Mum found GPS tracker on car – months later she died as her little girl watched
A woman who found a tracker on her car during a bitter divorce battle was later shot dead, alongside her dad and neighbour in front of her four-year-old daughter. Mary Gingles tried to report that her estranged husband Nathan Gingles was tracking her, despite being a violation of a court order that could have landed him in jail.
Back in October 2024 the mum found a GPS tracker affixed to her vehicle, and told her lawyer: 'It's in the back of the car". The 34-year-old woman from Florida, USA, was going through the couple's financial records and found a suspicious $702 (around £520) purchase made by Nathan Gingles at a company called HAPN.
She later found that the company sells GPS trackers. According to WTVJ in the US, she also found duct tape, zip ties, plastic wrap, rubber gloves, and other items in the home's garage. Ms Gingles took the tracker and photos and videos she took of what she found in the garage to the sheriff's office on January 2, this year. She reported also told deputies that she feared for her life.
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Just over a month later Ms Gingles, her father David Pozner, 64 and their neighbour Andrew Ferrin, 36, were shot dead. Mr Pozner was found dead from a gunshot wound, clutching the handle of a shattered coffee mug and had been reportedly shot "in the head while he innocently drank coffee on his back patio."
The police believe that the young girl witnessed all three alleged murders, Detective Lacey Henry of the Broward County Sheriff's Office noted in an arrest warrant secured by WPLG.
Nathan Gingles and Mary Gingles were in the middle of a bitter divorce, marked by several instances of domestic violence. At the time of her death, Mary had a protection order against Nathan, which he was charged with violating.
Deputies noted in the warrant that they found a domestic violence injunction document in the kitchen along with several gun lockboxes.
WPLG reported on Mary's fears about her estranged husband as she expressed them in court documents. In one handwritten document, Mary wrote that Nathan once "sang that he was going to shoot me and there was nothing I could do about it".
In her victim's statement for the injunction, Mary explicitly stated, "Because of Nathan's psychotic behavior, his multiple threats, his drug use, his multiple/many silenced firearms, and my impending divorce action, I am afraid Nathan will kill me and my daughter."
The couple's 4-year-old girl Seraphine was the subject of an Amber Alert notice before she was found safe and well with her father at a nearby supermarket. Nathan Gingles was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He faces trial later this year.
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