

Nevertheless, Haynes stood by Nicole and even used his money to finance her successful defense to the murder charge. Goren had her arrested on suspicion of stealing the anthrax and tricked her into revealing her true identity. Nicole later met Goren in a diner and taunted him.

She then left the vaccines and vial of anthrax on a train to Montreal to prove Croydon's innocence and ruin Goren's reputation. When he was finished, she killed him and made it look like a suicide. When Goren relentlessly pursued Croydon, she invited herself into Croydon's apartment, had sex with him, and enticed him to write a note expressing his anger at Goren. When Connie managed to get the vaccines, Nicole killed her by hitting her over the head with a dumbbell, stole the vaccines, and framed Dan Croydon, a deadbeat dad whom Nicole knew would remind Goren of his own father. Nicole then persuaded Connie to get some anthrax vaccine boosters so she could buy them from her. Air Force base and slept with her to gain her trust. She then met a woman named Connie Matson at a bar near a U.S. To this end, she seduces and sleeps with Doctors Roger Stern and Scott Borman, also stealing two grams of anthrax from Davis' personal collection. She decides to get revenge on Goren for exposing her scheme. Nicole is thus safe from extradition since she becomes an American citizen upon her marriage. She eventually meets a man named Gavin Haynes while on the run, seducing and marrying him. When Eames and Goren arrived to arrest her, she had already fled. As a murder suspect, Nicole could be deported back to Australia because she lacks American citizenship. However, her scheme is eventually discovered, and her fake identity's embezzlement is exposed, which gives her motive for the murders. To cover her tracks, she poisons Bayley after talking with Goren. Nicole hoped that Fellowes would get the position because of the suspicion cast on another candidate through the killer, Mark Bayley. Wallace arranged for the dean's murder, knowing he was deciding on that position. While there, she became romantically involved with Professor Christine Fellowes, who was in line to become the head of the American Studies department. Under this alias, she was employed as a visiting professor at Hudson University. Nicole first became known to Goren and Eames while using her Hitchens identity. Police in Brisbane would later find the body of an unidentified woman, suspected to be the real Hitchens. She was never conclusively connected to the crime, but a year later, she left the country under the name of Elizabeth Hitchens after her daughter Hannah's body was discovered. Then, she later came up with the cover story that her daughter drowned in the waters off Stradbroke Island. The child's father reported the crime to the Queensland Police at 2:30pm. On September 12, 2000, while visiting Stradbroke Island at the beach with her daughter, she broke the girl's neck and arm, killing her, leaving her feeling remorse with what she had done. After that point, Nicole began to fear that her daughter Hannah would become a rival for Rohan's affections Goren later speculates that she had internalized her father's excuse that young girls are too attractive for men to resist. Things were apparently normal up until her daughter Hannah turned three. One year later, she met a man named Daniel Croydon, who was studying anthrax in Bendigo.Īs an adult, she married Rohan Bartlett, and the two had a daughter named Hannah together in 1997.

In 1995, she was living in Bendigo and was vaccinated for anthrax there. After she served her time, she moved back to Australia to start a new life. While in prison, she learned to speak Thai, though only low-class, likely picking up the language from her fellow prisoners. Together, they robbed and murdered eight tourists, for which she was imprisoned for ten years. Fremont saw great potential in her and trained her as his apprentice-in-crime. Nicole later surfaced in Thailand, where she met a charismatic sociopath named Bernard Fremont. Nicole has vehemently denied this is true, but once said in private to Gwen Chapel that "sometimes daddies love too much." Detective Goren once speculated that she was molested by her father from the age of three. As best as can be determined, she was born somewhere in Queensland, Australia. Very little is known about Nicole's past, although it was apparently so painful that she went to great lengths to keep anyone from learning about it.
