Nichole Alaway – Young Mom Now Dead After a Meeting on Myspace

The body of twenty-year-old Nichole Alaway, a mother of two, was recently found in an abandoned home in Otway, Ohio, close to five hundred miles from her home in Spring Hope, North Carolina. How did she get there? Well, rewind several months back to mid-May and Nichole was on her way to Portsouth, Ohio to meet eighteen-year-old Dillon Maring, a guy she had never met in person, but who she had talked to through Myspace for a couple of months.

Even then, however, the young Nichole felt worried her grandmother said. “She got her first foot on that step and held onto the railing, and she turned to me and said, ‘Grandma, I got a bad feeling about this.’ I said, ‘Well then, don’t go. Stay here.’ She said, ‘No, I gotta go.’”

Once in Ohio, Nichole quickly felt ill at ease, as she didn’t get along with Dillon’s friends and hadn’t yet found a place to live. After a few months, calling home regularly to check up on her kids, she asked her family to wire her some money for a bus ticket home. Ohio just wasn’t working out like she planned. The Alaway family did so, and the money was picked up, but Nichole was never heard from again.

On June 10 the family reported her missing to authorities in Portsouth and a few weeks later local police found her, twenty miles south and dead. So far the police have no official suspects, but are certainly planning on questioning Dillon Maring on the matter.

“The last day I spoke to her on the phone, she told me she loved me and I said I loved her, and that’s the last thing we said to each other,” her grandma, Dille, said.

(photo courtesy of WRAL)