Shouldnt be. It was hard enough when they didnt know. Much worse when they did. It came over the tv a body had been found. Ill 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 . 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. Does it make him a killer . Secrets in seattle. Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig melvin. She was a vivacious young woman, a fitness executive, adored by friends and married to the man of her dreams. But when she disappeared, investigators wondered was nickys charmed life as perfect as it seemed . They soon discovered a dark secret iniki nikkis past but t truth would hide in plain sight. Heres dennis murphy. Seattle was long after a week of relentless rain, a woman was found in the tangle of blackberries, a naked body, small tattoo on the back, necklace and signs of strange gulation. The detective sent to a patch of trees mere the seattles runways guessed it was her. They would soon be proved correct. Nine days to find her. The answer, where, another seven years still ahead to answer the question of all homicides, who and why . But we have to go back, before the crime scene photos and the medical examiners findings before she became those chilly words, the victim, to find the dearly loved person, nicky, wife and daughter, sister and friend see. She seemed to be able to uplift people in ways none of us knew how to do. She had a way to make you smile. She had way to let you know everything was going be okay. Gayle was her mother. Nicky was shine. When she walked in a room, the room lit up. She raised her and her sister at the lake. Was she an annoying kid sister or your friend . She was a very annoying kid sister. Mom insisted on dressing us alike. In high school, maya says she was a friend to everyone. She never sat. She would walk around and visit with people. She always saw the good in people. She didnt see the bad in people. After graduation, nicky brought that winning spirit into the workplace eventually landing a plum position in the head offices of valley total fitness. Kimberly thomas was on her team. Nicky was great. She cared about how your day was, cared about how you were feeling, cared about your birthday. Valleys is where nicky mitt another employee, david, six feet tall, four years younger and exuded a smooth confidence. His coworkers recalled he seemed to be going places. A very nice man, easy to talk to and laugh a lot, a very compassionate person. He was very confident. Spoke well, he had a presence that demanded attention. He was set on selling more gym memberships than anyone else and he wouldnt have denied what everyone saw in him. He was ambitious with his eyes on bigger management prizes. It didnt matter what his pitch was, he had you convinced whatever it was, you had to have it. So there was dave hustling on the sales floor and there was nicky, the buttoned up blonde from corporate and the boss favorite hire was acknowledged. Before long, nicky and dave became an item. She definitely would get a little bit of bounce in her step when she got an incoming message from dave. Out of everybody, he chose her. Pretty soon, nicky and dave moved in together and gayle had remarried. She could tell from her daughters voice on the phone nicky had found the one. He was her dream man. Really. He was the man she wanted, she was so in love with him. And he apparently with her. Evidenced to her friends and family by the piece of jewelry she was rarely seen without. David sent her a real tennis bracelet. Diamonds on it . Little peony diamonds and white gold. Was it sentimental . She loved it. She wore it everywhere. Another piece of jewelry from him would follow, a wedding ring. After dating for two years, nicky and dave married. Tell me about the wedding. Hawaii was the place. She looked so beautiful and happy. They both had leis and beautiful flowers in her hair and waves and beach crashing in the sunset. It was beautiful. Was your sister a happy young woman that day . Yes. I think she found her prince charming. Nicole seems to be on top of the world and stepping confidently into her grownup life. She seemed confident getting married. She loved her ring and bracelet and excited about getting her new condo and having her own little family. January 28th, 2006 was a saturday. After a hectic work week at their different jobs, nicky and dave would chill with a dinner party that night over at their friends place. That afternoon, dave called nicky to hash out the details. They would drive there separately. Hey, babe, give me a squall, i need to know whether i need to get food for ellen and jason. Stuff like that. I love you, bye. But when he showed up at their apartment that evening, nicky wasnt there. One hour, two hours, still no nicky. Daves wife of almost four years was gone into the night, into the rain. What on earth had happened to nicky . Turns out, nicky had a troubled past. Did those troubles finally catch up with her or was it Something Else . Coming up. Shes not somebody who wouldnt come home. Shes somebody if shes 10 minutes late she calls you. You think something was wrong, something more was wrong . Yes. Nicky wouldnt have gone away without calling and telling me. When secrets in seattle continues. Ets in seattle continues. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. Flonase. So, recently my sons band was signed by a record label. A record deal . Unbelievable. Whenever were about to get on a stage for a huge audience, i always give my dad, like, a facetime kinda moment. You see the crowd, you see the emotion. 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Soon, worry turned to panic as friends and family began to frantic search, many haunted by the memory of troubles that almost took nicky from them before. Here again is dennis murphy. Nicole pietz, a woman just shy of her 33rd birthday, reported missing by her husband. We just want to know if shes safe. Reporter david pietz told reporters how he waited for her at a saturday Night Dinner Party and she was a no show. I hadnt been able to contact her. David appealed for people to keep an eye out for her. Her mother was at his side. Shes not somebody not to come home. If shes 10 minutes late she calls you. Did you think something was wrong from the beginning . Yes. Because nicky wouldnt have gone away without calling and telling me. If nicky could have called somebody she would have called gayle. Nicoles mother and stepfather had reason to be worried. They along with other family and friends remembered when they had almost lost her years before. She had been in her teens and suffering from abdominal problems from the onset of puberty and left her in agonizing pain and heavily medicated. She had painful cramps and prescribed lots of medicine for them. By the time she was 21 she had had three surgeries and pain pills thrown at her right and left. At some point, it seemed all those pills took away not only the pain but the person, zombiefied. How cass she different . Spacey. Couldnt keep wake up the conversation. I felt like i had lost her. She wasnt really there. Before nicky could crawl out of her hole she would need to check into a local rehab center to treat her addiction. When she finally got clean i felt like i had my sister back. Thats when she started working at the bali gym office. Her coworkers thought she was in terrific emotional shape. The nicky i knew wasnt in her dark day, on top of her game. Friends like michelle knew she took her sobriety a day at a time and was terrified of making even one little slip and losing it all. She would have a headache and trying to get the girl to taken an advil you would think you were trying to inject her with heroin. Her alcoholic anonymous meetings an hour from her home were the rock for her. She was supposed to attend a special meeting, a celebration of eight years of sobriety. Every year was your birthday. It was her eighth birthday. A clean and sober woman. She was so proud of it. Everyone was proud of her. Hi, nick, its mom. I dont know where you are, darling. Reporter nicky never showed up to that important meeting and never received that award. Friends and family desperately tried to reach her by phone. Nicky, this is rod calling. We dont know whats going on. Reporter their pleas went to silence invoice mail and concern went off the chart. We want you to know we love you. Had nicky in fact fallen back into addiction. Started hoping that because then she would have been alive. The alternative nicky may be dead was too much to bear. A bulletin lookout for a 53 woman with a toot too on her back. Friends knew she was likely wearing a cross necklace and diamond tennis bracelet. Nine days later, seattle detective was dispatched south of the city. The call came in from my sergeant requesting i respond to this location regarding a womans body found by a passerby in the blackberry bushes. This is kind of off the grid, isnt it . Yes, it is. A womans body found in a patch of scrub at the end of a runway near an abandoned trailer park. What did you notice . She was nude and arms crossed over her chest. Not just dumped here . Yes. The detective had a special set of skills she called on now. She had been trained in tracking and reading disturbed vegetation like the old west. The pattern of broken branches and tamped down leaves and soil told her 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. That was part of the complexity of this investigation. We had avenues to investigate. Transient population may have targeted the trailer park and a Health Facility maybe within walking distance. But she had a hunch who this victim was, cross necklace and tattoo, it checked out as that local woman, nicole pietz missing a week. The diamond tennis bracelet she always wore was on her wrist. But they were confident enough to pay a visit to her husband, david pietz. And the information he would share with detectives when she was last seen and what she left behind would be critical to the case. Coming up. It was something that was missing that turned out to be even more important and puzzling. A Police Officer spotted nicole pietz car overnight. There was no indication anyone else was behind the wheel in nicoles car. When secrets in seattle continues. Rets in seattle continues. 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We just knew it had to be her. Had to be your nicky. Nicole pietz strangled to death, her nude body left for a week beneath blackberry brushes by the airport. Her killer unknown, still missing. Her familys deep sorrow now hardened into resolve to get justice for her. Find out who did it and punish him. Punish him. Captain Jessie Anderson of the King County Sheriffs Office was the lead detective assigned to the murder case. He set out to learn more about the victim paying a visit to the condo of david pietz of the condo where they shared. How long have you been married . Almost four years. He told them she struggled with chemical dependency in the past and most disturbing she started taking pills. She hurt her back right before thanksgiving and slipped a disc. Because of a severe painful back injury, nicky reluctantly agreed let her doctor put her on a carefully medication for percocet, potentially addictive na narcotic drug. She had me give her the pills at the beginning. They delved into nickys last known movements. Whens the last time you saw her . Friday night, when i got home from work. David pietz told detectives nicky was sleeping when he arrived home late friday night and by the morning she was already gone off to her special aa celebration, he assumed. I figured thats where she must be when i woke un. When she didnt show up to the dinner party that night he returned to their condo to look for her. He described how her purse, car keys and gray jetta were gone. Something else caught his eye and it would turn out to be a big clue for detectives. Nickys percocet was sitting on the counter. Bottle was empty. The 56 pill prescription filled just two days before, gone. I freaked out. I was scared she relapsed. Thats a lot of pills. Odd or something. As detectives wrapped up the interview with the husband, a narrative was starting to come together about the victim, a former addict possibly readiktsd. How does that change the complexion of the investigation early on, the woman whose body was found was a recovering addict and maybe fell off the wagon. It makes it more complex because we have to consider the possibility she met the wrong person at the wrong time and somehow led to her demise or maybe to her aa affiliation she was very much into and readily attended those meetings. Doors are opening to possibilities rather than closing. Yes. Some old detective work was next tracking down records, credit card statements, anything to pinpoint where nicky may have headed after leaving the condo saturday morning. Only one more blip on nickys timeline surfaced, a single call from her phone saturday to the gyms front desk where dave pietz was working. We were considering whoever killed her may have had her phone and still using it. The cops began checking pawn shop records in case someone tried to hawk it. Nothing. A police car spotted nicole pietzs car overnight. The last part of the puzzle turned up two weeks after she disappeared. Her car, a gray jetta, was found abandoned in seattles university district. Frisk hungry for clues crawled through the car. They noticed the drivers seat had been pushed back. Its what they didnt find inside it that intrigued investigators most. What they found in the car was davids dna along with nicoles dna. There was no indication no one else had been behind the wheel in nicoles car. Detectives were now wondering about the husband. Coming up. He was definitely player. Dave would chase women inside the club, outside the club, on top of the club. But did that make him a killer . When secrets in seattle continued. Killer when secrets in seattle continued. Yeah, you just go online, or give them a call anytime. You dont say. Yep. Now what will it take to get 24 7 access to that lemon meringue pie . Pie pies coming thats what it takes, baby. Geico®. Great service from licensed agents, 24 7. 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It was time to take a look at nickys dream husband. Here again is dennis murphy. At the latest gym where david pietz worked coworkers, like troy wagner understood why david pietz looked so rough. He looked very bad. Looked like he hadnt slept and los