Evidence in Their Home Proves the Truth Behind Her Murder: Who Killed Heidi Firkus?
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On April 25, 2010, a panic-stricken 25-year-old Heidi Firkus called 911 to report a break-in in her and her husband Nick’s home. That’s when there was a gunshot and screaming. After this, Nick re-dialed 911, screaming that he and Heidi were shot by this intruder. After first responders arrived, Heidi was already dead at the scene, and Firkus was acting strange with police in re-telling his story. Time went on and Firkus remarried… but his second wife found out about the financial problems he was secretly having, and how similar their situation was becoming to his financial situation with his first wife, whose death still had not found any justice. She knew that something was wrong, and that Nick was at the center of it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of True Crime with Kendall Ray. |
| 0:11.3 | Thank you so much for joining you today. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm happy to have you here. |
| 0:14.8 | And if you're new to the show, then welcome. |
| 0:17.1 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:18.1 | So you guys, today we are going to be talking about a case that I have so much to say about. |
| 0:24.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:26.3 | This is one I think you will also have a lot of opinions on. |
| 0:30.3 | I think I know where the majority of you are going to fall when it comes to this case, |
| 0:34.9 | but it is one of those that has, you know, |
| 0:44.2 | people divided, even though I think it's a very small amount of people that fall one way. |
| 0:50.0 | Today I'm going to be telling you about the devastating murder of 25-year-old Heidi Furcus, |
| 0:56.2 | and her death was unbelievably shocking to everyone in her life, everyone in her community, |
| 1:01.3 | and it took a long time for them to get justice. |
| 1:05.9 | Like with many cases, this is one where we have two different versions of events, |
| 1:15.1 | and I am very interested to see where you all fall, to see what you think, which version you believe after I present all the evidence to you. Although, like I said, I think I know where the majority |
| 1:19.9 | of you are going to fall on this one. But with that being said, let's go ahead and get into this |
| 1:24.9 | case. And I want to start out by telling you about Heidi, who was an amazing |
| 1:28.6 | woman. So Heidi Marie Erickson was born on December 14, 1984, to her parents Linda and John. And she |
| 1:37.0 | had two older brothers, Peter and Joel, who she always looked up to. She was a lifelong resident |
| 1:41.5 | of Minnesota, first born in Roseville, but their family later moved |
| 1:45.0 | down the road to Falcon Heights, where she and her brothers were raised. And as a little girl, |
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