Nicole "Nikki" Munson
Also known as Nikki Graves
Actor History
Jordana Brewster (July 1995 to September 14th, 1998)
McKenzie Satterthwaite (June 22nd, 2004 to October 20th, 2004)
Lifeline
Born April 28, 1980
Occupation
Former Detective with the Oakdale PD
Former Federal agent for the IRS
Resides At
Overseas
Marital Status
Single/Never Been Married
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
Hal Munson (Father; deceased)
Lynda Graves (Mother)
Jennifer Munson Donovan (Half-sister; Deceased)
Adam Hughes Munson (Half-brother)
Will Munson (Half-brother)
Parker Munson Snyder (Half-brother)
Harold Munson (Paternal Grandfather; deceased)
Louise Munson (Paternal Grandmother; deceased)
John Dustin (Munson) Donovan (nephew)
Hallie Jennifer Munson (Niece)
Claire Munson Shelby (Aunt)
Tess Shelby (Cousin)
Children
None
Flings & Affairs
Jeremy Wheeler (dated)
Ryder Hughes (dated)
Matt (dated)
Andy Dixon (dated)
Henry Coleman (dated)
Crimes Committed
Stole some money from Fashions, Ltd; was arrested and jailed overnight. [January 23, 1996]
Helped Ryder Hughes violate his in house arrest. [November 8, 1996]
Drank alcohol while still a minor. [January 19, 1997]
Along with her friend, Terri (an intern at WOAK), hacked into David Allen's police and FBI records.[September 14, 1997]
Broke into and searched Kathleen Thompkins's Chicago home. [September 29, 1997]
Plotted to get Carly Tenney Munson birth control and then disguise them as sleeping pills. [April 13, 1998]
Spiked Carly's coffee with birth control pills. [April 14, 1998]
Listened into a private conversation between Carly Tenney Munson and Molly Conlan [May 28, 1998]
Lied to Hal about what she had bought (she'd bought condoms) [May 28, 1998]
Accused and pressed charges against Carly for assault, after Carly had slapped her [June 10, 1998]
Lied to Hal, on the phone, that she was in Buffalo, NY.[June 16, 1998]
Lied to Hal and Carly that John Dixon had called Carly. [July 1, 1998]
Called the news media to Carly's trial for the hit and run involving Julia Lindsey. [August 5, 1998]
Memorable Quote
Nikki Munson to Hal, on January 13, 1998, about Carly Tenney (who very quickly and unexpectedly would be Nikki's stepmother):
"Forget it, it's not like you're gonna marry her - are you?"
Brief Character History
High school student Nikki Graves came to Oakdale in 1995 to search for her father. A runaway, Nikki began following Chief of Police Hal Munson and was soon caught. Seen as a troublemaker, it was soon discovered that she was the daughter of Hal's first wife, and his daughter! Apparently, soon after the newly-married couple divorced, Nikki's mother learned she was pregnant and decided to raise the girl without Hal's knowledge. Shocked but pleased, Hal let Nikki into his home. Quickly bonding with Hal, Nikki was the one who convinced him that Adam Hughes had a right to know that Hal was his biological father. While in Oakdale, Nikki's best friend was Dani Andropoulos. While on the surface it seemed as if Nikki was the rebellious one, in fact Nikki was the more stable and mature one. In her early days in town, Nikki had short term relationships with Jeremy Wheeler and Ryder Hughes, both of which arising the jealousy of her friend Dani.
After Dani was forced to leave town at the end of the year, 1996, Ryder to get away after he was released from house arrest went down to the beaches of Florida – Nikki followed him without telling Hal but Nikki never was able to locate Ryder. Feeling dejected she went back to Oakdale and started to settle down in her studies becoming a computer whiz. That was until she got a visit from a friend of hers, Terri. Terri was an intern working at WOAK for Kim Hughes and Lily Grimaldi. Terri had noticed discrepancies about new D.A. David Allen's background and doubted his claims of innocence in the death of his first girlfriend. Terri begged Nikki to help investigate David and Nikki reluctantly agreed (although not totally reluctantly, because Nikki had started to beg her father to participate in becoming a intern at the police station, but Hal was reluctant to do this and had Nikki just deliver coffee and donuts to the detectives – Nikki simply detested this!) During the midst of Nikki and Terri's investigation into David's past, they broke into his F.B.I files and found out a startling fact. David was suspected by the Chicago police of setting fire to his parent’s home and therefore killing them (they had no proof that David did this, but it would turn out to be true.) David got disconcerted when he learned that Nikki and Terri were investigating and sent a lackey named, Peter (who also was trying to seduce Lily to get her to stop investigating David and break up Lily's marriage to Holden), to threaten Nikki and Terri away from their investigation and for awhile the two young ladies backed off. That was until, the fall of 1997, when Nikki overheard a phone conversation between David and his "aunt Kathleen" asking her to not reveal that David was suspected of setting fire to the Allen's home.
Nikki then pressured Terri to go to Chicago with her (without telling Hal what they were doing, Margo Hughes caught on and clued Hal in on what Nikki and Terri were doing, but almost too late) and got to David's "aunt Kathleen's" house. At first Kathleen Thompkins was able to persuade Nikki and Terri to leave her alone. But Nikki felt uncomfortable that David might be getting away with murder and so she persuaded Terri (this time with her being reluctant) to break into Kathleen Thompkins home. Almost waking up Mrs. Thompkins and getting separated from Terri, Nikki was able to find proof in a scrapbook that David was actually adopted by the Allen's. All though this provided no proof that David had killed the Allens, Emily Stewart was soon to come into proof of this. Nikki was almost killed by Mrs. Thompkins, but was saved by a furious Hal who had tracked both of Nikki and Terri down. When they got back to Oakdale, Nikki was temporarily put on a curfew by Hal and Terri was forced to leave her intern position at WOAK, but not until Terri was able to convince Emily that David had indeed accidentally killed the Allens when he started the fire in their home when he was 16-years old and he didn't wake up his adopted parents.
Later when Hal started to believe that Nikki had a genuine interest in law enforcement, he started to lift some of the curfew rules. But unfortunately she started to turn to the older Andy Dixon, Her photography teacher, which Hal was not thrilled with. Nikki finally decided to test how much she could get away with, especially when Hal continued to treat her as glorified secretary at the police station (Margo did not ) and when Nikki expressed her displeasure at seeing her father getting involved with the younger and duplicitous Carly Tenney (who did have a secret agenda in mind, about using Hal to get to her half-sister Rosanna's $50 million trust fund.) When Nikki expressed all of her concerns about Carly to Hal, Hal dismissed her as being just a kid. With the tension in the Munson household rising with each passing day, a furious Nikki decided to go to the Falcon Club's bar and ran into an older guy named Matt who dared her to drink. Which Nikki did, luckily Andy Dixon found her and got her away from Matt. (At least that time.) But Matt didn't give up trying to pursue Nikki (which made Hal even more furious.) But Matt himself would also have a secret agenda. Matt was a hire of James Stenbeck, who had hired Matt to create a gulf between Nikki and Hal, so James could use them both. Later Nikki would catch on to Matt's duplicitous nature and dumped him and got reinvolved with Andy. However that relationship ended quickly after Nikki left Oakdale to attend Yale.
In 2004, Nikki, now an agent for the IRS, would return to Oakdale to conduct an investigation into Dusty Donovan's affairs, specifically to nab Donovan for laundering money to a mobster named Starziak. Although she was only supposed to gather information to give to the replacement of her supervisor, Nikki decided to stay until she gathered as much evidence against Donovan as she could. Knowing that Dusty was wanted for the kidnapping of the wealthy Lucy Montgomery, Nikki helped the Oakdale PD locate Dusty. After a short time, Nikki traced him and Lucy to a warehouse and went in herself to bring him in. However, to her surprise, instead of a finding a grateful Lucy pleased to be rescued, Lucy stated that Donovan wasn't her kidnapper and refused to go with Nikki until she listened to what Dusty had to say. Although Nikki initially thought Lucy was becoming emotionally attached to her captor, she agreed to talk to Dusty. Not wanting to talk in front of Lucy, Dusty took Nikki outside the warehouse and told her his theory, which made a lot of sense. Dusty reiterated Lucy's claim that he took Lucy to keep her from being kidnapped from someone else. He then told Nikki that he believed that the real kidnapper was a member of Lucy's own family, since that was the only way the kidnappers would have known Lucy's movements. Believing him, Nikki left the warehouse and informed Lucy's father, Craig, that Lucy was alright and told him Dusty's theory. Not long after, Lucy and Dusty returned to Oakdale. At the same time, Nikki's superior at the IRS came to town and unceremoniously took the case from Nikki. Distressed at being relegated back to her role as a pencil pusher, was thrilled when Hal offered her a job at the Oakdale PD. Not long after, though, Nikki left for a better job in Washington, DC. A few years, Hal was killed in the line of duty. Unfortunately, Nikki was anable to attend the memorial service since she was overseas on a Foreign Service Mission.
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