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counter, she was proud of rings according to her family, and here she is going to this big meeting the next morning but she's going to go into and not occurring? >> another red flag from the autopsy report, nici's body had been recovered with her retainer still in her mouth. >> why did the team seem odd that you found it with the retainer? >> again, that's something people wearing that go to bed. she was in the habit of only wearing it at night. >> the wedding ring left on the bathroom counter, a clunky retainer still in her mouth, added up, concluded a tech device, and you had a wife who never left a condo for her meeting that saturday morning. one who had never made it through the night alive, and the only person who could be with nicole pietz and the cause of the night, her husband, david pietz. >> when you look at each piece of evidence and figure how does it relate to everything else, put the puzzle together, and you've got your picture at the end. >> six years after nicole pietz was reported missing, her husband david was arrested and charged with second degree murder in connection with our death. >> coming up, a lifestyle on trial. >> who did it involve? me, nici, and dave. >> he was trying to loosen her
jurors, there is nothing here. nici left the condo that morning and dave had no idea where she ended up. >> nicole pietz was missing. and her husband, david pietz, never saw her again. what happened to nicole is a mystery. >> after ten days of trial, with more than 40 witnesses, the state the defense lawyers argued had failed to produce a smoking gun or even a possible motivation for murder. >> in this case, there are many reasonable doubts. >> could anyone say with absolute certainty that she always wore her wedding ring? that she never went out in public with her retainer? the picture the defense portrayed was david pietz open and honest with detectives from the start. a husband hoping the police would look at his wife.
>> he looked very bad. it looked like he hadn't slept he had lost weight yet dark circles under his eyes and he seemed a little bit more sad. >> while david pietz slowly got back to work after taking time off to mourn his lost wife, detectives intent on solving her murder began interviewing people from the gym world who knew the couple. starting at the facility where nici and they've had first met. >> bally's was the type of plays most of the rumors were not really rumors. they were true. >> staff members agreed that dave, the alpha dog of the sales department, and nici that buttoned down corporate nice girl or a hopeless mismatch. >> the more nick you liked him,
to be going places. >> he was definitely a very nice man, easy to talk to, would laugh a lot. he was actually a very compassionate person. >> he's very confident, he spoke well, he had a presence that demanded attention. >> dave was set on selling more gym memberships than anyone else, and he wouldn't have denied what everyone saw in him. >> dave could sell reading glasses to a blind person. doesn't matter what his pitch, as was he how do you convince whatever it was you had to have it. >> so there was, dave hustling on the sales floor and there was nikki, a buttoned up blond from corporate and the boss's favorite hire. before long nikki and dave became an item. >> she had definitely got a bounce in her step when she got an incoming message from dave. >> out of everybody, he chose her. that has to make you feel kind of special. >> pretty soon, nikki and dave moved in together.
trial watchers noted. few if any family or friends showed up in the rose behind him to have his back. but he did have supporters, like kim adams, a friend from church. >> he does have a very strong network of friends, and people who care about him and love him. >> she says team dave chose to back him quietly from outside the courthouse. hoping to avoid the many cameras both in and outside the courtroom. >> i have a lot of respect for those people that didn't go, he knows he loves them. >> she watched the news in disbelief, not recognizing the man prosecutors described as a coldhearted killer. surely, this wasn't the day if she'd known for almost seven years. her trusted confidant. >> i kept thinking to myself, they're talking about my friend! that's not my friend. that's not the friend that i know. >> what's in court his defense team would not pull on him in the silent friends as character witnesses. the defense was mounting a strip down argument.
emotional wilderness, 07-08-09, what was your lowest moment? >> there are so many little ones. i didn't want to live. just cried my head off every day, and... i just didn't want to live. >> years went by, david pietz quietly left the fitness industry for a position at chase bank. he started attending church. fellow church member, kim adams, said she got to know a dave who was very different from the heartless philanderer described by nici's friends and family. the dave kim knew was a forlorned widow who spoke fondly about his lost wife. >> when he would speak of her, i could see a sadness and him. who would have conversations about, you know, struggling because he missed her. >> meanwhile, at the county sheriff's office, the three ringed binders that made up the pietz moved from dusk to dusk
>> because they thought there was no premeditation, david pietz was charged with a second, not first degree, murder. but proving he snapped and strangled nick in their condo wouldn't be easy. this was a highly circumstantial case, with little direct evidence pointing david's way. >> in terms of the bedroom or the house, there is no physical evidence left behind. >> which is a handicap for you guys when you've got to tell the story to a jury that really wants to hear csi, right? >> they want dna on everything. >> prosecutors started by calling the string of the other women in david's life. women who shared with the jury stories of lustful cheating spouse with little regard for his wife. stories of a three-way kiss at the bar. >> and who did it involve? >> me, katie, and dave. >> you are kissing katie, katie was kissing you -- >> all three at the same time. >> stories of a one night stand. >> and what happened at your place? >> we had sex. >> and is that the only time it
until in 2010, they were picked up by two cold case cops. jake papovich and mike mellis. each with determination to apply some heat. >> i called gale up and said, i've got this case now, and it's my intent to be the last detective to have this case. >> papovich and mellis laid out the entire investigation and honed in on day one that saturday morning nici pietz presumably left the contact she shared with dave and headed out to her special aa meeting. to the cold case detectives fresh eyes, a few key pieces of evidence from that morning jumped out. common sense stuff, really, like nici's wedding ring. a photo taken in 2006, showed it in nici's bathroom the jewelery she kept in an overnight. >> wedding rings left on the
and it was on the beach with the waves crashing, and the sunset. it was beautiful. it was absolutely beautiful. >> was your sister happy that day? >> yes. i think she found her prince charming. >> nicole pietz seemed to be on top of the world and stepping confidently into her grown-up life. >> she was pretty excited about getting married. she loved her ring, she loved her bracelet that he got her. she was excited about getting a new condo, and having her own little family. >> january 28th, 2006 was a saturday. after a hectic work week at their different jobs, nikki and dave would chill with a dinner party that night over their friends place. that afternoon, dave called nikki to hash out the details. they drived there separately. >> hey babe, give me a call. and let me know what we're doing, if i need to stop and get food or anything for ellen and jason, and stuff like that.
gayle had remarried and moved to arizona with her new husband, ron. she could tell by the sound of her daughter's voice on the phone that nikki had found the one. >> he was her dream man. >> really? >> he was the man she wanted. she was so in love with him. >> and he apparently with her. evidence to her friends and family by the piece of jewelry she was rarely seen without. >> david got her a little tennis bracelet. >> diamonds on it? >> little tiny diamonds in white gold, i think. >> did she like it? was it a sentimental piece for her? >> she loved it. and she wore it everywhere. >> another piece of jewelry from him would follow, a wedding ring. after dating for two years, nikki and dave married. >> tell me about the wedding. >> it was in hawaii. she looked so beautiful and happy. they both had leis and beautiful flowers in her hair