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a new 48 Hours investigation is looking into the murder of a woman from Minnesota her name is Heidi ferus and
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she called 911 to report someone breaking into her home in St Paul her husband Nick ferus later told
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investigators that his gun accidentally fired and shot Heidi while he struggled with an intruder but is that what the
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evidence actually indicates Jamie yucas gives us an early look now at her 48 Hours report someone's trying to break
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into my house Heidi fergus's 911 call went dead after a loud noise well I don't know where she went
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there about a minute later her husband Nick Fergus also called 911 some BR okay are you in St Paul sir Sergeant
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Jim Gray of St Paul police department St Paul fire paramedics took Nick out to the ambulance and transported him to
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Region's Hospital ferus was treated for a graze gunshot wound to his leg there was nothing the First Responders could
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do for Heidi Heidi was struck in the back as she was trying to flee towards the kitchen it was a shotgun blast that
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killed her right away the shotgun was laying inside the front door area there's a little foyer ferus told police
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he heard someone fiddling with the front door knob from upstairs he then armed himself with a shotgun Nick says as the
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couple tried to escape out the b back the front door burst open and Nick and the Intruder struggled over the shotgun
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after ferus was treated at the hospital he gave a statement to Sergeant gray at the police station I think he he grabbed
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the barrel let's say the Intruder gets in prosecutor Elizabeth Lawman they have this life and death struggle right in
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this area with nothing Disturbed on the table exactly there was a vase uh some receipts a beer bottle and none of that
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was knocked over over his story didn't make a lot of sense to me but Brandon oconor who was housesitting next door to
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the fuses says he heard shouting coming from the fcus home really all I heard was kind of this agonizing yell
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of you shot her you shot me uh please please no something along those lines and then then it was
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done and Jamie you could Jo us now Jamie good morning to you quite a report here
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so when the police started to investigate this murder what did they learn well what they learned when they
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went to the house is that they couldn't find any evidence of an intruder at the home which was Central to Nick fergus's
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Story uh one part of that interview that you saw with Sergeant gray he Nick ferus
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told investigators that they were actually set to move out of their house the day after Heidi was killed saying
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the bank had foreclosed on the property but when investigators then went back to
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the home to take a look at things didn't see any evidence of an intruder they also didn't see any evidence of a move
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there were no boxes nothing had been packed up there was actually even food in the fridge Jamie so a new
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investigator took over the case in 2019 what more did she discover so it's really interesting a lot of times in
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these cases you know a piece of DNA evidence comes out or a witness comes forward none of that happened in this
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case Sergeant cypes was uh got the case took 11 years for Nick to be charged but
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she actually dug into Financial records uh those banking records and found some new little nuggets of information that
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she was able to take to the DA where they decided after 11 years more than a decade to charge Nick Fus wow wow Jamie
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youus Jamie thank you very much you can see Jam's report death at the front door
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who shot Heidi ferus tomorrow night at 109 Central right here on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus