family. january 28th, 2006 was a saturday. after a hectic work week out there different jobs, nikki and dave would chill with a dinner party that night over their friends place. that afternoon, they ve called nikki to hash out the details. they derived their separately. hey babe, give me a call. and you know what we re doing. if i need to stop and get food or anything for ellen and jason, and stuff like that. so, give me a call. i love you, by. when dave pietz showed up at the friends apartment that evening, nikki wasn t there. one hour, two hours, and still no nikki. dave s wife of almost four years was gone into the night, into the rain. what on earth had happened to nikki pietz? turns out, nikki had a troubled past. had those troubles finally caught up with her? or was it something else? coming up did you think something was wrong, something more was wrong from the beginning. yes. when dateline continues. n dateline continues plus a cooling sensation.
the facility my conversation with dr. fauci, is the johnson & johnson news a setback for the u.s. plus, his new message to americans as covid cases rise again and when we will see a return to normal. and the announcement from pfizer, its vaccine still highly effective after six months our access signed where every dose originates. new images, the suspect in the mass shooting in a california office complex. four killed, including a 9-year-old who died in his mother s arms the suspect s link to the victims. and that shocking video, a smuggler dropping two migrant sisters over a border wall, the new images of the girls safe and where they are tonight. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening for the last ten months one unsmiling selfie of george floyd has stood as the symbol of him and an icon of the racial justice movement but today jurors in the trial of the former policeman accused of murdering floyd learned about the man, his personal story, what
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testified. he said she met george floyd when he worked as a security guard at the salvation army, telling people he was a good father and talking about the deep impact of the death of his own mother. he said can i pray with you? i was so tired. we had been through so much, my sons and i, and this kind person just to come up to me and say, can i pray with you when i felt alone in this lobby. it was so sweet. i called him a mama s boy. i could tell from the minute i met him. when i met him, he seemed kind of like a shell of himself, like he was broken. you ll recall george floyd on video calling out for his mama and his children as he was dying. courtney ross also told the jury that drug use was a part of their relationship, opioid addiction, something so many americans and so many families can identify with. our story, it s a classic story of how many people get addicted to opioids. we both suffer from chronic pain. mine was in my neck and his was in his back. we both ha
a baffling disappearance. where was he? my dad is not just a missing person. he has three sons. he has a wife. i was very afraid that something terrible was wrong. i got scared. the clues, a missing mercedes, a handprint in blood, and a musical chairs of secret affairs. he had multiple love affairs. yes. there s more women. there s more lovers involved in this whole thing. was this beauty hiding something deadly? i wanted to get away. i was scared. how would this hollywood story end? i just feared for my family. i don t want to lose my dad. like who are these people? hello and welcome to dateline. gavin smith was a larger than life kind of guy who lived life to the fullest. he was not the type to slip quietly into the night. so when he suddenly vanished without a trace, gavin s sister wondered why his wife lisa wasn t doing more to find him. as the months turned into years the mysterious disappearance would force lisa to reveal and uncover painful