‘It’s in the back of the car!’: Women found GPS tracker on car months before estranged husband murdered her and took kidnapped 4-year-old to Walmart, police say

A Florida pistillate who was killed successful a triple homicide allegedly committed by her estranged hubby tried to study that helium was tracking her — a usurpation of a tribunal bid that could person landed him successful jail.

Local NBC affiliate WTVJ reported connected Friday that recently obtained tribunal documents showed that months earlier 34-year-old Mary Catherine Gingles was allegedly shot to death by her estranged husband, 43-year-old Nathan Gingles, she recovered a GPS tracker affixed to her vehicle. In an Oct. 29, 2024, telephone telephone to her attorney, the video of which was obtained by WTVJ, Mary Catherine Gingles tin beryllium heard saying to her attorney, “It’s successful the backmost of the car!”

Prior to the discovery, Mary Catherine Gingles had gotten a “no harmful contact” bid from a judge, who said that the tracker violated that order. She reported her find to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office that day, telling deputies that she feared for her life.

Just months later, she was dead.

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WTVJ reported that Mary Catherine Gingles had been going done the couple’s fiscal records and recovered a suspicious $702 acquisition made by Nathan Gingles successful March 2024 astatine a institution called HAPN. She aboriginal recovered that the institution sells GPS trackers.

Just 1 period earlier that purchase, Mary Catherine Gingles had taken retired a restraining bid against her husband.

But contempt that evident violation, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office seemingly took nary enactment successful response, WTVJ reported. Mary Catherine Gingles contacted instrumentality enforcement again connected Dec. 29, 2024, aft uncovering duct tape, zip ties, integrative wrap, rubber gloves, and different items successful the home’s garage. On Jan. 2, she brought the tracker and the photos and videos she took erstwhile she recovered the tracker to the sheriff’s office.

WTVJ reported that 1 lawman stated to the pb detective successful an email that helium had tried to telephone Mary Catherine Gingles successful November 2024 pursuing the find of the tracker, but the telephone was “disconnected.” In a sworn connection by Mary Catherine Gingles, she said that nary 1 ever tried to interaction her oregon instrumentality her calls.

The presumption besides reported connected a hunt warrant affidavit for the contents of the tracker dated Jan. 16, but it was ne'er signed by a justice and determination was nary grounds that it was ever issued.

The incidental involving the tracker was conscionable 1 portion of the troubled past of home unit betwixt Mary Catherine Gingles and Nathan Gingles. As previously reported by Law&Crime, Mary Catherine Gingles erstwhile wrote that her hubby “sang that helium was going to sprout maine and determination was thing I could bash astir it.” She further stated, “Because of Nathan’s psychotic behavior, his aggregate threats, his cause use, his multiple/many silenced firearms, and my impending divorcement action, I americium acrophobic Nathan volition termination maine and my daughter.”

On Feb. 16, Nathan Gingles allegedly changeable his woman aft she fled to a neighbor’s house. Before she ran, helium allegedly changeable his father-in-law, David Pozner, 64, arsenic the couple’s 4-year-old girl watched. Mary Catherine Gingles was captured connected information cameras successful the vicinity moving distant from her location to the location of her neighbour Andrew Ferrin, 36. The aforesaid cameras allegedly captured Nathan Gingles walking successful the aforesaid direction, carrying firearms, followed by small girl.

Police accidental Nathan Gingles past allegedly changeable his woman and Ferrin earlier taking the small miss and bringing her to a Walmart, wherever helium was arrested.

Nathan Gingles was charged with 3 counts of first-degree execution and has pleaded not guilty.

Days aft the triple homicide, 8 Broward County Sheriff’s deputies who were connected to the Gingles’ home unit lawsuit and the execution probe were suspended with wage and 1 main was demoted to deputy. The pb detective was besides suspended, WTVJ reported.

“It’s wide we astir apt could person done much with that element,” Sheriff Gregory Tony said during a property league successful February. “There was capable determination wherever we could person perchance pursued a probable origin affidavit truthful we could apprehension him and instrumentality him disconnected the street.”