BISMARCK, N.D. - The North Dakota Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal of a Gardner man convicted in the 2001 murder and dismembering of Timothy.
BISMARCK, N.D. - The North Dakota Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal of a Gardner man convicted in the 2001 murder and dismembering of Timothy.
he took all his clothes off, and you could just hear bang, bang, bang. seemed like it was never going to stop. so as fruge and her son sat in the front of the truck, she turned up the radio, loud. what s going through your mind at this point? such a feeling of fear and panic that i ve never felt before in my life. just a couple days after the murder, she says they rented a truck and drove endlessly through wisconsin and michigan until gaede suddenly stopped here and asked her to help him dump the body just over the guardrail. she says gaede was on his own when he got rid of the head and hands. did you have any sympathy, any feelings for timothy wicks? i ve heard, i m worried i m going to get caught, i m in trouble, i m scared. what about the man who was who was dead on the floor? i don t know what i could have done at that time. maybe i could have made a difference, maybe not.
we just bought like $200 worth of groceries. all of a sudden i see a squad car. i said, dennis, i think we re going down. she was right. police throughout the midwest had been on the lookout for a very large balding man driving a camper and using tim wicks credit cards. a warrant was out for gaede s arrest at this time for embezzlement. police also wanted to question him on the disappearance of timothy wicks. the phone rings. police on the phone. what do they tell you? he let me know that we got dennis, we ve got diane and we ve got joshua, her son. they got them in custody and no one was hurt that. was very good news. coming up three years after tim wicks goes missing, diane fruge breaks her silence. he told me that he gets tim up to canada, that no one will ever miss him. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self? c mon, michael! get in the game!
the person you re dealing with? cold. sick. and trying to keep the fact that the victim might be identified. investigators moved in on the house, but gaede was gone. police took these photos inside. they also tracked the real timothy wicks credit card use and also discovered the credit card was used here to rent a truck. u-haul was ultimately returned with over 1,700 miles having been put on it. you do the math, between north dakota and the upper peninsula of michigan, where the body was found, and how does that equation work out? it s pretty consistent with that trip. and there s more. wicks credit card was also used here to buy burlap bags, gloves, and an axe like these. the purchase all caught on a store security camera. that s dennis gaede and diane fruge with her son at the store. i believe that by the time