Music in Real Time
Chamber Choir, Jazz Ensemble to perform live concerts via YouTube for first time since COVID lockdowns began
By Jim Logan
Santa Barbara, CA
When the UC Santa Barbara Chamber Choir and the Jazz Ensemble perform in separate concerts via YouTube this week, the performers and audience will experience something novel: live music.
With the campus closed and the limitations of Zoom, performing together for an audience is so early 2020. Like shaking hands and hugging, live shows feel like a relic from another time. But thanks to the magic of technology, they’re coming to a screen near you.
must have been nathan the neighbor saw that day, because police found a black hooded sweatshirt on his bedroom floor. what s more, an expert testified it had gunshot residue on the right cuff. nathan said that he had been at the gun range. is that feasible, that if he was a no. reporter: shooting off his gun, that there would be residue? what s important about that, too, is he said that it was in oklahoma, two weeks prior. there s no way there would ve been gunshot residue on that sweatshirt still. reporter: on the stand another neighbor, who did not want to be videotaped, testified she heard a gunshot that day between 12:30 and 12:40. in the time frame detectives thought denise was killed. prosecutors said that gave nathan the opportunity to kill denise. now, they had to explain why he did it. so they called this man to the stand, who said he could answer that precise question because nathan told him everything. would you state your name? david d. smith. reporter: da
i m so blessed to have you in my life. she tried to minimize the relationship. nathan and aina were making eye contact quite a bit throughout the trial. sometimes when she would answer a question or she said something he didn t like he laughed and threw his hands up in the air in disappointment. reporter: and prosecutors had another piece of evidence they say 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 he would never hurt her. it was a gut wrenching note written by denise discovered tucked in her day planner. in a murder case, you don t have the victim. you never get to hear the victim s story. that person is dead. and here we had a note that she had written that laid the whole thing out. reporter: the highly personal, very painful note was obviously aimed at nathan. the police investigator read the note in court.
her desire from the very beginning was to go back to help her own country and the churches there, how to use music for the lord. reporter: that sponsorship started in the fall of 2010, when aina came to the u.s. to study at a christian college in florida, where nathan would occasionally visit her. what did denise think about that? i asked her more than one time, i said, well, aren t you jealous that he s traveling around with this young girl? and she was like, no, she wasn t jealous at all. this is a girl that they d wanted to help. exactly. and she trusted nathan. reporter: during school vacations, aina would stay in peoria with the whole family. she was really good with the kids, seemed like a sweet girl. in if she was a friend of our daughter s and son-in-law s, i mean, we accepted her into our home. reporter: then, in december 2011, aina left that florida school. she was so close with the leuthold family, she moved in with nathan, denise, and denise s parents
consistent with what the defendant did, hiding in that cubicle to kill her the moment she walked through the door. reporter: the state s theory nathan put his plan into action when denise left the house to take their daughter to day care. first he drove his car to the park down the street. parked his car in robinson park, you know, somewhere close to 12:15, to 12:20. walked up to the house. went into the house. the burglary probably was already staged. if not, he went ahead. and then he knew that denise would be coming back. stood in the doorway, and as soon as the door opened, denise tried to take her coat off and he shot her in the back of the head. reporter: nathan then drove denise s car to that same park, prosecutors said, and hopped back in his own car and drove to starbucks, arriving at 12:45. 12:45 to 12:50. five minutes only, but long enough to be on that camera. reporter: and long enough they said, for nathan to wash