Man accused of secretly filming women during sex: Scottsdale PD

Scottsdale man accused of filming multiple women

A Scottsdale man is accused of filming women during sexual encounters without their knowledge, and investigators say some of the evidence dates back nearly a decade. FOX 10's Ashlie Rodriguez reports.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Scottsdale Police initially said their Special Victims Unit found "over 400 videos related to [Julian Nixon] having sexual relations with several females," but a later statement corrected the number to over 100. The original article, with the correction, continues below.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Scottsdale Police say they have made an arrest in a case that involved allegations of women being secretly recorded during intimate moments.

What we know:

Court documents related to the case identified the suspect as 43-year-old Julian Burne Nixon. Nixon was arrested on July 30.

Dig deeper:

Per court documents, Scottsdale Police received a report on April 17 of an unlawful recording that happened at Nixon's home. The person who reported the incident was identified as a victim.

"The victim reported that her now ex-boyfriend, (the suspect), had three Apple iPhone boxes set up pointing towards the suspect's bed in his one-bedroom apartment," read a portion of the documents.

Investigators note that Nixon's ex-girlfriend, while giving a description of the boxes and where they were located in the bedroom, was not able to look into the phones to discover the contents inside.

"After seeing the phone, she confronted Julian via text message, who admitted to secretly recording them having sex," read a portion of a statement released by Scottsdale Police. "He stated he records just in case a female attempts to say she was sexually assaulted, or something was done without her consent. [Nixon] insisted the recordings were deleted."

Julian Nixon

On May 7, court documents state that detectives executed a search warrant for Nixon's electronics at his apartment.

"During that contact with the suspect, post-Miranda Rights, the suspect admitted to surreptitiously recording an unknown number of women he met on dating application platforms while he completed sexual acts with him," investigators wrote. "Per the suspect, his reason for the recordings was to protect himself if the women claimed any abuse, such as rape."

Officials said Nixon did not wish to show detectives the devices and the videos at first, saying he will "get rid of them."

"When he was advised that it was a crime to record those women unlawfully and have possession of them, the suspect [admitted] knowing what he did was wrong," court documents state.

Police said it was later discovered that Nixon "had videos dating back to potential victims from 2016-2025."

"Under his Apple Photos album labeled "alfredcamera," it had 110 videos that showed a long-standing activity video devices being surreptitiously set up in multiple locations within the suspect's residence (living room and bedroom)," investigators wrote.

Investigators said multiple women who did not know one another were identified, and four of them said they "met the suspect on dating applications or group meet ups for singles." They also say two women have not been identified.

What Nixon Said To Police:

According to investigators, Nixon admitted during an interview to recording women, but said he didn't make the recording for sexual pleasure, and that the videos were deleted.

"At [that] time, [Nixon] was not arrested, as SVU had not yet seen any of the alleged recordings," read the statement.

What's next:

Nixon is accused of a total of 12 counts of felony unlawful recording and 12 counts of voyeurism.

Per court documents, a judge has set a $75,000 bond for Nixon, and should he make bond, he is required to submit to electronic monitoring, curfew restrictions, and a ban on using the internet except at work, for work purposes, among other conditions.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 8.