and we got it. >> what do you want to say to david pietz now? n your heart to be sorry because if you don't he will burn in hell forever. top >> three weeks later, david pietz returned to court for his sentencing. presiding judge michael hated expressed disgust that david had strangled his wife who trusted him. >> i don't know what was going through her head as she looked into the face of the man she thought she loved as he took her life away. according, lead the sentence will be -- >> the judge sentenced david to 18 years in prison. a maximum time allowed in the second degree murder case. before her daughter is convicted killer was led away, nicole's mother had this to say. >> i've let david take my life for the last seven and a half years. but i'm not going to anymore. david, i forgive you. i'm not going to hold myself to let you ruin my life anymore. >> but there is a question for which gayle will most likely never get a comprehensive answer. >> why? and how could he ever harm such a nice person? i mean, nikki was such a good person. >> the ha