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denise got tknow eh other better bu th didn't da, because that both came from very regious families. >> my pares didn belie in ting. we wanto crch events, saw hechool. she was my first and only girlfriend >> ror g tknow natn and denise w nathan bastball player, denise a cheerleader. >> inseparable. goof around each other. in a loving,be puppy love-ish way and it oup in somethg spand we knew ey btogeer. >> what's more, nath was inspired by her parents and wh he saw as a perfect marriage. >> i looked atene's mow wh she was am a womaa wife are and mother and sawhat deniseeally favored her mother so i sai thas what i wt. >> for denise's mom, dne
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>> was hovll time?>> yeah. practiciv at r ho hen se went to colleg nathan, a year longer, foowed surpr the cole got engaged aear lar. diane knew it waco. >> i knew th would end up getting marr >>t was 1995 >> i was always very hpy being a wi and mother and was happy shd found meone to lov and share her life with. >> rht before we d our vows denise prepad a song talksin abt ything she wted was in m th our marriage s going to be e kind she had alws hoped r and dreamed r as a lile cldan-- a wonderful day. >> aft the young come settled in their hometown ofeoa, illinois, denise went to work at an iurance compa while
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higher calling. for several years he dreamed of becoming a baptist mars in 1998 finally seized e portunity when anoer young couple at their church began their own missionary work in lithuania. >> so i apoached the fella and said, you know, what would you think about denise and coming and helping yoguys? he said,hawoulbe gat. >> they moved in witus for six months. sold allheir posssions. tried to save upey. >> we didn't know any liuanians the time. didn know the language, studyingtryingur besbut if was definily a shock. >> they turnedome r a year andoon welcomed a s, seth, and a ughter jia. 2002, the family wentack to lithuani which became th cond home on and off for the nextig years. that's a big undertaking, to- >> right. i think it was very hard for denise to leave her faly, leave erything she'd known and to go overo a strange cotry,
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ba. it w- traumatic experience for her, i think. >> this is because, really, nath wanted too it? >> rht. she wa-- suprting him. it was- wasn't really her calling. she was basically being fe and a mother >> b denise al became very voted to the crch there. >> denise was ve musical and shplay the piano for the chilen and taught them songs and ug the little gis especially bible stories. >> they grew partilaclose to some of thehiren and their falies. >> we had helped women whoad been in abusive relationships. we had bught several lithuanians to the united at the years. for ltal reasonsr musical purposes, for spor. >> their generosity extended to a yolithuanian they had gotten to kn by who eventually came to e u.s. as a llege
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>> nathan has a ve big hea r people. he jt loves to hp peop out, and just wants to do the lord's work. >> by the fallf 10nathan andeniseere ling bacin the stes. by then theyad a third child, janel. their days were fied wh shuttling kids to schoolnd day it care and raing fundfor their neverseas mission. life wh ree young ki was busycticnorm but en cvalentine's day 2013, wh nathan pulled into their driveway mid-aernoon a discovered something terriy wron >> i could see that th windowpane was broken, glass on the ground. at that point i began to put thgs togher and someonhad brennto the home, and at at point i cd the li. ca 911. >> 911. whe's the emgency? >> we had a break-in.
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overseas seas as missionathe leuthold family tued t oriailnois. denise, nathan and their thr kids. seth 12, julia 10 d janel 4 were living with denise's parents. na says it felgood to be home. >> we had trenus friends and family here in the stes. and 's alws what he missed the most. >> being bk in t ste ve nathan opportunity to trav to chures where he
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miionary work anised more s so thed soon return to lhuania. t u.s. th cld also lebrate hodays erantyle as they did valentine's day 2013. >> as is ourradition on lidays, whetr it's easr or christmas or birthys or valentine's, for the childrewe started off, right off the bat, first thing inhe morningand so the children had their valentine sacks that dene prepared sitting theren e them. >> andis w-- mgift to was the ros and card that had bo e nifore pce ta >> after the early morning cebrat the family went back to their usroute. king t kids sool, shopping, running errands. dese's parts were at w buat day som hpene that w completely out of characr fodenise. she failed to pick ua from scol. >> my pares called me. you want us to pick her up? i said, deni should be there any minute.
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>> tns o, no one had been able to reacda fleiss forenisfor a while, including natn. >> hadn't dn't answered a one call or messages let get to daare i'll leapt you know. ilhasn come. hasn't called.i'ght by the house. i'll run by the house she's the. as soon as i puld into the driveway, gage dr was open. >> is that odd? very odd. no car in the garage, but the gara doos open. then as i got --bout half way into the garage, i could see that windowpane was broken. the ass is on the ground, and at that point i begato understand that someone had broken into home. didou fear at person could still be in the house? >> >>ith g daughter in r,nt dway across street so could watch the housas he called 911. >> whas the problem? >> we got a break-in.
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>> i don't know. i -- the gage dos open. there's glass on tk door somebo broke i i've not gonto the house ye >> nathan wa at the neighb'sepeatedly calling fami to see if anyone d heard from denise. th police arrived. detectives jason lee and shawn curry were among theirst on the scen >> by the time we here, officers staing rop everything off. securing the inside of the house. >> they didn't find anntruder. ind,hey found someth far worse. >> while searc the house, i discovered aale obvisly lyly deceased in the houses. >> 39-year-o dise leutho lying inool of bod h barely made it inside the hous was stin. >> right on the otheside of this door is wre we unhe laying down.st right in the front door here. >> they quickly determined she had beenild by sine
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>> she dn't evenave time take h coaerlo hing. when she entered the door, t xt shot was immeate. >> andhe weapon appeared to be a .40 calibelandgun, n signf e gun. did it emene had possibly startled a burg bler? >> ioked like she interrupd a rglar, something had broken in through the ck or and started going through e house anmaybe startled the bular when she came in through the front do. >> wle investigators combed thime n anxiously watched the poli activity fm the house across the street. >> how did they tellou what they hadound? >> the police -- were not the first peop to tell me. unfortunately i found out abou it from my father. i was lling my dad, and dad said, well, i'm on my way. i just heard on the radio, the
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the radithat at your house somedy was shot. >> nathan realizedt had to have been denise. en you came to that reizatio-- whawas going roh yo mind? >> everythinstopped. from looki at my-year-old daughter daught -- who is the image of her mother curly hair andouncy st an-- just ptooking at my dahter, and i want to hu her d her and i wanted to i wanted to just let out all of theain that was associated withnowing that there she was snding -- staring at me just smiling. my world hadust been shattered, and had to tell h at some point.
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happenedbue shed home when ntold her tre'd been are-i >> aovt there and the roads were a roablked. >>s that a sick eling when you e l of the pice an yoknow that h, yea wt aryothinng >> well, i didn't know wt to ink. i ieto run up ere d to go into the house and they were ke, noyou n't go in,nd i'm likei justannow.i just want to know what haen to my daughter? is she in ther where is s? they eventlly took me downto and then one of the cemen camen and told mthat she had beenhot. thworst day of my life. >> now she had to te her husband, denise's father. fell ard crd. i ess it's everyen worst nightmare to have a chil tan from them. adeni'saemily reeled from their umaginable lo, is quietentral illinois
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grplwith the fallof a murdern lentine's day. >> did you feel like, we have a mystery on our hands. we got to solvth. >> yea knew weadomngad and itasoingtake lf t the pntre w o had ne it. >>a poible c nathan rembe seeina spiciousar near his house not long beforthe murder. >> this is kinof wei. pulled ithdrivewayi usuay tount-- into the front dr, and flip thide gh o was the kilr in that car?r in that car?,
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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, shot to shot to death in h home peoria, illinois. a friend, norm aldrick couldn't comprend the news. >> who could do mething like this to a grea a great young woman. a familyf three ildren. great husband. >> nhan id when he lost denise, he lost his foundaon. >> mwi, besfriendfrom third ade. the moth of e the most important ildren in the world to me.
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>> with the housnow a crim scene, nathan nt with detectives to e po station where they asked him if heould think of any reason his family would be targeted. >> do you have any personal problems with anybody? >> no. >> your wife? >> no. >> w therething of extre vae. >> ithe hous iyo rm, i room in particular? >> i -- >> i -i had, um, two watches. a le hundred dolwas. t about -- >> no. >> laptop, dital cerand jewelry had been stoletwgu hlso beaken including a .40 caliber glock. the samealiber to kill denishad the killer used that weapon to sot her? do know why anydyou bron there. been tryg to answer thueioll idrew.
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he remembered a suious car inhe neighborhood latet night couple of weeks before the murder. >> headlights. >>hat's l i saw. >> but they were on, on the road, when they turned in, t turned it off. >> you know, this is kd of weird. pulling in the drivewai usuagohrougho th theon, anside lightsn. >> then, a few days bere ter, he said it happened again. >> silar situation, but is time in the neighborod. >> that time nathan called lice and spoke with an offir. >>e id they probablyer people that re ohis was, casing e neighborhood. >> people in peoria,llinois were spook. could a brazen bglar willing kl on the loos >> it caused a lot ostress i the nehborhood. i mean, the local scol don the the street they locked to down. >> this stuff doesn't happen he. >> youome down during the day peop riding bis inhe stets.
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it was enough to scare everybody. iwas a g story in t be tra cautious. loour doors, lock yo nds. patentn to strangers in a. >> what wathmood of the neighborhood >> it was ry eerie. >> bow ebenezer is a reporr for nbs week-tv peoria. >> a lot of pele in th commity reallyanted to kno whatappened. i me, theygoing to sleep every ght not really swho ed their neigh one neighbosays with tw small kids at home she is feeling pack a even a litt paranoid.>> tips ng in right diano lives a own from n denise rembered seeing a strange man on h street right arnd the time of the murde >> so describe the man you saw walking along this rd. he had a black hoodie sweatshirt on withhe hood pulled up, and hisands werin the pocket. i will never forgethlo on than'face.
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look on his face? >> he was very agitated. i kn immediately somethingas wrong with him. >>eighbors were anxious, and dectives were puzzled. nise's neirhood rmally verquiet. nothe typef place you' pe 0 burgly, even s had acdentally stumbled up anntruder, how had it rned so vicious squkly? >>hy would somebody want to mento this particular house? not typr as bury that sus in a murder. >>aybe it wasn't a burglary all. if it wasn't agly, what was it? thanso in >> natpares ld me that th and the teehildre d be med to a sa hou just to protect them just to prect them. to take care of business antake car the people whomaer most. so when your tax refund arrives,
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typical scenario. robberies happeninin peoria. this o just laps to be a lot rse? >> it's not typil asar as a rglary that results in a murder. that doesn't happen very often. >> this waan odd one. detees neeto know re out denise a began questiing her family, including nathan her husbandf ears. you talking to us and cooperating with us is, it's the best information that we c get.>> we want to talko the people clost to her first to try to gu out what makes her tick, wh'ser rti like. >> did you start to think that someone may ha targeted dese >> wel you know, we didn't kn. i mean, you know, nathan -- he's going to be our best witness. you know? you're living with this lady, mad a long te. >>id you think maybe someone had a reason to ben that house outside of just a random burglary.
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>> yeah, we didn't know. >> but we neededo lockown itiay, we needo lockdownhat shanned ng that day, and they srt at the very beginning. >> she wk up at 45, which is normal waalrey shaving anering. >>here theids alady up? wh time -- >> she hadot them up 65. >>atn told pice he took the children to scol and went on a series of eands includi going to a daypabugift certificates for denise. a massa >> you remember how much you spt? >> pole sahe snt the day until he dro janel to day ca. nathan had hiswn list of things to do that day. >>e got to figure where she waat and --
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can see her -- we can rrow the window down. >> yeah, and -- tedis and we apprecteyou know, u coopatg. lieve me >> by mid-afternoon, when denise should have be done shopping and on her way to pick up julia, than said he tried reaching her, b couldn't. at first, he wasn't concerned. >> so i called. she di answer. no b dea dring. a te mesge. >> but bame worrd on he got home and saw denise's car wasn't in the driveway a it loed like the house had been bren into. >> don't know what to think. she's noanswerinmy pho lls. she's t answerg my mom's phone calls. she didn't gto school. she didn't call. where'? ifhe's late. if she broke dn, if she had a fl tire shwould have cald on her cl phone. i'm ing througalof these 101 options in my head. >> detectives thensked naan's uncomfortle questions they ask anyone whosspouse has been murred. >> ts is kinof a personal
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take no offense because we have to coververy base. at anyime has yourife ever done anything behind your ba? have you had in issues? anboyfrien, anything like that? what about you? >> did he deri a good marria? >> yeah. mean, described -- denise as the backbone of the family. if it 't forer, he woul't be le to do his w at she does evhing for the kids. >> and she's theain one th holds it a togetr. she did everything that the kids like >> denise sods like saint. >> she probably was. nothing but good things to say about her. >> mt have really rked your attentn, that is woman is considered to be this amazing mom d does this religious wo d whwould shhaveny ems? >>ea me, noinwas comi t e refront. nathasa he wadoinhi could help them catcthe
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wi his children. >> we apprecia the cooperation, a, yoknas muchnformation as we can get om you theetr that is going to help us. >> want to g back to my kids. >> and we peou wbe. >> i c't leave them all that long. >>athafinally leave the police station le that night, urs after his wife had been kied. he went to his sister's home where his children were und asleep. >> i was exhau. i was emotionally spent. i spent the next several hours wi my mother and my sister, d at some point i fell asleep. my sistejust trying to comfort me. >> the next day, nathan said he was struggng with the fa that his wife was goneand w had to explain thato his ks. >> h did youell the ilen th their mothehad been
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>> mom went home to be with d. we kw at -- she loves , and we know that we loved her, and at that point i reached out for them, and we jt hugged. it was qet. my trs soad their faces and their tes soaked my ce. d then we prayed. and we thanked god for the most wonderl mo andife that heen th.>> l, anook the children and went to stay at a chur mission house in a nearby town. >> nathan's parenttold mthat than and t three children had been moved to a safe house. ju to prott them, because they didn'know if they wer being targeted fornything. >> his friend, norm, often brght them home-cooked meals. >> nathan was very quiet.
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maybe. i had noticed him when him and i werethe living room one togetherand wasust mple silence. it felt a ttle awkwardbut cod just see jstarg in spacelm >> in e time, denise's parents madehe difficult choiceretuo thr home, the scene of the crime. and a few days later, they asked nathan and the kids toome over to be withamily. >> how was he wi youhe first ti you saw him after denise was killed>> he se >> he seem veremotional. he originallsaid that he didn't want to come back in the house. that theids re afraid to come in. >> it was lot to take in. deniseas dead. three younchilen we thout a mother, d nathan id he'd lost the love of his life. detectiv wked arnd the
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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, death, n death, nathan and s chdren stayed at a chchsion hse ans friendm visi said nathan seed quiet, oic. i've never seen nathan in a emotionastate as farcrying ipa or anything like that. i just tk it as he was jus reallytrsed out, ahat's happeng to my faly right now?why dithis happen? >> as deni parentsere wondinthe sa thing, they also began to ask other questions. >> and we kept kind of going over the robbery, like, how it uld have hpened, and just -- itidn't ally make sense. >> what was suspious abo what was taken? i worked at a store that sold high-def tvs ae had a t of small es they could have just cked up, taken ay. you know? electronics. blu-ray players.
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touched, and inly had obably ree rings that wer any lue, but those threeings wereen. why uld they know thoswere thonly three that re valuable? >> some things seemeoff to polices well. >> the more we startedooking at the house, it jusdidn't seeme a real burglar. there was a nkrawer perftly laying othe flr. why would a rglar through ank drawer with pciors and then lay it? >> ty also analyzethin nathan told them during th interview at the police station dur the nighof the murder. also the fact that he owned three guns. >> a .12 gauge shotgun. i have a .22. little. en i havone which is gloc >> what model?
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nathan's gun tt didn add up for police, starting wit fact he happened to own the me gun involved in denise's murder. >> how did he exain that? >> he couldn't. i ink heasing to aude that the burglar must haveot ton and taken it. >> yeah. nathan also tolpoli kept thain a locke. >> how hard pryop would u need a crowbar or sothing? >> but, there was no broken case at theouse. that sd a lot to the detectes. >> then asd him, why ope the box? he didn't know. insinew waited the burglar too it. th're gottg to to dak ake a busted bok. >>athan indicated he fired that gun ioklahoma. >> couple weeks ago. >> nothi here lately? >> i shot th.40. >> andre w somet e bling lice evenhougdenise had been ki in home, her ca was fod in aearby rk.
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it there must haveeen involved in denise's murder. >> this is the problem i got. she'en shot, in the house. okay? i neo figureuthat r got ton park.okay o that car tanglein under he. sole, key wasn't used to move the car. there had to be another one. >> i'm just trying to figure out how many setofeys are out there because i'm trying to find the set of keys. >> i know there's one set of keys and whenever i borrowed the car to get something fixed, oil anged whatnot, i just asked r for thkeys and she ges me the keys or sets th oa plate. >> none tmade any sense etthe had ey ere visible in orderor to easi find it and drive the car to the park. the was no other way, they said. >> denise interrupted a bularyand shoots her. guy's getting the hell t of tow
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find a spareet of ys in the hous he's leaving. uestions aboutise's car led touestio about nathan's car, and somethinge said caught the detecves attention. >> your vehicle, ever robinson park today? >> might be a -- today, s. >> wn was is. >> early this morning. noearly, but it would have been bor-- befe i came backo the house. >> what was it down there for? pulled over tho >>o it tur othe day of the murder, nath at the same pk where de's caras later found. and at when one ofhe detectives got frustted wi nathan's whole story and confnted him. >> it's not a dence that we're missing a .40 liber glock handn and there's evidence that leadus to believe thatour wife was probably shot way .4caliber handgun. okay?
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car down the seet at the park, right where u faed to tell us that you were there p to going home earlier that day. >> it was a ort phone call. >> i kno but the thing is, we're talking about things that once y start pcing thing together, we're trying to figure things out >> i underand. >> okay? so if u're at a park, the ext same paryour wife's car was in, i need to figure out how your wife's car got there. >> okay. i don't ve the awer. >> you don't have a key, either? >>rect. >> it wasn't just that nathan op ta short phone call. was who was on the other end of the line that pued th intest. >> and he said he received a phone callrom lithuanian ex-traing student. >>ow she came on your radar? >> yh. >>as 20-year-old aina dobie,oung exchangstudent whenlose to family forrs. she baby-sat for tin lithuaand th sponsoring her as a student in
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d lea freerial fer amenxr.com poli policeound denise leuthold, 39ear-olmotherf the, shot to death in her ho. at first it oked like a possible bglary gone bad, but afr questioning her husband, nath, ancombing the e scene, dettives stted to see things differently. >> things just wen't adding up. we're not accountants but we know when it doesn'tdd up. >>olicw waed to look more closely as the lithuanian student nathan had spoketo on the day ofheurder's they had first met on a miss tr in 1998. >> there was a church there already established and that church reay took uinndid
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and helped us out and tre was a particular woman in the urch we rked with that was ai's mother. >> aina dobilaite was just a child at the te, and as she grew up, h relationship with the mily grew as well. >> as a teenager, it wasery cleashe had given her life to the lord and wanted serve him. she was alwayshe one vonteering, helping at church, rit alongside of her mother and e was very gifted in music and then as we started archli out in miniry, ai wathe one that took care of the sic. >> when she was 16, she became a baby-sitter fonathannd denise's threehildren. >> aina was helpinwith the ildr at church and it s tural for denise to want t hire h a we trusted her 10 with them and at's h she me tbe a part of our family. >> then you ended up bringing her over to america? >>e were her sponss here in the u.s., yes. she came here r educion. her dererom the very
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heer own country and chures the, w to work for the lord that started in 2010 when aina came to thu.s. to study at a cistian college in florida where nathan would casionally visit her. what did dise thinout that? >> i askeder more than one time i said, en't you jealous that he traveling around with this young girl? and she s like, no. she wasn't jlous, at a. >> this is a girl they wanted to help? >>xactly. d she trusted nathan. >>uring scho vatn, iaina would stayn eporia with e whe mily. >> she seemed ry shy very -- she kind of kept to hersf. did you laina >> yes. she was rely good with the kids. she seemed like she was a sweet girl. >> and if ur daughter liked her >> she was a friend of our dahter's and son-in-law' we accept herntour ho. then in december 2011 aina lasthat school, so cse with
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than, deni and denise's parents while she attended a community college in peoria. >>t sn't first time we'd done that. aina wasne of many that we worked with ux it wave natural. >> they had sponred other lithuanian students bere to come here t didn't see strangto us that that's what they were doing. there really ma a difference in that young girl's life >> giving r a chance tget r easy kags here. >> six months befo denise' death, aintransferred a college 160 mis from peoria, so police drthere to talk to her. >>hen we first startedhe inrvw, a lot of backound infoation, andwas --e were coming across as concerned withene. you livewith him x amount of years, known the family, and she was fine. as we started rampinup the questioning, gting more dire about her relaonship with
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perfectly eaking english girl starts saying, i may -- i don' undetand that, or, i'm not gointo answer that queion. and ent turned into a -- re of a, jusa cold stare, and no emotion wtsoever. >> you describit almost like a staring contest? eah. we threw out there crime scene pictures of dese laying dead. autopsy ctures to get her reacon. she d no etion, and i called her ouon it. i said, these ople took you into youhome. brought you back from thuania, you lid withhem. at didt botherou? she loed at me stone cold and sa i cedchthe weekend. >> rember,neplaces he sa he sitewas this d spa wre he bought lente's dagi ctifica for denise, but when detective stopped there they discovere han en brig another woman to the spa, anit s none othhaaina.
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owner said, she thought ey we couple. he's takinghis woman in her early 20s, an exchandent, to the spa? >> yeah. to get massas and waxeup my stuff would bin the front ya if wife founout i wa wagsing up a 2yearld. i keptsking what exactly is e waxing up and she would glare. i'm noanswering. >> they also asked her aut the bill whichathan paid. paintedt up as, hey, it's his money and it's denise's ney, too. sof so if she'she's spending the money she shoulde all right with it. >> did yousk if e was having a seal rationship with nathan? >> yeah. what did shsay? she dend it. hen something else. she had stilded music her enti life and gone florida to play the piano, but she told deteiv she'd left the scho
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nds. >> ihink iwas ficily titled like academic withdrawal or something. >> sthey subpoenaed aina's scol records. >> the records we t said her dismissal had some stuff to do with ippropriate relationships th her sponsorincluding staying off campusvernht wi justhemwo. >> thasponsor, of course, was nathan. police learned more about thr laonship when th pulle nath and aina'phone recos. >> what did you find ohe phe? >> just th thecommunicated a lot more thanathan let on. >> i >> it didn'took like typical sponsor/responsi sponsor/sponsee relationship. multipleexts each day. >> denying relationship. did the texts say otherwis >> oshe waatheym. he asked her if she was wet. i didn't find that appropriate for the retionship they were leading on.
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dese daughr believed her daughter was kled by a ranger until the minister came to visit one day. >> he asked uswell, doou have anyuscis at y son-in-l w involved? >>ow >> ande both answered, no, but as sn as said, no, i'm like, well, wait a minute. you know -- then i of course started having suspicions. myusbandasinofhocked at -- beuse he jt out, we, 's a missionar he wouldn't kill anybody. >>ut invtigators weren't so sure. ey garn to take a ha look at nathan's whereabouts that y and collted surveillce from places he id he's be. while he was at the places, chasbank, stbucks, the day spa, a car wash, there was a problem. >> we we ae to aount for him up to abou11:30 the morning and then there w a gap tween him aving a starcks around 11:30 and then he shows back up at theame arbus around 12:45 p.m
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anywhe.>> tt gap was crucial, bause it was during th time frame that police believe the murd happened.the detectivesvetraced a ute they thoughtathan ght have taken that day from the starbucks the par a quick walk to hihous then back to thetarbucks to see if he could done n time. >> 6 mutes, 55 secon. >> noty ssible, they sai but proble. more likely, they figureth stranger baking into theouse du the roughly 20 minutes denise was ounchts it's nceivable to think somebod breaks into the house at tt act same time. rummes through the house, finds a glock, pries it open, loads it up. hidebehindhe dooto execu r. it jt n't ppen>> somnglsthidt make sense- they said denise's car was not in herway. p the murdery found he silver ford re in this nearby park
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kn of one ke theey found at the cricene. now lice had second ke th they found in this trash n in t park. belie nathawas lyg to themnd that had ud that key to move thcar. >> ausg a bl hoo the floor nathadeni bedroom. investigors said it seemed to mah the ona strangman was enn e neorhood that day. >> somebody hurry, threw it down. >> something elseven more ouin police had oertensivenatha and a uple of wes after the rder they reed a report. he cputer reporthe browwas t toelete. f ouscayou deghmethg n'mean it's gone what ty w flred them. >> a .40 ciber handgun.
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a glocspecifally, the gun he owd ane was shot with. how to silen that. how to overdossothing insulin. drowning >> chion, e thtub. thgse is, d this goes ba several monthfore the murder. wai he's potentially tnking of a ofhese different wayto kill his wife? >> i honestly ink -- he planned it o. >> didou straight up ask him? did you have anything to do ur wifdeath? >>eah. >> and -- >>e denied it. >> he said, no. not only did he deny killing his wi, nathan told ushere was a rfectly asonable exanation for all of those internet searches police uncovered. electrocution in theathtub, how to silence a g. >> we had a, started a fountion in overseas called hope for tomrow, to combat suicide. and we were doing research and lookg at blotes whe young pe were desperate pele were giving infmation about whhey were thinking.
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nathan interview veo that detectives had questions about his storearly on. >> i would love thinkhat u're a god-fearing m a you would nevedo that. but -- [ inaible. >> trust m i do nohave a precceiv idea, but when i'm painting a picture trying to put the pieces together, okay? as a homicidinvestigator, i have to either rule you in o rule yut. >> and youant to real me in based upon. no, no, no. >> i'd rather rule y out. >> rule you out? i want to rule you out because i hope you didn't do it. >> between learning about aina and all of the evie collected, pice had enougho arrest natha three weeks aftedenise had been killed, they pulled her husband over. 'd jusdropped his kidsff schl.
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kinds ofeapons pointed at me at the point where i was there on the ground on my knees. hands bind my head and they were checking my pockets. downhe road comiowards me was myister bringing her children to school that da and there i am in the middle of 9 stre, ey handcuffed me. they put me their car. at that point didn't know where we were g and nally i asked em. i said, where are we going? what's gng on? we're taki you to jail for the murder of your wife. >> hseemed scare he seemed surprised i think it was disbieheas being arrested. >> it was a shock. than lold,issiony of three, a nativson of , was now on hisay to o a wait trial the muer of his .
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>> there'so doubt in my mind thatat that natn s arreed because th needed mebodyn jail. there's no way that i could ev thom nathadoing this to hisife. >> hto imagine aondog something this evil. if it's true --. th was his valentine's day present to aina anthats desple le. i out tivia wasn't r . until i reed how much our distive systems handle during winter 90 stressful d juggling hectic schedule ov 40 mealeavy cfort fos like bedac & chee. no wonder afalthatur geste stemn act up try thectivia two ek cllge enyi activia twice a day for two weeks may help ruce the frequency of bloating, gas, discomfort or mbling. try itit works i two wes or it's free. dannon les geesyquiliqu ls a go. t ese quid gels are ne mux fast max.
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hemuer. at first dise's mother codn't quite grasp i >> he was paf our family for is 17 years, and you know, he was li aon to us, and think that he could actuallyyou know, just shoot her in the head. >> and this is t man devoted to being aood person? >> right. exactly. >> by the time nathan went trial she had changed her mind >> he had eneading a double life. >>he bad dream that wouldn't end? right. kept going on d nd on. >> and this just won't end until -- >> ectly. >> nis -- convicd. >>xactly, uh-huh. >> here inhe peoria county courthouse -- >>he trial was big news in town. after all, theefen was a ssionary, accused of killing his wife a in thhomen an upsce neighbhood in like th just don't happen in peoria. nathan pleadedot guilty.
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done anything to harm his beloved wife. >> ever a time there was a diffulty ilife, the first person i would talk to wou be deni, d therwere several tis within the first few days after her deattrying to figure ouwhat to do we children next, i wanted to justrab the phone anll her. she was my support. >> but denise was not thto support nathan, because, the state argued, he killed her. >> you will have eyewitness identification, dna, gunshot sidue, motive and th a int to one person. he's sitcross fr you. nathas trial began on jul 14th. extly 17 months afr the murder. reportero ebenezer reported the trial for nbc's snags peoria. >> we a lot of people anxious for the trial to start? >> i think a lot opeople were
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the fami wante find out wh had ry ppeneden. >>hat happened said the prosecutoras a cd-blooded execution. >> ladies and gentlemen, burglars commit burglaries. killers execute in a style conste with what the fendant did. ding in that cubicle to kill hethe ment she walked through the door. >> the state's here toly -- nathan hislan actn dene left the ho us t takeheir dghter to daycare. firshe drove his c to the park down the street. >> pd his car inobinson park. you know, somewhere close to 12:15 to 12:20. walk up to the house went into the house. the burglary pbably s rey stagif not, heent ahea and then knethat denise w be comiack. stood in the doorway and as soon as the door opened, denise tried to take her co off and he shot her in the back of the head. >>athan th drove dise'
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prosutors id, and hopped back in s own car and drove to starbucks, arriving at 12:. 12: t ines only, but lg enough to on that cama. >> and lonenough, they said, for nathan to sh his hds to get the gunst residue off, th leave to start hi afternoon errands before picking up janel from daycare. >> aut 3:00, the defendant returns home. wantyou to beliehat he es theoor open andlass that's the extent of his knowledge. but withhat he calls the police. >> he knew full well when he called the police what they were ing toind. f >> fm our perspective that's what makes this case so disturbing. e ldcalculed manin which he did t one of the first office to teify for the state deribed the scene at the house just after nathan called 911 that day. >> i obsved some kitchen cabinets ope and some kitchen
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my experience as a police fice ainvestigator whe burglary ours, the kiten is not a co place that a burglawould look for ite and a burglar also ite are attered about, drawering dumped on the flr. i lt this s not ordinary burglary expressed tt to my partner >> wle he found it odd for a rgla it was nath' behavior that strk the ofcer even more. >> describe his demeanor. >> as i'm speaki to him, he -- heev showed y rt of otn or asked a questions of me to what was going on. >> prosecurs said nathan ao showed no emotion during his po interew. enhen a dective told him deniseas dea >> you can'tell things about hethat i'm not -- you can't tell me thing aner her >> she is dead. >> you td mehat prosutors
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jurors hoping they would see what they saw. >> whethe policeirstave us the case i watched his videotaped statement. five minutes io it, i kn he did it. i knew he was guty. his meanor, attitude. not a single tear washed. >> they presented evidence that the bullet casg found at the scene was from a glock .ho40 t kind of gun nathan owned. >> the only firem toenere those marks uld be a gck. >>re you ablto sayha within a reasonable degree of scientific certaty? >>es. >>utolice everybody never did find the murder wep. >> didou worry you weren't ableo find the gun? >> obviously there was a concn. >> anytime in a murder case when you n't havehe handgun, weapon, whatevert was, it's an upll battle. because that'shat the jury wants. they wt the oking gun and we di'tave it.
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he had more prove their case. rember the neighr who saw the man in a sweatshirt walking near theime of the murder? >> the whole thing strme as wrong. i thought, i told my husband t slow down. i wanted to get a good lk at him, a i w worried that he saw pulng o of r ivew ahat he kw we we gnne he would rob us. >> she didt recognize the man a that day, but later when she looked as a poce lineup, she quickly pointed to this ma and urned out be than leuthold. did you thi it was possible when you're oking 's a ts photo neup, maybe you'd seen nathan in the neighborhood and subconsciously were choosing that photo because you'd already seenim befe? >> no. >> why weryou so sure? becausef the look on his face. ew i didn't ke mtake. and i was ve ceful whei lookedt the ot so i would not make a mistake.
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cotroom. mean, everybodwas glued to hestimony. i don't think there's a person in that courtroom th disbelieved what was saying. >> prosecutoitust ve en nathan the ighbors saw at day, because police found a black hooded sweshirt on his bedroom floor. at's more, a expert testified it had gunshot residue on the rig cuff. >> nathan, said he had been at the gun range. that ible? he was shooting off h gun at the gunange there would be res due? imptant, too,e said it in oklahoma two weekr. gunshot res dew on that eatshirt, o. >> ather neighr o didn't want tbe ocara said she heard a nshot tim prosecutors id denise was killed. nothey had to exain y he
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to thetand he id he could swer tprecisquestion, because nathan told him evything. >> wouldou state your ? david d. smith. >> david sth w a fellow inmate of nathan's at the county jail. he sainathold him he researched ways to kill da fleiss denise on his laptop. talkehow he was planning kill his we nise? >> well, at first he told me h was thki about poising, we of insulin otassiumsomething ke that. >>ccor to e inte, than saihe ran a lot of around on the day of the murder create alibi, and -- >> he told me he had presented some gifsome valentine day gifts and stuff to hisife. d so that everytng would lookine. >> h iornt was david smith, t jailhouse snitch? >> david smith said that nathan was worried that a lady might veeen whe he w
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well, obviouy, nobody knows thatept nathan, an consistentith our evidence >> what's more, the inte also testified why nathan wanted denise out of his life >> well, he sa that, he said th she was overbearing, and he had got to the point where he had wanted to move on with his life, andhad met meonelse, and stf ke that. >> d htell you the name of thatomeone else? >>omebody -- some student nad anna, la, methg likethat. >> but it wawh the inmate toldrocutors about t timi of thmurderhat they founpartic chill smitstie natn ld him he planned theurder specifically for valentine's da t was supposed to be some type of present to ts other chick.>> to the i think you referred to her anna? >> yeah, yeah. >> and the it was.
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wife so he could be with his ue love, aina. >> do yobelieve th this was me kd of sk and itched valentine's day gift to aina? this murder? >> well, absolutely. >> i don't know what else it would ha bn. >> absoluty th was his valeine'day esent to ain and at idespicable. >> aina o prosuts said was nathan's motive r the murder was about to takthe std. aritness at e ggt tria town.>>lease state yo name. >> ana dobilaite. >>has teaina >> there's not me importanto mthan youn this relationship. >> and a ne toim from the woman 's accused of murdering. >> she was speaking om the grave,n a way. >> absolutely. and that note was powerful.that note waporful. wi theain and swelling of my moderate to severe rhmatoid arthritis...
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, for mu for murdering his wife on lentins da2013. a scenario iossible to have predte for man devoted to god w appeared to have beehaily ied hisigh ol sweethea for7 ar whatould make him comm such a crim the state gued he was in love with anoer woman. >> the motive -- his real valentinea 20-year-old lithuanian sponsor student. >> aina dobilaite, his motive
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>> i think aina was a big english anthuanian through a anslator >> nhan leuthold visited you in hotels yaufr camps on at least five oasions. corrt? . eang in foreign language ]. >> tralator: i can't remember how many times. >> during those visits you wen to a hot with nathan, and just the twof you were present, partf the time? correct? [ eaking in foreign language ] langua ]. >> translator: i'm not sure every time we athe hotel we were together alone. >> did you snd the nig with mr. leuthold? >> aina wacalled as witness for thprosecution whh granted her immunityoy courage her to tk t r testimony madet clear e was not ger to help the state. when . leutld visitedou
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you presents? [ speaking in foreign langge ] language ]. >> translator: i'mlly su what presents means. >> despite having studied in the stes for four year, ai seemed incapable of understanding englisat times, which frustrated t ecors. and, in fact, you are proficientn both written and spoken english. isn't that correct? [ eaking in ren language ]. >> translato yes. >>till, the prosecution thought she was importa wies >> think it was significt for the jury to see aina. we could give em the tt meag, the e-il thehone calls, the jury is going to hear all that >> t stethju tes twanin from the day othe murder they staed at .m. with mutu hels. at 8:37 a.m., nathan detectteed aina i kn there is a lot to do today. pray there is enou time to everyth have good leures and meeting.
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then, afthan aed he mid-afternoo aina textedim and he rlied, i can't now. police cheed. it lks like thhouse was robbed. i r aina respond, interesting. followed by a iling face. >> yould respond wit oh, my, what happene concern r the family so i suspect that based that response that in all leloo she had some knowledge as to what was maybe going to take place. >> psecutors accusedinof co aduringaiou caw cerp laship. the ll was in lithuanian. for e trl,ngli anslio werread alled. >> your iritual adser he clergyere in ameri becse nobolse eaks lwannian. this may be important in the futures just as all of yr communicatn with atorney is private, mmunication with yorgy islso private.
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s no cing up lters nathan sent idi this one read by an intpreter ring a deposition. >> i love you because you unrstand me betterhan anyby else, because i am a better psowith you nt to . my life has a deeper mning a purpose,ecau you a m world anmy everythg, and that will never change. >> with words ke that, prosecutors didn't believe aina's dials of anffair with nathan. he made hereadloud another obusive note nathan nt other a nth befo theurr. iet you dn. i'not mang excuses. thatou not be fair. yodeserve soone who respects yoand puts theelatnship first. from now on i want tbe all i can to be that pson. there's nobody more importt than you in relationship and p. >> presented herse for what she was in a relationship with naan. nathan and i re makg ey
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sometimes en she answered a question oidomhi he didn't like, kind of laugh ared and threw his handup in ointment. >> prosecutors had anoth piece ofvince they said pred an affair. a secrethat ook the tr it chaengethe very ce th defse t w at cr ise anhe wod nehurt her. it was a gutrenching note written by denise scovered tucked in r day planner. >> in a murder case u don't have the victim. you never get hear the victim's story, that pern is dead. anhe whad no thashhad written toay the whole thinout. >> the highlpersal, very painful note was obviously aimed at nathan. police investigator read t note in court. >> i have tried to please you for years, d never cceede i'veer been goodnough, never done enough. i know that yowant me dead. i'm not stupid. >> denise emed to confirm that
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hang an fair. while shdidn't name aina, she mentioned a ch younger woman. you want to miliatme by running arou wh a 20-year-old, fine. i won't ovel if i haven belved you in 1 yes noing i do nowill please you. how long are you gng tdo this tme oh, yeah. til i brea at's what you saidisn't it? well, happy waiting. >> iwas very devtating. i was -- was shockedit had nehat far. sohe we ras s even though she said th she wast. >> s was speaking om the grave in a way. >> aolutel absolutely. too the ry, to everybody. her story. i an, that note was poweul. poweul. >> powerful,ut not proof that naan's attorney, in fact, he argued there was no evidence thatathan had done anything wron a >> in your judgment that this alhaened because he s having an affair and i would
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isotcintilla of thaefdthat was thcase. >> was there less this relationshhan meets the eye? >> he was the only person with whom iould talk in lithuanian he was friend. >>ere you and nathan ever vers? >>o. >> if the osecution couldn't provatcould it prove nathan murdered his wife?nathanurdered his wife? wassup? i'm hannibal i'm gonna use saunpay toet a katz's delpastrami sandwich. (katz'employees) hey!!! hey what's up? hey can i paywithy phe? you mean lik apple pay? we don't got that. no like samspay. nd of works everhere. even on this janky old thing. he wan to paywith his phone. whaddaa want hannibal? i want to pay with my phon don'look at the cameras ke. you ready? it doesn't work. wah me. om! oh! samsg pay is here and pretty much everywhe else.
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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, nath an leuthd had spent week listeni to prosecutor paint him as a monster who had planned the execution of his wife. now itas time for the defense to fight back. >>o say that i killed my wife goes bond wh i ever fathom hearing from anye. and to say that i had an fair -it's absur >> i think nathan s beg test by god, about his faith i just thought, nathan, you got to be strong, n. 'lgethrough this. >> nathan's lawyer was hugh turnera formersecur turned defen attney whwh
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was faulty. >> there were certain pre-concd tions of whoid it, for lack of betterer it never went anywre. and for thateason, i'm going to ask you tfindathan no guilty. >>e insisted t cop zeroed in on natharit from thetart, and never pursd y other leads. >>his waan incomplete investigation. that wle the spouse, nathan this case workhave been the logical place to start, the problewith that is you foll tgut feing, tt's going toause you verlikely to misother things, anin is case sily nr them at all. >> for instance, what about those cars natn said he had seen in thighborhoodwhich thoughtere suspicious, not o ng beforthe rder his atrney called neighb
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with its hdligs on for se extend period im five, n minutes ateast, h consider to somewhat unusua and i feltz withheireconry the direction of the headghts could probably see me imy residen, and it would have bn uncomftable. >>hen >> when he crossmexamined diane, she admitted her husband had a different collecti. >> y and your husband d had a discussion abo the racof the person who was walki along the de of the road >> that's coect. >> and yhusband,r. parrish, thought iwas a blk man? >> that's correct. >> anoer problem with investion. the defenspointed out, while the ste made a big dl abt the gunst residue on nhan's swtsrthey vetest h
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>>hy not cut to the chase and take a test fr nathan? >>n rbissuwith the state timene ter the murder, prosecutors said nathan would havead to drive denise's car to the park, get in his o car, drive to starbuck seen the video at 12:45 p.m. >> a he d ha hhave donell tt wit leaving anbloosmea, getting y ood h >> it was all comi dowto th crucial 15-nu ww. we decided to see for ourselves w longhat drive would take. we rrad what invesgators idere nathan's steps that day. i' jt left nathahouse d am heang tronsonark, which is just a few blocks away. i amow arriving at robinn park. it took 1:15. this is where police say the
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so now we are going to switch cars. take another dve. ins secondar we're goi to driveo stbucks. let's see holong tt takes. relight. going to adda little bit of time. we're noat 4:3minus. going just about the speedimit right on which is 45 miles per hour. puininto the starbucks parking lot. we are loong at a trav time of 7:55. n l,t add up to 9:10 o drivinat wou havle h just uer sixin tra ch the hou andndhoot denise. his lawy, hugh turner, say that wld he been nearly impossible. >>heiminjust reallgets to toi where it's almost not realistic.
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witness o claimed that natha haconfessed thwhole crimto him? the dense argued david smith was a jailhouse snitch. a nvicted fen, who had gotteneal for his testimy. was not even worth crosexaminin >> do u really believe that david smith is the te of pers tt nathans ing to confe in? and then seek counsel from? >> but accorngo thdefense, the maineaess th the ate's se w motiv a affair wh na. turner argueere was absote neviden to support the thry that than kill his wife so he coul way 20-year-old. no matter who asked r, aina insted her relationship with nathan was ptonic. >> what's the relationship between you and nathan >> he is my sponsor. i work for him.
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and helping withrganizing christian nferencemostly lithuania,nd he is also, was kinds of likmyentor, and- and leer in america he was the lyerson with whom could talk lithuian. so he s a friend. >>he defen attory said t state was making more of those a visits than was ally there. >> wld mr.eud there be with you when you wereaving a waxing? >> he was there to dri me and toay fort. >> but he wasn't there when that was, the procere was being do? >> no. >> were you d nathan ever lovers? >> no. >>t's be asked of you many times. corrt? poli asked you about that, correct? >>hat's correct, and that answer has never changed. has it? >> that's coect. >> his bottom line was this -- the ate never en ce ose to proving a sexua retionship
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hours of tapedhone cls than made om jail overis his s ther00 >> 1,700 hours. of recorded phone nversaons invoing naan ld. do t mat if 40 hours a week you're apoaching dalose to almost an entire work year. g telne convsations involving nathan. where in any of those things do you have any indication at all th nathan and aina were lovers? >> in fact, for all of the searches through nathan's an aina's cell phones,
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howany people, particular yog people, are going to have a relationship with a significant other and not ve a picture their significant othe did they find any otos, anythi anything where it would indicate at natn and aina were ined in that way? no. >> withoutotive, and without hard evidee, nathan lled the trigger, turr sa all t precution had we lies,misintpretations, and omisons. >> notuilty. that's what nathan is. and i would suggest to you tf specully that's what i ask the ve be rerned. >> thougnathaneuthd di not thetand, would have plenty to say abouthe evidence and his innence, particular thachillingote ft behin his wife.
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th nathan leuthd's muer trl s aring its d en he had to decide wther t testify. at the lasminute, he cse not >> had i hadhosen to testify priorto tal, but as t state continued to take things out o context, and connued to throw asuch d as they could on the wall, hopi that some of it would ick, they had moved yond whai fe wthe facts of thease. i wasn't going to give the anore fu or anyme fodder to use or to misconstrue. >>ut he to t co strghwith siing ment ao ntedy at lice never looked pastim to catch e real intruder in what
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>>he police lie w staged. that it just lookekind of perfect, the way that erything was placed, at wasaken. >> but things were stolen. insurance claims verifd th were stolen anpaid the claim on tho items.it was a burglary.did it look like a normal burglary? i'm not sure wt a norm lary looks like. >> what's more, a fierprint had beenoundn jewelry box from which those three rings had enton. poce cou not identify at fingerprint. >> that's not my mother-in-law's, not m father-in-law's. t my wife's. not my daughter' who can th jewelry box every week for their grandma. nomy fingerpnt. >>utharely ups nathan was how the state depicted his relationship with ai. someone head kno sin s was a little girl.
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see how would look bad ing t spa getting ainwaxing treatments. the text messages at went ck d fort iteems like there was something going on. >> aina hano driver's license the time. e had no way of geing around. i was a anslator. take her for waxing treatments. it's not as if i'mn there watching or whatever else. y check the recor. thwaxing treatments was the i'm getting aaiut atheame place. ta ts ouof contextu can ke them say whatever you want to ke them say. >> like aina's text the day of thmurder >>hy did aina say,fter t robbery, interesting, smiley face? >> y'rasng me what sobody else meant. i just assumed aa hit the wrong prompt. >> one of the rshest accusations that has come out of
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your wife and it w a leine's day gift for aina. >> the harshest stement has be tt i lled my fe it doesn matter what d it was. i intentionally d it on valent valentine's day as a gift? i'm nosure what takea cker personthe person to actually dot, or peonto suggt thatndhaabt the un rdwrtebyenisinhate foundn her y anner, clearly aimed at nathan. how would he answer that? >> she essentially ske from the grave saying that you wanted to kill r. that you were humiliating her way -year-old. >> what you're referng to says i know yant me dead,'mot stup. now, to sathat, that implies
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ems to go ainst thfas. she ver shar thawither best friend. her super cle sister her moer. her father. she nevecalled pe. she never called a cnseling hot ne. she never diany domestic battery or restraining ord, any anything, causthere was none. >> did y want hedead? >>o. why would i want herd? to be with na. to groom aina as your new wife. that is the accusation >> that is theccusation by those wh those who fromay one wanted portray portray something that fits
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ts the cheat's lifestyle, jerry springer show mind-set. it fits the thingsf making things look salacious. >> the jurors, of cosenever heard any of that, bause than never toothe stand. >> how nervous were you whenhe jury went to delibere? >> from a rs self-perspecti, it's my life. my future. myreedom. it means that could goack to being the faer to the childr. the children would be roed o ju one paren not bo. e was sten away.by someone waseeking gain. and a guilty verdict wou steal from t children their othe parent. >> for dene's family, was exactly what they were hoping for. for the man they'd knoince he was a young boy whoived with them, now they believed
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deliberations i was like 99% sure that they hado come back with auilty verdt, but there'1%ou're thng, oh, no, what isomeone -- y know? >> i really wasn't surwhathe jury was going to come back with. there was a lot of evidence provided be prosecution. i think th did a great job but at the same time lot of circle evidence. therwas no evidence to actually poi to mebody seeing nathan do trime. so tt s ry hard to ll whath w g do >> it was a high lyly circumantial case. no clear evidence nathan killed denise and no clevidence nath a aina weers. whatev jd ansainthe courtroom it was eugh. in a mere 90 minut they reached a verdt. >> wthjuryd the fendant nath leithold guilty of first-degree murder. >> whawent throughour mind
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very close to the same feeling had when i heard that my wife had been shot. i ju rembehearing that the lo just got thatuceate >> the judgeentenced nathan 80 yearsn prison. seeing how shameful it was naan killed denise in her own n. >> -- it seemsnly appropri thatou will likely end yr fe in a very different typof ace, too. cold and gra isolated -- nhan has an appeal for the state itas a satisfying ending to aase th had tonstakingly stitch together. >> i think he tried to portr thismage othis wonderful personen in reality, you kn was nhi more than a cold-bod kilr. >> as for denise's pen,
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a su los but at least they ve her children lclose and are now ising them. >> how did y tell th that their father killed their moth? >> they kn he had been on trial for murderg their mother and that aury had convic him, and right away the older boy said, well, everybody makes mistakes, and my husband said, no. your dadbad chois. everneas choices i. d he madsoeally bad choices. >> bad choices. that left denise's parents coming to terms with the nion that everything theyw to be true wasn't. >> i ft bafor highmy husnd because heolsoth ht we had the perfect family.rfwife and he just -- you really don'tect g like that toappen to u. but in reality, yoknow, bad things happen good people all
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>> you know, we can'do at yet. we mfirst clear the r. you ow, thmost uievable thing about the olympics was the wholdiving competition. >> ja. you , they gave gregstugan two go medals st for making pu splash.>> ja. called him courageous ause he hit his ad on the bod and got right back up to divegain wh stitches. >> both: ooh t a hero. >> what a man. [ laughter >>a. hear me now anthink about it some and play it back again and agn on your r. u know, if fra and i ever hiour head on e board, the peopouldook upnd say, "wheres the board?" >>a, iwoul-- [ ughter ] it would be toothpicks listen, mr. stuganis. we couldery sily grab u by your g-string and wind it so tightly that when it snapsyo buttock muscs would gog ound the room like a ballo. >> tt's right. and we would just h, because our degree of ffultyou be 0.0. laught ] listen, anotherhi, mr. tan man, i can very easyee us gettin slow-motiolute from the olympic coittee in recog oxcellenc
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