nathan. they made her read out loud another if use of note that nathan center just a month before the murder. i let you down i m sorry, i m not going to make excuses, that would not be fair to you. you deserve someone who respects some un puts a relationship first. for now on i want to do all that i can to be that person. there is nothing more important to me than you in this relationship, i m so blessed to have you in my. life she was in a relationship with nathan and i think that she tried to minimize the relationship. nathan and i know we re making eye contact quite a bit throughout the trial. sometimes when she would not answer a question, or say something that he did not like, he would laugh and throws hands up in the air and disappointment. prosecutor set another piece of evidence that they said proved an affair. a secret that shook the courtroom. it challenged the very core of nathan s defense that denise was at the center of his life, and that he would never hurt her. i
generate those marks could be a glock. are you able to say that within a reasonable degree of scientific certainty? yes. but police never did find the murder weapon. did you worry that you are not able to find the gun? was that a factor? obviously was a concern. i think anytime in a murder case when you do not have the handgun, or the weapon, or whatever it was, it is an uphill battle because that s what the jury want. they want the smoking gun, and we did not have it. still, prosecutors thought that they had more than enough evidence to prove their case. remember diane parrish, who said that she saw a man in a black hooded sweatshirt walking towards denise s house on the day of the murder. she was the closest thing please had to an eyewitness. the whole thing struck me as wrong. i thought, i told my husband to slow down. i wanted to get a good look at him. i was worried that he saw a pulling out of our driveway, and if he knew that we were gone, he would rob us. she
police found denise leuthold, a 39-year-old mother of three, shot to death in her home. at first, it looked like a possible burglary gone bad. after questioning her husband, nathan, and combing the crime scene, detective started to see things differently. things weren t adding up. we re not accountants, but we know it doesn t add up. police wanted to look more closely at the lithuanian student nathan had spoken to on the phone the day of the murder. he and denise had met her on their first missionary trip in 1998. there is a church that was their already established, and that church really took us in and did their best to communicate with us and helped us out and there was a particular women in the church we worked with, it was aina s mother. dobilaite just a child at the time. as she grew, up a relationship with the family grew as well. a teenager, very clear she
for murdering his wife on valentine s day, 2013. a scenario impossible to have predicted for a man devoted to god, who appeared to have been happily married to his high school sweetheart for 17 years. what would make him commit such crime? the state argued that he was in love with another woman. the motive? israel valentine, the 20-year-old lithuanian sponsor student. aina dobilaite, his motive for murder. i think i know it was a big bombshells. aina testified both english and lithuanian, through a translator. he met with you in hotels of kansas and at least five occasions. correct? [interpreter] i cannot remember how many times. during those visits you went
hospitalizations are highest level in decades for this time a year, according to the cdc. the elderly have been hit the hardest, followed by young children. this comes as a few are few vaccines have been administered compared to last year. and housekeeper nancy pelosi is speaking out for the first time since her husband paul was brutally attacked in their san francisco home. pelosi said paul, who is released from the hospital on thursday, has a long road ahead but the families hopeful for his recovery. now, back to dateline. it looked like a burglary gone bad. denise leuthold, mother and missionary, brutally shot and killed in her parents home where she and her family had been living. typical scenario, robberies happening in peoria. this one just happens to be a lot worse. it s not typical as far as a burglary that results in a murder. it doesn t happen very often.