i asked him why he was getting married, and he said at that point it was too late to back out of it. the romance lasted on and off for two years. what did he tell you about how he felt about you? he told me he cared about me. dave pietz s lifestyle became the trial here. it did, it showed he was dissatisfied with her. dissatisfied with nikki, and prosecutors say determined to change her. david went so far as to spike nikki s drink with a club drug ecstasy, hoping she d finally agreed to that three some. this, according to david s bar buddy, rene stewart. he told me he d put it in her red bull, like when he went to get a drink, and it was just trying to loosen her up together to do a threesome. did you notice a change and her after she drink that redbull? yes. how did she change? she became more sexual with people. here s a guy who knows full well his wife has addiction problems, and he puts ecstasy
cartel reading glasses to a blind person. doesn t matter what his pitch, as was he how do you convince whatever it was you had to have it. so there was, dave hustling on the sales floor and there was nikki, a buttoned up blond from corporate and the bosses favorite higher. before long nikki and they became an item. she had definitely got a bounce in her step when she got an incoming message from dave. out of everybody, he chose her. that has to make you feel kind of special. pretty soon, nikki and dave moved in together. gayle had remarried and moved to arizona with her new husband. she could tell by the sound of her daughter s voice on the phone that nikki had found the one. he was her dream man. really?
emotional wilderness, 07-08-09, what was your lowest moment? there are so many little ones. i didn t want to live. just cried my head off every day, and. i just didn t want to live. years went by, david pietz quietly left the fitness industry for a position at chase bank. he started attending church. fellow church member, kim adams, said she got to know a dave who was very different from the heartless philanderer described by nikki s friends and family. the dave kim knew was a forlorned widow who spoke fondly about his lost wife. when he would speak of her, i could see a sadness and him. who would have conversations about, you know, struggling because he missed her. meanwhile, at the county sheriff s office, the three ringed binders that made up the pietz moved from dusk to dusk until in 2010, they were picked up by two cold case cops.
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 nikki. 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, nikki s doctor, carole. she had been her primary physician for five years. you knew nikki 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. so when nikki came into the office complaining of severe back pain at the end of 2005, the doctor said she had nikki s past addiction in mind. the doctor testified that she did put nikki on pain
she never sat. she would walk around and visit with people. she always saw the good in people. she didn t see the bad in people. after graduation, nicki brought that winning spirit into the workplace. eventually landing a position in the head offices of bally total fitness. nikki was a great boss. she cared about how your day was. she cared about how you are feeling. she cared about your birthday. bally s it is where nicki met another employee. he exuded a smooth confidence. his coworkers recall he was going places. he was definitely a very nice man, easy to talk to, would laugh a lot. he was actually a very compassionate person. he s very confident, he spoke well, he had a presence that demanded attention. he was set on selling more gym memberships than anyone else, and he would have dave