Shattered and i would have to tell her at some point. Denises mom had no idea what happened, but rushed home when nathan had told her there had been a breakin. I drove out there and the roads were all blocked off. As had a sick feeling when you see all those police . What are you thinking . I didnt know what to think. I tried to run up there and going to the house and they were like no, you cant go in and im like well, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. They eventually took me downtown and then one of the policeman came in and told me that she had been shot. The worst day of my life. Now, she had to tell her husband, denises father. Fell apart, cried, and i guess it is every parents worst nightmare to have a child taken from them
school that nathan and denise got to know each other better though 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 were just good friends. and i went to her church activities and she came to mine. and saw each other at school and that s how it all started. she was my first girlfriend and my only girlfriend. reporter: norm ulrich jr. got to know nathan and denise well when his wife taught at their high school. nathan was a basketball player then, denise a cheerleader. they were inseparable. they would just, you know, goof around with each other, you know just in a loving, you know, maybe puppy-lovish way. um, and it just grew into something special between the two of them and we knew they d be together. reporter: what s more, nathan admired denise s parents and was inspired by what he saw as a perfect marriage. and i looked at denise s mom at the time and i saw what she was as a woman, as a