Nancy Tyler was born in Loudon County, Tennessee in 1939 and was selected as Miss Loudon County of 1957. After attending Middle Tennessee State she moved Washington DC and found a congressional secretarial job and shared an apartment with Mary Jo Kopechne who worked for Senator Smathers. It is believed that Kopechne was a source of information that found it's way to Attorney General Robert Kennedy. It wasn't long before she met Bobby Baker and began working for him.

Tyler helped Baker open the Quorum Club in 1961 and gained a bit of inside information about the legislators and lobbyists.

Then in 1962 Baker bought a town house co-op that required the owner or a relative be in the residence. He listed Tyler as his cousin. He spent a lot of free time in the townhouse in spite of the guilt he said he felt as a family man. His activities were more or less common knowledge but were nothing unusual for members of the ruling class.

In November of 1963 Robert Kennedy began investigating Baker and his financial activities. When Nancy Tyler was called to testify, she hid behind they 5th amendment as some of his dollars were spent on her. It raised some questions when Baker, with a $20,000 a year salary could accumulate a worth in the millions. People were just good to him, he said.

A witness named Don Reynolds was testifying about a $100,000 payoff at the Senate Rules Committee on November 22, 1963 when word came that the John Kennedy was dead and that Lyndon Johnson was now president. Reynolds packed up his material and stopped the testimony since going against the president was much more dangerous then the vice-president.

Tyler took off to Tennessee after the dust up about Baker but eventually returned to the Washington area and worked as bookkeeper at his Carousel Hotel near Ocean City Maryland. On May 9, 1965 she went on a sightseeing ride on a biplane piloted by a World War II bomber pilot. They buzzed the hotel and did some aerobatics too close to the water and crashed a couple hundred yards off shore.