a kicking position" must have been supported by something. Rigor left the body after 24 hours, she wasn't found for 48 hours.

"Rigor mortis appears approximately 2 hours after death in the muscles of the face, progresses to the limbs over the next few hours, completing between 6 to 8 hours after death.[10] Rigor mortis then stays for another 12 hours (till 24 hours after death) and then disappears."​

Methods of Estimation of Time Since Death - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

 

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Nichole 'Nikki' Coats - Google Search

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Sept 16 2023

Model found dead in downtown L.A. apartment; second case in a week

Loved ones are distraught after a young model was found dead inside her apartment in downtown Los Angeles, marking the second time a similar incident has occurred within a week. Family members who …

ktla.com

“This is senseless and I want some answers because my daughter is gone,” said Sharon Coats, Nikki’s mother. “And it’s not fair. I want everybody to find out who did this to her. She shouldn’t be gone.”

“We need to know what happened,” said May Stevens, Nikki’s aunt.

The last time anyone heard from Nikki, she told friends she was going out on a date on Friday, Sept. 8. That would be her last conversation with loved ones.

When she didn’t answer any calls or texts that weekend, her father and aunt decided to visit her apartment complex, Eighth & Grand on Sept. 10.''

That’s when they made the gut-wrenching discovery. Sharon said the scene was gruesome and her daughter’s bed was found bloodied.

“I couldn’t recognize her,” Stevens recalled of the discovery. “I believe it was murder, I really do. One of her legs was up in the air in a kicking position. That’s not somebody who just laid in their bed and died.”

Sharon said her daughter didn’t have any enemies and was loved by friends and the community. She wants answers and for the suspect to be caught before they potentially strike again.

“I don’t know who she went out with or what transpired there,” Sharon said. “I have no idea but I’m going to find out. So if you’re out there, you’re going to get caught. You’re messing with the wrong person.”


''Nikki’s death marks the second case of a model found dead in their apartment in downtown L.A.''

BBM

This claim: "One of her legs was up in the air in a kicking position [when she was found dead]. That’s not somebody who just laid in their bed and died.” It is probably not true, unless her leg was supported by something. That is, her leg was not up in the air kicking when she was found 24-48 hours after death.

I'm curious why the family made this claim - muscles tensed in a kicking position 48 hours after death. Are they afraid the medical examiner will rule the death natural or accidental?

Sept 8 is last known contact with family. Sept 10 was body discovery.

What can the family tell us about her lifestyle? She was an influencer, which means she shared a lot of personal life online with strangers. Did she have a partner, or was she dating? If she was dating, what does her family know about this?

If two influencer models who live near each other were murdered within days, it sounds like a serial killer of social media influencers. That's a new idea! If the first was not murder, and the second was, then the boyfriend(s) have to first be ruled out.

 

[otto]

So ... what is going on?

Family claims the dead body had one leg kicking in the air 48 hours after she was last known to be alive? We know that is impossible, so what is going on with the family to making such bizarre claims?

Are they assuming that the general public is too stupid to know better, hoping that no one thinks about rigor mortis.

What is the family trying to say?

Was this not a murder? It looks like a murder, but one leg kicking 48 hours after death is ... whaaaaat?

 

[dotr]

So ... what is going on?

Family claims the dead body had one leg kicking in the air 48 hours after she was last known to be alive? We know that is impossible, so what is going on with the family to making such bizarre claims?

Are they assuming that the general public is too stupid to know better, hoping that no one thinks about rigor mortis.

What is the family trying to say?

Was this not a murder? It looks like a murder, but one leg kicking 48 hours after death is ... whaaaaat?

Leg propped up on pillows/ blankets and not seen as such in the horror of discovery? speculation

 

[SAMS]

Who was the date with?

 

[tlcya]

my heart hurts for her family. No family wants to believe that their child's own choices took them away. Much easier to be angry at some third party than deal with that fact.

 

[Moonstrawbs]

Have they released COD?

 

[tlcya]

A budding Los Angeles model who died last month in what her family feared had been a murder actually had an accidental overdose of cocaine and booze, according to the medical examiner.
Cause of death revealed for LA model Nichole Coats whose family was convinced was murdered

 

[Moonstrawbs]

A budding Los Angeles model who died last month in what her family feared had been a murder actually had an accidental overdose of cocaine and booze, according to the medical examiner.
Cause of death revealed for LA model Nichole Coats whose family was convinced was murdered

Thank you!

"The beautiful, 5-foot-8 model had large bruises on her forehead and her lower lip “looked busted,” her father said. Her face was so bruised and swollen that the only way they were able to identify her was by her tattoos."

Distraught dad who found model daughter dead in luxury LA apartment ‘couldn’t recognize her face’

Nichole Coats is one of two models found dead in their respective apartments in Downtown Los Angeles just days apart, prompting fears they were both murdered.

nypost.com

 

[tlcya]

What her father saw was probably not bruising It was the initial stages of decomposition. I feel awful he had to see that.

 

[Moonstrawbs]

What her father saw was probably not bruising It was the initial stages of decomposition. I feel awful he had to see that.

I'm with you. Just wanted to post that there too. That mixed with the comments of her leg being up in a weird position... it's most likely been how traumatising seeing her in that way was and for wanting someone else to blame for what happened, but that's just my opinion. So sad for them.

 

[Lusitana]

So sad.

 

[SAMS]

It’s very possible it could’ve been both. Murder and drugs in her system. Perhaps this is the way the suspect was able to contain her.MOO

 

[acutename]

When I read that, I thought it must be rigor, and the body was moved after rigor set in.

However, if she went on a questionable date 2 days before she was found, then it wasn't rigor. Her leg that was "up in the air in a kicking position" must have been supported by something. Rigor left the body after 24 hours, she wasn't found for 48 hours.

"Rigor mortis appears approximately 2 hours after death in the muscles of the face, progresses to the limbs over the next few hours, completing between 6 to 8 hours after death.[10] Rigor mortis then stays for another 12 hours (till 24 hours after death) and then disappears."​

Methods of Estimation of Time Since Death - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

do not really know how long after the "date" she died.

 

[DS2021]

A budding Los Angeles model who died last month in what her family feared had been a murder actually had an accidental overdose of cocaine and booze, according to the medical examiner.
Cause of death revealed for LA model Nichole Coats whose family was convinced was murdered

Didnt the family say here sheets were covered in blood?

 

[Gemmie]

Family claims the dead body had one leg kicking in the air 48 hours after she was last known to be alive?

SBMFF

Her family didn't say the leg was kicking in the air, they said one leg was up in the air "in a kicking position". Either way, I'm not able to wrap my head around how a dead person's leg can be up in the air when she was found. I doubt it was propped up because you don't prop your leg up if you're kicking. So, if it looked like it was in a kicking position, yet didn't fall to the side, or back down on the back, how in the world could this be possible? Does anyone have any ideas how something like that would work because I have nothing.

I'd like to know if she was clothed, or nude (at least from the waist down). It kinda sounds like a posed body to me (in a sexually suggestive way with 1 leg up so as to expose herself).

"“I couldn’t recognize her,” Stevens recalled of the discovery. “I believe it was murder, I really do. One of her legs was up in the air in a kicking position. That’s not somebody who just laid in their bed and died.”"

Two models found dead in downtown L.A. apartments in last week

Two models have been found dead inside their luxury apartments in downtown Los Angeles within the last week, authorities confirmed Saturday night.

www.latimes.com