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Good morning, your honor. My name is David Tillielser. As a friend of Nikki's for approximately five years, for the
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last several years, myself, her friends, her family have suffered every day, wondering when justice was going to be
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served. Nikki was clean and sober. I seen her the week before this all happened at a meeting. She was twinkling
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in her love for her husband and he ruined that. He took her away from us. He took her away from her family.
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Your honor, my name is Barbara Arionis and I was a very good friend of Nicole's. She was my sponsor in AA
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and I'm proud to say that the greatest love there ever is is between a mother and her child.
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And Dave took that away from her mother. It just crushed her. It crushed the whole family. It crushed everybody. All
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of her friends. She touched so many lives. And step by step, this person took everything away from her. He did
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not have to do that. It was all about him. Please, 20 years isn't very much. If I were sitting up there, I'd give him
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35. I'm sorry, but he need he deserves more. He really really does. and she is still with us today. She's watching down
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on us. Thank you. Good morning, Judge Hayden. My name is Marilyn Murphy, and my interest in the
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case today about David Pets is very personal. I've known Nicole since she was three years old. I always loved
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seeing this fearless little girl who was very confident, very mature, and had a bigger than-l life personality. Nicole
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and I had a unique friendship. I was 27 and she was four. She'd always say to me, "You and my mom are friends, but you
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and I are best friends." Right? And I'd always say, "Right." When I think back to this special girl, a very
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accomplished young woman, it saddens me to think of such a loss of an incredible
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human being. She had unlimited potential. And today, I urge you to deliver justice to Nicole. I'd like you
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to please sentence David Pet to the maximum prison term allowable. A sentence that reflects the profound loss
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of Nicole Zurker Pets.