A young Florida woman who said screaming voices in her head made her kill her mother and stepfather has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in their shooting deaths.
The double homicide took place last week in the upscale community of Carrollwood and left residents there both anxious and perplexed … until the victims’ 21-year-old disturbed daughter was located by detectives.
Under interrogation, Nicole Nachtman confessed to the crime, saying she shot her 67-year-old police-officer stepdad Robert Dienes first, then lay in wait all night for her naval-reserve mom to come home before gunning her down in cold blood, too.
The bullet-riddled body of Myriam Dienes, 56, was later found in the next-door neighbor’s driveway where the woman may have fled for help or crawled to while dying.
No one actually saw either Dienes being shot, but a neighbor across the street told reporters she “heard bang, bang, bang,” early in the morning and that her husband “opened the front door to see if he could see anything, and he didn't.”
The suspect reported that after she killed her mother she briefly “passed out,” fleeing the crime scene once she regained consciousness again and just before 911 responders arrived.
An unnamed witness, who Nachtman confided in about her show of violence and the “screaming voices in her head” that urged her to kill her parents, assisted in the murder investigation.
A Sheriff’s spokesman announced this week that Nicole Nachtman will likely remain jailed without bond and assigned a public defender.
