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foreign was afraid for her life I mean I was constantly afraid for her life I messaged her every morning to see if she
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was still alive [Music] my phone rang and it was a little after two in the morning
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and it's Nikki you sounded so scared [Music] better than anybody else in this world
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knew how dangerous he was at that moment what's his name she had been asking him sort of
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throughout the night you know just let us leave just let me leave with the kids I'm not going anywhere I'm not leaving
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pulled a gun out of the couch and said he would kill her I need him and when she did that the gun fell to the floor
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picked it up and you said you wouldn't do it Nick you didn't attempt to evade the
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police and didn't hide the fact that she shot him self [Music] [Music] Nikki is the most gentle loving friend we've ever
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had everything she does is for her kids in hindsight it's so easy to connect the dots
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[Music] there were so many instances where I would notice a bruise she attributed to playing with the kids
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in some kind of accident we had medical documents demonstrating physical injuries
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there were many people who saw her with black eyes with bruises injuries on her face or on her neck I had bite marks on
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her back burn marks well if that's true as a prosecutor it's my obligation to investigate it
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anyone who knew Chris was there to support him he was my gymnastics coach he always
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made us feel safe my son never hurt anybody he lived for Nikki he lived for those
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kids he was a gentle soul who was full of life and she took it she was a very good actress to take a
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few deep breaths okay we know that it's not popular to say that a woman who's claiming domestic
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violence is lying it's not popular to say that she was self-inflicting injuries you believe the people who were
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supporting Nikki adamando were manipulated by her I don't believe Chris ever abused her
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she intentionally planned and murdered him when he was sleeping foreign [Music] [Music]
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at 2 A.M on September 28 2017 police officer Richard Sicily encountered a car stopped at a red light the light turned
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green and when the car didn't move officer Cecily says he tooted an air horn to get the driver's attention
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what happened next stunned him okay just take a few deep breaths an agitated young mother named Nicole
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ottomando in stocking feet told him something had gone terribly wrong at home couch
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[Music] she said she'd been abused had tried to leave and her boyfriend had a gun so I
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picked it up and he said he wouldn't do it police officer Cecilia I think is in shock that this is unfolding before him
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Putnam County chief assistant district attorney Hannah Krause would soon be investigating Nikki's story he doesn't
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know if there's an ambulance that's necessary there are two children in the car Nikki had called a friend seen here
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on the police dash cam video the friend Elizabeth Clifton pulls up and officers ask her to wait in a nearby parking lot
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I watched Police emergency vehicles going buddy that the ambulance went back the other
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way and it didn't have its lights on so I was afraid I was afraid of what had happened
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the officers went to Nikki's apartment and found her partner Chris Grover who appeared to be sleeping on the couch
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dead with a single gunshot to the Head they found the shower running and a broken laptop in the bathtub
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they brought Nikki to the police station where she was interrogated by detectives
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and Elizabeth learned Chris was dead I never in a million years had a fear that he would die I was
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afraid she would die every day not long afterward Gail Grover got a heartbreaking visit from the sheriff
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he told us that Chris had passed and my first question was are Nikki and the kids okay
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that right there tells you we had no clue no clue says Gail that anything was amiss in her son's life she describes
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Chris as kind and athletic he had a black belt in Taekwondo and was head gymnastics coach at Mr Todd's Gym
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in Poughkeepsie Beth Weyland coached with him there he was just always so happy and full of
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energy I mean he was like a rocket running around the gym he was a huge kid at heart huge kid and that's where in
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2008 he met a pretty young coach named Nicole adamando he was 21 she was 19. soon they began dating
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in 2012 they moved in together and announced Nikki was expecting their first child son Ben
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was he excited about being absolutely ecstatic he was a proud papa Chris a talented amateur videographer
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made this video for Nikki which he called becoming mom two years later daughter Faye came along
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those kids were everything to him and to Nikki too Gail says Nikki was an excellent mom
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Elizabeth Clifton taught a mommy and me music class Nikki attended with Ben one time she came to class with what
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looked to me like a black eye she covered herself completely and even in the summer she'd be wearing long sleeves
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long pants have a scarf covering around her neck Nikki's childhood friends Laura mokadanu
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and Rachel Hawks also noticed injuries but didn't press her I would notice a bruise you know
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she would often say you know oh I was playing with Ben and I got hit by his guitar you know it was always something
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that to me at the time seemed very it was plausible plausible I didn't think twice about it
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then one day a mom from the gym where Chris coached heard about Nikki's injuries she'd seen Chris lose his
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temper in the past with young gymnasts in his class concerned she made an anonymous report to Child Protective
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Services or CPS as required by law CPS visited Nikki and Chris's apartment before long Chris was
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dead and Nikki was trying to explain why chased me and then he looked up for a second and I
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think she thought she got them to believe that she had acted out in self-defense as opposed to intentionally
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killed Chris Grover it's like I think obviously self-century I think she thought she was going
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home but Nikki did not go home that night instead she was charged with second-degree murder and Chris's death
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what did you think when they charged Nikki with murder I was heartbroken [Music]
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a few weeks after Chris Grover's death friends family and former students like Michaela Hughes he always said let's go
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kid gathered to release balloons in his honor [Applause] it felt really nice to know that like I
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wasn't alone supporters of Nikki adamando were reeling too her arrest for Chris's murder prompted
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an outcry from friends family and advocates for victims of domestic violence for choosing to defend herself and
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survive Nikki may spend the next 20 years to life in prison Elizabeth Clifton began organizing rallies and
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fundraisers and also reliving the years of Terror she says she went through with Nikki
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beginning in April of 2016 when she decided to confront Nikki about her injuries
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and I said to her that I'm really scared for you and I I'm worried that you're not safe at home
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Elizabeth says Nikki reluctantly admitted her partner Chris was abusing her it wasn't like floodgates I would
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say a slight trickle of acknowledging that yes this was happening Nikki's case stood out to me because of
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the level of violence that was involved Rachel Louise Snyder is a journalist who
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spent 10 years studying domestic violence for a book called no visible bruises as part of her research on
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Nikki's case for a New Yorker article she read the full court record and interviewed dozens of people
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he says Nikki alleged Chris forced himself on her sexually but didn't become violent until after son Ben was
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born and he slammed her head into the door frame of Ben's room and then raped her
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it happened again said Nikki almost two years later when she was pregnant with Faye she sought medical attention here
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at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie and a couple of days later she was standing in the kitchen making eggs for
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Ben and Chris allegedly came in and said you better be making some for me and she
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said yes sir pretty sarcastically he forced her to the ground and took a spoon and held it into the gas flame
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and burned her all over her body with it again Nikki sought medical attention the
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report from the exam States assailant named Chris heated up a metal utensil on the gas stove and burned Nikki in
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multiple areas of her body he was as far as I understand tying her up you know I remember seeing
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the marks around her neck and wrists and what he was doing was raping her Nikki feared Chris was videotaping the
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encounters Elizabeth says she and Nikki's therapist pushed Nikki to press charges multiple people in fact tried to
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get her to file police reports and she was just petrified she said that Chris would tell her that
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nobody would believe her and she doesn't want her kids taken away from her she knew she was in danger
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Elizabeth tried to help Nikki leave and in the summer of 2016 Nikki did pack the
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kids in the car and drive over to Elizabeth's house one of the hardest things I've ever
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experienced is that she would come and she'd drive and she'd slow down and then and then go again
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she saw Nikki drive past her house over and over again for hours and she was on the phone saying can't just come in just
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come in the front door and Nikki just couldn't do it and that's what a domestic violence
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victim leaving looks like it looks like a series of false starts in this mindset her Terror of him is
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stronger than her belief that the system will save her [Music] in 2017 just months before Chris died
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Nikki sought medical help three times from a midwife who noted multiple injuries in May rope-like Burns States
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Chris has a gun and uses it in my body in June Volva swollen looks inside out in August bruised and bleeding Chris at
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gunpoint raped her and then in September came that Anonymous call to Child Protective
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Services CPS called Nikki and Chris and said we're going to come by and interview you
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tomorrow suddenly there were outside eyes on them Nikki said Chris left the day with a
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bat of abuse presumably to get rid of it the next day CPS conducted its home visit
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afterwards Chris went to work and came home that night in a quiet mood at one point Nikki said he called her into the
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bedroom where he was loading his gun and he wants her to try to load it and he gives her a bullet and apparently
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she's shaking according to Nikki she later took a shower and at some point Chris threw the
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laptop in the tub she said he forced her to have sex with him on the couch but was unusually gentle
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and if you are a domestic violence victim and someone who is usually very violent with you is suddenly gentle
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you're going to get that message you're going to understand immediately that that is a goodbye
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Mickey said she lay for a while on top of Chris and believed he was asleep when she tried to get up he pulled the gun
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from behind the couch cushions Nikki said she got the gun away and pointed it at him she said he laughed at her and
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then he said here's what's going to happen you're going to give me the gun and I'm going to kill you and then I'm
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going to kill myself and the kids are going to have no one and she said she just lunged and shot
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him in the head Nikki support that night was simple either kill or be killed [Music]
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in March of 2019 Nikki adamando out on bail at the time went on trial for the murder of her partner Chris Grover
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friends and Advocates wearing purple the color for victims of domestic violence lined up in support
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they stood side by side with Loyal Chris supporters heartbroken to learn Nikki's
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defense would hinge on allegations that he abused her what do you want people to know
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Chris didn't do this my son never hurt anybody and that's the bottom line not allowed inside the courtroom here at
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the Dutchess County Courthouse in Poughkeepsie prosecutors argued that Nikki painted herself as a victim but
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that her allegations of abuse were untrue she was not the victim in this case Chris was the victim in this case
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and that became very very apparent prosecutor Hannah Krause has spent much of her career advocating for victims of
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sexual violence Krause told jurors the physical evidence was overwhelming starting with the fact
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that Chris was killed with a direct contact wound to the Head the medical examiner testified that the muzzle of
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the gun that was imprinted in Chris's head meant it was embedded in his head when she pulled the trigger
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Krauss said Nikki not Chris threw the laptop in the tub in an attempt to make it look like Chris had evidence to hide
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she didn't expect the laptop to be recovered in a way that we could still examine it and determined that there was
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absolutely no evidence of abuse on that laptop and Krauss presented a series of texts Nikki sent Chris just days before
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he died calling him a man-child and asking WTF is wrong with you are you this stupid she was the one who was
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abusing him in these messages when they communicated throughout the day then there were internet searches on Chris's
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phone the night he died Krause believes Nikki made them if you shoot someone in their sleep will
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the police know 15 minutes of searches that are a road map to exactly how he was murdered
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even more damning was a text Nikki sent a friend six weeks earlier I haven't figured out a way to kill him without
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being caught so I'm still here Nikki punctuated the text with a Grimace Emoji which her lawyers say clearly shows she
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was joking yet several weeks later he was dead so that's quite a coincidence Krauss acknowledges Nikki had a
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traumatic experience when she was just five years old Nikki was raped on a sleepover at a friend's house the rape
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was witnessed by another child Nikki didn't tell anyone at the time but her friends say it had a lasting impact so
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if we wanted to have sleepovers Nikki we would always go and sleep at her home she never ever
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slept at one of our houses Nikki said the assault made her uncomfortable with sex as an adult which
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she confided to Chris when they began dating for about a year they didn't become intimate because he cared so much
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about her and that was who he was he never changed Chris didn't change says Krauss but
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Niggy grew into someone who invented stories of abuse she never reported these allegations to police but the
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story Spilled Out over the years to friends and therapists Krause told the jurors these accusations
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began before Nikki met Chris when she accused an ex-boyfriend of assaulting her what are they going to think if she
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alleges every relationship she ever had was non-consensual would they believe what she said about Chris
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a few years after she began dating Chris nearly a decade ago Nikki told a therapist that a maintenance worker at
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her mother's apartment complex raped her Nikki later said her memories of the time were unclear and she wasn't sure
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which abuse was by the maintenance worker or Chris how do you not remember which abuse was
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by the maintenance worker and which abuse was by your partner around the same time Nikki met a married police
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officer who invited her to become a live-in babysitter with his family he was the parent of a child who was
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coached by the defendant at one point Chris Grover as well Krause says they began a relationship
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that lasted several years including after Nikki lived with Chris and was pregnant with Ben Nikki said the married
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police officer also forced himself on her sexually there were so many other men so
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which one was she talking about Nikki supporters insist these aren't false allegations they are true an
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author Rachel Louise Snyder says child victims of assault often grow up to become victims again the fact that Nikki
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was assaulted when she was five years old means that as an adult she's put into a much higher risk category in fact
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it would make her two-thirds more likely to be victimized as an adult but prosecutor Krauss told the jurors
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that in Nikki's case there is proof her allegations were false and that her injuries often had an
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innocent explanation the bruise on the eye was from Ben hitting her in the eye with a guitar
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not rocket science it was witnessed seeing Ben hit her with it the medical records weren't clear-cut
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either according to Krause including that first visit Nikki paid to this hospital when she was pregnant with Faye
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and was asked a series of questions to which she answered no is abuse inflicted with tools no are do you have Burns or
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does he burn you no Krause says it wasn't until Nikki returned a few days later that a nurse noted those Burns
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so what do you think that means I think she decided to go back a second time and
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be able to answer yes to every single one of those questions what she was saying was happening was completely
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inconsistent with the evidence we were finding as our investigation went on and so Nikki faced a huge risk that day when
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CPS came calling says Krauss her inventions of abuse would be exposed to Krause that was Nikki's motive for
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Murder She was concerned that child protective services would know this manipulated history that she put out
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there was not truthful and that she might lose her children when seen in this light Krauss argued
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Nikki's story of what happened the night Chris died quickly unravels the pretty young mother eliciting sympathy was
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never what she seemed I think people need to understand what really happened here and what really
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happened here Chris Grover was asleep when she killed him that's what happened here
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[Music] see more photos from the case on Facebook at 48 hours [Music] it was time for attorneys John and
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Gracia and Ben Oster to present the defense case and Nikki adamando's murder trial they say she lived in constant
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danger and believed she would die the night Chris Grover died you have a woman with no prior History of Violence no
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prior criminal history at all we know that too often women who have sought help end up in a body bag that was what she
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was confronted with on that evening the lawyers would need to convince a jury that Nikki acted in self-defense
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and shot Chris to save her own life so they called witnesses to corroborate Nikki's claim that she was brutally
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abused by Chris for years there were psychologists nurse midwives who were fearful of the abuse that Nikki was
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undergoing there was a police officer testified in our trial he was ready to send police officers to effect an
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arrest they produced photo s documenting Nikki's injuries and argued that Nikki's wounds could not
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have been self-inflicted Burns to the face the point of leaving a blister Burns to the breast
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she had bite marks on her shoulder blades you can't reach your own shoulder blades what about the bite marks on her
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neck on her back places that she couldn't reach how do you know if any of those injuries actually came from Chris
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and not one of the other individuals that she was claiming she was involved in a relationship with
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but Nikki's lawyers say the other men brought up by the prosecution were an attempt to create confusion and that
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Nikki hadn't had sexual relations with anyone but Chris for years before his death
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so that kind of fog that they created was shaming Nikki in a way and it's not relevant to the case of whether Mr
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Grover was victimizing her with intimate partner violence they insisted the aggressive texts Nikki
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sent Chris were ways to stick up for herself and said she paid for them afterwards when Chris hit her it's not
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uncommon for people to use words to fight back the lawyers reminded the jurors that the
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internet searches about how to kill someone who is sleeping they were made on Chris's phone with no evidence that
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Nikki made them and the medical examiner testified there was no proof Chris was sleeping Dr Newman said it could have
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happened exactly the way Nikki said it happened they called Nikki herself to the stand
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so the jurors could hear from her directly what did you tell her day one day two to tell the truth
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just to tell the truth the truth never changes and Nikki's story did not change visibly shaken and sometimes in tears
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Nikki told the court that Chris lashed out when he felt disrespected beat her raped her choked her and left her tied
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up for hours [Music] for Laura mokadanu watching her friend testify was heartbreaking it was three
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full days of her up there being interrogated and having to relive the trauma that she
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experienced Nikki told the jurors that after Faye was born Chris began watching pornography constantly and would try to
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recreate the porn with Nikki Nikki's attorneys presented photos most too graphic to show which Nikki claimed
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Chris posted without her consent on PornHub a pornographic video sharing website the videos had keywords like
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found in pound or break a [ __ ] or it just really ugly disrespectful language the juror saw the photographs but they
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didn't see the ugly words or the information on the post about the user who uploaded the images
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someone called Grover respect who like Chris Grover described himself as a 29 year old cinematographer who loved
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martial arts the judge ruled there was no way to prove Chris created it Grover respect was who posted
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the PornHub videos which were clearly our client there was other evidence jurors did not see including the full
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medical report from 2014 and these Midwife exams documenting injuries the summer before Chris died in some ways
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her case was cut off at the knees from the start it's not uncommon for some evidence to be excluded at a murder
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trial and prosecutor Hannah Krause believes this was excluded for good reason she argued that Nikki may have
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made the porn herself there is no way to identify a man in the photos and it wasn't rape does that look like someone
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is taking part in a consensual Act I believe that was consensual with Nikki absolutely
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Nikki's testimony may not have changed many Minds she would say one thing and then in the next breath she was saying
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something else right on the stand you could see that it wasn't the truth music teacher Elizabeth Clifton did
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testify for Nikki's defense but wasn't asked about everything she'd seen including one day in 2016 when Nikki
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said she was having a miscarriage the amount of blood just like puddles of Blood on the floor
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and her clothing stained Elizabeth believes Chris's abuse caused the miscarriage and says Nikki was afraid to
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go see a doctor because Chris would get angry I witnessed her suffer through a horrible painful
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where she was almost unable to speak because she was in so much pain miscarriage because she was afraid to
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go to the hospital Laura did not testify at the trial but this photo of Nikki in a bridesmaid's
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dress at Laura's wedding was a defense exhibit to document a burn on Nikki's chest Laura says it's an example of how
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the prosecution and not Nikki manipulated the story and she has what I believe was a burn mark from a curling
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iron because her hair was clearly just curled Nikki's hair was just curled says Laura because the bridal party had just
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gone to the hair salon together she says the Mark was big and oval shaped and was
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old and already healing when they got to the salon it was a burn mark from a heated metal spoon
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there was no question after 14 days of testimony the case finally went to the jurors who would
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have to decide was Nikki adamando a terrified victim or a manipulative liar after three days of deliberations
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finally a verdant a jury of eight women and four men rejected Nikki adomondo's claim of
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self-defense and convicted her of criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree murder
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looks like getting punched in the stomach really hard this for her was the worst possible verdict it was traumatic
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she's so tiny and she's sitting there and people thinking she's a criminal and I
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just wanted to hug her [Music] Chris Grover's family and friends found some comfort at last
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thank God somebody was listening and for once a little bit of relief because they had drugged Christopher's
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name through the mud so bad and turned him into this monster that he was not did you feel Vindicated
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no this is never about me I felt happy for Chris's family they got to the point where they heard the jury say guilty but
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the case wasn't over yet under an updated New York state law the domestic violence survivors Justice act Nikki was
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entitled to another day in court a hearing where her claims of domestic violence might be factored in to reduce
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her sentence I wrote a letter to the judge explicitly saying like these are these are the situations in which it was
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specifically clear to me that it was Christopher Grover who was hurting her judge Edward McLaughlin who also
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presided over Nikki's murder trial heard from other Witnesses and from the prosecutors who argued that Nikki wasn't
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a real victim had access to services and she could have left Chris at any time including the day he died
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she had a car she had the means to leave if she was concerned if any of this were
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truthful she had the whole day to leave but author Rachel Louise Snyder does believe Nikki and says expecting a
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victim of domestic violence to leave is misguided absolutely you're most likely to die leaving
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the research points to that over and over and over Snyder says Nikki did Avail herself of
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services but especially with two very young children at home she couldn't figure out how to get out alive
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fact on the night Chris died Nikki told the police officers that she asked Chris
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to let her go at least 17 times and she said let me leave and I won't tell anyone
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with anything else and Nikki repeated that he said you're not leaving I tried to leave
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I represented a young woman who left 11 months later she was killed leaving doesn't protect you and leaving
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isn't the answer what about the research that shows women who try to leave they're more likely to be harmed I don't
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dispute that at all I just don't believe she was a victim here I believe that she
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created all of this in a 47-page ruling released in February of 2020 the judge essentially sided with
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the prosecution saying Nikki was only steps from her front door the night Chris died and could have left
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he also said her inconsistent statements about past abuse made it impossible to know the identity of her abuser he
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denied Nikki's request for a lighter sentence the reasons basically boiled down to she could have just left
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and who knows who was abusing her Nikki supporters insist they know exactly who was abusing her
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Chris Chris Grover like his name is in those documents and those documents were submitted to the judge and his name is
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there over and over and over again but to this day Chris's friends and former students defend the man they knew
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everybody loved Chris he would go above and beyond for everyone you never saw him get upset you never saw him get mad
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at the gym he always made us feel safe and I don't believe that he was ever capable of like any type of harm
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[Music] someone can be a wonderful person in a lot of situations and still be an abuser
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in the same way that someone can be a wonderful person and still be a victim on February 11th Nikki supporters
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gathered once again outside the Poughkeepsie Courthouse this time for her sentencing hearing
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the system didn't get along the system got it right we need to make sure that other real victims that are out there
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true victims of domestic violence understand that we are there to help you get out safely
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to prosecutor Hannah Krause they are sending a dangerous message I think she manipulated them I think she was
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manipulating everybody around her look she she may very well be manipulative I I have no idea right but was she the
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victim of sustained and extremely severe abuse yes absolutely no doubt in my mind
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Nikki was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison the grover family is now focused on the kids Ben and Faye live
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with Nikki's relatives and spend weekends with the Grovers that's what means the world right now
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those kids Nikki Drew these pictures of herself with her children while in jail to many the outcome of her trial was
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exactly what she feared all along that no one would believe her [Music] if you don't believe that a woman was
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victimized based upon the proof that we had here then what happens when you don't have
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visible bruises I'd like to imagine there's a day someday when she'll be free but right now but right now that feels
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very distant Nikki supporters continue to raise money to help defray her legal expenses
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[Music] [Music] I will rescue you I will an appeals court found that Nicole aramando should have qualified
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for a reduced sentence under the domestic violence survivors Justice act and reduced her sentence to 7.5 years if
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you or a loved one or a victim of domestic violence call the National Domestic Violence Hotline
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1-800-799-7233 this is by far the worst thing I have seen victim was Jacqueline Van de Graaff
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a chance Encounter of vicious murder was it because she resembled the Killer's ex
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how he was stalking me was completely related to Jackie vandergriff's death 48 hours Saturday at 10 9 Central on CBS