Ohio’s man accused of fatally stabbing a woman who described as her “twin soul” shared a video of a false social networks account that showed the victim’s lifeless body in an effort to frame another man for the murder, the judicial records obtained Friday’s show.
The video, sent through Facebook, lasted five seconds and included “Stutter” from R&B singer Chris Brown in the background, according to a sworn statement of probable cause of a detective in Jefferson County, Indiana.
The message was one of several that the authorities accused Nigel Thomas, 34, to send a plot prepared to frame the other man, Shawn Bailey, for the murder of Wilma Robertson.
The messages were sent to the relatives and people of Robertson associated with it, according to the affidavit.
The messages showed that Bailey seemed to admit to kill Robertson last month, according to the affidavit.
Bailey, who had left with Robertson, was arrested in relation to his murder on April 15, shortly after the Facebook video was shared with Robertson’s ex -husband’s girlfriend, according to the affidavit. A message sent to the bride indicated that Bailey had made the former husband “a favor” and that he no longer had to worry about Robertson, according to the affidavit.
Bailey, 33, remained in jail until April 25, said Jefferson County Prosecutor’s Office earlier this week.
Bailey did not respond to a request for comments. A lawyer from Thomas, who made his initial appearance in a room of the Indiana court on Friday, did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Thomas was accused of a murder position for serious crime and a position of obstruction of justice.
“It seems that he has absolutely no remorse,” Robertson’s cousin, Kimberly Danner, said about Thomas in an interview. “It’s super insulting.”
Danner grew up with his cousin in Kentucky and said the two were more as sisters. She described Robertson, a certified nursing assistant and mother of two children, as a free spirit that had a special ability to make people laugh.
Danner said his cousin met Thomas after he separated from his ex -husband a few years ago.
Initially, Danner recalled, Robertson said that Thomas, a rapper who went through “Nati Bang”, “understood her as nobody else.” He wrote a love song about her, “A girl named Wilma,” who remains online, he said.
The couple went to California, Danner said, although their relationship became “toxic” and in January 2024, Robertson returned to Kentucky, Danner said.
“When he returned, he was on this healing trip,” Danner recalled. “She wanted to go back, put her life on the way, take them to her children and take them back to California.”
Initially, Danner said, she spoke regularly with her cousin. But Robertson was silent about a year ago for reasons that are still not clear, Danner said.
According to the Affidavit, the authorities believe that Robertson was killed on April 11 or 12 at his home in Hanover, Indiana. His body was discovered on April 14 in a public service room. Two white weapon wounds were found on the back, according to the affidavit.
Danner learned of the death of his cousin on April 14, said, although initially his family had no details about what happened. Later that night, he said, the video that Robertson’s body shows was seen by her ex -husband when her girlfriend received it.
That, said Danner, “is when we knew what had happened to him.”
After the arrest of April 15 from Bailey, he denied having taken a video from Robertson’s body or sending messages, according to the affidavit. He told the authorities that he had been approximately 40 miles away, in Louisville, Kentucky, at the time of his death.
A day later, Danner said she also received a Facebook message from someone who sought to be Shawn Bailey. Robertson’s sister had also received a message from the alleged Shawn Bailey on Instagram, according to the affidavit, but by then, Danner said, he learned of Bailey’s arrest and knew that the messages were probably false.
“I immediately knew that it was Nati,” he said, pointing out that he was talking on the phone with a detective at that time discussing the arrest of Bailey. “I thought, ‘Let me tell you about this other guy that she used to leave.”
The Affidavit quotes dozens of messages published in Thomas’s Facebook profile about Robertson in the days after his death, some of which describe it as Thomas’s “soulmate”.
Several of the messages label Robertson’s family. One, published on April 23, says: “They took the only one in which I really trust that she knows all my pain of what my family did to me, her war on you!”
Later, the researchers confirmed the alibi of Shawn Bailey, according to the affidavit, and discovered that Shawn Bailey’s Facebook account was accessed by an IP address in Oxford, Ohio, while Bailey was imprisoned in Louisville. The DNA found in the handle of a bloody knife in the crime scene excluded Bailey as a suspect, according to the affidavit, but showed a “moderate” party to Thomas.
Thomas, who lived in Oxford, was arrested on April 25, the same day Bailey was released, according to Jefferson County Prosecutor’s office.
For Danner, Thomas’s arrest forced her to finally confront her cousin’s death.
“That was probably the first time I finally accepted that she was gone,” Danner said. At Robertson’s funeral, he said: “It didn’t seem to be at peace at all. I feel it is because they had arrested the wrong person.”
