Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
Dance Mom Goes Crazy - The Nancy Motes story
Thu, 06 Mar 2025
In December 2016, Nancy Alice Motes orchestrated an armed home invasion and kidnapped Alexa Blair, a freshman member of the Kilgore College Rangerettes dance team and daughter of the team's director, Dana Blair. Motes abducted Alexa from her home and held her captive, but Alexa managed to escape after approximately an hour.
Who is Nancy Motes and why is she significant?
So this absolute psychopath mom will do anything to make sure her daughter succeeds. Anything. Now her name is Nancy. She's 56, living in Texas, and one day in 2015, Nancy gets some crazy news. Her daughter didn't make the high school dance team. So Nancy hears this news and she is Devastated, how could her daughter not make the team? This is the end of the world.
Now, her daughter is this girl, Kylie. And why is it so important that Kylie makes this team? Because if Kylie doesn't make the high school dance team, then she won't be able to later make the local college precision dance team, the rangerettes. And in this area of Texas, being a rangerette is a huge deal.
And so anyway, Nancy is pissed off and she is not gonna give up on getting her daughter on the high school team. She is gonna make sure she eventually becomes a rangerette. So for months, Nancy goes to the school board and she complains and she demands that they reinstate Kylie like, my daughter was treated unfairly. And she claims that her daughter was discriminated against because she's tall.
I guess Kylie is slightly taller than the other girls, so Nancy is playing the discrimination card. Here's the thing though. It actually works. The school board ultimately gives up and sides with her and rules that the coach has to let Kylie onto the high school dance team. So then now coach is pissed. She doesn't like being second guessed by the school board. And here's the best part.
I guess coach is just a petty person because she says this and she resigns over this. But right before she does, she lets everyone on the dance team. Like any student who tried out, she lets them on the team. So it actually floods the team with all kinds of amateur dancers, and now suddenly the team sucks. I aspire to be that petty.
And so now, since the team sucks, Kylie or her mom doesn't want her to be on it anymore. So then Nancy transfers Kylie to a different school where Kylie doesn't even try out for the dance team. After all that. I guess she gave up. I don't know. I don't think Kylie ever cared as much about dance as her mom did.
But anyway, now I assume Nancy's all mad because her precious daughter will never go on to be a rangerette. Now, you would think at this point, all this drama would be over. Oh, no, no. It's just getting started. Because about a year later in 2016, Nancy is driving home from shopping and she passes by a car and she spots one of Kylie's ex-boyfriends driving it. And he is with some girl.
And I guess Nancy's like, I need to see who this new girl is that ex-boyfriend appears to be dating. And she decides to turn around and follow him. She even puts on a wig so that he won't recognize her following him because I guess she just happens to have a spare wig in her car.
So she starts following him for a while and eventually she stops and she pulls over and she starts looking him and the girl he's with up on Facebook. I guess she's trying to figure out what's the deal with this new girl. Okay, now, there's this whole gossipy section of this story that I'm going to skip over because it's boring and stupid.
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