Welcome to what's a crime i'm Linda and today we're going to be talking about
an arizona dad to two young children and a loving husband named Nick Cordova.
Nick was killed on wednesday may 27th at his place of business in gilbert
arizona and his killers are still on the loose
but one of them was caught on camera and now
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nick cordova was only 40 years old he has a beautiful wife
alicia who he's been with for 17 years and they have
two beautiful young children together ages eight
and five nick bought a business around a year and a half ago
called gilbert air which is an hvac company
they service and install air conditioners and do heating services
as well now nick's goal he shared with his wife
was to build the business for five years sell it and then spend some quality time
with his family he worked there from monday to friday
and like any business owner he did the grind
of many hours at the office sometimes not getting home till midnight and
sometimes working the weekends nick also had a
silent partner in his business the silent
partner was known to pop in about once a month or so but that week
he was in the office monday tuesday and wednesday from my understanding nick was
killed as i mentioned on wednesday may 27th almost two months ago
and i did have a chat with alicia nick's wife
and she talked to me and told me what happened from her point of view that day
and i want to thank tyson draper for contacting me and asking me to
please cover this case and for also connecting alicia with me
as well so thank you tyson i really appreciate
it and i appreciate that you're covering this case as well
my hope is that we can get enough eyes on the suspects involved
and get justice for nick and bring some peace to alicia and her family
so according to alicia at 5 25 pm she was home with the kids and the kids
had learned a really cool trick from tiktok
so they wanted to facetime daddy and let them know about it
now at this point alicia said she was in the kitchen doing dishes
but she could hear the kids chatting with daddy
a few minutes later around 5 28 pm their daughter says something's wrong
with daddy so alicia grabs the phone she takes a look at it and she said it
was as if somebody almost butt dialed because it
was all white and you couldn't see him but you could hear almost moaning or
yelling in the background she wasn't quite sure but she's yelling
at the phone at this point that whoever it is that she's calling
the cops and they're on their way so alicia calls 911 by 5
30 p.m only five minutes later alicia then
grabs the kids puts them in the car and heads to gilbert air
she also calls nick's mom teresa by the time she arrives the police are
already there she tells the kids to stay in the car
she gets out of the car and there's already police tape surrounding the
building police officers approach her and she's
asking where's nick did they take him to the hospital where is he
and she said they just kind of blank stared her she said it felt like hours
and finally a young guy had come up to her and said
that he's gone she said she fell down to the ground
and her hands she said she just remembers it being so hot because the
pavement was hot she just couldn't believe what was going
on and she just said here she is with
strangers and finding out that that her beloved
husband has died alicia describes nick
as he was the kindest man i'd ever known and he didn't deserve this
and his heart is as big as his smile now let's do a little mini deep dive
into the timeline and the details as i mentioned earlier nick's business
is called gilbert air here is where it is located
and when you look at the actual building you can see where gilbert air is
it's almost in the middle what's interesting
is the south of the building there are parking spaces and it's a one-way lane
heading from east to west you can also see
a one-way do not enter sign at the end of the building
here are the doors to the shop it's suite number
13. now on wednesday gilbert air was open from 7am until 5pm that's when they
close up shop nick was known to keep the doors locked
after hours now at 5 05 pm the office manager leaves for the day
now my question is does this door automatically lock or
do they have to manually open it i know i saw in
tyson's video that he's seen ringing the doorbell stay
tuned for that answer i'm gonna have a chat with him and
see what that was about if it was just a lunch hour or whatever time it was
i meant to ask him but it'll be after this video
so 20 minutes later at 5 25 pm nick's two kids facetime him to tell him
about that new trick they learned from tiktok three minutes later at 5 28
pm their daughter says to their mom that
something's not right with daddy alicia looks at the phone it looks white
the she hears muffled voices she screams to
leave nick alone and that she's calling the cops by 5 30
pm alicia calls 9-1-1 now alicia notes at
this time that nick never mentioned over the phone
anything about having anybody in the store
or talking to anybody or anything of that nature nothing
and after calling 911 alicia leaves her house and then heads to gilbert air
now sometime between 5 25 pm and 5 31 pm nick
is murdered now alicia mentioned that she believes the time to be around
5 29 p.m because she said she didn't hear
anything before that while they were on the call so she
believes that it must have been around 5 29 p.m now nick's
silent partner was also in that building when this happened now not much
is known about what happened to him and his side of the story except alicia
said that he thinks he may have been hit or struck and passed out
so i do have a few questions about the silent partner
i've already seen quite a few of you do i
have a few as well stay tuned for that now my question is
too is how did these guys get into the place
like if if that door was locked did they knock at the door and
if so who let them in was it nick or was it the silent partner
and it wasn't like it was 502 pm where they just
missed closing of the shop this was 25 minutes minimum 25 minutes
after closing and why are you going to an
air conditioning place to cause havoc i mean in my opinion this
is a weird place to choose if they wanted to steal
something and if they are going to steal something what are they going to steal
the air conditioners those were at the back of the shop
nothing was stolen from my understanding but these guys came from the front door
and there also is video cameras around the building so i am curious
was that door locked already or not now at 5
33 pm the suspects are seen at a gas station
just a two minute drive away it's at an arco
on cooper and guadalupe roads now one of the suspects walks into the
store says something hands them money and
leaves have a look
the man is described as a hispanic or native american male approximately five
foot eight and a heavyset build now right away
my observation on this is that this is really strange
they just killed someone and then they go
to a gas station two minutes away and are shown on camera also
the cameras are also at the buildings so this to me is really really strange
and of course also the choice of business that they chose
and i replayed this surveillance video a few times
and this was just like i said minutes after nick was killed
and this guy seems larija as he walks into the store
in my opinion and also i noticed that he was wearing
boots and it looked almost like work boots so naturally i wonder does this
guy work in some sort of construction job or
landscaping job or something he also has some white
spots on his shirt that i observed you can see
that right there and then i thought well maybe this guy's
a painter or a drywaller or something what do you think in the comments below
also when i look at the weather for that day on
wednesday may the 27th it was 40 degrees it's
hot and pretty hot for boots like that in my opinion as for the authorities
gilbert police said this based on our investigation we believe this is an
isolated incident and are continuing to follow up on additional
leads and if you have any information on the suspect or
nick's murder you're urged to call gilbert police at 480-503-650
or silent witness at 480 witness and i will have that information
also in the description below now also there
is a 10 000 reward and i am
asking you to do me and the family a favor
screenshot this guy's face right here screenshot him and post him where
humanly possible send it to your friend or
family member in arizona climb on a face group tweet this
guy's face whatever you can do put it out there please and i was
inspired the other day by sheriff grady judd
from polk county florida he's the sheriff
who has been in the news recently regarding the frost-proof murders
and if you don't know of him he's known to
help solve a lot of homicides and very quickly
and very little ones left unsolved and so he said that he approaches these
cases as if the person was a family member
so i ask you this please treat nick as if he was your brother your cousin your
son your best friend what could you do to
help and please share this suspect's picture
somebody somewhere knows something and knows this guy
he can't hide forever now alicia says this
to the man who did this shame on you you took my children's father from them
and my husband of 17 years our family is never going to recover from this we're
never going to be okay just finding the people behind this
will give us some sort of closure if possible she also said i'm trying to
stay strong for them but it's so hard to be strong when you're dying inside
she said life has been a nightmare a living
nightmare my kids miss their dad i miss their dad
and it's completely horrific that not only alicia finds
out that her husband has been murdered but she has to go home and tell her two
kids that their daddy is no longer coming
home now in tyson's video that he covered and
i will put that in the description below alicia was wearing a shirt to honor nick
and it actually had the words fajia on it it looked like a license
plate and she said it was one of nick's
favorite saying he would actually instead of cursing he
would actually say fudge yeah let's go do
that so i thought that was pretty cool that she had a shirt and
it has an arizona skyline on it she explains it in the video
and on the back of the picture it has a picture of nick
and him with a truck and he's been restoring a truck for the last three
years in and it's in texas alicia mentioned
that she's also going to be getting that finished up the
restoration and have that truck sent back and she
will give it to her son and she said that nick would want him to
have it now there's also a gofundme for alicia and her family
and when i looked they haven't yet reached their goal i will put that in
the description below and in the pinned comment right below this
video nick was a passionate man he loved his wife he loved his
children he loved his family and there are so
many nice messages about nick he didn't have any
enemies so this is a head scratcher and he was
hard-working he had an end goal you know in five years to just be able
to spend time with his family and just enjoy life and now he doesn't
get that opportunity and think about this if these guys
aren't caught who's to say the next person isn't
someone you know or someone you love the cops did say
that this was isolated but if these people are capable to doing
this to a family man to nick
they are certainly capable of doing it to someone else
and i hope they are caught so alicia and her family can have a little bit of
peace and their family doesn't have to live in fear anymore
please support nick and his family by putting a hashtag
fudgya in the comments below please share this out where you can and get
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