Nicole Bailey is the violent matriarch of the Bailey family and ex-wife of retired Senator Randall Bailey. Nicole drank, slept around, and participated in battering her kids with the senator, the daughter Trina being raped by Senator Bailey and his friends, and the son Chaz being beaten by Trina. Trina drank and took cocaine, as well as married an abusive husband, Jim Kirkpatrick. Chaz was the black sheep and addicted to heroin, chained down in the house for detoxing. Nicole’s divorce from the senator was bitter and involved much fighting for alimony.
Nicole was bludgeoned to death with a fire poker and raped from a wooden spoon being forced into her vagina and left there as she lay dying. Trina killed her after Nicole explicitly got into a benefit to flirt with Jim in front of paparazzi, her murder being the end of a screaming and bottle-throwing fight with Trina. Trina was killed by Senator Bailey, who was later convicted and imprisoned. (L&O: “The Family Hour”)