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those drugs. other than taking them. >> so, what was she doing with them? >> circumstantially, you could find that she was out, given these drugs away, giving them a way to old friends of hers, coming into contact with drug users and dealers pretty tough people, pretty dangerous. >> the story may never be known argued the defense, but they said it was clear that nici had not with they had something to hide. >> something went terribly, terribly wrong and she died as a result. it wasn't david, but it was somebody else. >> now it would be up to a jury to decide. a husband who would never loved his wife, lost it on one very bad night, or a woman with an addiction she never beat. some final hour, donie narcotic painkillers to the wrong person. at the courthouse, the jury retired to deliberate. kim adams waited at home for news. >> we made a promise to myself
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.
pieces of the prosecutions now completed puzzle. >> we needed one more thing to put us over the top, just one more thing. and that call, that put it over. >> but the jury had yet to hear from the defense, which wasn't about to let such a circumstantial argument go unanswered. >> coming up, who really had something to hide? was it to the accused killer, or nici? certainly had a lot of pills around. >> jenner 12th, she got 56. on january 19th she got 56. on january 26th she got 56. >> when dateline continues. shingles doesn't care. i go to spin classes with my coworkers. good for you, shingles doesn't care. because no matter how healthy you feel, your risk of shingles sharply increases after age 50. but shingrix protects. proven over 90% effective, shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. an increased risk of guillain-barré syndrome was observed after getting shingrix.
dream would turn into a nightmare. >> two prosecutors would handle the case, kristen richardson and her fellow prosecuting attorney, carl carlstrom. they promised the jury pieces of a puzzle, pieces they hoped would ultimately reveal a resentful, hateful husband who is frustrations had boiled over. >> i think it was actually i hate this phrase but it really was a crime of passion. >> at the core of the prosecutor's case, david was a sexist philanderer who viewed his goody two shoes wife as a weight around his neck. he put his hands around hers, after an argument in their condo to free himself of the burden. david, they said, then turned to nici's problem with pills as cover. >> why kill her? >> you know, it wasn't a planned murder. if it was what he planned to do, he could divorce or. this was not a plan. this was something that erupted one night, a fit of rage.
orange sector when it was being placed? >> that is correct. >> it became clear that call was placed from the 24 hour fitness gym where david pietz was working there. >> hardly conclusive evidence on its own, but tech of found something else on the job security video. it made that call a jaw drop. or just about the same time the call was made from nici's cell phone, david could be seen stepping away from his work area out of the camera's site. that was david, prosecutors say, heading off to use nici's phone to call the gym receptionist. >> he went back and placed that call and came back out front as if nothing was happening. he had to convince the police she had left the house that morning, because if she hadn't left the house he was the killer. >> that video, that cell phone color presented as the final
>> 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,
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
welcome back to dateline. in the murder case of nici pietz, prosecutors laid out facts they believed pointed to her husband, david, as the killer. ian initially told investigators he didn't know where the diamond bracelet she always wore was, but they lady later learned he had at the whole time. david was seen on video surveillance footage allegedly using nici's cell phone. according to the prosecution, he was trying to make it look as if she was still alive after he had reported her missing. but now, it was the defenses turn to convince the jury. here with the conclusion of secrets in seattle is dennis murphy. >> rows of nickel pietz's family and friends listen to the prosecution described the accused as oversexed, run around lives of a husband. a guy who struggled his inconvenient wife and left 30 wrought in a scrum eat box. >> we knew how she died, we know how he lied. >> each day, david pietz remain emotion listen in court and
that important meeting, never received her award. and now, friends and family desperately tried reaching her by phone. >> hi, nici, this is rod calling. we don't know what is going on. >> their pleas relegated to the silence of voicemail. the anxiety level went off the chart. >> no matter what happened, nici, even if it was a relapse, we want you to know that we love you. >> had nici in fact fallen back into addiction? >> i started hoping that, because then she would have been alive. >> the alternative that nici maybe did somewhere was too much to bear. a bulletin went out, be on the lookout for a five foot three woman with a tattoo on her back. friends knew she'd likely be wearing a cross necklace and a diamond tennis bracelet. nine days later, king county detective kathleen decker was dispatched an area near seattle 's seatac airport south of the city. >> the call came in from my