nobody should have to take a class or fill out a medical form on public wifi with a screen the size of your hand. home internet shouldn t be a luxury. everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let s go. the digital age is waiting. just look around. this digital age we re living in, it s pretty unbelievable. problem is, not everyone s fully living in it. nobody should have to take a class or fill out a medical form on public wifi with a screen the size of your hand. home internet shouldn t be a luxury. everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let s go. i m craig melvin. the digital age is waiting. i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. he was my super man. he was always my protector. this is the man that i m supposed to marry. this was just not possible. he is found him on the floor, the fiance that was the love of her life. i zeroed in on him and he was just laying there. it is a stone cold assassination. nick, the marin
it is a stone cold assassination. nick, the marine, a tough vet turned target. someone hated him so much they shot through his window. they came in and shot him some more. angry colleagues at work. people complained about how he spoke to them. he was like let s go, get the job done. angry exes, too. he dated a number of women. who was the killer? someone full of hatred. we wanted answers. there needs to be justice. people are no good at getting away with murder. hello and welcome to dateline. a woman found nick gunned down in his own home. investigators would wade through a deep pool of suspects before a boost from nick s brother helped reveal the true killer. here is josh mankiewicz. with stone cold. put people in a work space together and things can develop. friendships, rivalries, and love. usually it is not a problem. in this case, it was deadly. 9-1-1 what is your emergency? he is laying there with a bullet hole in his head.
assassination. nick, the marine, a tough vet-turned-target. somebody hated nick so much that they shot through his window. then came in through the window and shot him some more. yes. angry colleagues at work. people complained of how nick talked to them. which was, let s go. get the job done. and some angry exes too. i know he was cheating on me. he s dated a number of women. maybe he made the wrong one angry? that s what we thought. bullet casings, carpet fibers, bloody clothes. who was the killer? it s somebody full of hatred. we wanted answers. there needs to be justice. people are no good at getting away with murder. hello and welcome to dateline. kristy said she waited 40 years for nick morelos to come into her life. the happy couple were engaged to be married when suddenly her world crumbled. she found nick gunned down in his own home. detectives went through a pool of suspects, from spurned lovers to office enemies before a b
smokey was found in the backyard. did james put him there, and was he able to pacify the dog based on help jessica provided? we wanted to ask jessica about all of that. she declined to be interviewed. if she committed a murder or played a part in committing a murder, she s getting away with it. we cannot find any evidence. or yeah. she s not guilty? correct. as for serena and james and their covenant marriage, it s over now. they divorced in 2019. but serena still worries about what effect james might still have on her and her children s lives. you ever going to be free of this guy? when god hits his off switch. james lapan will most likely be in prison when that happens. he was sentenced to life. he s filed an appeal. kristy, who says she waited 40 years to meet nick, now faces the rest of her life without him. he ll always be my superman. i ll always love him. that will that doesn t change. and even in the midst of mourning his brother, john morelos takes so
texts from the evening of the murder that are really pretty disturbing. reporter: at 6:36 p. m., james lapan sent this text to jessica. pitbull. to which jessica replied, his dog. his name is smokey. and then james instructed jessica to delete all their texts. why are you talking about nick s pit bull the night he s murdered? jessica testified she and james had talked about her getting a dog like smokey for her daughter. that said, investigators still wonder if jessica was feeding james information about nick. remember, after the murder, smokey was found in the backyard. did james put him there, and was he able to pacify the dog based on help jessica provided? we wanted to ask jessica about all of that.