it? sort of love for jumping, love for rotating was something that clicked immediately. landed my first when i was 15. since then, it is a joy to be able to do them. by 2018, he was doing more quads more masterfully than anyone in the world, as many as six in one program. nathan chen. when he stepped onto the ice at the last olympics, he was a serious contender for gold. did you have fun in pyeongchang? i didn t. i was so grounded in one goal, this was the opportunity to win. but it was not to be. a major mistake on the triple axle. after a disastrous short program, nathan finished off the podium in fifth place. but the best athletes use disappointments as fuel. nathan wouldn t lose again for more than three years. he is now a six-time national
or did it backfire? it didn t work out because shelley s mother also testified when she was cross-examined by the prosecution that as far as she knew, shelley never had that conversation with nathan. so nathan reporter: nathan wouldn t have known. he wouldn t have known. so that kinda kills the idea that that could have been motive if he didn t even know that they were gonna break up. reporter: still, one way or another, nathan may have felt he was on trial as much as daniel was. so in their closing argument, the prosecutors had to essentially act as nathan s defense attorneys. reporter: one of the prosecutors pointed at him and remarked this is basically a scared little boy who spent that week at home with his grand grandmommy cutting the crusts off his bread. i told the jury he was yellow as mustard without the spice. he was a scrawny little kid. shelley probably could be have took him in her sleep, you know? reporter: but was daniel willyam capable of so brutal a
his name was nathan shuck. he was a classmate at the art institute 20 years old, like shelley, and from a dallas suburb, where he grew up with his mom and grandmother. like shelley, he seemed reserved, at least to most people. but in class and with close friends, he was energetic. shelley and nathan had been going out if you could call it that for a couple of months. 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
i mean, you were well, yes, that was his own his own words. daniel worried about nathan, he said. saw early red flags in nathan s behavior toward this first girlfriend of his. nathan, he said, seemed obsessed with shelley. maybe dangerously. i started to notice that nathan had missed his classes. and finally, i talk to shelley s roommate, ashley, and what she told me shocked me because from her own words, nathan was actually stalking shelley everywhere she goes. and after shelley was murdered, he said, he saw scratches on nathan s body. which, in fact, the police had noticed, too. and then daniel added something very interesting he picked up nathan from school on thursday night, that s the day of the killing. it was more than 12 hours before shelley s body was discovered, he said, and nathan behaved like someone who felt what, guilty?
one piece of obvious evidence, the bloody baggie, in nathan s bathroom. and then there was daniel s complicated relationship with nathan, and by extension, shelley. we would hear these stories about him getting upset because he didn t get an offer to go to breakfast with people, or he wasn t invited to go to the movies with nathan and his girlfriend. and it was it was just a consistent, pervasive feeling that daniel would tell anybody who was willing to listen about how he was slighted by not being involved. and part of part of the the chain of events, too, was the fact that he was not invited by nathan and shelley to go to some anime festival here in dallas the weekend before this ended up happening. reporter: so nathan went with shelley and left him at home. absolutely.