Report: 'Screaming Voices' Told Woman to Kill Mom, Stepdad

A video of Nicole Nachtman’s arrival at the Hillsborough County Jail may be viewed below.

With 21-year-old Nicole Nachtman now housed in the Hillsborough County Jail, deputies are releasing some details in the grisly murders of the woman’s mother and stepfather late last week.

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies discovered the bodies of Myriam Carey Dienes, 56, and Robert Dienes, 67, last Thursday after receiving reports of shots fired on Fennsbury Drive around 9:26 p.m. Myriam Dienes was found dead in a driveway with a gunshot wound to the neck and two the torso. Robert Dienes died as a result of a single gunshot to the neck. His body was found inside a home.

Witnesses put deputies on Nachtman’s trail after reporting they had seen the woman near 14110 Fennsbury Drive within two hours of the 911 call about shots fired, an arrest report states.

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While Nachtman initially told deputies she was in Tallahassee at Florida State University at the time of the murders, her story, the report noted, did not stand up to scrutiny. University police, the report said, confirmed that Nachtman’s student identification had not been used for days. It was, however, swiped on campus the day after the bodies were found on Aug. 21. A person Nachtman said could confirm she was in her room when the murders occurred told detectives she could not, the report added.

Detectives located another witness who said Nachtman told him she drove to the campus on Aug. 18 to pay for her dorm.

“While she was at the campus, she continuously heard screaming voices in her head and began thinking about killing her mother,” the report quoted the witness as saying. After seeing signs on campus that inferred “your dreams were about to come true,” Nachtman drove back to Tampa.

Back in Tampa, Nachtman, the report said, found her stepfather home alone. She obtained a firearm and shot Dienes inside the home, the report said.

The shooting, the witness told police, helped the screaming voices fade.

Deputies say Nachtman waited overnight for her mother, a Navy Reserve captain, to return home from a training exercise. When she did, Nacthman is accused of shooting her mother.

Nachtman was brought into custody in Tallahassee over the weekend. She was transported to the Hillsborough County Jail on Monday. She was booked into the facilities without bond, charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Photos and video courtesy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office