to find the dearly loved person named nikki. nikki pietz, wife and daughter, sister and friend. she seemed to be able to uplift people in ways that none of us knew how to do. she had a way to make you smile. she had a way to let you know that everything was going to be okay. gayle was her mother. nicki was sunshine. she was the kind of person that when she walked in a room, the room lit up. gayle raised nicki and her sister tanya in the suburbs of seattle. there were carefree days at the nearby lake. is nicki your annoying kid sister, or she pretty cool? she was a very annoying kid sister! mom insisted on dressing us alike. and high school, mia allwood says nicki was a friend to everyone. every day we ate lunch together.
s family prayed, and the prosecutors replayed the case in their heads. i felt there was absolutely nothing we must and in closing or presentation. that s not to say when they are deliberating, you are not wondering 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 nikki s body had been found, the jury was coming back with a verdict. we the jury find the defendant martin david pietz guilty of the crime of murdering the second degree as charged signed by the residing jury. is this the verdict? yes. david pietz guilty of second degree murder, strangling nikki, his wife of almost four years. absolute elation. i want to justice for my daughter. and we got it. what do you want to say to david pietz now? david, i hope you find it in your heart to be sorry because
off to mourn his lost wife, detectives intent on solving her murder began interviewing people from the gym world who knew the couple. starting at the facility where nikki and they ve had first met. bally s was the type of plays most of the rumors were not really rumors. they were true. staff members agreed that dave, the alpha dog of the sales department, and nikki that buttoned down corporate nice girl or a hopeless mismatch. the more nick you liked him, the more i know she shouldn t. dave saw and nikki according to some coworkers was a cynical way to climb the corporate ladder. nikki was everyone s favorite, and their boss and particular loved her like family as c. j. brady saw it. nikki and our supervisor were very close, almost like a father daughter relationship. and that is why i think he dated nikki 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 cow
desperately tried reaching her by phone. hi, nikki, this is rod. calling we don t know what is going on. their pleas, relegated to the silence of voicemail. the anxiety went on level went off the chop chart. no matter what happened, nicki, even if it was a relapse. we want you to know that we love you. had nicki in fact, falling back into addiction? i started hoping that. because then he would have been a life. friends knew she d likely be wearing a cross necklace and a diamond tennis bracelet. nine days later, king county detective kathleen was decker, dispatched an area near seattle s seatac airport close to the city. the call came in from my sergeant requesting that respond to this location regarding a woman s body. she had been found by a pastor by in the blackberry bushes. this is kind of off the grid right here. yes, it is. a woman s body, discovered
remained emotionless in court and trial watchers noted. few if any family or friends showed up in the rose behind him to have his back. but he did have supporters, like kim adams, a friend from church. he does have a very strong network of friends, and people who care about him and love him. she says team dave chose to back him quietly from outside the courthouse. hoping to avoid the many cameras both in and outside the courtroom. i have a lot of respect for those people that didn t go, he knows who loves them. she watched the news in disbelief, not recognizing the man prosecutors described as a coldhearted killer. surely, this wasn t the day if she d known for almost seven years. her trusted confidant. i kept thinking to myself, they re talking about my friend! that s not my friend. that s not the friend that i know. what s in court his defense team would not call on kim and the silent friends as character witnesses. the defense was mounting a strip down argument. jurors,