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she hadn't answered her phone call, she had answered her text messages. >> valentine's day the started with roses entered in a different shade of red. >> everything stopped. i was in shock. she was a wife, mother, missionary. denise sounds like a saint, but something had been happening behind closed doors. >> there is nothing more important to me than you in this relationship. >> was it love? or hate? >> one shot to the head. >> what was the motive for valentine's day murder? >> we had a note that she had written. she was speaking from the grave and away? >> that note was powerful. >> it happened on the least likely day imaginable, a day

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nathan and denise leuthold had met years earlier back in the 80s when they were both students at a small baptist school in central illinois. even at that young age, nathan knew there was something to the sparkling little girl. >> i was in third grade, and she was in fourth grade at the time and i doubt she even knew i existed but even then, i thought she was the cutest girl in the school. >> what was it you liked about her so much? >> it was the bouncy curls in the happy-go-lucky smile. junior high, i began to see her character, the kind of person she was that way. >> it was in high school that nathan and denise got to know each other better though they did not date, as most teens do, because they both came from religious families. >> our parents did not believe in dating. i went to her church activities

and she came to mine and that is how it started. >> norma albritton junior got to know nathan and denise well when his wife taught at their school. >> they were inseparable. they would just goof around with each other in a loving, maybe puppy lavish way, and it just grew into something special and we knew they would be together. >> what's more, nathan admired denise's parents and was inspired what he saw as a perfect marriage. >> i looked at denise's wife -- mom at the time and saw what she was as a woman, as a mother and saw that denise really favored her mother so i said, that's what i want. >> for diane newton, the feeling was mutual. >> was he over all the time? yes. he practically lived at our house. >> when denise went off to college in minnesota, nathan soon followed. to no one's surprise, couple got engaged a year later. diane knew it was coming.

>> i was not surprised when she was the first one he dated and they ended up getting married. i was always very happy being a wife and a mother so i was happy for her that she had found someone to love and share her life with. >> right before we did our vows, denise had prepared a song talking about how everything she wanted was in me, and that our marriage was going to be the kind she had always hoped for and dreamed for as a little child, and had a wonderful day. >> after the young couple settled in their hometown of peoria, illinois, denise went to work at an insurance company while nathan started a career in sales, but he could not shake a higher calling. for several years, he had dreamed of becoming a baptist missionary. in 1988, he finally seized the opportunity when another couple at their church began their own missionary work in lithuania.

>> i approached and said what would you think about denise and i coming in helping you guys? he said that would be great. >> they moved with in with us for six months, sold all their possessions, tried to save up money. >> we did not know any lithuanian at the time. we were studying it and trying our best but it was definitely a shock. >> they returned home after a year and soon welcomed a son, seth, and daughter, julia. in 2002, the family went back to lithuania, which became their second home on and off for the next eight years. that is a big undertaking. >> right, i think it was very hard for denise to leave her family and everything she had known and to go over to a strange country with a toddler and the baby. it was a traumatic experience for her, i think. >> this is because really nathan wanted to do it? >> right. she was supporting him. it was not really her calling. she was basically being a wife

and a mother. >> but, denise also became very devoted to the church there. >> denise was very musical and played the piano for them in the songs and taught the little girls especially, bible stories. >> the group particularly close to some of the children and their families. >> with helped women who had been in abusive relationships. we had brought several lithuanian students to the united states over the years for cultural reasons, for his oh region, for sports. >> their generosity extended to a young lithuanian they got to know well, aina dobilaite, who eventually came to the u.s. as a college student. she even lived with them for a while and peoria. >> nathan has a very big heart for people.

he loves to help people out and just wants to do the lord's work. >> by the fall of 2010, nathan and denise were living back in the states. by then, they had a third child, janel. their days were filled with shuttling kids to school and day care and raising funds for their next overseas mission. life with three young kids was busy, hectic, normal but then came valentine's day, 2013, when nathan pulled into the driveway midafternoon and discovered something terribly wrong. >> i could see the windowpane was broken. the glasses on the ground. at that point i began to put things together and someone had broken into the home and at that point, i called the police, called 911. >> 911, where is the emergency? >> a daring burglary in the middle of the day that would rub this family of everything. coming up, there would be no more cards, candy or flowers this valentine's day. no one could find denise. >> she had not answered her phone call or text messages. >> what police find is terrifying.

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always what we miss the most. >> been back in the states also gave nathan an opportunity to travel to churches where he reported on his and denise jake's missionary work and raised more funds so they can return to lithuania. in the u.s., they could celebrate holidays american- style, as they did on valentine's day, 2013. >> as is our tradition on holidays whether it is easter or christmas or birthdays or valentines, for the children, we started first thing in the morning, so the children had their valentine sax that denise had prepared, sitting there on the table for them. my gift to her was the roses and the card i had bought the night before and placed on the table. >> after the early-morning celebration, the family was back to their usual routine, taking the kids to school, shopping, running errands. denise 's parents were at work but that day, something happened that was completely out of character for denise. she failed to pick up julia from school. >> my parents called me, do you want us to pick her up? >> turns out, no one had been able to reach denise for a while, including nathan. >> she had not answered her phone or text messages. i said just wait a few more

minutes. let me get janel out of day care and i will let you know and i finally got over to day care, they said she still hasn't come. she hasn't called and i said well, i'm right by the house. i will run by the house and see if she is there. as soon as i got pulled into the driveway, the garage door was open. >> was that odd? >> very odd. no car in the garage, but the garage door is open. as soon as i got about halfway to the garage, i could see that the windowpane was broken. the glass was on the ground at that point, i began to understand that someone had broken into the home. >> did you for that person can still be in the house? >> i did and at that point decided the best thing was to not enter the house. i'm not a real confrontational kind of person. never been in a fight in my life and if i had to defend my family, i would, but i don't go

looking for it and i was not going to go try to stop somebody. whatever in the house, they can take. >> with his young daughter in the car, nathan backed into the neighbors driveway across the street so he could watch the houses he called 911. >> what's the problem? >> we've had a break-in. >> is going on right now? >> i don't know. the garage door is open. there's glass from the back door. somebody broken. i haven't gone in the house yet. >> nathan waited with his daughter at the neighbors house, repeatedly calling family members to see if anyone had heard from denise. then, the police arrived. detectives jason lee and sean curry were the first on the scene. >> by the time we got here, officers were roping everything off in the house. >> they didn't find an intruder. instead, they found something far worse. >> while searching the house they should -- found a female

deceased. >> 39-year-old denise leuthold lying in a puddle of blood had barely made it inside the house. her coat was still on. >> right inside the front door is where we found her laying down. >> they quickly determined she had been killed by a single gunshot to the head. >> she did not have time to take her coat off, her gloves, anything. when she entered the door, the shot was immediate. >> the weapon appeared to be a 39 caliber handgun but no sign of the gun. >> did it seem like denise and possibly started a burglar? >> yeah, when we got there, it looked like she interrupted a burglar, like somebody had broken in through the back door and was going through the house and maybe she startled a burglar when she came through the front door. >> while investigators combed the crime scene, nathan anxiously watched police activity from the house across the street. >> how did they tell you what they had found? >> the police were not the first people to tell me. unfortunately. i found out about it from my father. i was calling my dad, and dad

said well, i'm on my way. i just heard on the radio. the local news media just put it on the radio that at your house, somebody was shot. >> nathan realized it had to have been denise. >> when you came to that realization, what's going through your mind? >> everything stopped. i'm looking at my four-year-old daughter, who is the image of her mother. curly hair and the bouncy step and i just kept looking at my daughter. and, i wanted to hug her. and, i wanted to -- i wanted to just let out all the pain that was associated with knowing that there she was standing, staring at me. just smiling. my world had just been

shattered and i would have to tell her at some point. >> denise's mom had no idea what happened, but rushed home when nathan had told her there had been a break-in. >> i drove out there and the roads were all blocked off. >> as had a sick feeling when you see all those police? what are you thinking? >> i didn't know what to think. i tried to run up there and going to the house and they were like no, you can't go in and i'm like well, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. they eventually took me downtown and then one of the policeman came in and told me that she had been shot. the worst day of my life. >> now, she had to tell her husband, denise's father. >> fell apart, cried, and i guess it is every parents worst nightmare to have a child taken from them.

>> as denise's family reeled from their unimaginable loss, this quiet central illinois community was just starting to grapple with the fallout of a murder on valentine's day. did you feel like, we have a mystery on her hands. we've got to solve this. >> you, we knew we had something bad and it was going to take a lot of work to get to the point where we knew who done it. >> coming up, a possible clue. nathan remembers seeing a suspicious car near his house not long before the murder. >> this is kind of weird. i pulled in the driveway. i immediately go through the front door and flipped the outside lights on. the car leaves. >> was the killer in that car? when dateline continues. r? when dateline continues. helps me get the full benefits of magnesium. qunol, the brand i trust. this is remington. ...he's a member of the family, for sure.

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couldn't comprehend the news. who could do something like this to a great young woman, it was hard to believe denise leuthold, mother of three young children, had been found shot to death at her home in peoria, illinois. leuthold's friend, ly norm ulrich, couldn't comprehend the news. >> who could do something like this to a great young woman, a family of three young children, great husband. >> nathan said when he lost denise he lost his foundation. my wife, my friend from third grade, the mother of the three most important children in the world to me. how do i function now without her? >> with the house a crime scene, nason went with them -- nathan went with him to the police station. >> was there anything of extreme value? anything in particular?

>> nothing. a couple hundred dollars watches or something. >> the laptop, digital camera and jewelry had been stolen. two guns had been taken including a 40 caliber glock, the same caliber used to kill denise. had the intruder use that weapon to shoot her? anything if the detectives a clue when he said he remembered showing a suspicious car in the neighborhood late at night. >> were the headlines -- headlights on or off? >> they were on in the road then they turn them off. >> then, a few days before the murder, he said it happened again.

>> similar situation, but this time, in the neighbors driveway. >> that time nathan called police and spoke with an officer. >> he said they probably were people who were out and his phrase, casing the neighborhood. >> people in peoria were spooked. could a reason burglar willing to kill be on the list? >> it caused stress in the neighborhood. the school down the street, they locked it down that day. >> stuff like this doesn't happen in this neighborhood? >> no. it's not a high crime area where there are gunshots all the time, things like that. it was enough to scare everybody. >> it was a big story in town. >> be extra cautious. lock your doors and windows. pay attention to strangers in your area. >> what was the mood of the neighborhood? >> it was very eerie. >> bo ebenezer was a reporter for the news in peoria. >> a lot of people in the community wanted to know what it happened.

they're going to sleep every night not really sure who killed their neighbor. >> one neighbor says the two small kids at home, she is feeling panicked and paranoid. >> tips started coming in right away, diane parrish, who lived a few houses from nathan and denise, remember seeing a strange man on her street right around the time of the murder. >> described the man you saw walking on this road. >> he had a black hoodie sweatshirt on with the hood pulled up and his hands were in the pocket, and i will never forget the look on that man's face. >> what was so odd about the look on his face? >> he was very agitated. i knew immediately something was wrong with him. >> neighbors were anxious and detectives were puzzled. denise is neighborhood was normally very quiet, not the type of place you would expect

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>> you talking to us and cooperating with us is the best information that we can get. >> we want to talk to the people closest to her first to try to figure out what makes her tick, what is a routine like? >> did you start to think that someone may have targeted denise? >> well, we didn't know i mean nathan, he's going to be our best witness, you know. you are living with this lady. you've been married for a long time. you know her routine. >> did you think maybe someone had a reason to be inside that house outside of a random burglary? >> we didn't know. >> you, we didn't know but we needed to lockdown at that point, we just needed to make sure we locked down what she planned on doing that day. >> they started at the very beginning. >> she woke up at about 6:45. i was already shaving and showering. >> were the kids already up? >> she gets up at 6:45. >> nathan told police he took the two older children to school and went on a series of errands that day including going to a day spa to buy a gift certificate for denise.

>> do you remember how much is spent? >> $74. >> police learned denise has spent the morning at home with janel until she drove her to day care that afternoon. nathan said denise had her list of things to do that day. >> she had some errands to run. >> are going to try to get video of her. maybe we will see somebody following her, you know what i mean. that's why we got to figure out where she was at. >> we got to figure out the last time anyone saw her and we can narrow the window down. >> and you. it's tedious and we appreciate you cooperating. >> by midafternoon, when denise should have been done shopping and on her way to pick up julia, nathan said he tried reaching her but could not. at first, was not concerned. >> i called, she didn't answer, no big deal. >> but, he became worried once he got home and saw denise's car was not in the driveway and it looked like the house had been broken into.

>> i don't know what to think. she's not answering my phone calls. she's not answering my mom's phone calls. she did not go to school. she did not call. where is she at? is she late? if she broke down, had a flat tire, she would have called her cell phone. i'm going through all these actions in my head. >> detectives then asked nathan the uncomfortable questions they asked anyone his spouse had been murdered. >> this is kind of a personal question and take no offense because we have to cover any base. at any time has your wife ever done anything behind your back? have you had any issues, any boyfriends, anything like that? what about you? >> did he describe a good marriage? >> yeah. he described denise as the backbone of the family. if it wasn't for her, he would not be able to do his work, that she does everything for the kids. >> she is the main one that holds it all together? she did everything that made the kids lives.

>> denise sounds like a saint. >> she probably was. >> everyone we talked to had nothing but good things to say about her. >> it must've really perked your attention that this woman was considered to be this amazing mom and does this religious work and why would she have any enemies? >> yeah. nothing was coming to the forefront. >> nathan said he was doing his best to hold it together so he could help them catch the killer and he was anxious to be with his children. >> we appreciate the cooperation and as much information as we can get from you, that's going to help us. >> i want to be there for my kids tonight. i can't leave them all that long. >> nathan finally did leave the police station late that night, hours after his wife had been killed. he went to his sister's home where his children were sound asleep. >> i was exhausted. i was emotionally spent. i spent the next several hours with my mother and my sister,

and at some point, i fell asleep with my sister just trying to comfort me. >> the next day, nathan said he was struggling with the fact that his wife was gone, and now had to explain that to his kids. >> i had been with janel when i found out. i had still not been with seth and julie and at that point, i did not know what they knew, what they had found out, what they had seen on the news or whatever else. i did not want them to find out the way i had found out. >> how did you tell the children that their mother had been killed? >> it was friday morning and i believe the children suspected something. after they had eaten, and after i had spent time begging the lord for wisdom and strength to know what to say, we took them

upstairs to one of the bedrooms and it was just the oldest two at that point, seth and julia, and my sister was there with me and we sat down on the bed and i said, mom went home to be with god. we know that she loves us and we know that we loved her at that point, i reached out for them. and, we just hugged. it was quiet. my tears soaked their faces, and their tears soaked my face, and then we prayed. and, we thank god for the most wonderful mother and wife to ever have been on this earth. >> later, nathan took the children and went to state a church mission house in a nearby town. >> nathan's parents told me that nathan and the three children had been moved to a safe house

just to protect them, because they did not know if they were being targeted for anything. >>'s friend, norm, often brought them home cooked meals. nathan was very quiet. almost in a state of shock, maybe. i had noticed when he and i were in the living room alone together and it was just complete silence, it felt a little awkward, but i could just see him staring into space almost. >> in the meantime, denise's parents made the difficult choice to return to their home, the scene of the crime, and a few days later, they asked nathan and the kids to come over to be with family. how was he with you the first time you saw him after denise was killed? >> he seemed very emotional. he

originally said that he didn't want to come back in the house, that the kids were afraid to come in. >> it was a lot to take in. denise was dead. three young children were without a mother, and nathan said he had lost the love of his life. detectives worked around the clock to solve the crime and as they did, they began to get the idea that not everything was as it seemed. coming up, this is strange. denise had just gotten home when she was killed, so why was her car someplace else? >> this is the problem we have. she's been shot in the house. i need to figure out how that car got to robinson park. >> when dateline continues. n p >> when dateline continues. but this is my story. ( ♪♪ ) and with once-daily trelegy, it can still be beautiful. because with 3 medicines in 1 inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open for a full 24 hours and prevents future flare-ups. trelegy also improves lung function, so i can breathe more freely all day and night.

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he said nathan seemed quiet, stoic. >> i've never seen nathan in an emotional state as far as crying or panic or anything like that. i just took it as he was really stressed out and what's happening to my family right now? why did this happen? >> denise's parents were wondering the same thing. they also began to ask other questions. >> we kept going over the robbery, like how it would have happened, and it didn't really make sense. i worked in the store that sold high def tvs and we have a lot of small ones that they could've just picked up, taken away you know, electronics, blu- ray players, and of those things were touched and i only had probably three rings that

were any value, but those three rings were taken. why would a burglar know that those were the only three that were valuable? >> something seemed off to police, as well. >> the more we start looking at the house, it just did not seem like a real burglary. there was a junk drawer that was perfectly laying on the floor. why would a burglar go through a junk drawer with pens and scissors and then lay it? >> they also analyzed things nathan had told them during his interview at the police station the night of the murder, like the fact he owned three guns. >> to you on a 12gauge shotgun? i have a 22. silver with pearl handle and i have a primary one, which is a glock. >> what model? >> i don't know, it's a .40. >> there were a lot of things about nathan's guns that did not add up for police, starting with the fact that he happen to own the same type of gun used in denise's murder. >> how did he explain it? >> he couldn't. >> i think he was trying to allude to the fact that the burglar must've gotten to it and taken it. >> you. >> nathan also told police he

kept that gun in a plastic case. >> you kept it locked? how hard would it be for someone to pry it open? >> but, there was no broken case at the house. that said a lot to the detectives. >> and i asked him what happened to the box? he didn't know. tried to say the burglar took it. the burglars not going to take a busted lockbox with him after he killed somebody. they are gone. believe it. >> nathan told police he last fired the gun in oklahoma. a couple weeks ago. >> nothing here lately? >> and there was something else troubling police. even though denise had been killed in her home, her car was found at a nearby park. police figured whoever drove it there must've been involved in denise's murder. >> this is the problem i've got. she's been shot in the house. i need to figure out how that car got to robinson park.

>> a key to that car was found tangled in denise's hair under her head, so clearly that key was not use to move the car. there had to be another one. >> i'm just trying to figure out how many sets of keys are out there is them trying to find a set of key? >> there's one set of keys. whenever i drive the car to go get something fixed or oral change or whatnot i just borrow the keys. >> none of that made any sense to the detectives. there had to be a second key somewhere visible in the house in order for the intruder to easily find it in drive the car to the park. >> saying denise interrupted a burglary, and he shoots her, that guys getting the heck out of town. he's not going to wait to try to find a spare set of keys in the house. he's leaving. >> questions about denise's car led to questions about nathan's car and something he said

caught the detectives' attention. >> was your vehicle everett robinson park today? >> yes. >> for what? >> early this morning -- not really, but it would've been before i came back to the house. >> what was it down there for? >> i pulled over to take a phone call. >> it turns out on the day of the murder, nathan was at the same park where denise's car was later found and that is when one of the detectives got frustrated with nathan's whole story and confronted him. >> it is not a coincidence that we are using a four caliber glock handgun and there is evidence that the was shot with a .40 caliber handgun and furthermore, to have a car at the park for you failed to tell us that you were there prior to going home earlier that day -- >> it was a short phone call. >> i know but the thing is, we are talking about things that once you start piecing things together -- we're trying to

figure things out, so if you were at the park, the exact same park your wife's car was at, i need to figure out how your wife's car got there. >> i don't have the answer. >> you don't have the key either, correct? >> it is not just that nathan stopped to take a short phone call. it was who was on the other end of the line that piqued their interest. >> he said he received a phone call from a lithuanian exchange student. >> that's how she came on your radar? >> she was 20-year-old aina dobilaite, the young exchange student who had been close to the family for years. she babysat for them in mania, and they were sponsoring her as a student in the u.s. just what was that call about? >> it kind of kept snowballing from there and we figured we had to go up and track her down. >> coming up, a missionary's unusually closer relationship with a young exchange student.

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police found denise leuthold, 39-year-old mother of three, shot to death in her home. at first, it looked like a possible burglary gone bad. police found denise leuthold, 389-year-old mother of three, shot to death in her home. at first it looked like a possible burglary gun ban -- bad but after questioning her husband and coming the crime scene, detectives began to see things differently. police know wanted to look more closely at the lithuanian student nathan had spoken to on the phone the day of the murder. he and denise had met her on the first missionary trip in 1988. >> there was a church that was there and already established in that church really took us in and did their best to communicate with us and helped us out and there was a particular woman at the church we worked with that was aina's

mother. >> aina dobilaite was just a child at the time. as she grew up, her relationship with the family group, as well. >> is a teenager, it was clear she had given her life to the lord and wanted to serve him and she was always the one volunteering, helping the church right alongside of her mother and she was very gifted in music and then as we started branching out in the ministry, aina was the one who took care of the music. >> when she was 16, she became a babysitter for nathan entities his three children. >> aina is the one who is always helping us with the children at church and it was natural for denise to want to hire her and we just trusted her 100% with them, and that is how she came to be a part of our family. >> then you ended up bringing her over to america? >> we are her sponsors in the u.s., yes. she came over here with a

desire for education. >> as sponsorship started in the fall of 2010 friends aina came to the u.s. to study at a christian college in florida where nathan would occasionally visit her. what did denise think about that? >> i asked her more the one to -- than one time, i said aren't you jealous that he's traveling around with this young girl? she said no. >> this is a girl that she wanted to help. >> exactly, and she trusted nathan. >> during school vacations, aina would stay in peoria with the whole family. >> she was really good with the kids. she was a friend of our daughters and son-in-law's. we accepted her into her home. >> then in december, 2011, aina left that florida school. she was so close with the leuthold family that she moved in with nathan, denise and denise's parents while attending community college in peoria. >> it was not the first time we had done that. aina was one of many we had worked with so it was very natural. >> they had sponsored other lithuanian students before to come here, so it did not seem

strange to us that that is what they were doing. >> they were really making a difference in this young girl's life. >> yes. they were giving her a chance to come and get her college education here. >> six months before denise's death, aina had transferred to a christian college in chicago , hundred and 50 miles from peoria, so police drove there to talk to her. >> when we first started the interview it was a lot of background information and we were coming across his work concerned for denise. you've lived with them, you've known the family, and she was fine. as we started ramping up the questioning, getting more direct about her relationship with nathan, then all of a sudden the perfectly speaking english girl start saying i don't understand that or i'm not going to answer that question, and then it turned into more of a just cold stare

and no emotion whatsoever. >> you describe it almost like a staring contest. >> yeah, we throughout their crime scene pictures of denise lying dead, autopsy pictures to get a reaction. she had no emotion and i called her out on it. i said these people took you and your home, but you back from lithuania. that don't bother you? she just looked at me stone cold and said i cried enough over the weekend. >> but then, detectives asked her about something they learned as they traced nathan's movements the day of the murder. remember one of the places he said he visited was the where he bought a valentine's day gift certificate for denise but when detectives stop there, they discovered nathan had been bringing another woman to the spa, and it was none other than aina. it had happened so often, the owner said, she thought they were a couple.

>> he is taking this woman in her early 20s, in exchange student, to the spa? >> yeah, to get massages and get her waxed. my staff would be in the front yard of my wife found out i was waxing up a 20-year-old. it didn't make no sense and i even asked her what exactly is he waxing up and she just would glare. >> they also asked her about the bill, which nathan paid. >> she framed it up as hey, it's his money, and it is denise's money, too, so if he is spending the money, she should be all right with it. >> did you out right ask her, were you having a sexual relationship with nathan? >> yeah. she denied it. >> then, aina mentioned something that sparked their curiosity. she had studied music and gone to college in florida to play the piano but told detectives she had left the school because of problems with her hands. >> i think it was titled academic withdrawal or something. the records we got said her dismissal had something to do with inappropriate relationships with her sponsor, including staying off campus overnight with just them two.

>> that sponsor, of course, was nathan. police learned more about the relationship and they pulled nathan and aina's phone records. >> what did you find on her phone? >> just that they communicated a lot more than nathan let on. it did not look like a typical sponsor-sponsee relationship. they had multiple texts and calls every day. >> she is denying a sexual relationship. where the text suggesting otherwise? >> there was one saying she was done at the gym and he asked her if she was wet. i did not find it appropriate for the relationship they were leading on. the biggest thing was just the sheer volume of contact that they had. if you're saying you're just checking on her and seeing if she was doing good, it just -- >> it appeared as a dating relationship. >> coming up, four questions.

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part of a burglary gone wrong? had denise leuthold been killed by a burglar or had someone close to her been involved? her parents believed their daughter had been killed by a stranger until their minister came to visit one day. >> he asked us, do you have suspicions that your son-in-law was involved? we both answered no but as soon as i said no, thought wait a minute, then i started having suspicions. my husband was kind of shocked. he thought, he's a missionary, he would not kill anybody. >> investigators were not so sure. they began to look at nathan's whereabouts at and collected surveillance videos from the places he said he had been. while he had been at those places, chase bank, starbucks, there was a problem. >> we were able to account for

him until 11:30 in the morning then there was a gap between him leaving the starbucks at 11:30 then shows up at the same starbucks around 12:45 p.m. in between there we could not account for him anywhere. >> that gap was crucial because it was during the timeframe the police believe the murder happened. the detectives even traced a route they thought nathan might've taken that day from the starbucks to the park. a quick walk to his house, then back to the starbucks. to see if he could have done it in time. >> six minutes and 55 seconds. >> not only possible but probable. more likely, they figured than a stranger breaking in during the roughly 20 minutes denise was out. >> it's inconceivable to think someone breaks and at the same time, rummages through the house, finds a clock and loaded up and hides behind the door to execute her.

it can't happen. >> something else that did not make sense, they said, was denice's car was not in her driveway. they found her silver ford in this nearby park. nathan told police he only know of one key, the one that was found at the crime scene. now, police had a second key they found in his trash can in the park and they believe nathan was lying to them and he'd use that key to move the car. another suspicious finding? a black hooded sweatshirt on the floor of nathan and denise's bedroom. investigators say seem to match the one estrangement was seen wearing in the neighborhood that day. >> it appeared someone was in a hurry and took it off and threw it down. >> there was something else more troubling. police ordered an extension analysis of nathan's laptop, and and a couple of weeks after they received a report. >> the computer expert explained his browser was set

to delete anything he looked up, but because you delete something doesn't mean it is gone. >> with they found floored them. >> how to silence a .40 caliber handgun. glock specifically which is the gun he owned in will she was shot with. how to silence that. had to overdose somebody on insulin. >> electrocution. >> in the bathtub. this goes back several months before the murder. >> he is potentially thinking of these different ways? >> i honestly think he planned it out. >> did you straight up basket did you have anything to do with your wife's death? >> he said no. >> not only did he deny killing his wife, nathan told us there was a reasonable explanation for those internet searches police uncovered. electrocution in the bathtub. how to silence a gun. >> we started a foundation overseas called hope for

tomorrow to combat suicide. we were doing research and looking at blog sites where young people, desperate people, or giving information about what they were thinking. >> still, it was obvious from his interview that detectives had questions about a story early on. >> i would love to think you are a god-fearing man and you would never do that. but, -- trust make, i do not have a preconceived idea. i'm painting the picture and trying to put the pieces together. okay? as a homicide investigator, i have to either rule you in or will you out. >> you want to rule me in. >> i want to rule you out so i can move on. i wanna rule you out because i hope you did not do it. >> between learning about aina

and the evidence they collected, police had enough to arrest nathan. three weeks after denise had been killed, they pulled her husband over. he had just dropped us kids off at school. >> they handcuffed me. they put me in their car. at that point, i did not know where we were going. finally, i asked him, where are we going, i asked? what's going on. we are taking you to jail for the murder of your wife. >> he seems scared. he seemed surprised. like disbelief he was being arrested. >> it was a shock. nathan leuthold, missionary and father of three, native son of peoria was now on his way to jail to await trial for the murder of his wife. his friend, norm, who had known the couple for decades was stunned. >> there is no doubt in my mind that nathan was arrested

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three weeks after denise leuthold was shot to death, her husband, nathan, was arrested for her murder. at first, her mother couldn't quite grasp it. >> he was part of our family for 17 years. he was like a son to us. to think he could actually, you know, shoot her in the head. >> and this is a man devoted his life to being a good person. by the time nathan went on trial, she changed her mind. >> had been leading a double life. >> a bad dream that would not end? >> it kept going on and on and on. >> it won't end until nathan is -- >> exactly. >> the trial was big news in town. after all, the defendant was a missionary, accused of killing his wife in their home in an upscale neighborhood. things like that do not happen

in peoria. nathan pleaded not guilty. he insisted he never would've done anything to harm his beloved wife. >> there was a time there was a difficulty, the first person i would talk to would be denise. there were several times within the first few days after her death, trying to figure out what to do with the children next, i wanted to grab the phone and call her. she was my support. >> but, denise was not there to support nathan because, the state argued, and he killed her. >> you will have eyewitness identification. dna. gunshot residue. motive? one person. he is sitting across from you. >> the trial began july 14, exactly 17 months after the murder. this reporter cover the trial for nbc's station in peoria.

where people anxious for the trial to start? >> i think a lot of people were anxious. the family wanted to find out what had happened. >> jodi and jerry were the prosecutors who tried the case. they said what really happened was a cold-blooded execution. >> burglars commit burglaries. killers execute in a style consistent with what the defendant did. hiding in the cubicle to kill her the moment she walked through the door. >> the theory? nathan put his plan in action when denise left the house to take their daughter to day care. first, he drove his car to the park down the street. >> parked his car and robinson park, close to 12:15, 12:20, walked to the house and went in and the burglary was probably already staged. if not, he went ahead. then he knew denise would be

coming back and stood in the doorway, and when the door open, denise tried to take her coat off and he shot her in the back of the head. >> then they then drove denise's card to the same park and hopped back in his car and drove to starbucks, arriving at 12:45. >> 1245, 12:50, five minutes. long enough to be on the camera. >> long enough they said for nathan to wash his hands to get the gunshot residue off, then leave to start his afternoon errands before picking up janel from day care. >> three::00 the defendant return home and want you to believe he sees the door open and glass. that's the extent of his knowledge. then he calls the police. he knew full well when you called the police what they would find. >> from our perspective, that's what makes it so disturbing. the cold and calculated manner he did this. >> one of the first officers to steps 25 describe the scene at the house just after nathan called 911 that day.

>> i observed kitchen cabinets open, and some kitchen drawers on the floor. in my experience as a police officer and investigator, when a burglary occurs, the kitchen is not a common place that a burglar would look for items. a burglary, also, items are scattered about. drawers drum -- dumped on the floor. i felt it was not ordinary and i expressed that to my partner. >> while he found that out for a burglary, it was nathan's behavior that struck him more. >> describe his demeanor. >> as i am speaking to him, he never showed emotion or asked questions as to what was going on. >> prosecutors said nathan showed no emotion during his police interview. even when a detective told him denise was dead. >> you can't tell me things about her.

>> i'm telling you he -- she is dead. >> prosecutors played the interview for the jurors hoping they would see what they saw. >> when the police gave us the case, watched his video statement, and five minutes and i knew he was guilty. his demeanor and attitude. he tried to take over the conversation. not a single tear was shed. >> they presented evidence the shell casing was from a glock 40. the kind of gun nathan owned. >> the only firearm that can generate those marks would be a glock. >> are you able to say that within a reasonable degree of scientific? >> has. >> police never did find the murder weapon. did you worry that was a factor? >> it was a concern. >> in a murder case if you don't have the weapon, it's an uphill battle. the jury once the smoking gun and we did not have it.

>> prosecutors thought they had enough evidence to prove their case. remember diane parrish who said she saw a man in a black hooded sweatshirt walking toward denise's house the day of the murder? she was the closest thing police had to an eyewitness. >> the whole thing struck me as wrong. i told my husband to slow down. i wanted to get a good look at him. i was worried he saw us pulling out of our driveway, and if he knew we were gone, he would rob us. >> she didn't recognize him in the day, but later, when she looked at a police photo lineup, she quickly pointed to this man. it turned out to be nathan leuthold. did you think it was possible when you looked at the lineup that maybe you had seen nathan in the neighborhood and subconsciously you were choosing that photo because you had already seen him before? >> no. >> why are you so sure? >> because of the look on his

face. i knew i did not make a mistake. i was careful when i looked at the photos so i would not make a mistake. >> when she testified, you could hear a pin drop in the courtroom. everyone was glued to her testimony. i don't think there was a person in the courtroom who disbelieved what she was saying. >> executor said it must've been neither the neighbor saw because they found a black hooded sweatshirt on his bedroom floor. what's more, expert testified it had gunshot residue on the right cup. >> nathan said he had been at the gun range. is that feasible that if he was shooting off his gun there would be residue? >> he said it was in oklahoma two weeks prior. is no way there would've been gunshot residue on the sweatshirt still. >> another neighbor who did not want to be videotaped testified she heard a gunshot that day between 12:30 and 12:40, the timeframe detectives thought denise was killed.

prosecutors said that gave nathan the opportunity to kill denise. now, they had to explain why he did it. they called this man to the stand who said he could answer their resize question because nathan told him everything. >> would you state your name? >> david smith was a fellow inmate of nathan's at the jail. he said nathan told him he researched ways to kill denise on his laptop. >> he talked how he was planning to kill his wife? >> well, at first he told me he was thinking about poison, with some insulin or potassium or something. >> according to the end, nathan said he ran a lot of errands the day of the murder to create an alibi. >> he told me he presented some valentine's day gifts to his wife, and so everything would look fine. >> how important was david

smith, the jailhouse snitch. >> david said nathan was worried the lady might have seen him while he was walking. nobody knows that except nathan. it's consistent with our evidence. >> the inmate also testified why nathan wanted denise out of his life. >> well, he said she was overbearing and he got to the point where he had wanted to move on with his life and met some manos and stuff like that. >> did he tell you the name of that someone else? >> some student named anna or something. >> it was what the inmate said about the timing of the murder that they found chilling. smith testified that nathan told him he planned the murder specifically for valentine's day. >> it was supposed to be some type of present to this other check.

>> i think you referred to her as and not? >> there it was. nathan's motive. prosecutors said he killed his wife so he could be with his true love, aina. >> this was is valentine's day present to aina and that's despicable. >> aina, who prosecutors said was a motive for the murder, was about to take the stand. the star witness at the biggest trial in town. >> please state your name. >> aina dobilaite. >> coming up. nathan's note to aina. >> there's nothing more important to me than you in this relationship. >> and a note to him. when t line continues.

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nathan leuthold was on trial for murdering his wife shell. on valentine's day, 2013, a scenario impossible to have eare nathan leuthold was on trial for murdering his wife on valentine's day, 2013. the scenario impossible to have predicted for a man devoted to god who appeared to have been happily married to his high school sweetheart for 17 years. what would make him commit such a crime? the state argued he was in love with another woman. >> the motive, his real valentine, 20-year-old lithuanian sponsors student. >> aina dobilaite, his motive for murder. >> i think aina was a bombshell. >> she testified in english

and in lithuanian. >> nathan leuthold visited you in hotels off-campus on at least five occasions. correct? >> i can't remember how many times. >> during those visits, you went to a hotel with nathan in just the two of you were present part of the time. correct? >> i'm not sure if everything we were at the hotel together. >> did you spend the night with nathan leuthold? >> she was called as a witness for the prosecution which granted her immunity to encourage her to talk but her testimony made it clear she was not eager to help the state. >> when he visited you in chicago in 2012, did he buy you presents? >> [ speaking in a global language ] >> translator: i'm not sure

what presents mean? >> despite having studied in the states for four years, she seemed incapable of understanding english at times which frustrated prosecutors. >> you are proficient in both written and spoken english, isn't that correct? >> [ speaking in a global language ] >> translator: yes. >> they thought she was an important witness. >> it was significant for the jury to see aina. we can give them the test messages and the vocals and the jury will hear all of that. >> they show text between nathan and dashed aina. they started with mutual hellos. at 8:37 a.m. nathan texted aina, i know there's a lot to do today. i pray there is enough time to do everything. take care of yourself. then after nathan arrived home midafternoon, aina texted and

he replied, i can't now. police check. it looks like the house was wrapped. aina responded, interesting follow by a smiley face. >> you would respond with oh, my, what happened? concern for the family. i suspect based on that response that in all likelihood she had knowledge of what was going to take place. >> prosecutors accused nate the of coaching aina on how to cover-up the relationship. the calls were in lithuanian. for the trout, english translations were read aloud. >> your spiritual adviser your clergy here in america because there is nobody else's because of the when you. this may be important in the future, because just as all your communication with the up ernie -- attorney is private, communication with their clergy is private. >> that there was no covering up letters nathan had sent aina including this one read by an

interpreter during the deposition. >> i love you because you understand me better than anybody else. because i am a better person with you next to me. my life has deeper meaning and purpose because you are my world and my everything. that will never change. >> with words like that, prosecutors did not believe the denials of an affair with nathan. they made her read aloud another effusive note that nathan sent her one month before the murder. >> i let you down and i'm sorry. i will not make excuses. you deserve someone who respects you and puts the relationship first. i want to do all that i can to be the person. there is nothing more important to me than you in this relationship. i'm blessed to have you in my life. >> she presented herself for what she was. she was in a relationship and she tried to minimize the relationship. >> nathan and aina were making eye contact quite a bit through the trial. when she would answer a

question or she would say something he didn't like, he would laugh and throw his hands up in the air. >> prosecutors had another bit of evidence. a secret that shook the courtroom. it challenge the core of nathan's defense that denise was at the center of his life and he would never hurt her. it was a gutwrenching note written by denise, discovered tucked in her day planner. >> in a murder case, you do not have the victim. you never get to hear their story. that person is dead, and here we had a note that she had written that laid the whole thing out. >> a highly personal, painful note, was obviously aimed at nathan. the police investigator read it in court. >> i tried to please you for 17 years and never succeeded. i have never been good enough, never done enough. i know you want me dead. i'm not stupid. >> denise seemed to confirm that she believed her husband was having an affair.

while she did not name aina, she mentioned a much younger woman. >> you want to humiliate me by running around with a 20-year- old, fine. i will not grovel. if i have not pleased you and 17 years, nothing i do now will please you. how long are you going to do this to me? oh, yeah, until i break. that's what you said. >> was very devastating. i was shocked it had gone that far. she really was jealous even though she said she was not. >> she was speaking from the grave and away. >> absolutely. to everybody. that note was powerful. powerful. >> powerful but not proof set nathan's attorney. in fact, he argued there was no evidence that nathan had done anything wrong at all. >> this all happened because he was having an affair and i submit that there's not a scintilla of evidence that that was the case. >> coming up.

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more than 2100 people in indonesia were evacuated do to an erupting volcano. three corruptions were recorded since friday with a maximum height of that eruption reaching 3900 feet. for now, back to dateline. paint him as a monster who had planned nathan leuthold spent a week listening to prosecutors paint him as a monster who had planned the execution of his wife. now, it was time for the defense to fight back. >> to say i killed my wife goes beyond what i ever fathomed hearing from anyone. to say i had an affair is absurd. >> i think nathan was being tested by god, about his faith.

i just thought, nathan, you've got to be strong. we will get through this. >> his lawyer, former prosecutor turned defense attorney who argued the investigation was faulty. >> there were certain preconceived notions of who did it for lack of a better term. it never went anywhere. for that reason, i'm going to ask you to find nathan not guilty. >> he insisted the cops zeroed in on him from the start and never pursued any other leads. >> this was an incomplete investigation. while the spouse, nathan in this case, would've been the logical place to start, the problem with that is if you follow that gut feeling, that will cause you likely to miss other things. in this case, simply not look for them at all. >> what about the cars nathan said he had seen in the

neighborhood which he thought were suspicious not too long before the murder? his attorney called a neighbor who had also seen strange activity. >> i observed a vehicle parked with its headlights on for some extended period of time, five, 10 minutes at least, which i consider to be -- and i felt with the direction of the headlights, that whoever was in the vehicle could probably see me and my residents and it made me uncomfortable. >> when he put cross-examine diane who identified nathan as the man in the switcher, she admitted her husband had a different recollection. >> you and your husband had a discussion about the race of the person walking alongside the road? >> that's correct. >> your husband thought it was a black man? >> that's correct. >> another problem? the defense pointed out, that while the state made up big

deal about the gunshot residue on the switcher, they never tested his hands for the substance. >> why not take a test from nathan? >> he said there's an issue with the time line. based on court testimony, the murder occurred around 12:30 p.m. after that, prosecutors said nathan would've had to drive the car to the park, get in a zone car then drive to starbucks where he was seen on surveillance video at 12:45 p.m. >> he would've had to have done all of that without leaving any blood smears, getting blood on him. >> it was coming down to the crucial 15 minute window. we decided to see for ourselves how long that drive would take. we retraced what investigators said were nathan's steps a day. i just left the house and i'm heading to robinson park which is a few blocks away.

i am now arriving at robinson park. it took me 1:15. this is where police say said the cars were switched. now, we are going to switch cars, take another drive in the second car and we will try to starbucks. let's see how long that takes. red light will add a little time. we are at 4.5 minutes, going just about the speed limit right on which is 45 miles per hour. pulling into the starbucks parking lot. we are looking at a travel time of seven minutes and 55 seconds. it added up to nine minutes and 10 seconds of driving that would've left him under six minutes to ransack the house and shoot denise. his lawyer says that would've

been nearly impossible. >> the timing really gets to the point where it's almost not realistic. >> what about the state witness who claimed nathan had convinced the whole crime to him? the defense argued david smith was a jailhouse snitch, convicted felon, who got a deal for his testimony. he wasn't worth cross- examining. >> do you really believe that david smith is the type of person that nathan is going to confide in? and then seek counsel from? >> according to defense, the main weakness with the state case was motive. an affair with aina. he argued there was no evidence to support the theory that nathan killed his wife so he could be with a 20-year-old, no matter who asked her, aina insisted her relationship with nathan was platonic. >> what's the relationship

between you and nathan? >> he is my sponsor. i worked for him. i did a lot of translating work and helping with organizing conferences in lithuania. he is also, was kind of like my mentor. in america, he was the only person with whom i could talk in lithuanian. a friend. >> the defense attorney said the state was making more those spa visits than what was there. >> would mr. leuthold be there when you were having the waxing? >> he was there to drive me and pay for it. >> but he was not there when the procedure was being -- >> no. >> were you and nathan ever lovers? >> no. >> that has been asked of you

many times. police asked you, correct? >> that is correct. >> and the answer is never change? >> that is correct. >> his bottom line was the state never came close to proving a sexual relationship, not even with the hundreds of hours of phone calls nathan made from the jail. >> 1700 hours of recorded telephone conversations involving nathan leuthold. do the math. 40 hours a week, you are approaching darn close to almost an entire work year. listening to telephone conversations involving nathan. where in any one of those do you have any indication at all that nathan and aina were lovers?

>> in fact, for the searches through their cell phones, he discovered something he says is especially telling. >> how many people, particularly young people, are going to have a relationship with a significant other and not have a picture? of their significant other. did they find any photos, anything where it would indicate that nathan and aina were involved in that way? no. >> with automotive and without hard evidence, nathan pulled the trigger, he said all the prosecution had were lies, misinterpretations, and omissions. >> not guilty. that's what nathan is and i suggest you respectfully, that's what i asked the verdict

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the murder trial was nearing the end. he had to decide whether to testify. at the last minute, he chose not to. >> you understand that's not something you will be able to take back? >> why did you decide not to take the stand during the trial? >> i had chosen to testify prior to the trial, but as the state continued to take things out of context, and continued to throw as much mud as they could on the wall hoping some of the would stick, they had moved beyond what i felt were the facts of the case. i was not going to give them anymore fuel or fire to use or misconstrue. >> but, he wanted to set the record straight with us, insisting he is innocent. he also wanted to say the police never looked past him to catch the real intruder in what

was a real burglary. the police believe it was stage. that it looked too perfect the way everything was placed. what was taken. >> things were stolen. insurance claims verified and paid the claim on those items. it was a burglary. did it look like a normal burglary? i'm not sure what a normal burglary looks like. >> what really upset nathan was how the state depicted his relationship with aina, someone he had known since she was a little girl. someone he meant toward. you can see how it would look bad going to the spa and getting aina waxing treatments and the text messages back and forth. it seems there was something going on. >> aina had no drivers license at the time. i was a translator. take curve for waxing treatments, it's not as if i'm in there watching or whatever

else. you check the records. the waxing treatment was the same day i'm getting a haircut at the same place. take things out of context, you can make them say what you want them to say. >> like aina text the day of the murder. why did she say after the robbery, interesting. smiley face. >> you are asking me was somebody else meant. i assume aina hit the wrong prompt. i didn't give much thought to the word interesting. i took it to mean that's odd. that's the way i use it over and over again. >> one of the harshest accusations that's come out of all of this is that you killed your wife and it was a valentine's day gift for aina. >> the harshest statement has been i killed my wife. it doesn't matter what day it

was. i intentionally did it on valentine's day is a gift? i am not sure what takes a sicker person. the person to actually do that or the person to suggest that. >> what about the haunting words written by denise in the narrow fountain or day planner clearly aimed at nathan? how would he answer that? she essentially spoke from the grave singing you wanted to kill her. you were humiliating her with a 20-year-old. >> the part you're referring to says i want you -- i know you want me to be dead. i'm not stupid. to say that implies she felt in danger seems to go against the facts. she never shared that with her best friend. her super close sister. her mother. her father.

she never called police. she never called a counseling hotline. she never did domestic battery, restraining order because there wasn't anything. >> did you want her dead? >> no. why would i want her dead? >> to be with aina and groom aina is your new wife. that's the accusation. >> that's the accusation by those who from day one wanted to portray something that fits modern society. it's the culture we live in. fits the cheater's lifestyle. the jerry springer show mindset. it fits the things, making things look salacious. >> the jurors never heard any

of that because nathan never took the stand. how nervous were you when the jury went to deliberate? >> from a selfish perspective, it's my life. my future. my freedom. it means i could go back to being the father to the children. the children will be robbed of just one parent and not both. one was stolen away by someone who was seeking gain. a guilty verdict would still from the children, their other parent. >> forward denise's family, that's what they were hoping for . the man they knew since he was a young boy, who lived with them, and now they believed had lied to them. >> when they went in for deliberations, i was 99% they would come back with a guilty verdict. there is that one percent you were thinking, what if someone

-- >> i wasn't sure what the jury would come back with. there was a lot of evidence provided by the prosecution. they did a great job but it was a lot of circumstantial evidence. no evidence pointing to somebody seeing nathan do the crime. it was very hard to tell what the jury was going to do. >> was a highly circumstantial case. no hard proof nathan killed denise and no clear-cut evidence that nathan and aina were lovers. whatever it was jurors heard and saw in the courtroom, it was enough. in 90 minutes, they reached a verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant nathan leuthold guilty of first-degree murder. >> what went through your mind when you heard that word guilty? >> close to the same feeling i had when i heard my wife had been shot. i remember hearing the loss just got that much greater.

>> the judge sentenced nathan to 80 years in prison saying how same -- shameful it was nathan killed denise in her own home. >> such an ugly -- it seems only appropriate you will likely end your life in a different type of place. cold and gray and isolative. >> for the state, it was a satisfying ending to a case they have to painstakingly stitched together. >> i think he tried to portray this image of a wonderful person but in reality he was nothing more than a cold- blooded killer. >> as for denise's parents, they are still hurting from such a sudden loss. at least they have her children close as they are raising them. how did you tell them their father killed their mother? >> they knew he was on trial for murdering their mother and a jury had convicted him. right

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