left here, just a few feet from where we re standing. to try and solve the mystery, detective slinger reviewed all the text messages between nikki and dug on doug s phone. what kind of things where she? writing trust issues that she had with him. maybe that he was out with them other girls. nikki roe wow, what s flooded you with because none of your friends know? you hurt me all the time. when angela learned just how angry nikki was with doug, she couldn t help but feel like she may have contributed to the couples problems by making that phone call to doug outside the by. i couldn t sleep. i couldn t eat. because i kept thinking, what if. could i have done something different? should i have not called dog? if that was her trigger it seemed. detectives also asked doug why nikki was so angry with him that night?
that said angela, made nikki furious. nikki was upset, because he wouldn t answer her calls, but he would answer your call? yeah. they have a reaction, did she say anything? it happened so fast. i just remember her jumping up and running. detective slinger could see nikki leaving on the bar security video. did anyone follow, her try to come her back? yeah on the video he s like come on nikki, come on nikki. come back to the bar, we will bring you home. she just started hitting him. she told him let me be. let me go. and he said okay. at first neither angela, nor anyone else could figure out what had just happened. i m like why did she go running? is it something i said? so she was more upset than what she was letting on in the by. she must have been to be running out like that. so not too far from here is where the mystery began? the mystery began when she
you anything about who the victim was? yes. i was able to go through the clothing, there was a line yard that had a green school district photo idea on it. the photo was of nikki. dental records later confirmed whatever body by now already knew the victim was nicole vanderheyden. representatives of went to the home of nikki parents were all of her friends and family had gathered. she and another police officer came over and had the immediate family in the backyard. we knew, we saw the looks on her faces and all we could do would just hold. him that is an awful moment. did anyone talk, or was it just silence? just silence. silence. the only thing that we hoped wouldn t be true. it was hard.
have the right guy. i still knew. there is something in me telling me it was not him. how good are you feeling about your suspect? do you feel like this is your man, you caught the killer? yeah we never would have arrested him if we didn t think he was our guy. but less than two weeks after doug s arrest, test of the forensic evidence taken from in and around the house started to trickle back from the lab. the case against him began to collapse. first, there were doug s shoes that the tech teams believe could have left the imprint on nikki s back. the imprint was very generic zigzag pattern. the lab could not make a definitive match. it was inconclusive. could be anybody? shoe could be anybody shoe that has that zigzag pattern. then came the dna blood tests, as for the red dots that the detectives found on the shoes no dna found on the bottom of the.
and when doug went back to bed at 11 am, he never attempted to search for nikki . did you attempt to search for her on foot? no i did not. there was a reason why he waited so long to reporter nikki missing. well because he knew where her body, wasn t he knew what happened to her. the plan was to show that he had a history of abuse towards women. when the judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible. this just has to be a huge bowl to your defense. it was. we weren t able to present the pattern of abuse that we saw from past girlfriends from people who knew nicole from anybody that we could talk to on the case. specifically for the people doug dated. and there was something else the judge would not allow. the tree had recently been arrested for abuse. it is a wild story that he gets involved with nikki sister after her death. i couldn t believe it. of all people, nikki sister. she had been living with doug. helping him take care of the baby according to the crim