he said, "nicole h missing." we are frantic. calling, all her frien calling. you think that that so thing happens to o it's the most frighten in the world. >> a young wife. >> she always saw the people. >> she had a way to ma smile. >> missing for nine da. >> it's so wrong, and somewhere where she sh be. >> it was hard enough didn't know. much worse when they d. >> it came over the tvt body had been foun i'll never forget that as i live. >> one mystery solved. another just beginning. what had happened to n >> this could go dow of paths. >> and it did.

>> had her troubled pa caught up with her? >> i saw the pill bott freaked out. >> or was it something darker? >> he told me that he it in her red bull. >> how did she change? >> she became more sex people. >> who wanted her dead? >> he thought he was s a player. >> did it make him a k i'm lester holt, and this is "dateline." here is dennis murphy "secrets in seattle." >> seattle was raw aft of relentless winter r a woman lost had been the tangle of the blackb a naked body. a small tattoo on the . a necklace and signs o strangulation. the detectives sent to of trees and boggy und near the seattle airpo runways guessed it was

they would soon be pro correct. nine days to find her, answer to where. another seven years st to answer the question homicide -- who? and wh but we have to go back the crime scene photosnd medical examiner's fin before she became thos words, "the victim to find the dearly lov named nici. nici pietz, wife and d sister and friend. >> she seemed to be ab uplift people in way of us knew how to do. >> she had a way to ma smile. she had a way to let y that everything was go okay. >> gayle was her mothe >> nici was sunshine. she was the kind of pe when she walked in a r room lit up. >> gayle raised nici a

sister, tanya, in the su seattle. there were carefree da nearby lake. >> is nici your annoyi sister or was she a pr kid? how do you remember he >> she was a very anno sister. mom insisted on dressing alike. >> in high school, mia was a friend to everyo. >> every day, eating l together. she never sat. she would walk around d with people. she always saw the goo people. she didn't see the bad people. >> after graduation, n brought that winning s the workplace. eventually landing a p position in the head o bally total fitness. kimberly thomas was on >> nici was a great bo. she cared about how yo was. she cared about how you w she cared about your b >> bally's is where ni another employee, davi he was six feet tall,

younger, and he exuded confidence. his coworkers recall, to be going places. >> he was definitely a man. easy to talk to, would lot. he was actually a very compassionate pers. >> he was very confide. he spoke well. he had a presence that attention. >> dave was set on sel gym memberships than a else. and he wouldn't have d everyone saw in him. he was ambitious, with h on bigger management p >> dave could sell rea glasses to a blind it didn't matter what hi was. he had you convinced t whatever it was, you h it. >> so there was dave, on the sales floor, an was nici, the buttoned from corporate. and the boss' favorite acknowledged. before long, nici and became an item. >> she definitely woul little bounce in her she got an incoming me dave. >> out of everybody, h

her. that has to make you f of special. >> pretty soon, nici a d moved in together. gayle had remarried an arizona with her new h ron. and she could tell by of her daughter's voic phone that nici had found "the" one. >> he was her dream ma >> really? >> he was the man she . she was so in love >> and he apparently w evidence to her friend family, by the piece of she was rarely seen wi >> david got her a lit bracelet. >> diamonds on it? >> yeah, little tiny d and white gold, i th >> did she like it? was it a sentimental p her? >> she loved it. she wore it everywhere. >> another piece of je him would follow. a wedding ring. after dating for two y and dave married. >> so tell me about th hawaii was the place. >> it was in hawaii. she looked so beautifu happy.

people had leis and beautiful flow and it was on the beac the waves crashing. and sunset. it was beautiful. it was absolutely beau >> and was your sister that day? >> yes. i think she found her charming. >> nicole pietz seemed top of the world, confidently into h life. >> she was pretty exci getting married. she loved her ring. she loved her bracelethe got her. she was excited about new condo. and having her own lit family. >> january 28th, 2006 saturday. after a hectic work we their different jobs, dave would chill with party that night over friends' place. that afternoon, dave c to hash out the detail they would drive there separately. >> hey, babe, give me i need to know what we if i need to stop and

or anything for ellen and jason and st so give me a call. i love you. bye. >> but when dave pietz at their friends' ap evening, nici wasn't t. one hour, two hours, a no nici. dave's wife of almost was gone, into the. into the rain. what on earth had happ nici pietz? >> nici's life hadn't been so good. she had a troubled pas had those troubles fin caught up with her? or was it something else >> did you think somet wrong, something more right from the beginni? >> yes. food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees.

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nicole pietz, a wo shy of her 33rd birthd reported missing by he >> we just want to kno safe. >> david pietz told re how he waited for her friends at a saturday dinner party. she was a no-show. >> when i got there, s there, and hadn't hear and hadn't been able t her. >> david appealed for keep an eye out for >> we want her to know w her very much. >> nici's mother was b side. >> she is no wouldn't come home. if she is ten minutes calls you. >> you came up right awa did you think somethin wrong right from the b? >> yes. because nici wouldn't

away without calling a me. >> if nici could have somebody, she wo gayle. >> nicole's mother and stepfather had reason worried. they, along with nici' family and friends, re another time years bef they had almost lost h. nici had been in her t she began suffering abdominal problems, rela the onset of puber. her medical issues lef agonizing pain and als medicated. >> she had very painfu and was prescribed lot medicine for them. >> and by the time she she had had three surg pain pills being throw right and left. >> at some point, it s those pills took away the pain, but the pers. zombified. how was she different? >> just spacey, couldn with the conversation. i felt like i lost her. she wasn't really ther >> before nici could c

of her hole, she would check into a local rehab to treat her addic. >> when she finally go felt like i had my sis. >> that's when she sta working at the bally g her co-workers thought in terrific emotional >> the nici that i kno in her dark days. the nici that i knew w of her game. >> and yet friends lik baltz knew nici took h sobriety a day at terrified of making one losing it all. >> she would tell you headache and trying to girl to take an ad you would think you we to inject her with her >> nici's weekly alc anonymous meetings and foundation of that conscious effort. and on saturday mornin 28th, she was supposed a very special meeting. a celebration to honor eight years of s

>> every year, it's yo birthday. and it was her eighth . >> as being a clean an woman. >> yes. she was so proud of it. we were so proud o everyone was proud of >> honey, it's mom. i don't know where you >> but nici never show that important mee never received her awa. and now, friends and f desperately tried reac by phone. >> hi, nici. this i we don't know what's g >> their pleas relegat silence of voicemail. the anxiety level went chart. >> no matter what happ nici, even if it was a we want you to know th you. >> had nici, in fact, back into addiction? >> i started hoping th. because then she would alive. >> the alternative tha be dead somewhere was to bear. a bulletin went out. be on the lookout for woman with a tattoo on friends knew she would wearing a cross neckla

diamond tennis bracele nine days later, king detective, kathleen de dispatched to an area seattle's sea-tac airport, south >> the call came in fr sergeant, requesting i woman's body. she had been found by in the blackberry bush. >> this is kind of off right here. >> yes, it is. >> a woman's body disc a nothing patch of scr end of the runway near but abandoned trailer . >> what did you notice body? >> first thing i notic of course, was tha the second thing i notic arms were gently acros chest. >> not just a body aba. >> correct. she had not been disca garbage, but had been into and under the vin. >> the detective had a set of skills she call

she had been trained i tracking, reading tr disturbed vegetation, the scouts in the . the pattern of broken and tamped-down told her that the body out here about a week. suggested to you why t would have been abando? >> no. and that was part of t complexity of this investigation. we had all sorts of av we needed to investiga. we had the transient p that may have been fre the trailer park. we had a mental health that was very close by walking distance. >> but detective decke a strong hunch about who victim was. the cross necklace, th. it all checked out as woman, nicole pietz, w been missing for a the diamond tennis bra always wore was no wrist, but police were enough in their tentat to pay a visit to nico husband, david. and the information da would soon share with about when his wife wa seen and what she left would be critical to t

>> but it was somethin missing that turned ou even more important, a puzzling. >> there's no indicati anyone else had been b wheel of nicole's >> when "dateline" con. who are these people?

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i'll never forget that as i live. >> found strangled. >> it came over the tv body had been found an knew that it had to be >> had to be your nici. >> yeah. >> nicole pietz, stran death. her nude body left for beneath some blackberr by the airport. the killer unknown. her gray jetta still m. her family's deep sorr hardened into resolve justice for her. >> find out who did it punish him. punish him! >> to begin, the lead now assigned to king c newest murder case anderson, set out to l about the victim. he paid a visit to her h david pietz, at the co nici shared. >> how long have you b married? >> almost four years. >> david agreed to be taped and told detecti nici had struggled wit dependency in the pa.

he then revealed somet disturbing. recently, nici had aga taking prescription >> is nici still strug >> she wasn't. i thought. but she hurt her back before thanksgivin she slipped a disc. >> because of a severe back injury, david nici had reluctantly a let her doctor put carefully monitored pr for percocet, a potent addictive narcotic dru >> at first, she had m the pills and giving t her. >> investigators wonde nici's old demons pull down again? they delved into nici' known movements. >> when is the last ti nici? >> friday night when i from work. she was asleep in bed. >> david pietz told de that nici was sleeping arrived home late frid. and by the morning, sh already gone. off to her special aa

celebration, he assume >> i just remember thi must be where she must woke up. >> when she didn't sho the dinner party that returned to their cond for her. he described how her p keys and gray jetta we but he said something caught his eye and it out to be a big clue f detectives. nici's vial of percoce sitting out on the cou. the bottle was empty. the 56-pill prescripti just two days before, . >> i found the pill bo freaked out. it was a little scary she relapsed. that's a lot of pills. i thought maybe she od something. >> as detectives wrapp interview with the husba narrative was starting together about the vic former addict, possibl re-addicted. >> how does that chang complexion of the inve early on? the woman whose body h found was a recovering a and maybe fell off the? >> well, it makes it f complex for us, becaus

have to consider the p that she met up with t person at the wrong time that somehow led to he. that this was somehow the people that she kn her aa affiliation. which she was very muc and regularly attended meetings. >> so doors are openin possibility. >> yes. >> rather than closing. >> yes, yes. >> some old fashioned investigative work wou come next. tracking down phone re credit card statements. anything to pinpoint w may have headed after the condo saturday morng only one more blip on timeline surfaced. a single phone call ma noon on saturday from phone to the gym's fro while david pietz was >> it's possible that driving, and hit one o towers there, so w considering that. we were also consideri killed her may have ha phone and was stil. >> as for that diamond bracelet missing fro wrist when they found the cops began checkin

shop records, in case had tried to hock it. nothing. >> a police officer sp ni cole pietz's car overnight. >> the last major piec puzzle turned up two w nici disappeared. her car, a gray jett found abandoned in a p in seattle's univers district. forensic technicians h clues crawled through they noticed the drive had been pushed ba what they didn't find that intrigued inves most. >> what was found in t david's dna, along wit dna. there is no indication anyone else had be wheel of nicole's car. >> detectives were wondering. wondering about the hu >> coming up. he was definitely a pl. >> dave chased women i club, outside the club, of the club, on top of >> but did that make h killer?

♪ at the latest gym david pietz worked, co like troy wagman under well why david looked . still, it was a witness. >> he looked very bad. he looked like he ha

he had lost weight, had dark circles under his eyes and he seemed a little bi. >> while david pietz s back to work after t off to mourn his detectives intent on s murder began inter from the gym world who starting at the facili nici and dave had firs >> bally's was the typ where most of the rumors weren't real they were true. >> staff members agree dave, the alpha do department, and nici, girl, were a hopeless mi >> the more nici l more i knew she should >> what dave saw i according to some co-w was a cynical way corporate ladder. nici was everyone's fa and their boss in partic loved her like family, brady saw it. >> nici and our superv very close. almost like a father/d relationship. and that is why i thin nici, from the start. i don't think there ev attraction there.

>> but if he was chill his wife, he was super about some of the fema members and his co. >> dave chased women i club, outside the the club, on top of th. >> detectives found th about david pietz' intriguing, but hardly. >> i guess to describe current terminology, h he was somewhat of a p >> did it make him a k >> didn't make him a k >> but david pietz's b towards women at the g him fired, detectives several female co-work sexual harassment comp against him with bally management, including morales. >> david was very verb w came to his comments. what looks better on j today, her legs, her her breasts? i finally got the cour to the boss. >> after getting boote bally's, david mov at 24-hour fitness, wh wagman remembers david about how he and his w

wanted to invite other their sex life. >> more than once, he approach me and ask thought about three-wa relationship. and he and nici were e the idea of swingers' >> nici's good friends differently. >> she was very appall idea. >> she was like, absol >> a wobbly marriage, dog husband, straining the circumstantial smo getting thicker for investigators. >> it was very apparen that, you know, he was l an alternate lifes. >> what i'm not hearin captain, is motivation. >> that was a concern >> maybe the husband d but then again, maybe as weeks became months solid proof, the h that the investigation just didn't fall into an investigation hitti wall. devastating news for n family, by now convinc david's guilt. >> when you were out i

emotional wilderness, '07, '08, '09, what wa lowest moment? >> oh, there were so m ones. i didn't want to live. just cried my head off day, and -- just didn' live. >> nici's mother marke passage of time by m pleas to find the kill. >> it has been 839 day beloved nicole was mur >> years went by. david pietz quietly le fitness industry for a at chase bank. he started attending c fellow church member, says she got to know a was very different fro heartless philanderer by nici's friends and . the dave kim knew was widower who spoke fond his lost wife. >> when he would speak could see a sadness in. we would have conversa

about, you know, he wa struggling, because her. >> meanwhile, at the c sheriff's office, the binders that made up file moved from desk t until in 2010, they up by two cold case co papovich and mike mellis. each was determined to some heat. >> i called gayle up a i've got this case my intent to be the la detective to have >> they laid out t investigation, and t hone in on day one. that saturday morning presumably left th shared with dave and to her special aa me to the cold case detec fresh eyes, a few key evidence from that m jumped out. common-sense stuff, re. like nici's wedding ri. a photo taken in 2006 in nici's bathroom nea jewelry cleaner she ke overnight. >> and here's the wedd left on the counter. and she was proud of the

according to all o and here she is going big meeting the next but she is going to go take her rings wit >> another red flag, thi the autopsy report. nici's body had been r with her retaine mouth. why did it seem odd yo the body with the reta? >> again, that's somet people typically go to bed. she was in the habit o it at night, but n. >> the wedding ring le bathroom counter. the clunky retainer stil mouth, added up, concl detectives, and you ha who never left the con her meeting that saturd one who never made it the night alive, and t person known to be pietz in the condo tha her husband, david >> when you look at ea of evidence and figure does it relate to ever else, lo and behold, we' our picture at the. >> six years after nic was reported missing, husband david was arrest charged with secon murder in connection w death.

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then in 2013 nici's fami friends filed into a p seattle courtroom pietz stand trial fo murder. he pleaded not guilty. >> when nicole married t defendant, she thought married the man of her but on january 28th, 2 dream would turn into a nightmare. >> prosecutors kristen richardson and carla c promised the jury puzzle. pieces they hoped woul ultimately reveal a re hateful husband, w frustrations had b >> i think it was actu think the phrase it truly was a crime . >> at the core of the prosecutors' case, dav sexist philanderer who his goody-two-shoe weight around his ne. so he put his hands ar after an argument to himself of the burden. david they said then nici's problem with pis cover-up. >> why kill her? >> it wasn't a plan to

if it was something he to do, sure, he co her. this was not a plan. this was something tha one night in a fit of . >> because they th was no premeditation pietz was charged with not first, degree murd. but proving he snapped strangled nici in thei wouldn't be easy. this was a highly circum case with little direcid pointing david's w. >> in terms of the bed the house, there is no p evidence left behi. >> which is a handicap guys, when you've this story to a jury t wants to hear csi, r? >> they want dna o. >> prosecutors started calling a string of the women in david's l women who shared with stories of a lustful, spouse, with little re his wife. stories of a three-way the bar. >> and who did it invo >> me and katie and da. >> you were kissing ka >> uh-huh. >> katie was kissing y. >> yes? >> all three at the sa >> stories of a one-ni

>> and what happened a place? >> we had sex. >> and is that the onl that had happene >> yes. >> and of a romance th while david and nici engaged. >> i asked him why he getting married, a that at that point it late to back out o. >> the romance lasted for two years. >> what did he tell yo how he felt about you? >> he told me he cared >> dave pietz's lifest the trial here. >> it did. because it showed he w dissatisfied wit >> dissatisfied with n prosecutors say, change her. david went so far as t nici's drink with ecstasy, hoping she wo finally agree to that this, according to dav buddy, renee stu >> he told me he would her red bull when he w a drink, and he was ju to loosen her up to ge

get her to do a threes >> did you notice a chan her after she dran bull? >> yes. >> how did she change? >> she became more sex people. >> here's a guy who kn well his wife has addi problems and he puts e her red bull? is that the way this g she fought so hard for and without even knowi own husband was undermining th. >> and then it was nic tanya's turn to stare the eyes and tel indifferent he app immediately follow disappearance. >> did he ever look fo >> no. >> did you ever see hi phone calls related to disappearance? >> no. >> did you ever see hi searches with people f her workplace? >> not at all. >> but prosecutors fea evidence of suspicious from a reprehensible h wouldn't be enough to jury david committed m so they rolled out the

that nici never left h alive. >> honestly, the best we had was the evidenc showed she never left condominium. >> evidence offered of little mistakes. remember nici's cheris wedding ring, left on bathroom counter. and then there was nic retainer. >> he forgot she wears retainer/night gua and he forgot to check before he dumped h. >> something else nici would likely overlook, found in her stomach b medical examiner. based on the m.e.'s an prosecutors suspected killed sometime betwee and 2:00 a.m. that fri soon after david said e home and said he f bed. but it was what the fo scientists didn't find system that prosecutor was even more damning. evidence they said tha once and for all that not relapsed. >> did the m.e. find e prescription pain kill

>> no. she had len therapeutic dose of pe her system. it was clear she had n using percocet proba few days prior to her >> and then there was bracelet, that gif the source of her joy. david had told polic vanished, along with h >> everybody assumed t knows, the kille >> soon after david's police learned from co that he had the bracel along. >> david said he had a that he had taken to a p shop, and he thought t guy was trying to ri >> he was trying to ho make a few bucks. >> trying to make mone at some point. >> and that spoke to h cover-up. his involvement. >> sure. absolutely. and that he had lied t in the beginning didn't know where was. >> still, one piece of puzzle didn't fit the prosecution's theory, saturday phone call made nici's cell phone fitness gym where davi. >> this is evidence th around noon, she is saturday. >> right. >> using telephone com

records, prosecuto origin of the call cou placed within a few the gym where it was r >> what you're sayin is a 90% to 95% probab the phone was in this reddish/orangish secto was being placed. >> that is correct. >> it became very clea call was placed from t fitness gym when david working there. >> hardly conclusive e its own. but detectives found s else on the gym securi that made that call a jaw-dropper. at just about the same call is made from ni phone, david can be se stepping away from his area, out of the camer that was david, prosecut heading off to use nic to call the gym recept >> he went back and pl call and then came b front as if nothing wa happening. he had to convince the she had left the h morning. because if she hadn't house, he was th. >> that video and that phone call were presen final pieces of the prosecution's now-comp puzzle.

>> we had needed just thing to put us ov just one more thing. and that call, that pu >> but the jury had ye from the defense. which wasn't about to circumstantial argumen unanswered. coming up. who really had something hide? was it the accused kil or nici? who certainly had a lo around. >> on january 12th, sh. on january 18th, she g on january 26th, she g

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rows of nicole pie family and friends lis the prosecution descri accused as an oversexe run-around louse a guy who strangled hi inconvenient wife and to rot in a scrubb >> we know how she die we know how he lied. >> each day, david p remained emotionless i and, trial-watchers no

alone. and few if any family showed up in the rows to have his back. but he did have suppor kim adams, a frien >> he does have a very network of friends and who care about him a >> she says team dave back him quietly f the courthouse, hoping the many cameras bot outside the courtroom. >> i have a lot of res those people that didn he knows who loves him. >> she watched the new disbelief, not recogni man prosecutors describe cold-hearted killer. surely, this wasn't had known for almost s years. her trusted confidante. >> i kept thinking to my they're talking ab but that's not my frie. that's not the fri know. >> but in court, his d team would not c the silent friends as witnesses. the defense was mounti stripped down argu. jurors, there's nothin. nici left the condo th

morning, and dave had where she ended up. >> nicole pietz was mi and her husband, david never saw her again. what happened to nicol mystery. >> after ten days of t more than 40 witnesses state, the defense l argued, had failed to smoking gun or even a motivation for murde >> in this case, there reasonable doubts. >> could anyone say wi absolute certainty tha always wore her wedd that she never went ou public with her ? the picture of the def portrayed was ofav open and honest with d right from the start. a husband hoping the p would locate his w detective kathleen dec the stand. >> when you first saw his residence, i described him as very and upset. >> yes.

>> the defense willingly conceded that davi crummy husband. but skirt-chasing didn him a motive for mur >> dave pietz isn't the guy to step out on his all of you, certainl people that have done . have they killed husbands or anything l? >> and, the defense co that if anyone had hide, it wasn't dave. it was nici. >> there's another sid this. >> the defense now tur focus to nicole pietz, last few weeks of . >> raise your right ha. >> the lawyers called stand their main witne doctor, carol waymac, primary physician for years. >> you knew nici's his she had trouble has woman. >> i did. >> and had actually be rehab at one point. >> and we had talked abo throughout her car >> so when nici came i office complaining of back pain at the end o

doctor waymac said she nici's past addiction the doctor testified tha did put nici on pa but said she tightly m nici's weekly pres right down to counting number of pills. >> on january 12th, sh. on january 18th, she g and on january 26th, s >> nici was getting hu pills, but the defense the jurors that ni toxicology report had something unusual. despite being prescrib those pills, the foren scientists said she hadn't been taking many >> is it your opin just reflects like a o >> i believe so. it's such a small amou. >> almost no drugs in meant something was ve said the defense. >> nicole was lying to doctor. >> she was doing somet those drugs other th them. >> so what was she doi them?

>> inferentially, circumstantially, you she was out giving the away, giving them friends of hers, c contact with drug dealers, pretty to pretty dangerous. >> the lurid story m known, argued the defe they said it was c and not dave had somet hide. >> something went terr terribly wrong, and sh a result. that it wasn't david, somebody else. >> now it would be up to decide. a husband who never lo wife, who lost it bad night. or a woman with an add never beat, and some f doling out narcotic pa to the wrong person. at the courthouse, t retired to deliberate. kim adams waited at

news. >> kind of made a promis myself to support him, what the verdict w. because i feel he woul same for me. >> as the hours went b family prayed. and the prosecutors repl case in their head >> i felt like there absolutely nothing we closing or in presen >> but that's not they're out deliberati not wondering ever what's going on, and w you're going to su >> please be seate exception of the pre juror. >> and then, more than a half years since n had been found, the ju coming back with a ver. >> we, the jury, f defendant, martin davi guilty of the crime of the second degree, a signed by the presidin is this the verdic >> yes, it is. >> david pietz, guilty degree murder for stra nici, his wife of almo years. >> oh. absolute e. i just wan daughter. and we got it. >> what do you want to david pietz now?

>> david, i hope -- i find it in your heart sorry. because if you don't, burn in hell forever. >> three weeks later, david pietz returned to court for his senten presiding judge michae expressed disgust that strangled his wife, him. >> i don't know what w through her head as sh into the face of the m thought she loved as h life away. accordingly, the sente be -- >> judge haden sentenc pietz to 18 years in p maximum time allowed i second-degree murder c before her daughter's killer was led away, n mother had this to. >> i've let david take for the last seven and years. but i'm not going to any david, i forgive you. i'm not going to allow let you rule my life a. >> but gayle says she

still like to ask her son-in-law a final que >> i wish david would why. and how could he ever a nice person. i mean, nici was -- wa good person. >> the hardest question, the "why?" the coldest fact, the woman gone too soon. that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks f gunfire at a popular san francisco. police searching for the gunman. plus a safety violations we uncovered at the chevron refinery. after two amusement ride accidents why you s ♪ what should i watch? show me sports.

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