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
police, called 9-1-1. 9-1-1. where is the emergency? ah, we ve got a break. in. a daring burglary in the middle of the day. that would rob this family of everything. coming up there would be no more calls, candies or flowers this valentine s day. no one can find denise. she hadn t entered her phone calls. she hadn t answered her text messages. and what police find is terrifying. everything stopped. i just kept looking at my daughter. my world had just been shattered. and i have to tell her at some point. when dateline continues.
experience, as a police officer, and investigator. what usually occurs, in a kitchen it s not a common place, where people would look for items. in a burglary also, items are scattered about, george dumped on the floors. i felt that this was not an ordinary burglary, and i express that to my partner. while he found the crime scene odd for burglary, it was nathan s behavior that struck the officer even more. describe his demeanor. as i m speaking to him, he never showed any sort of a motion, where asked any questions of me as to what was going. on prosecutor said nathan also showed no emotion during his police interview. even when the detective told him denise was dead. you can t tell me things about her, so there s. i can tell you she s. that he told me that. okay. prosecutors played the
interview for the jurors, hoping they would see what they saw. when the police force gave us the case, i watched his videotape statement, finance into it i knew he did it. i news guilty. his demeanor, his attitude, he tried to take over the conversation. not a single tier woodshed. they presented evidence that the bullet casing found at the scene, was from a glock 40. the kind of gun nathan owned. the only firearm that can generate those marks, it s a glock. and, 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 able to find the gun, was that a factor? yes that was a concern. i think anytime in a murder case where you don t have a handgun or the weapon or whatever it was. it s an uphill battle. that s with the jury wants. they want the smoking gun. and we did not have it. still, prosecutors thought they had more than enough evidence to prove their case. remember d