pry it open? but you need a crowbar something? no. there is no broken case at the house. that said a lot to the detectives. i asked him why out of the box? he didn t know but tried to insinuate burglar took it. burglars aren t going to take a busted lock box after the kill somebody. they re gone. nathan told them he last fired that gun in oklahoma. a couple weeks ago? i could look at mike calendar but yeah, a couple weeks ago. nothing here lately? i shot the 40 when i was there. there is something else troubling police. even though denise had been killed in her home her car was found in a nearby park. the police figured whoever drive it over there must have been involved in the denices murder. this is the problem. she s been shot in the house, i need to figure out how that car got to robinson park. a key to that car was found tangled in denise is hair, under her head. so, clearly, that key was used to move the car. there had to be another one. i m trying to figu
through a junk drawer, pens? things like that, scissors. and then lay it? they analyzed things nathan had told him during his interview at the police station the night of the murder, like the fact he owned three guns. i got a shotgun. well do you know what 12 gauge shotgun. what else you got? i have a 22. silver with pearl handle, little. they have a primary, one which is a glock. which model? model i don t know it s a 40. a lot of things about the guns that didn t add up for police. starting with the fact that he happened to own the same type of gun used in denise murder. how did he explain that? he couldn t. i think he was trying to allude to the fact of the burglar must-have got into it and taking it. nathan told police he kept that gun in a plastic case. you kept it locked then? how hardwood before someone to
he was very agitated. i knew immediately something was wrong with him. neighbors were anxious, and detectives were puzzled. denise s neighborhood was normally very quiet. not the type of place you d expect a burglary, even if she had accidentally stumbled upon an intruder, how had it turned so vicious so quickly? why would somebody want to turn it to this particular house? it s not typical as far as a burglary that results in a murder. maybe it wasn t a burglary at all. coming up, if it wasn t a burglary, what was it? was nathan s life also in danger? nathan s parents told me nathan and three children have been moved to a safe house just to protect them. when dateline continues.
at the same place. take things out of context, you can make them say whatever you want to make them say. like her checks the day of the murder. why did she say, after the robbery, interesting, smiley face? you re asking me what somebody else meant. i just assumed that she had the rum prompt. in order to get to the word interesting. i understand it to mean, that s interesting, as if that s odd. that s the way i use the word over and over again for the number of years. one of the harshest accusations that came out of all of this. is that you killed your wife and it was a valentine s day gift for ina. the harshest statement. has been that i killed my wife. it doesn t matter what day it was. i intentionally did it on valentine s day as a gift?
you will have eyewitness identification, dna, gunshot residue, motive, and they all point to one person. he is sitting right across me. nathan s trial began on july 14th, exactly 17 months after the murder. reporter bo ebenezer covered the trial for nbc s w. ike tv in peoria. or a lot of people anxious for the trial to start? a lot of people were anxious, especially the family. the family wanted to find out what it really happened. jody hughes and jerry brady where the prosecutors who try the case. they said what really happened was a cold blooded execution. ladies and gentlemen burglars commit burglaries. killers execute with a style consistent with what the defendant did. to kill her the moment she walked through the door. the state s theory nathan put his plan into action