three weeks after denise had been killed, they pulled her husband over. he had just dropped kids off at school. the handcuffed me, they put me in their car. at that point i did not know where we were going. finally, i asked them, where are we going? what s going on? we are taking you to jail for the murder of your wife. he seemed scared, he seemed surprised. i think it s just belief that he was being arrested. it was a shock. nathan leuthold missionary, and father of free, and son of peoria was on his way to jail to await murder of his wife. his friend, norm, who had known the couples for decades was stunned. there is no doubt in my mind that nathan was arrested because they needed somebody in jail. there is no way that i could
murder on valentine s day. did you feel like we have a mystery on our hands? we ve got to solve this? yeah, we knew we had something bad. and we knew that it was going to take a lot of work to get to the point where we knew who done it. coming up a possible clue. and then pulled into our driveway. without the headlights on? without headlights? without the headlights on. nathan remembered seeing a suspicious car near his house not long before the murder. this is kind of weird. they pulled in the driveway. i immediately go through by the front door and flip the lights on. the car leaves. was the killer in that car? when dateline continues.
we threw out their crime scene pictures of denise laying dead, autopsy pictures to get a reaction. she had no emotion. i called her out on it. i said these people take you into their home, right back from the idea, you lived with them. that doesn t bother you? and she just looked at me, stone cold. i cried enough over the weekend. detectives asked her about something they learned as they traced nathan s movements today at the murder. remember, one of the places he said he visited was this day spa, where he bought a valentine s day gift certificate for denise. when detective stopped there, they discovered nathan had been bringing another woman to the spa. it was not other than aina. it happened so often, the owner said, she thought they were a couple. he s taking this woman and her early twenties, an exchange student, to the spa. to get massages, to get her waxed up. in the front yard, if my wife found up i was waxing a 20 year old. it didn t make sense. i kept on explaining. i
did he tell you the name of that someone else? some student name anna, lana, something like that. but it was what the inmate told prosecutors about the timing of the murder that they found particularly chilling. smith testified that nathan told him he had planned the murder specifically for valentine s day. it was supposed to be some type of president to this other check. to a, think you referred her as anna,? and there it was. nathan s motive. prosecutors said he killed his wife so that he could be with his true love, aina. this was valentine s day present to aina and that is despicable. aina, who said prosecutor said was nathan s motive for the murder, it was about to take the stand. the star witness at the biggest trial in town. please state your name. aina dobilaite.
thinking about some poisoning, with some type of insulin or potassium. something like that. according to the inmate, nathan said he ran a lot of aaron s on the day of the murder, to create an alibi and he told me he presented some gifts, some valentine s day gift some stuff to his wife. and, so that everything would look fine. how important was david s mom admits, the jailhouse snitch? david say that nathan was worried that lane might have seen him when he was walking. obviously no one knows that besides nathan, and it is consistent with our evidence. what s more, the inmate also testified why nathan wanted denise out of his life. well, he said that she was overbearing and that he had got to the point where he had wanted to move on with this life, and he had met somebody else, and stuff like that.