Tragedies and accidents DO happen, no matter how horrific. Ezra's mother Kaila was pregnant with his baby sister at the time & had a wreck when she got the call, running on foot from the wreck to the scene. She allegedly wasn't told the full scope of what happened by police so as to avoid jeopardizing her current pregnancy, which may have affected her decisions going forward. Tracey's husband Nun Ney was allegedly out running errands or similar and came home to chaos.
While their relationship was understandably strained for a while, Kaila and mother Tracey eventually rebuilt their trust and she agreed to leave her new daughter with grandma again for a short time while getting her nails done. Tracey promised she would be with a group of friends so Kaila allegedly trusted that nothing bad would happen in that short window. Whether this was a smart move is a subjective call, but babysitters and daycare costs are not cheap. However, that's something that must be considered BEFORE having a baby. We don't know if money was a factor in her decision to leave her daughter Uriel with her mom or not. Either way, she couldn't have predicted the double tragedy that would unfold back when she got pregnant with her 2nd child.
Because on November 22, 2022, Tracey Nix repeated her fatal mistake, this time "forgetting" a whole-ass child in a scorching hot car in the garage for the entire afternoon while she went inside & played piano. Once again, her husband came home to a nightmare, finding baby Uriel dead in the back seat of the car. He tried to revive her but had no luck.
The family, in happier times
Accidental vs. Premeditated
In my mind there's only one remotely acceptable reason for this unlikely tragedy and that's a neurocognitive disease like dementia. But even in that case, her 3 fail-safes--her daughter, husband & son-in-law--should've known better than to leave not one but TWO small helpless children alone with her. And in no universe should anyone be legally allowed to watch a child after one dies in their care, intentional or not.
The other two possibilities for why this happened are very dark: substance abuse or intentional double homicide. Not only did this woman "forget" and leave a child to die in a hot car--something that has happened to other parents before her--she fell asleep in the middle of the day with a toddler who was known to make escapes out that door & have a fascination with water, & she didn't rouse when he broke out & fell into a pond. And the child was forgotten in the car at her own house, which is usually not how that works. Generally a parent takes a new route to work or something & forgets the kid, or does so due to busyness while running errands and multitasking. Tracey's only task at that time was to watch the child AFTER having another die in her care.
The Clencher?
On the day of baby Uriel's death, Tracey claims to have gotten BACK in the car, put two cups of tea in it & driven it to the backyard around 4:30 p.m. As one astute Redditor pointed out, she would've most certainly smelled the dead child by that point, as she had been "cooking" all afternoon in 90+ degree temperatures. This means Tracey Nix is almost certainly lying about only remembering the child AFTER her grandson arrived.
The other two possibilities for why this happened are very dark: substance abuse or intentional double homicide. Not only did this woman "forget" and leave a child to die in a hot car--something that has happened to other parents before her--she fell asleep in the middle of the day with a toddler who was known to make escapes out that door & have a fascination with water, & she didn't rouse when he broke out & fell into a pond. And the child was forgotten in the car at her own house, which is usually not how that works. Generally a parent takes a new route to work or something & forgets the kid, or does so due to busyness while running errands and multitasking. Tracey's only task at that time was to watch the child AFTER having another die in her care.
The Clencher?
On the day of baby Uriel's death, Tracey claims to have gotten BACK in the car, put two cups of tea in it & driven it to the backyard around 4:30 p.m. As one astute Redditor pointed out, she would've most certainly smelled the dead child by that point, as she had been "cooking" all afternoon in 90+ degree temperatures. This means Tracey Nix is almost certainly lying about only remembering the child AFTER her grandson arrived.
Florida Too Easy on Child Killers
“Because somebody dies doesn’t necessarily mean that somebody has to pay." That's a direct quote from Tracey Nix's attorney William Fletcher. Sorry scum-sucker, but I have to disagree, especially when TWO somebodies under age 5 die within the span of a year at the same woman's hands. People "pay" for a lot less: writing hot checks, property crime, minor drug possession, sex work, shoplifting. WTF are prisons for if NOT for killers & other violent criminals?
The state of Florida needs to explain why anyone can crap out a kid or babysit a grandchild, kill it & say "Oops, I forgot the little bugger existed temporarily!" or "OMGz I fell asleep mid-day & didn't hear him peace out & go swimming with the fishesss" or "What she's with Zanny the Nanny of course I didn't kill her oh her that smell that's just a skunk my dad molested me he probably killed her too look a paparazzo." Why don't children have full protection from murder under the law? Do they even count as 3/5ths of a human being? I'd say they don't if it's legal to murder them & blame fatigue or a bad memory. I don't have kids or even like kids particularly and even I think this is egregious.
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| At her hearing. Wait, why are they hugging?! |
The fact that she was a school principal has no bearing on anything--reporters keep regurgitating it like it absolves her of killing 2 kids. It doesn't. We've all known people in "helping" professions who straight up didn't belong there; I personally had a family member who was a beloved elementary school principal for over 30 years--that person's chosen disciplinary method in the home was "pick a switch from the tree". Whether that applies to Tracey Nix we'll never know unless these cowardly journalists, family members, friends & everyone who claims to have given a damn about those dead babies doesn't step up and demand answers. And before you cite HIPAA: it doesn't apply to police records, 9/11 calls or family matters.
Double Standards
The treatment of child killers vs. people (usually women/children) who stand up to their tormentors by using guns for their intended 2nd Amendment purpose of self-defense is backward & unacceptable. Gypsy Rose Blanchard just did 7 years on a 10-year sentence for killing her abuser, a monster who tortured her medically for the duration of her life while using her fake medical issues to defraud charities. The Menendez brothers are doing life for killing their parents, both of whom sexually molested & raped them as well as physically brutalizing them for decades. The documentary "The Perfect Victim" is full of similar stories of battered women doing 25-life for protecting themselves against certain death at the hands of their abusers.
How a demographic is treated in the courts is a real-world reflection of how much (or little) their lives are valued by society as a whole. Dark-skinned Black & brown people, the poor, children, women, immigrants, religious minorities & the disabled are at the bottom of the food chain, with those belonging to more than one of these categories serving as nothing more than warm bodies to occupy cells in our bloated prison system.
On the other hand, if dementia or another progressive, terminal brain disease is present in the Tracey Nix case, this is an incredibly fair & just ruling. It's just that we lack the information to make that call right now so everyone rushing in to say "it's probably dementia, guys. My ___ had it too and her symptoms were identical" is giving a potential drug-addled double child murderer a pass. Ask yourself honestly whether you'd be doing that if said killer was 380 lbs, schizophrenic, ugly, dirt poor & Black with a history of homelessness & petty crime. Somehow I think the fvck NOT.
The Parents' Role
And what of the kids' two parents who made the decision not once but TWICE to leave their kids with this negligent (at best) person? Are we going to let the "they've suffered enough" defense stand as if they're the primary victims here? Let's not forget that two precious babies died horrible deaths and THEY are the real victims. And they died because 4 consenting adults repeatedly chose to make the same mistakes/choices.
I don't question whether the mom & dad are truly suffering--I know they are. I just think that negligence deserves the same punishment as malice because the outcome is the damn same. Having children is a CHOICE, the most important one you'll ever make, yet the kids have no say in whether they exist or who their parents are. Therefore there must be a consequence when guardians fail to protect them from serious harm. Heck, it's right there in the name: guard~ian. What role does Tracey's husband play in all this? If he left Ezra in Tracey's care while she was asleep as she claimed in the incident report, that makes him at least as culpable for Ezra's death.
And what about that courtroom hug?
While Kaila appeared to be on good terms with mother Tracey at her extension hearing, she clarified that things weren't what they seemed. Per Meaww: "the court saw Kaila hugging her mother Tracey, and crying, which came as a shock to many as the daughter previously demanded her mother to be "criminally charged".
However, Kaila cleared the air that the hug was not in support but rather a goodbye. She said, "I chose to hug her to say goodbye to my mother because things are too far gone, and so while it might've looked as a hug of support, I don't know when and if I will ever touch or look or be near her in such a way again. So I treated her like I treated my son as I removed him off of life support. I hugged her and I told her that I loved her regardless because I knew it was goodbye," states ABC Action News.
That's, like, according to HER. But who really knows?
The Dementia Defense
That's, like, according to HER. But who really knows?
The Dementia Defense
I just... it seems to me like if she had been diagnosed, even tentatively, with one of the many types of dementia, that someone would've piped up about it by now to protect what's left of her reputation & help her case. I can't imagine letting the entire world seethe at my mom, wondering what her motive might've been and projecting various dark plots onto her when she really had a rapidly shrinking brain due to a neurodegenerative disease beyond her control. Which leads me to believe it's not dementia. If I'm proven wrong I'll circle back and apologize/edit this, but for now we have absolutely no evidence that Tracey Nix's massive oversights leading to the deaths of her grandchildren were due to dementia, so you're gonna need to stop speculating on that unless & until we do. She posted frequently online & carried on with social functions up until the death of Uriel in 2022 & I've yet to hear anyone--friend, family or acquaintance--claim that she was behaving strangely or having memory lapses in the preceding months.
Also, 1 in 10 elderly people develops dementia by the age of 65 (Tracey's current age) & the number goes up to one in THREE by age 85. Even if she does have it, this would still be a bizarre and unlikely case. You'd expect to hear more cases in which grandparents or older babysitters "accidentally" kill kids in their care this way if it were merely due to dementia. Where are those stories? And why does Tracey look so unfazed in her mugshot? Dementia or not, you just found out your grandchild is DEAD because of you and THAT'S your expression?! Where's the shock, remorse, grief, regret, agony, distress, horror or pain? ANY detectable negative emotion at all?
And where is the outrage that fueled the Gabby Petito case, driving angry mobs to protest and picket on the Laundries' lawn? (Also in Florida). I'm not suggesting harassing the family, but the cops, journalists & courts DAMN SURE owe us an explanation as to what happened to those babies. A loving, stable person doesn't simply experience TWO life-destroying tragedies back-to-back like that for no reason. If anything, you'd be overly cautious any time you were near the remaining child for fear something would happen to them in your care. That's IF you had the guts to insist on watching them by yourself again at all. That's another thing: DID she insist on babysitting Uriel, or did the parents ask her to do it? Whose terrible idea was it and how reluctant (or not) were the baby's parents, if at all? There are a lot of missing details and that's unacceptable when we've got two dead babies & nobody being held accountable.
In my opinion, this can only be explained by serious drug abuse, intentional homicide or dementia. And if it's dementia it's long past time for the state to tell us so. What happened here is WORSE than the Casey Anthony case, Jonbenet Ramsey or any other case in which a single child dies in an adult's care because TWO kids are dead.
Also, 1 in 10 elderly people develops dementia by the age of 65 (Tracey's current age) & the number goes up to one in THREE by age 85. Even if she does have it, this would still be a bizarre and unlikely case. You'd expect to hear more cases in which grandparents or older babysitters "accidentally" kill kids in their care this way if it were merely due to dementia. Where are those stories? And why does Tracey look so unfazed in her mugshot? Dementia or not, you just found out your grandchild is DEAD because of you and THAT'S your expression?! Where's the shock, remorse, grief, regret, agony, distress, horror or pain? ANY detectable negative emotion at all?
And where is the outrage that fueled the Gabby Petito case, driving angry mobs to protest and picket on the Laundries' lawn? (Also in Florida). I'm not suggesting harassing the family, but the cops, journalists & courts DAMN SURE owe us an explanation as to what happened to those babies. A loving, stable person doesn't simply experience TWO life-destroying tragedies back-to-back like that for no reason. If anything, you'd be overly cautious any time you were near the remaining child for fear something would happen to them in your care. That's IF you had the guts to insist on watching them by yourself again at all. That's another thing: DID she insist on babysitting Uriel, or did the parents ask her to do it? Whose terrible idea was it and how reluctant (or not) were the baby's parents, if at all? There are a lot of missing details and that's unacceptable when we've got two dead babies & nobody being held accountable.
In my opinion, this can only be explained by serious drug abuse, intentional homicide or dementia. And if it's dementia it's long past time for the state to tell us so. What happened here is WORSE than the Casey Anthony case, Jonbenet Ramsey or any other case in which a single child dies in an adult's care because TWO kids are dead.
I believe there's something we're not being told about Kaila & Tracey's relationship dynamic. Kaila seems adamant that Tracey deserves prison, which implies she believes her mom did this intentionally... right? But we've yet to hear her give a potential motive or explanation despite doing a whole episode of Court TV via WTLS. And then there was that hug. If you truly believe it was intentional homicide of TWO of your kids, would you honestly hug the killer? I know it's your mom but those were your CHILDREN.
And Tracey's husband was conveniently absent from the home both times, coming home just in time to catch the tail end of the tragedies--what insight can he give us as to her mindstate in the preceding months? What were the redacted meds she was taking while watching Ezra and why did police take it upon themselves to withhold details about Ezra's death from his parents, who had other kids in their care to protect? You can't make informed decisions without information.
In my opinion, police should've brought all 4 adults in & interrogated them separately after Ezra's death even if they felt/knew they didn't have a criminal case due to Florida's shitty laws. Gathering info about family dynamics & motives in situations like this is absolutely vital & they were as negligent as Tracey Nix in this instance. And in no universe should cops be allowed to withhold critical info about a case from a dead child's parents. As for Floridians, you desperately need to overhaul your child abuse/protection laws because offenders keep getting away with murder on your watch. Unless you want your state to become home to the nation's domestic abusers & child killers, you might wanna start demanding that these crimes are treated with the seriousness they deserve.
Pages she follows
Skydiving in 2009
With husband Nun Ney (2009)
Old family photo w/ Tracey & her daughters
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Holding baby Ezra on her lap
Even after looking through these photos I can find nothing that would give clues as to her mind state leading up to these crimes. Maybe some of you brilliant web sleuths out there can spot something. Please note:
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And Tracey's husband was conveniently absent from the home both times, coming home just in time to catch the tail end of the tragedies--what insight can he give us as to her mindstate in the preceding months? What were the redacted meds she was taking while watching Ezra and why did police take it upon themselves to withhold details about Ezra's death from his parents, who had other kids in their care to protect? You can't make informed decisions without information.
In my opinion, police should've brought all 4 adults in & interrogated them separately after Ezra's death even if they felt/knew they didn't have a criminal case due to Florida's shitty laws. Gathering info about family dynamics & motives in situations like this is absolutely vital & they were as negligent as Tracey Nix in this instance. And in no universe should cops be allowed to withhold critical info about a case from a dead child's parents. As for Floridians, you desperately need to overhaul your child abuse/protection laws because offenders keep getting away with murder on your watch. Unless you want your state to become home to the nation's domestic abusers & child killers, you might wanna start demanding that these crimes are treated with the seriousness they deserve.
So little info is available in this case and a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are some photos I found on Tracey's social media. I took care to blur everyone's face who wasn't her or someone closely involved in this case. Check the dates on each one, some are from as far back as 2009 while others are as recent as 2022:
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Pages she follows
Skydiving in 2009
With husband Nun Ney (2009)
Old family photo w/ Tracey & her daughters
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| Kisses from grandbabies |
Holding baby Ezra on her lap
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| Last post to Tracey's Facebook page in May 2022: 5 months after Ezra's death |
Even after looking through these photos I can find nothing that would give clues as to her mind state leading up to these crimes. Maybe some of you brilliant web sleuths out there can spot something. Please note:
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