started with roses and ended in a different shade of red. everything stopped. i was just in shock. we knew that there was somebody bad out there doing something. she was a wife, a mother, a missionary. to me, it sounds like a saint. she probably was. but something had been happening behind closed doors. there is nothing more important to me than you and this relationship. was it love? this was his valentine s day present. or hate? one shot to the head. what was the motive for a valentine s day murder? we had a note that she had written. she was speaking from the grave. that note was powerful. it happened on the least likely day imaginable. a day devoted to love and affection. valentine s day. and it happened to the last people on earth you would expect. a religious family dedicated to god and making the world a better place. we had a break-in. is it going on right now? i don t know. the garage door is open. there is glass from the back do
had given her life to the lord and wanted to serve him. she was always the one volunteering, helping out church alongside her mother. she was very gifted, and music, and as we started branching out the ministry, aina was the one that took care of music. when she was 16, she became a babysitter for nathan and denise s three children. aina was the one helping us with children at church. it was natural for denise to want to hire her, and we trusted her 100% with them. and that s how she came to be a part of our family. you ended up bringing her over to america? we were her sponsors in the us, her yes. she came here for education. her desire from the beginning was to go back to help her own country and the church there. how to use music for the lord. that sponsorship started in the fall of 2010, one aina came to the u.s. to study at a christian college in florida were nathan would occasionally visitor.
students at a small baptist school in central illinois. even at that young age, nathan knew there was something to the sparkling little girl. i was in third grade and she was in fourth grade at the time. and i doubt she even knew i existed. but even then, i thought she was the cutest girl in school. what was it that you liked about her so much? it was the curly hair and the bouncy curls, and just the happy-go-lucky smile. in junior high, i began to see her character. and see what kind of person she was that way. it was in high school that nathan and denise got to know each other better. but they didn t date, as most teens do. because they both came from religious families. our parents didn t really believe in dating. so we are just good friends. i went to her church activities, she came to mine. we saw each other in school. that s how it started. she was my first girlfriend, and my only girlfriend. norm junior got to know nathan and denise when his wife taught at the high s
tried to save up money. we didn t know any lithuanian at the time. didn t know the language, we were studying it. trying our best. but it was definitely a shock. they returned home after a year and soon welcomed a son, seth and a daughter, julia. in 2002, the fan really went back to lithuania, which became their second home on and off for the next eight years. that s a big undertaking right. i think it was very hard for denise to leave her family, to leave everything she had known. and to go over to a strange country, you know, with a toddler and a baby. it was traumatic experience for her, i think. this is because really, nathan, wanted to do it? right. she was supporting him. it wasn t really her calling. she was basically just being a wife and a mother. but denise also became very devoted to the church there. denise was very musical and she played the piano for the
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