

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.
