she was a dedicated nurse. she cared for people deeply. she was such a people person and was so kind. i think that's a big part of my life and my family's life in trying to help others and be there for them. [baby cooing] narrator: so many years after that last christmas, baby rachel still feels her aunt's embrace. i've always felt that she's watching over us, that you can talk to her whenever and know that she is there with you and loves you. kiewicz: it was a vibrant, young church with a vital young pastor-- you just were awestruck by this guy. josh mankiewicz: --and his lovely, lonely wife. annette anderson: she was young and

innocent and bright and kind. josh mankiewicz: soon, tragedy. the pastor's wife died in a fire. and that's when the strange things began. one by one, they fell under his spell-- sue schultz: they're housewives, they're mothers, they're upstanding women. josh mankiewicz: --keeping his secret. sue schultz: what was it that allowed these women to go against everything that they believed in? josh mankiewicz: temptation, adultery, and maybe something even worse. it wrecked me. it completely destroyed me. josh mankiewicz: was there evil among them? there is god. there is also a devil. and this was the devil. yes. hello, and welcome to "dateline." dawn hacheney was a devout young woman. her husband, nick, a charismatic pastor. they appeared to be a match made in heaven. then tragedy struck.

dawn was killed in a fire, her fate eerily foretold by a churchgoer. was dawn's death god's will, as some in her church believed? or was it caused by something more sinister? here's josh mankiewicz with "twisted faith." josh mankiewicz: amid the pine trees and cedars on bainbridge island, washington, near seattle, you'll find a little church. in here, the faithful practiced a christianity that embraced what could be called the supernatural. they called it super spiritual. it was an emotional and visceral faith, and a faith that believed in hearing messages, prophecies directly from god. some of this story is about god, and some of it isn't. there is god. there is also a devil. and this was the devil. yes.

josh mankiewicz: the evil at christ community church wouldn't really start to reveal itself until after the death of 28-year-old dawn hacheney, the wife of the youth pastor, in a house fire the day after christmas, 1997. what happened after that would make many here question their relationships with each other and with their god. [sirens] dawn was always my angel. josh mankiewicz: diana parmele remembers how even as a young child, religion was so important to her daughter, dawn. she was four years old when she accepted the lord into her life. she would come to bed with her dad and i, and she's quote scriptures. [laughs] josh mankiewicz: faith was important, but also achievement. at 12, dawn represented washington state at the national spelling bee in washington, dc, and she was high school valedictorian. i give god the glory for my accomplishments,

because without him, i could not have remained strong and faithful. she was very smart. she was the brain. josh mankiewicz: her best friend eunice remembers how funny dawn could be. she was also sweet. happy birthday, and i miss you a lot. i hope you're having a good time. josh mankiewicz: and eunice remembers how dawn seemed to have a sixth sense and just knew things she couldn't have known. i used to call her my conscience. for some reason, she would know what i was doing and call me no matter where we were and say, what are you doing? you've got to stop. even when we went to different universities, she could call and know that-- you were up to something you shouldn't have been up to. yeah. josh mankiewicz: but then dawn called not to tell eunice to stop what she was up to, but to say she'd met someone special, someone who had also embraced christ at a young age, nick hacheney. one day she calls you and says, i've met this great guy. he was a knight, is what she said.

and she goes, you've got to come down and meet him because i'm going to get serious about him. josh mankiewicz: dawn and nick were married april 20, 1990. a few years later, nick joined christ community church in bainbridge as the youth pastor. nick hacheney: i love this church. i'm one of the pastors here. josh mankiewicz: on this audio recording of one of his sermons, you can hear nick's contagious enthusiasm. nick hacheney: open your bibles. [cheering] amen. amen. praise god. get used to it, people. we're raising up a generation of young people that are excited about the word of god. josh mankiewicz: he had a gift, the members believed, a god-given gift that he'd known about since childhood. he's god's chosen one. josh mankiewicz: gregg olsen wrote about christ community church in his book "a twisted faith." it goes back to when he was an infant and ill, and his parents were rushing him to the hospital. and his dad prayed over him and said, god, take my boy and raise him, and he will be yours forever.

and since that time, nick as a kid would talk about this burden of being so special to god and what that meant for him. josh mankiewicz: here's the congregation of christ community church in the mid '90s. the photo shows what looks like a group of happy people. there's nick and dawn, senior pastors bob and robert, and craig and annette anderson, who had joined christ community to be closer to god, but also to do the right thing for each other and their growing family. it seemed like a warm and welcoming place. josh mankiewicz: annette and craig remember that when they first moved here, christ community church was a joyous place, a place of warmth, spirituality, and family. annette anderson: we were having babies. we were having a lot of things in common at that time. and it filled a great thing, right away. nick hacheney: so i'm going to preach, but before we do that, i'm going to ask craig and annette anderson to come

up with their children. josh mankiewicz: the youth pastor, nick hacheney, oversaw the church welcoming of annette and craig's new arrival, their daughter grace, in 1997. nick hacheney: well, this is a special morning. it's a special morning for me. this is my first solo baby dedication. and i am so excited that it would be grace. praise god. tell me about nick hacheney. he was a really likable guy. really nice, like a brother. and he seemed like almost a breath of fresh air in there because he was real. he wasn't uptight. he was funny. he was fun. josh mankiewicz: unlike all the other young couples at christ community, dawn and nick were holding off on having children. dawn, a loan officer at a local credit union, was the family breadwinner, as nick's job as a pastor didn't pay very much. but they were happy. annette anderson: they had a real chemistry between them that was real fun and close. just a cute couple. dawn was lovely.

she was young and innocent and bright and kind, and just a really good person. well, the hacheneys seemed like a pleasure to be around. they were. josh mankiewicz: but soon, dawn and nick would be the subject of a dark prophecy. maybe god was acting in mysterious ways on bainbridge island. [bell tolling] craig melvin: a church member sees tragedy in nick and dawn's future, and a change in leadership transforms the congregation. coming up-- gregg olsen: these people are asking for the demons to be cast out of them like something out of-- like "the exorcist." craig melvin: --when "dateline" continues. (♪♪) stay ahead of your moderate- to-severe eczema and show off clearer skin and less itch, with dupixent. the number one prescribed biologic by dermatologists and allergists that helps heal your skin from within. severe allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for face, mouth, tongue, or throat swelling, wheezing or trouble breathing.

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nick hacheney: there's a lot of things that are coming about in our churches. and tonight, i want to talk a little bit on that line. josh mankiewicz: by 1997, annette and craig anderson saw their warm and welcoming church begin to change. they say it became more insular, more separate from mainstream christianity, and it started to dominate the lives of the church members. was this church similar to the ones you'd been to before? no. it was emotionally driven. everything was spiritualized. the super spirituality of digging demons out of you, and so forth, was part of something that set us apart from what other churches were doing.

josh mankiewicz: digging out demons was what christ community was after. there had been a change in leadership. founding pastor bob smith, often described as laid back, even warm and fuzzy, had been pushed aside by another pastor, biblical scholar and self-proclaimed apostle robert bily. at christ community, a typical bily sermon lasted hours as people called out, cried, even spoke in tongues. and there were unusual counseling sessions that bily introduced that were done in private with pastors bily, smith, and nick hacheney. those sessions were like something out of "the exorcist" or something where these people are being prayed over and screamed at and were asking for the demons to be cast out of them. what kinds of things did people get asked about? they'd ask them if they'd had an affair, if they drank too much, if they went to a baseball game. i mean, whatever it was that was not considered correct.

josh mankiewicz: and all of it was written down. gregg olsen: they were logged into a book and they watched it happen, and they became very fearful. and that kept people, i think, closer to the church because if you left the church, the gossip would follow. and you went along. yeah. because you wanted to belong? no, because we felt like that was the way to be pleasing to god. to be open, to be transparent was something that we were really required to be. we wanted to elevate ourselves. and if you had some demons, who wants those hanging on, you know? so the process was to clean ourselves to be a better person. and what would happen if you didn't go along? you would be labeled as having a demon of rebellion. josh mankiewicz: and there were the prophecies. members of the congregation believed that god spoke to them.

yes, prophetically. josh mankiewicz: one woman in particular seemed to have a direct pipeline. wife, mother, church secretary, and prophetess, sandy glass. she said she'd been hearing from god for years and would share what she'd learned with the congregation. god had told her that one of her babies would be born very early, but would be ok, and that was the case. god had also told her she needed a new car, so she bought one, and it was a good car. members had heard that even the angel gabriel, best known for visiting the virgin mary and foretelling the birth of jesus christ, had also visited sandy glass. gregg olsen: i mean, gabriel only appeared, like, twice in the bible, and third time with sandy glass. josh mankiewicz: and then god told sandy and a few other members that there would be a devastating earthquake in seattle. so you stockpiled a ton of food, waiting for this earthquake that hasn't happened yet.

yeah. how much that cost you? oh, hundreds and hundreds. thousands of dollars, for sure. each family. josh mankiewicz: for the most part, the members of christ community church were not people with money. but they believed, so they did what god wanted as explained by sandy glass. then sandy heard something that she didn't share with everyone at church. she told only one person, the youth pastor, nick hacheney. sandy says that in the fall of 1997, god told her that nick's wife, dawn, was going to die, and that she, sandy, would then be with nick. and when she told nick this prophecy, sandy says he replied, i knew it. nick didn't share the details, but hinted to annette anderson that something big was going to happen. i wasn't to be alarmed. it was part of god's plan. nick was going to go through some terrible things. and he made it clear that the terrible thing

that was going to happen was going to happen to him, to nick. right. not to you. not to anybody else. no, it was going to happen to him. and i wasn't to be alarmed at what happened to him because he knew that we cared about him. nick hacheney: coming up, could sandy's ominous prophecy come true? was nick's wife in danger? she said, i'm ready to go. if i were to die, i'm ready. craig melvin: when "dateline" continues. my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back. now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clearer skin. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ ♪♪ ♪ yeah... i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ♪♪ with skyrizi 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. and most people were clearer even at 5 years. skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses.

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dermatologist-prescribed biologic in psoriasis. [soft music] josh mankiewicz: nick hacheney had an easy way with people and was always there for church members. he'd run out at all hours to help someone in need. but he wasn't always there for his wife, dawn. she saw her role as a pastor's wife. she knew that that meant it was all about him and his helping the flock and doing what he needed to do. yet, she still was lonely. she still wanted him to be home at night with her. i think that was hard. josh mankiewicz: and in the fall of 1997, there were hints that things might not be as rosy as they seemed between nick and dawn. i saw dawn crying several times. she was trying to lose weight. she had a complete breakdown at a baby shower where she said she was trying to make herself more pleasing to nick, and that he hadn't been around very much.

because she thought he was losing interest in her as a man? yeah. yeah, it was sad. josh mankiewicz: nick had been given a new responsibility that took up even more of his time. he started doing marriage counseling with some of the other young couples at the church. nick's assigned to do marriage counseling? that's right. i mean, seriously, here's a guy who's barely married, but they pick him because he shows an aptitude for the gift of gab or talking with people or working through problems. and they send him loose with all these troubled couples. josh mankiewicz: at the time, the andersons were one of those troubled couples. annette remembers that at first, nick's counseling sessions were helpful. he was really relational and seemed to know how to break down the barriers and cause the root issues to come out. when nick's doing marriage counseling, he inevitably ends up talking more with the women than with the men. - yeah. it seems like the guy is booted out the door after the first session. josh mankiewicz: that's what happened with the andersons.

nick told annette he needed to meet with her alone. in one of those solo sessions, nick asked annette to do a trust exercise with him. he thought that i needed to trust god more, so he had me do this exercise where he had us both stand up in his office, and he stood behind me, and he told me to fall backwards. he said, just do it. turn around. i'll be here to catch you. and so i did it. and he said, that's how god is. he's going to catch you when you fall. you just need to trust more. usually that exercise is something that counselors do for couples, not one member of the couple and the counselor, because the idea is it shows the couple that they can trust one another. wow. it sounds as if nick was maybe drawing you in a little bit more to him, promising you a special, closer relationship with god if you had a special, closer relationship with him. yeah, i can see that. looking back on that, that's definitely the road

we were going down. josh mankiewicz: and just maybe, nick had already been going down that road with someone else. pastor robert bily had been called in to investigate. robert bily: i was getting complaints from the parents of a man in the congregation whose wife was having these meetings when the husband wasn't there, and nick was spending an inordinate amount of time with this particular woman, and it was wrong. this was sandy glass? this was sandy glass, yes. josh mankiewicz: sandy glass, the prophetess, the woman who says god told her that nick's wife, dawn, was going to die, was spending a lot of time alone with nick hacheney. how soon after that do you talk to nick? immediately. next day? same day. josh mankiewicz: bily told nick that whatever was going on, it didn't look right, and he needed to stay away from sandy. and he says, what? well, there's first an indication that he's going to agree and follow instruction,

but that doesn't happen. it was during that time that sandy began hearing from god, she said, about how she and nick would be together. and it turned out, god was getting specific. they would be together, god told sandy, not just some time in the future, but sometime after december 18, 1997. sandy quoted god as telling her that dawn was going to die on december 18. that's right. and that she and nick were going to be together after that. - that's right. they were going to be married. they were going to fulfill their destiny. something big was coming, and god was behind it. josh mankiewicz: it seemed strange, god talking about bringing happiness to one woman, but killing another. robert bily thinks it wasn't god at all. do you think sandy really heard that prophecy, or did nick somehow manipulate her into believing that? well, you're leaving out a third option. which is?

well, she could have heard from satanic or demonic forces that are giving her inspiration as well, because they speak to people. they give people ideas. josh mankiewicz: whether it was the hand of god, of satan, or just of man, whatever was happening, that sixth sense that dawn hacheney was known for was kicking in. though december 18 came and went without incident, on christmas it seemed dawn felt trouble coming. she told her father that night that if something ever happened to her, she was good with god. diana parmele: she made a comment to him. she said, i'm ready to go. she said, if i were to die, i'm ready. josh mankiewicz: then later on that night, dawn reached out to her friend eunice. eunice: there was a message on my machine from dawn, saying, we need to get together for dinner. we need to do it soon. call me. and it was late. and i thought, ok, i'll call her tomorrow morning. josh mankiewicz: in her message, dawn seemed in need,

but eunice never found out why. the next day, december 26, nick hacheney left his home early to meet friends before sunrise to go duck hunting. the hacheneys were renovating their home, and the heat was off. so before he left, nick says he turned on the space heater in the bedroom so that when dawn woke up, the room would be warm. then a little after 7:00 am, a neighbor saw smoke coming from the house. there was a blaze in the primary bedroom. firefighters put it out quickly, but that's where they found her. dawn, still in bed, and burned beyond recognition. i was at home, and i got a call that dawn had died in the fire. i immediately went down to the scene where the fire had occurred at the home. i-- you know, i found nick there. josh mankiewicz: despite their differences over whatever was going on between nick and sandy, pastor billy reached out to nick

in a way that will sound extraordinary, if not unbelievable. he was aware of the work we had done in africa and tanzania, and our ministry associates there had raised several people from the dead. literally brought people back to life? brought people back from the dead, literally. and you offered to do that for dawn? well, i asked if he and i together can go pray. i mean, you have to ask god's grace, and it's up to him. and nick said, sure. no, he said, no way. he said, no way. josh mankiewicz: in the culture of christ community church where faith meant believing in prophecy and so much more, saying no to asking god to bring his wife back made no sense. what did nick know that pastor bily didn't? craig melvin: coming up, the grieving pastor coveting another man's wife? what would i say if he wanted to run me upstairs and make mad, passionate love to me?

craig melvin: when "dateline" continues.

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he seemed like he was welcoming everyone that came through the door. he sounds remarkably composed for someone who had just suffered such a horrible loss. that was within the context of nick's extravagant personality that we knew, so it didn't seem weird. it almost seemed confirming that, you know, what a remarkable man of god he is. how could somebody stand so tall and speak so well and so powerful after what he'd just been through? it was another thing you just were awestruck by this guy, how he could do that. josh mankiewicz: not everyone was awestruck. after the fire, detectives from the bremerton police department brought nick in to talk. they asked what any husband would be asked in this situation. you didn't kill your wife, did you? he told them no, and that he believed wrapping paper from their christmas gifts had gotten too close to the space heater that he'd turned on

before heading out to hunt. he said he felt bad for not being more careful. he told the cops that day that he loved his wife deeply and did not know how he was going to be able to go on without her. nick's story sounded reasonable. they had been living in a house under construction that was barely livable. there was no heat except for space heaters. and nick was a well-respected church pastor. he never did mention to police that his good friend and prophetess, sandy glass, had foreseen dawn's death. less than a month later, the coroner ruled dawn hacheney's death an accident. when dawn died, you must have flashed back to those conversations in which he told you that something bad was going to happen. i had asked him shortly after dawn died, is this what you were talking about? and he just shushed me, you know? don't ask. don't ask. so you took dawn's death as a sign that nick really did have a prophecy?

yeah. he saw it coming. he saw it coming. i was pretty wowed by that in a way. a real sad way. josh mankiewicz: annette was impressed by nick's connection with god. she also was worried about him. after all, he'd lost his wife and his home, and there were things that needed to be done. so annette offered to help him with insurance company paperwork. that's when nick said something that took her by surprise. tell me, what would i say if he wanted to run me upstairs and make mad, passionate love to me? and i told him to knock it off, that he was sinning, that it wasn't right what he was talking about. his wife's been dead how long at this point? probably three weeks. two or three weeks. and he's coming on to you. right. you chalk that up to bizarre behavior-- from a grieving man. josh mankiewicz: grief. right. you tell him about it? i didn't. josh mankiewicz: was it just an odd form of grieving that led nick to talk this way,

or was something else going on? a week or so later, annette says nick told her that god was up to something new these days, and it involved the two of them having sex. because he was your pastor, you didn't say to him, that's crazy, get away from me? i'm married? yeah, i did say that. and he said, doesn't matter. this is what god wants. right. that's an excuse to not take a risk for a real form of christian love here when somebody really needs it. and again, he needed it because he had just lost his wife and had no physical comfort coming his way. so you could serve god by providing physical comfort to one of his servants? right. josh mankiewicz: nick's version of christian love was different than the common definition, and annette was confused. she was part of this church that put pastors on a pedestal and a church that believed in prophecies from god.

but she was also a woman of faith who believed adultery was a sin. now, here was her pastor saying this wasn't adultery and that god wanted it. so she agreed to meet her pastor at a hotel. so you meet nick at the hotel. what's that like? fun? sexy? intriguing? biggest mistake of my life. it was a feeling of having jumped over a cliff. craig melvin: coming up, annette was not alone. there would be more vulnerable victims-- i went through a lot of personal struggles. craig melvin: --when "dateline" continues. can neuriva support your brain health? mary. janet. hey! eddie. no! fraser. frank. frank. fred. how are you? support up to seven brain health indicators, including memory.

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josh mankiewicz: amdawn hacheney hade died in a terrible accident, a house fire. but her widowed husband, the church pastor, wasn't sitting home alone, bemoaning the loss of his wife. he was searching for female companionship among the members of christ community church. nick, during those months after dawn's death, is coming on to nearly every woman in the congregation. some are saying yes. some are saying no. he's a guy with a brand new mission. that's right. and he's good at it, apparently. he's getting a lot of takers. josh mankiewicz: of course, he was still spending time with church secretary and prophetess, sandy glass, who had broken up with her husband

after some marriage counseling with nick. there was nicole matheson, whose husband had split after the two of them had done some counseling with nick. and there was pastor bob's 19-year-old daughter, lindsey, who was on a mission in africa. but that didn't stop nick. he began wooing her via email. annette, who was by now having sex with nick on a regular basis, didn't know about sandy, nicole, or lindsey, and she found herself unable to say no to her pastor. one time when she had told him she couldn't meet him because she had to watch her baby, nick came up with a solution. he had you give one of your children cold medicine to put them to sleep so you could go see nick? right. that was a terrible, terrible moment. josh mankiewicz: her baby was fine, but drugging her own child went against everything

annette believed. and yet, nick could say, give the baby cold medicine, and she would. he goes on this sort of circuit of sympathy and talks to all these other women, and talks about how he's grieving and how he misses his wife and how he doesn't have anybody to lie next to at night. mm-hmm. of course, none of them knew he was at the next house hours before, you know? that he was going from place to place, you know, emailing lindsey about how much he was in love with her, or going over to seduce annette or be with sandy, or nicole. or dawn's mother? yeah, that was really hard. josh mankiewicz: yes, you heard correctly. his dead wife's mother, diana, was one of the women nick turned to for comfort after dawn died. i went through a lot of personal struggles with just wanting to escape from everything.

but it led to other things, which i'm very ashamed of, you know? things that i did. but at the time, it was just my way of escaping. josh mankiewicz: diana was crushed by the death of her only daughter, and she saw in nick someone who could relate. and i said that i was hoping that i could be dawn for him. and he told me then in response, he said, no. he says, i don't want you to be dawn. i want you to be yourself. and he said he wanted to love both of us.

josh mankiewicz: she says she just wanted to help a broken man, even if that man was her son-in-law. diana parmele: when i saw him, i thought-- i just believed that i saw in his eyes the deep sadness that was there from the loss of dawn. josh mankiewicz: diana said she was ashamed, and although she didn't know it, she wasn't alone. annette anderson was also suffering because of what she'd done with her pastor. it completely destroyed me. it took me down lower than really i would have thought i could survive. what did you see happening to her during that year? what was she like? well, i always said if i had a gun in the house, you know, she-- she might have used it. it was a tough time to watch your wife go into a cave. and like i said, i think was--

was almost suicidal. josh mankiewicz: craig thought his wife's depression was about dawn's death. he never imagined what was really going on. hard to keep that secret? terrible. just terrible. it wrecked me. it completely destroyed me. the affair ended in late 1998 when nick decided he wanted to marry nicole matheson. he seems to have ended all his other relationships at that point. still, the burden of what she'd done was devastating to annette. and when she learned a few years later what had been going on between nick and sandy glass, it confirmed her suspicion that the affair hadn't been god's plan at all, just nick's. so in the spring of 2001, more than three years after dawn's death, annette finally blurted it out to her husband during a fight about the pastor they both had trusted. i was having a moment of anger or something. and craig started defending nick. and i couldn't take it anymore.

i just said, he's not a good guy. and craig said, did he-- did he have sex with sandy? is this why you're so mad? and i said, yeah, but that's not all. and he said, it wasn't you also, was it? and you know, i said, yeah, actually it was. josh mankiewicz: it was a terrible moment, but now it was out there. craig anderson: i was caught off guard by that. amazingly, didn't see that coming. you never suspected? uh-uh. were you angry? yeah. yeah, i was-- i was pretty angry. at her or at nick? both. just to-- i probably took it-- you know, how could you do that to me? so two people that i trusted just stabbed me in the back. josh mankiewicz: by then, christ community church had split with robert bily taking over the old church and nick and pastor bob opening up a new church a few towns over. knowing what he now knew, craig thought nick shouldn't be preaching to anyone,

so he called pastor bob to set up a meeting, and sandy glass was invited too. gregg olsen: it started the ball rolling, and that's when sandy raised her hand and said, not only did i have an affair with nick, i have something even worse to tell you. craig melvin: coming up, the final secret-- this was a closed case. correct. but sandy glass changed everything. she did. craig melvin: --when "dateline" continues. (♪♪) “the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like life was moving on without me. then i found a chance to let in the lyte.” discover caplyta. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta is proven to deliver significant symptom relief from both bipolar i & ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. caplyta can cause serious side effects. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts right away. anti-depressants may increase these risks in young adults.

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welcome back. pastor nick hacheney's sins were finally coming to light. after his wife dawn was killed, he struck up inappropriate relationships with multiple women, assuring them it was what god wanted. prophetess sandy glass was one of nick's past lovers, and she was ready to confess. turns out, the pastor had more demons than anybody suspected. here's josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of "twisted faith." josh mankiewicz: it was three and a half years after dawn hacheney's death when sandy glass heard that craig anderson was about to out her clandestine affair with a church pastor. that's when sandy did something that no one foresaw. she hired a criminal attorney and called the bremerton police. at that point, this was a closed case. this was an accident. correct. but sandy glass changed everything. she did. josh mankiewicz: sue schultz was a detective

at the bremerton police department when she was assigned to the cold case investigation into the death of dawn hacheney. she told us that she had been involved in a relationship with nick hacheney. while he was married. while he was married to dawn, and that she had talked to him extensively about ending both her husband's life and the life of dawn. josh mankiewicz: sandy glass split up with her husband, jimmy, in 1997 before dawn died. but apparently, the prophecies kept coming. remember, she had told nick that dawn would die on december 18, and then the two of them would be together. she told the police that she and nick were buying rings, planning on how they'd celebrate christmas together. but then december 18 came and went, and dawn was still alive. sandy says nick called her the next morning in tears because god had not lived up to his word.

then sandy had another prophecy. she was praying, and god spoke to her that nick's hands were no longer tied. meaning that nick could fulfill god's wishes by making sure that dawn was no longer on this earth? i think so. i think it was permission to do something. josh mankiewicz: eight days later, december 26, 1997, the fire broke out that killed dawn. sandy told police that later that day, nick called her to say, it's done. according to sandy, a few days after dawn's memorial service, nick told her he needed to put their relationship on hold. was he worried about someone from the church talking to the cops about their relationship, maybe someone like pastor bily who already had his suspicions? if nick was worried, he didn't need to be. did you mention that suspicion to anybody, like, you know, the police? i didn't feel it was appropriate to be telling people, i've got this suspicion. did anyone from that church come forward at the time

after dawn died to say, here's something you should know? no. would that have made a difference? you bet. josh mankiewicz: now, nearly four years later, sandy glass spelled it all out for the cops. sandy says nick told her he lay awake in bed early on december 26, 1997, until he heard from god, take the land, a variation of an old testament phrase urging jews to take possession of land promised to them by god, a phrase the members of christ community church took to mean, go for what you want. and so nick did. sandy went on to say nick told her he overdosed dawn with benadryl. we did have information that dawn did have a cold christmas day and had been taking benadryl, but there was an excessive amount in her body. [camera snapping] josh mankiewicz: the coroner's office did find a high level of diphenhydramine, the main ingredient in benadryl in her system,

and also found no smoke in her lungs. at the time, none of that was enough to spark a murder investigation until sandy glass came forward to say nick had told her that he'd killed dawn. then that old information was seen in a new light, as evidence of a homicide. and sandy said that nick had told her that he had overdosed dawn on benadryl so she wouldn't be able to fight back when he suffocated her. correct. she described the manner in which nick killed dawn. she talked about a plastic bag being put over dawn's head and how he watched dawn die beneath the plastic. josh mankiewicz: in september 2001, nick hacheney was arrested for the murder of his wife, dawn. annette, craig, pastors bob and robert, and lindsey were all called to testify. sandy, who cut a deal with the prosecution,

was the star witness. do you think sandy glass is a hero for coming forward all that time later. hero? no. my belief is that if it had not been for sandy glass, my daughter would still be alive. i believe that she was the instigator of what happened. because of the prophecies that she had, or said she had, or because she wanted to be with nick? diana parmele: both. i don't believe that the prophecies, the visions, dreams, or whatever that she had, i don't believe that they were from god. it's satan, not god. josh mankiewicz: did sandy want to be with nick so badly that she persuaded nick to kill dawn? was it a self-fulfilling prophecy? detective schultz says, just the opposite.

nick manipulated sandy, as he had all the other women, into doing what he wanted. i met a couple of these women. they are not people that you think of as women who don't take their marriage vows seriously. no, absolutely not. they're housewives. they're mothers. they're upstanding women that walked away. just amazed. i'm wondering, how could a man like nick hacheney convince these women to have sex with him? what was it about nick hacheney that allowed these women to go against everything that they believed in and to go against their vows with their marriages? josh mankiewicz: nick's defense team said that no matter what his infidelities, none of them made him a murderer. they focused on the timeline and the science of fires, saying nick had left the house too early to set a fire that was blazing a little after 7:00 am when the 911 call came in.

five years to the day of dawn's death on december 26, 2002, nick hacheney was convicted of killing his wife. he's eligible for parole in 2027. neither nick nor sandy would talk to "dateline" on camera. pastor: dear heavenly father, we are so grateful. josh mankiewicz: for the andersons who thought joining a church would strengthen their family, it's been years of healing. craig anderson: but you're not quite going to go down-- i don't want to say it. the devout road in the same way. josh mankiewicz: completing each other's sentences, a sign of how craig and annette have gotten through what happened and learned a painful lesson along the way. trust is hard for me, especially in the context of church, because i know that power corrupts, and that church is a place that people can get power.

so the big sin of everybody in that church was that they weren't cynical enough? that's right. they were trusting, and they wanted to follow their leaders. josh mankiewicz: there are warnings in scripture about the dangers of following false prophets. annette and craig anderson learned that the hard way. they've since found another church, and they still have a place for god in their lives. maybe the most amazing thing out of all this to me is that the two of you didn't lose your faith. right on. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching.