it was the curly hair and the bouncy curls, and just the happy-go-lucky smile. in junior high, i began to see her character. and see what kind of person she was that. it was in high school that nathan and denise got to know each other better. but they didn t date, as most teens do. because they both came from religious families. our parents didn t really believe in dating. so we are just good friends. i went to her church activities, she came to mine. we saw each other in school. that s how it started. she was my first girlfriend, and i only girlfriend. norm junior got to know nathan and when his wife taught at the high school. death nathan was a basketball player, denise was a cheerleader. they were inseparable. they just goof around with each other. just a loving puppy love way. and it just grew into something special between the two of them.
jody hoops and jerry brady were the ones who tried the case. they said what really happened was a cold blooded execution. ladies and gentlemen, burgers committed burglaries. killers execute in a style consistent with what the defendant did. hiding in that cubicle to kill her the moment she walked through the door. the state s theory? that nathan put his plan into action when denise left to put take the daughter to daycare. first he took the car in robinson park. something close to 12:15 to 12:20, walked into the house, went into the house the burglary was already staged, if not he went ahead, and then he knew that she would be coming back stood as the doorway and as soon as the door open denise tried trenchcoat off any shot on the back of the head. he then drove denise s car
it happened so often, the owner said, she thought they were a couple. he s taking this woman and her early twenties, an exchange student, to the spa. to get massages, to get her waxed up. in the front yard, if my wife found up i was boxing a 20 year old. it didn t make sense. i kept on explaining. i asked her what is he waxing up? she didn t answer. they asked her about the bill, which nathan paid. she framed it as it s his money, and it s denise s money. if he is spending the money, she should be all right with it. did you ask, are we having a sexual relationship with nathan? and what was her response? she denied it. then aina mentioned some of the sparked her curiosity. she studied music her whole life, and had gone to college in florida to play the piano. but she told detectives she left the school because of problems with her hands. it was officially titled
disappointment. prosecutors had another piece of evidence they said proved an affair. a secret that shook the courtroom. it challenge the very core of nathan s defense. that denise was at the center of his life. and that he would never hurt her. it was a gut wrenching note, written by denise. discovered tucks in her day planner. in a murder case, you do not have the victim. you never get to hear the victims story. that person is dead. in here we had a note. that she had written, that laid the whole thing. out the highly personal, very painful note. was obviously aimed at nathan. and police investigator read the no in court. i have tried to please you for 17 years, and have never succeeded. i have never been good enough never done enough. i know that you want me did i m not stupid. denise seemed to confirm that she believed her husband was having an affair. well she didn t name aina, she mentioned much ogre woman.
stand. who said he could answer that precise question, because nathan told him everything. can you state your name? david smith was a fellow in may of nathan s at the county jail. he said nathan told him he researched ways to kill denise on his laptop. did he talk about how he was planning to kill his wife denise? well, at first he told me that he was thinking about some poisoning. or some type of potassium or something like that. according to the inmate, nathan said he ran a lot of aaron s on the day of the murder. to create an alibi, and he told me he presented some gifts. some valentine s day gift and stuff. to his wife and, so that everything would look fine. how important was david smith the jailhouse snitch? david smith said that nathan was worried, that a lady mike it s seen him while he was