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Diane newton, the feeling was mutual. >> was he over all the time? >> yes. yeah, he practically lived at our house. >> reporter: when denise went off to college in minnesota, nathan, a year younger, soon followed. to no one's surprise, the couple got engaged a year later. diane knew it was coming. >> i wasn't surprised when he was the first one that she dated and they ended up getting married. >> reporter: that was in july 1995. >> i was always very happy being a wife and a mother, so i was happy for her that she had found someone to love and to share her life with. >> right before we did our ...

That would rob this family of everything. >> there would be no more cards, candy 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. >> what police do find is terrifying. >> everything stopped. i just kept looking at my daughter. my world had just been shattered and i had to tell her at some point. when "dateline" continues. say hello to neuriva, a new brain supplement with clinically proven ingredients that fuel five indicators of brain performance. neuriva.

I -- the garage door is open, there's glass from the back door where somebody broke in. i've not gone in the house yet. >> reporter: nathan waited with his daughter at the neighbor's house, repeatedly calling family members to see if anyone had heard from denise. then the police arrived. detectives jason leigh and shawn curry were among the first on the scene. >> by the time we got here officers were starting to rope everything off securing the inside of the house. >> reporter: they didn't find an intruder, instead they found something far worse. >> while searching the house, they discovered a...

Were in the living room, alone together. and it was just complete silence. it felt a little awkward, but i could just see him just staring into space almost. >> reporter: in the meantime, denise's parents made the difficult choice to return to their home, the scene of the crime. and a few days later, they asked nathan and the kids to come over to be with family. >> how was he with you the first time you saw him after denise was killed? >> he seemed very emotional. he originally said that he didn't wanna come back in the house, that the kids were afraid to come in. >> reporter: it was a lot to ...

But he couldn't shake a higher calling. for several years he had dreamed of becoming a baptist missionary. in 1998 he finally seized the opportunity when another young couple at their church began their own missionary work in lithuania. >> and so i approached the fella and said, "what would you think about denise and i coming and helping you guys?" he said, "that'd be great." >> they moved in with us for six months, sold all their possessions, tried to save up money. >> we didn't know any lithuanian at the time, we didn't know the language. we were studying it, trying our best, but it was defi...