detective kathleen decker took a stand. when you first saw david at his residence, i believe you described as anxious and upset? yes. the defense willingly conceded that david pietz was a crummy husband, but skirt chasing didn t give him a motive for murder. dave pietz isn t the first guy to step out on his spouse. all of you certainly know people that have done that. have they killed their wives or husbands or anything like that? and the defense countered that if anyone had secrets to hide, it wasn t dave. it was nici. there s another side to all this. the defense now turned the focus to nicole pietz, and in the last few weeks of her life. raise your right hand. lawyers called to the stand their main witness, nici s doctor, carole. she had been her premier position for five years. you knew nici s history, did she have trouble as a young woman? i did. and been in rehab at one point? and we had talked about it throughout her care with me. one and he came into
closing? yes. yes. some old fashion gumshoe investigative work would have to come next, tracking down phone records, credit card statements, anything to pinpoint where nici may have headed after leaving the condo saturday morning. only one more blip on nici s timeline surfaced, a single phone call made around noon on saturday from her cellphone to the gym s front desk while david pietz was working. it s possible that she was driving and had hit one of the towers there. so we were considering that. we are also considering whoever killed her may have had her phone and was still using it. as for that diamond tennis bracelet missing from nicole s wrist when they found her body, the cops began checking pawnshop records in case someone had tried to hawk it. nothing. a police officer spotted nicole pietz s car overnight. the last major piece of the puzzle turned up two weeks after nici had disappeared. her car, a grey jetta, had been found abandoned in a parking lot in seattle s u
nici had reluctantly agreed to let her doctor put her on a carefully monitored prescription for percocet, a potentially addictive narcotic drug. at first she had me keeping the pills and then giving them to her. investigators wondered, had nici s old demons pulled her down again? they delved into nici s last known movements when was the last time you saw nici? friday night. when i got home from work. she was sleeping. david pietz told detectives that nici was sleeping when he arrived home late friday night. and by the morning, she was already gone, off to her special aa celebration, he assumed. i just remember thinking that s where she must be when i woke up. but when she didn t show up to the dinner party that night, he returned to their condo to look for her. he described how her purse, car keys, and grey jetta were gone. but he said something else caught his eye. and it would turn out to be a
the more i know she shouldn t. dave saw and nici according to some coworkers was a cynical way to climb the corporate ladder. nici was everyone s favorite, and their boss and particular loved her like family as c. j. brady saw it. nici and our supervisor were very close, almost like a father daughter relationship. and that is why i think he dated nici from the start. i don t like there ever was an attraction there. but if he was chilly about his wife, he was super heated about some of the female gym members and his coworkers. dave chased women inside the clubhouse, at the club, on side of the club, on top of the club. detectives found details about david pietz s roaming eye intriguing, but hardly damning. to describe it in kind of current terminology, thought he was somewhat of a player. did it make him a killer? didn t make him a killer, no. but david pietz we s here towards women at the gym did get him fired detectives learned. several female coworkers had filed sex
to support him, no matter what the verdict was. because i feel he would do the same for me. as the hours went by, nici s family prayed, and the prosecutors replayed the case in their hands. i felt there was absolutely nothing we must and in closing or presentation. that s not to say when they are deliberating are not wandering every second what s going, on and whether you are going to succeed. please be seated with the exception of the presiding jury. more than seven and a half years since nici s body had been found, the jury was coming back with a verdict. where the jury find the defendant david pietz guilty of the crime of murdering the