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Anatomy of Murder

Home Invasion (Heidi Firkus)

Anatomy of Murder

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True Crime

4.818.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Police are called to a couple’s home after they report an active break in. The wife lay dead and her husband shot. An unlikely motive leads police to the killer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's the problem?

0:02.0

When I was shot, we broke in their heart, I've been shot here.

0:06.0

You've been shot?

0:08.0

Yes, please.

0:09.0

Okay, stay on the phone with me, okay?

0:12.0

I told her parents that first day I said I can't promise you anything

0:15.6

except that I will push to closure in this case, whether it is identifying, charging, and prosecuting a suspect or saying to you,

0:30.3

unfortunately, without someone coming forward and saying,

0:33.6

I did this, we're going to need to close this case. I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

0:50.0

I'm Anaseika Nikaalazzi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries true conviction.

0:57.0

And this is anatomy of murder. In April of 2010, a young husband and wife had gone about that classic Saturday

1:11.0

night ritual of take Takeout into movie.

1:13.4

Their house was located in a residential neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota.

1:17.8

It was a quiet night in the couple's home.

1:20.0

They were asleep before midnight.

1:22.2

Just seven hours later, one of them was dead.

1:26.2

The mystery of what shattered the silence

1:28.1

of a peaceful Sunday morning would haunt investigators

1:31.6

for a decade and leave a community forever divided.

1:37.0

Heidi and Nicholas Vercas met a church when they were still in high school.

1:40.6

According to friends, the two had markedly different personalities.

1:45.0

While Nicholas was more steadfast and the brainy of the two, Heidi was known as the life of

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