he was very agitated. i knew immediately something was wrong with him. neighbors were anxious, and detectives were puzzled. denise s neighborhood was normally very quiet. not the type of place you d expect a burglary, even if she had accidentally stumbled upon an intruder, how had it turned so vicious so quickly? why would somebody want to turn it to this particular house? it s not typical as far as a burglary that results in a murder. maybe it wasn t a burglary at all. coming up, if it wasn t a burglary, what was it? was nathan s life also in danger? nathan s parents told me nathan and three children have been moved to a safe house just to protect them. when dateline continues.
testify. at the last-minute, he chose not to. you understand that that is not something that will be ? why did you decide not to take the stand during the trial? i had chosen to testify. prior to trial. but as the state continue to take things out of context, and continue to throw as much much as they could on the wall, hoping that some of it would stick. they had moved beyond what i felt where the facts of the case. i was not going to give them anymore fuel or any more fodder to use. or to misconstrue. but, he wanted to set the record straight with us. insisting that he is innocent. he also wanted to say that the police never looked past him to catch the real intruder in what was a real burglary. the police believe that it was staged. that it just looked to perfect
the way that everything was placed. and what was taken. things were stolen. insurance claims verify that they were stolen, and paid the claim on those items. it was a burglary. did it look like a normal burglary? i m not sure what a normal burglary looks like. but what really upset nathan was how the state depicted his relationship with ina. someone that he had known since she was a little girl. someone he had mentored. you can see how it would look bad, go to the spa, getting waxing treatments. the text messages that went back and forth. it seems like there was something going on. i know had no drivers license at the time. she had no way of getting around. i was a translator. i took her four waxing treatments. it s not as if i m in their, watching and whatever else. so, you check the records, the waxing treatment was the same day that i m getting a haircut.
in a murder case you do not have the victim. you never get to hear the victims story. that person is dead. and here we had a note that she had written, spelling the whole thing out. the highly personal, very painful note was obviously aimed at nathan. police investigator read the note in court. i have tried to please you for 17 years and never succeeded. i have never been good enough, never done enough. i know that you want me dead. i am not stupid. denise seemed to conserve firm that she believed her husband was having an affair. while she did not name aina she mentioned a much younger women. you want to humiliate me with running around with a 20 year old, fine. i will not grovel. if i have not pleased to in 17 years, nothing i do now will please you. how long are you going to do this to me? oh yeah, until i break. that is what you said isn t it? well, happy waiting. it was very devastating. i was shocked that it had gone
life with three young kids was busy, hectic, normal. but then came valentine s day, 2013. when nathan pulled into their driveway mid afternoon and discovered something terribly wrong. i could see that the windowpane was broken. glass was on the ground. at that point, i began to put things together that someone had broken into the home. and at that point i called the police, called 9-1-1. 9-1-1. where is the emergency? ah, we ve got a break. in. a daring burglary in the middle of the day. that would rob this family of everything. coming up there would be no more cards, candies or flowers this valentine s day. no one can find denise. she hadn t answered her phone calls. she hadn t answered her text messages. and what police find is terrifying. everything stopped. i just kept looking at my daughter. my world had just been shattered. and i have to tell her at some