Nichol Olsen seemed to have the perfect life. The 37-year-old mother of three was a popular San Antonio hairdresser, an exercise enthusiast and had started a business selling watches and jewelry with two close friends. When she wasn’t working, she doted on her two daughters: Alexa, a 16-year-old cheerleader at Clark High School, and 10-year-old London, a fifth grader at Leon Springs Elementary School.
“She loved those girls,” says Olsen’s friend Vanessa Turney. “She was incredibly proud of who they were as people.”
Olsen made friends everywhere she went, including with rodeo competitor turned entrepreneur Charlie Wheeler. The two began dating after Wheeler spotted Olsen on Instagram, and later, she and her daughters moved into his sprawling home in the gated community of Anaqua Springs Ranch, Texas.
And then tragedy struck.
On the morning of Jan. 10, 2019, a frantic-sounding Wheeler called 911 to say he had found Olsen and her two girls dead inside the home. Wheeler told police he and Olsen had an argument the night before. He said he’d gone to a family member’s house and returned the next day to find their bodies.
Nichol Olsen and daughters London and Alexa.Courtesy Carlos Montez
The coroner ruled the family’s shooting deaths a murder-suicide.
“It’s crazy for anyone to think she would kill her daughters',” says Nichol’s brother Justin.
She was making plans for the future, was enrolling London in singing classes and was expecting a visit from her son that weekend.
Nichol Olsen and Charlie Wheeler.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced his team was still investigating, but in the fall of 2020, he said investigators did not find anything to overturn the coroner’s ruling. However, in January, he said the investigation was insufficient and reassigned the case to a cold case investigator.
“Calling someone the murderer of their own children is the worst thing you could ever accuse anybody of,” Salazar says in this week’s issue of PEOPLE. “I’m not ready to do that yet.”
Olsen’s daughters London and Alexa.
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