the summer, i think it was like july of 2009, that she had a boyfriend. she said, by the way, mom, i ve got a boyfriend. i m like, you do? she said, yeah, and and dad probably wouldn t like him too much, cause he s got, like, a lip piercing and some tattoos. reporter: but, she told her mom, they hadn t even kissed yet. she, as far as i know, had only held his hand like once. she s just naive that way. i sheltered her. reporter: sister shauna was the only one in the family who d met nathan. she introduced me to him as her friend, not her boyfriend. what was he like? he was just a nice, goofy kid. i mean, they were joking and making jokes and laughing and having a good time. and you could tell she liked him. she would blush and kinda giggle, and reporter: really? you hadn t seen that from her before? not like that, no. reporter: it was a fellow art student, chris phillips, who saw them as a couple.
reporter: sister shauna was the only one in the family who d met nathan. she introduced me to him as her friend, not her boyfriend. what was he like? he was just a nice, goofy kid. i mean, they were joking and making jokes and laughing and having a good time. and you could tell she liked him. she would blush and kinda giggle, and reporter: really? you hadn t seen that from her before? not like that, no. reporter: it was a fellow art student, chris phillips, who saw them as a couple. she was exactly in the same vein as nathan, you know. they were both artists. they both loved to draw. they both kind of kept to themselves. you know, they were pretty quiet. reporter: and then one terrible day chris heard that a female art student had been killed somehow over at the falls apartment complex. so, said chris, he and nathan and a few others piled into his car and headed over there to see if they could find out what happened. on the way, chris s cell phone rang.
i didn t even find out till the summer, i think it was like july of 2009, that she had a boyfriend. she said, by the way, mom, i ve got a boyfriend. i m like, you do? she said, yeah, and and dad probably wouldn t like him too much, cause he s got, like, a lip piercing and some tattoos. reporter: but, she told her mom, they hadn t even kissed yet. she, as far as i know, had only held his hand like once. she s just naive that way. i sheltered her. reporter: sister shauna was the only one in the family who d met nathan. she introduced me to him as her friend, not her boyfriend. what was he like? he was just a nice, goofy kid. i mean, they were joking and making jokes and laughing and having a good time. and you could tell she liked him. she would blush and kinda giggle, and reporter: really? you hadn t seen that from her before? not like that, no. reporter: it was a fellow art student, chris phillips, who saw them as a couple.
met nathan. she introduced me to him as her friend, not her boyfriend. what was he like? he was just a nice, goofy kid. i mean, they were joking and making jokes and laughing and having a good time. and you could tell she liked him. she would blush and kinda giggle, and reporter: really? you hadn t seen that from her before? not like that, no. reporter: it was a fellow art student, chris phillips, who saw them as a couple. she was exactly in the same vein as nathan, you know. they were both artists. they both loved to draw. they both kind of kept to themselves. you know, they were pretty quiet. reporter: and then one terrible day chris heard that a female art student had been killed somehow over at the falls apartment complex. so, said chris, he and nathan and a few others piled into his car and headed over there to see if they could find out what happened. on the way, chris s cell phone rang. it was a friend named jeremi.
she introduced me to him as her friend, not her boyfriend. what was he like? he was just a nice, goofy kid. i mean, they were joking and making jokes and laughing and having a good time. and you could tell she liked him. she would blush and kinda giggle, and reporter: really? you hadn t seen that from her before? not like that, no. reporter: it was a fellow art student, chris phillips, who saw them as a couple. she was exactly in the same vein as nathan, you know. they were both artists. they both loved to draw. they both kind of kept to themselves. you know, they were pretty quiet. reporter: and then one terrible day chris heard that a female art student had been killed somehow over at the falls apartment complex. so, said chris, he and nathan and a few others piled into his car and headed over there to see if they could find out what happened. on the way, chris s cell phone rang. it was a friend named jeremi. who told them it was shelley who was dead.