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to most Wisconsin i'ts Green Bay is the magical place it's where the Packers play it's a fun
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town and everybody knows everybody drinking is part of the Wisconsin tradition Green Bay is a great downtown
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pulse and I feel it's relatively safe nobody would ever think that something like this would happen in our
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communities continuing coverage tonight of a death investigation in the village of Bellevue when I had gotten the news I
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just shook I just shook there is police activity in a field I was a good friend of Nicole vanderheiden's
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she was my neighbor we watched each other's kids she just was a ball of fire Nicole Vanderheiden was 31 years old she
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was living with her boyfriend Doug D tree and they had just had a baby together it was Friday May 20th of 2016 Doug and
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Nicole decided to go out that night this was an opportunity for them to go out and have a great time
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the night didn't end in a great time it ended in a nightmare Nikki walked off into the darkness that
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night she just walked off she vanished that was the last anyone saw her about where was she found right down this
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embankment when we arrived and see on this one you kinda knew right away it was probably gonna be different at the
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scene that was the most apparent thing is the trauma to the left side of the face when you came here there's no way
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to identify it you had no idea who she was not right away no Doug D tree he woke up in the morning eventually later
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that afternoon he had called the sheriff's officer 9-1-1 to report that his girlfriend did not come home from
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the night before we sent some officers over to her residence to take the missing person report so this is not
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normal behavior for her and this is where Nicole was living correct and you believe that she was killed here correct
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across the street in the roadway a large quantity of blood that was determined to
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be Nicole's everything's pointing to Doug D trees yeah so that so then Monday night right now I'm gonna be taking you
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we felt we had probable cause to arrest Doug b-tree I'm a decent guy I think people were shocked people are wondering
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could he have done it did Doug do it his alibi was his Fitbit that he had been wearing all night and
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that supposedly proved that he was asleep at the time of her murder the technology
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is really what drew me to this case we had this evidence wanted to check out have tested at the lab the DNA evidence
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starts to come back and it belonged to an unidentified male subject outside on the porch that was our goals to figure
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out who is this mystery person it's definitely a whodunit there's lots and twists and turns to it and it's hard to
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know who's telling the truth