here again is dennis murphy. >> it had been 7 1/2 excruciating years of waiting.ky's family and friends piled into a packed seattle courtroom to watch david pietz stand trial for his wife's murder. he pleaded not guilty. >> when nicole married the defendant, she thought she had married the man of her dreams. but on january 28th, 2006, that dream would turn into a nightmare. >> kristen richardson and carla carson were the prosecutors handling the case and they showed a puzzle of a hateful husband whose frustrations had boiled over. >> i hate the phrase but it was a crime of passion. >> david was a sexist philanderer who viewed his goody two shoes wife as a weight around him and then turned to nicky's problem with pills as his cover-up. >> why kill her? >> it wasn't planned murder. something he planned to do and could divorce her. this was not a plan, something done in the middle of the night in a fit of rage. >> because they thought there was no premeditation he was charged with second, not first degree murder. proving he snapped in the condo wasn't easy. this was

here's dennis murphy. >> broad daylight, morning in a busy parking lot. then pop, pop, pop, pop. >> several shots were fired. >> a man gunned down at close range outside a nursery school in a wealthy atlanta suburb. a silver minivan screeched from the lot. startled witnesses saw the victim slumped on the ground. >> right now his condition is unknown. >> parents and teachers recognized the man who had been shot as a dad who had just dropped off his 2-year-old son. a preschool, of all places, had become a crime scene. >> we are told all the children are perfectly safe. >> the shooting victim being rushed to the hospital turned out to be 36-year-old rusty sneiderman, a married father of two. >> i just hung my head and cried. >> rusty's older brother steve was on a plane to hawaii when he got the shocking news. rusty was dead. >> walking around the plane, pacing around the aisles. i mean, i looked at the -- i went to the bathroom and i looked at the door and i thought about jumping. >> he was desperate to get home to his family, desperate to find out what had

here's dennis murphy with "the deed." ♪ >> the old barn is a shambles now.he fields back in the day so lush and productive, gone to seed. the farmhouse empty. time was the farm land in horry county, some of south carolina's finest. bambi bennett's grand dad opened a big spread and created a legacy for the generations to come. >> that barn used to be tobacco barn and my grand daddy built this. >> it was tobacco property? >> he did farming and tobacco. >> bambi's roots here are as deep as the old oak tree draped in spanish moss that still stands tall if the front yard. they say land is worth dying for because it's the only thing that lasts. and truer words might never have been spoken. in this case, a beautiful piece of land turned out to be nothing but trouble. this is where bambi bennett's family was ripped apart by an act of cruel, unspeakable violence. bambi, her given name, was a fun, feisty good-old girl, country through and through. >> i was at my grandparent's a lot growing up and we gardened and had a big yard, a huge gard. >> you are a country girl?

here is dennis murphy with "the house on sidney's cove." >> there is never a good day to search for a missing woman. but this rainy, muggy saturday in the heat of july made an unhappy task all but unbearable. they decided, the friends and family, that they would all wear red shirts. they got themselves organized in the parking lot of a walmart in lawrenceville, georgia, about an hour outside of atlanta. and then set out to find any trace of a petite corporate executive named nique leili. >> she has three kids. would who love to see her home. >> amy robinson told reporters that her 44-year-old sister, mother of three, was hardly the kind of person who would just up and disappear without a word to anyone. >> i'm just so worried about my sister. we just have no idea where she is, or what -- what's happened to her. >> as fate would have it, the question of where nique was would be answered soon enough. but even now, the question of what happened to nique remains unclear. >> i am sick of playing your games. >> what is clear from the recordings she left behind is that nique leili lived a tr