started with roses and ended in a different shade of red. everything stopped. i was just in shock. we knew that there was somebody bad out there doing something. she was a wife, a mother, a missionary. to me, it sounds like a saint. she probably was. but something had been happening behind closed doors. there is nothing more important to me than you and this relationship. was it love? this was his valentine s day present. or hate? one shot to the head. what was the motive for a valentine s day murder? we had a note that she had written. she was speaking from the grave. that note was powerful. it happened on the least likely day imaginable. a day devoted to love and affection. valentine s day. and it happened to the last people on earth you would expect. a religious family dedicated to god and making the world a better place. we had a break-in. is it going on right now? i don t know. the garage door is open. there is glass from the back do
scene, nathan went with detectives to the police station where they asked him if he could think of any reason his family would be targeted. do you have any personal problems with anybody? no. does your wife? no. was there anything of extreme value? in the house? in your room, in that room in particular. i had 2 watches. a couple hundred dollar watches. nothing what about money? no. a laptop, digital camera, and jewelry had been stolen. two guns had also been taken including a 40 caliber glock, the same caliber used to kill denise, had the intruder used that weapon to shoot her? do you know why anybody would want to break into that house? i ve been trying to ask myself the same question i first pulled in the driveway. nathan gave detectives a clue, though. he said he remembered seeing a suspicious car in the neighborhood late at night. a couple of weeks before the
gap between him leaving the starbucks around 11:30 and when he shows backed up at the same starbucks around 12:45 pm. in between then we could not account for him anymore. that gap was crucial because it was during that timeframe that police believe the murder happened. the detectives even traced a route nathan might have taken that day from the starbucks to the park, a quick walk to his house, and then back to the starbucks to see if he could ve done it in time. six minutes 55 seconds. not only possible, they said, but probable. more likely, they figured then a stranger breaking into the house during the roughly 20 minutes nice was. out is unconcealed think anybody breaks into the house of that same time, ran runs through the house, finds a glock, prized open, loads it up, hides behind the door, to execute her. it just cannot happen.
you delete something does not mean it s gone. what they found floor of them. it rained from how to silence a 40 caliber handgun. a glock specifically, which is the gun he owned. and she was shot with. how do you silence that. and overdose somebody with insulin. drowned in the bathtub. this goes back several months before the murder. so he is potentially thinking up all of these ways to kill his wife. i honestly think, he played it out. did you straight-up ask him, did you have anything to do with your wife s death? and? he said no. not only did he deny killing his wife, nathan told us that there was a perfectly good explanation for all of those internet searches police uncovered. electrocution in the bathtub, how to silence a gun we started a foundation overseas called hope for tomorrow to combat suicide. we were doing research and
generate those marks could be a glock. are you able to say that within a reasonable degree of scientific certainty? yes. but police never did find the murder weapon. did you worry that you are not able to find the gun? was that a factor? obviously was a concern. i think anytime in a murder case when you do not have the handgun, or the weapon, or whatever it was, it is an uphill battle because that s what the jury want. they want the smoking gun, and we did not have it. still, prosecutors thought that they had more than enough evidence to prove their case. remember diane parrish, who said that she saw a man in a black hooded sweatshirt walking towards denise s house on the day of the murder. she was the closest thing please had to an eyewitness. the whole thing struck me as wrong. i thought, i told my husband to slow down. i wanted to get a good look at him. i was worried that he saw a pulling out of our driveway, and if he knew that we were gone, he would rob us. she