else, but this is where the body was left. on the night of the murder, michelle worked the evening shift at the cosmetics counter of a local department store. she left around 10:00 p.m. she told her husband she was going out for a drink with her girlfriends. but the owner of a nearby motel told police michelle was there that night in a room with a man he identified as miguel dejesus, the gardener she had been involved with a year earlier. when questioned, dejesus admitted having sex with michelle that night, but insisted he had nothing to do with her murder. he said michelle left in her car around midnight and that he went home to his wife. he told us what they did, where they went, and again, all of that was verified. dejesus did reveal one surprising piece of information. he claimed michelle planned to divorce her husband.
into the ditch. she s a very short woman, no more than 5 , 5 1 tall and the car s seat, driver s seat reclined all the way back. at michelle s autopsy, the medical examiner found evidence of not one head injury but several. she had four separate lacerations, three in the forehead area that were separate. one to the top of the head. this would be inconsistent with a car crash. and more consistent with blunt force trauma. michelle had cuts and bruises on her hands, what appeared to be defensive wounds. this death, in my opinion, is clearly a homicide. the shoe impressions found in the snow leading away from the vehicle across the creek and up to a nearby road were from a man s boot. this was a secondary crime scene. this is not the location where this happened. that the location is somewhere
guilty of the lesser charge of passion provocation manslaughter. he was sentenced to eight years in prison. prosecutors, friends and family were appalled. instead of getting a divorce, you can just kill your wife. i don t think that s a good you know, a lesson to learn from this story. the jury has to believe that he was indeed provoked. and also, that between the provocation and the murder he had no time to calm down. after you already know about the affair, if that s still passion provocation, i just i don t think it fit in this case. but prosecutors say without the forensic evidence, nyce might not have been convicted at all. we have the forensic evidence of the shoes actually being pieced back together to show the extent to which the defendant
the caller demanded $500,000 or else he would embarrass the doctor by releasing the tape to the couple s friends and business associates. nyce immediately confronted his wife, michelle. she states, yes, she did have the affair. that the individual she had the affair with is an employee at a landscaping company. his name was miguel dejesus. he was 32 years old. they met when dejesus was doing work on the nyces yard. when questioned by police, dejesus denied making the phone call trying to extort money from the couple. miguel dejesus was a guy who had several different social security numbers, was living with another woman. i think she was common law wife. had gotten another woman pregnant and refused to pay child support. he was not an upstanding character by anybody s estimate. michelle promised to end the affair.
but police found evidence that jonathan knew michelle had resumed her love affair with the gardener. on his desk was this poem jonathan had written. your stainless steel heart like a knife rips open my soul to bleed, unattended, dying. you call me on the telephone, and tell me not to worry. when, oh, when will my dying end? with a warrant, investigators search the nyces home. although they didn t find any shoes that matched the impressions found in the snow near michelle s car, they did find some suspicious items in the garage. one was a baseball bat that looked clean, but it was tested with phenolphthalein and was positive for the presence of blood. however, it was impossible to determine whether it was human or animal blood. and they found jonathan s clothes soaking in the washing