Woman Warned About Hidden GPS Before Alleged Murder, Court Documents Reveal

A Florida woman was killed in a triple murder that was reportedly done by her ex-husband. She tried to tell the police that he was following her, which was against the law and could have gotten him jail time.

Friday that new court papers showed that Mary Catherine Gingles, 34, found a GPS tracker on her car months before her 43-year-old ex-husband Nathan Gingles is alleged to have shot her to death. You can hear Mary Catherine Gingles telling her lawyer, “It’s in the back of the car!” on a video recording of her call to her lawyer on October 29, 2024.

A judge had given Mary Catherine Gingles a “no harmful contact” order before the tracker was found. The court said that the tracker broke that order. That day, she told the Broward County Sheriff’s Office about what she had found and said she was afraid for her life.

After only a few months, she was gone.

WTVJ said that Mary Catherine Gingles was looking through the couple’s financial records and found a sale by Nathan Gingles at a company called HAPN in March 2024 for $702. This purchase seemed odd. In the end, she learnt that the business sells GPS trackers.

It had only been a month since Mary Catherine Gingles got a protection order against her husband.

Even though there seemed to be a violation, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office didn’t seem to do anything about it. On December 29, 2024, Mary Catherine Gingles called the police again because she had found duct tape, zip ties, plastic wrap, rubber gloves, and other things in the garage of the house. She took the tracker and the pictures and videos she took when she found it to the sheriff’s office on January 2.

WTVJ said that in an email to the lead detective, one of the constable said that he had tried to call Mary Catherine Gingles after the tracker was found in November 2024 but the call was “disconnected.” Mary Catherine Gingles said under oath that no one ever tried to get in touch with her or called her back.

On January 16, the station also wrote on a search warrant affidavit what was on the tracker. However, the document was never signed by a judge, and there was no proof that it had ever been given.

One of the many times Mary Catherine Gingles and Nathan Gingles have been violent with each other was when the tracker was involved. She wrote that her husband “sang that he was going to shoot me and there was nothing I could do about it,” as we already knew. She also said, “I’m afraid Nathan will kill me and my daughter because of his psychotic behaviour, his repeated threats, his drug use, his many silenced guns, and the fact that I’m going to get divorced soon.”

Nathan Gingles is said to have shot his wife on February 16 after she ran to a neighbor’s house. David Pozner, his father-in-law, was shot by him before she ran. Their 4-year-old daughter was watching. CCTV cameras in the area caught Mary Catherine Gingles running from her house to the house of her 36-year-old neighbour Andrew Ferrin. The same cameras are said to have caught Nathan Gingles walking in the same way with guns, followed by a little girl.

Nathan Gingles is then accused of shooting his wife and Ferrin. He is then said to have taken the girl and brought her to a Walmart, where he was caught.

Nathan Gingles wants to be found not guilty of three counts of first-degree murder.

Eight Broward County Sheriff’s officers who had anything to do with the Gingles’ domestic violence case or the murder investigation were suspended with pay a few days after the triple murder. One chief was also demoted to deputy. WTVJ said that the head detective was also put on leave.

“It’s clear that we could have done more with that part,” Sheriff Gregory Tony said in February at a press meeting. “There was enough there that we might have been able to get a probable cause affidavit and arrest him to get him off the street.”