aerospace, nick was tougher than an irs audit and every bit as unforgiving. but at the same time, he wasn t devious or sneaky. nick morelos would stab you in the front. he didn t know how to approach people and just have a conversation about, hey, maybe you should do it this way rather than this way. it was, you re doing it wrong. start doing it right. and if you don t do it this way, go home. john, a lieutenant colonel in the army, worked at the same air park as nick. what would people say about him? he was he was tough. he was, excuse the language, a hard ass. very vocal, intimidating to some. there was one area where nick seemed quite popular with women. and conveniently marana aerospace employed some. do you have any idea how many women at marana he dated, how many of his co-workers? he only admitted to me two. there was a lot of rumors, but he told me of two.
the master bedroom door was ajar. i immediately saw a bloody foot of nick morelos. i opened the door and saw his naked body laying there riddled with bullets. a lot of people will tell you that when their time comes, they want to die at home. very few will say they want to go the way nick morelos did, in his bedroom, alone with his killer, in a hail of bullets. nick had been shot eight times, including once in the middle of his forehead. they shot through his window and assassinated him. then came in through the window and shot him some more? yes, until he was finally dead. detective garcia believed the killer climbed onto the roof outside nick s bedroom. that s where she found blood on broken panes of glass and on the stucco. so maybe the killer cut him or herself coming in through that window? yes. there was blood throughout
i know he was cheating on me with claudia. when he got caught with her, um, and then he kicked me out and then moved her in. that s the kind of speed that s going to make people feel bruised and angry. yes. and maybe vengeful? yes. he kept denying it. so i drove by his house, and i took a picture of her truck parked outside and confronted him with it. was the morelos family right? was she the woman they saw poking around nick s house just after the murder? some of the family identifies you as being the one that was at the house. it wasn t me. why are they saying it was you? i have no idea. i haven t been to his house in almost a year. it turned out she was telling the truth. detective garcia ran the mystery woman s license plate and found it belonged to a mother who was looking for her missing son, not jessica. do you think that this should have happened to nick? no, this shouldn t happen to anybody. nobody deserves that. jessica told detectives she
you the stories of murder victims who lit up the room or who didn t have an enemy in the world. well, not so much with nick morelos. he definitely knew how to light up a room, but depending on which room it was, there might have been people in it who actively wished him ill. that was true in his personal life, and it was true here at work. the question for investigators, which side of nick s life had caught up with him? detective garcia quickly began to find out how much nick s leatherneck exterior had rubbed people the wrong way. jeff johnson was h. r. director at marana aerospace. i did have some exit interviews that people complained of how nick talked to them. except the way nick talked to them was kind of what nick was being paid for. correct. which was, let s go. get the job done and get it done on time and on budget. he was brought in to sort of
morelos was murdered, rookie detective jennifer garcia took a deep dive into his complicated personal life. there she found a web of scorned lovers and wondered if one of them wanted him dead. meanwhile as nick s loved ones grieved, the woman who stole his heart was also feeling another emotion. here again is josh mankiewicz with stone-cold. in the days after nick s murder, his fiancee, kristy, was living in fear. jumped at every sound. i my family was scared for me. did he ever express any indication that some relationship that he had before was something that he was concerned about now in terms of his safety or your safety? no, and nick was my protector above all else. so i don t know that he would have said anything to me, not