wanting to worry me. but perhaps there had been reason to be worried. detective garcia now spent some time charting the romantic geometry of nick s love life pre-kristy. it all comes back to their employment. they all worked at the same place, marana aerospace. nick had been dating jessica, very quickly began to date claudia. bob welsh, nick s friend and a client of marana aerospace, remembers how jessica reacted to the breakup. whenever nick was in the same room, there was no smiles out of her. i could tell it was not a not a good atmosphere between the two. nick ever say why they broke up? no. no, and i it s none of my business. reporter: it was detective garcia s business. she eventually interviewed jessica on tape.
through nick s window. jeff johnson called me and said, hey, you re not going to believe it, but this guy that i ve had concerns about and who had filed a grievance against nick has bandages on his left arm. what s his name? james lapan. james lapan, one of nick s co-workers police had already spoken with. it s just we don t we never got along. jeff johnson said just 11 days before the murder, lapan had come to him with a complaint about nick and with it, a warning. he said that if i don t handle it, he has his own way of handling things and just bolted right out of my office. you knew the name james lapan. i did. nick had talked about him as somebody he d had problems with. yes. but not being afraid of. no. detective garcia now interviewed lapan again at marana aerospace. he told her he spent the sunday before the murder with his family and said he and his wife went to bed
threatened to kill him. an ex-girlfriend slipped into his house, and nick woke up to find her watching him and a new girlfriend while they slept. and then there were nick s romantic entanglements at work. we did not have a fraternization policy. and nick, i think, took advantage of that. i think so, from what i heard. anytime i questioned nick on it, he would deny it to me, for good reason, i m sure. because you were the h. r. director, i m thinking that might be the reason. correct. long before nick met kristy, he was involved in a relationship that now caught detective garcia s attention. he was a really, really, really hard worker. claudia banks worked in administration at marana aerospace. she and nick dated for six months. he was awesome. he really was. claudia told detective garcia she d had a good relationship with nick. however, that came at the expense of someone else, her ex-boyfriend, justin skinner. claudia moved
eight months continuous protection against fleas and ticks. it s effective and vet recommended. seresto. learn more at seresto.com. here s candice. who works from home, and then works from home. but she can handle pickup, even when her bladder makes a little drop-off. because candice has poise, poise under pressure and poise in her pants. it takes poise. pima county sheriff s detective jennifer garcia was suspicious of nick s ex s ex, justin skinner. he seemed to have both opportunity and motive to kill nick. so when justin didn t want to give a
all of seven months. this was a call she d prepared for ever since she was a little girl and saw her grandfather in uniform. it was just something that i ve always wanted to do, you know, sort of my dream job. and now here she was, lead detective in the biggest murder investigation in tucson. she began by methodically walking through the scene, nick s house, starting in the garage. immediately i noticed a bucket full of water and some carpet fibers, which at the time i thought was odd. inside the cabinet under the kitchen sink was open. in the living room, cleaning products left out. and in the backyard was a large pit bull. presumably whoever lived there had let the dog out? possibly, yes. or the killer had. yes. as detective garcia went up the stairs, she saw bullet holes in the wall. at the top,