you think that that sort of thing happens to that other people. it s the most frightening thing in the world. a young wife. she always saw the good in people. she had a way to make you smile. missing for nine days. it s so wrong, and nicole is somewhere where she shouldn t be. it was hard enough when they didn t know, much worse when they did. it came over the tv a body had been found. i will never forget that as long as i live. this could go down any number of paths. and it did. had her troubled past finally caught up with her? i saw the pill bottle and i freaked out. or was it something much darker? he told me he would put it in her red bull. how did she change? she became more sexual with people. who wanted her dead? he thought he was somewhat of a player. did it make him a killer? welcome to dateline. nikki pietz was a well liked fitness executive married to the man of her dream, then one night, she was supposed to meet her husb
sergeant requesting that i respond to this location regarding a woman s body. she had been found by a passerby in the blackberry bushes. this is kind of off the grid right here. yes, it is. a woman s body, discovered in a nothing patch of scrub at the end of the runway, near an all but abandoned trail. what did you notice about the body? first thing i notice, of course, was that she was in fact nude. the second thing i noticed was that her arms were gently crossed on her chest. not just a body abandoned? correct, she had not been discarded like garbage. but she had been gently placed into and under the vines. the detective had a special set of skills that she called on now. she had been trained in tracking, reading trails, disturbed vegetation, just like the scouts in the old west. the pattern of broken branches and tamped tamped down leaves and soil, told her that the body had laid down here about a week. is there anything that suggested to you why this woman would have
what did you notice about the body? first thing i noticed was she was nude. the second thing i noticed, her arms were gently across her chest. not just a body abandoned. correct. she had not been discarded like garbage, but had been placed into and under the vines. the detective had a special set of skills she called on now. she had been trained in tracking, reading trails, disturbed vegetation, just like the scouts in the old west. the pattern of broken branches and tamped-down leaves and soil told her that the body had lain out here about a week. is there anything that suggested to you why this woman would have been abandoned here? no. and that was part of the complexity of this investigation. we had all sorts of avenues that we needed to investigate. we had the transient population that may have been frequenting the trailer park. we had a mental health facility that was very close by, within walking distance. but detective decker did have a strong hunch about who thi
chest. not just a body abandoned. correct. she had not been discarded like garbage, but she had been gently placed into and under the vines. the detective had a special set of skills she called on now. she had been trained in tracking, reading trails, disturbed vegetation, just like the scouts in the old west. the pattern of broken branches and tamped-down leaves and soil told her that the body had lain out here about a week. is there anything that suggested to you why this woman would have been abandoned here? no. and that was part of the complexity of this investigation. we had all sorts of avenues that we needed to investigate. we had the transient population that may have been frequenting the trailer park. we had a mental health facility that was very close by, within walking distance. but detective decker did have a strong hunch about who this victim was. the cross necklace, the tattoo. it all checked out as that local woman, nicole pietz, who had been missing for a we
end of the runway near an all but abandoned trailer park. what did you notice about the body? first thing i noticed, of course, was that she was nude. the second thing i noticed, her arms were gently across her chest. not just a body abandoned. correct. she had not been discarded like garbage, but had been placed into and under the vines. the detective had a special set of skills she called on now. she had been trained in tracking, reading trails, disturbed vegetation, just like the scouts in the old west. the pattern of broken branches and tamped-down leaves and soil told her that the body had lain out here about a week. is there anything that suggested to you why this woman would have been abandoned here? no. and that was part of the complexity of this investigation. we had all sorts of avenues that we needed to investigate. we had the transient population that may have been frequenting the trailer park. we had a mental health facility that was very close by, within walki