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🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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(Part 2 of 2) When 25-year-old Heidi Firkus was tragically killed in 2010 after an intruder broke into her and her husband’s home, the community rallied around 27 year-old widower and survivor, Nicholas Firkus. Years would pass with no new leads…but behind the scenes the St. Paul Police Department had already been working with the FBI to uncover the truth…which eventually resulted in the finality of a cold case that had lasted 10+ years…
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0:00.0 | This episode is Part 2 of a two-part series. |
0:03.0 | If you haven't yet listened to Part 1, please do so now. |
0:06.0 | Reeks. |
0:10.0 | Invisible Choir Explorers detailed depictions of violence and murder and is not appropriate for all audiences. |
0:19.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:21.0 | I mean, we need. is advised. 9-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0. |
0:27.0 | Minne-ha-ha, someone's trying, west? |
0:32.0 | Somebody's trying to break in our house. |
0:33.2 | Back on April 25th, 2010, an intruder broke into Heidi and Nick Firkus's home, leaving |
0:49.8 | Heidi deceased from a single gunshot wound to the back, and Nick with superficial injuries, from |
0:55.2 | a shotgun blast to his leg. |
0:57.9 | Heidi's autopsy would reveal that there was no exit wound, that the shotgun pellets had |
1:02.1 | expanded and ruptured her vertebrae, left |
1:04.8 | and anterior ribs, as well as her left lung. |
1:08.3 | The matter of death in this case was subsequently ruled a homicide. |
1:13.1 | Even though Nick Fercus had agreed to meet with Sergeant Gray again after his first police |
1:17.1 | interview, he'd since had a change of heart. |
1:20.2 | Per his father's advice, the Fercus' hired an attorney, at which point Nick's lawyer advised him to immediately cease all communication with the St Paul police. |
1:30.0 | This came after he'd been asked to come in and help draw a police sketch using Nick's description of the supposed suspect in Home Invader. |
1:39.0 | Although he declined, being the churchgoing gentleman that Nicholas Fercus was, he would make a compromise. |
1:46.1 | He and his attorney offered to come up with their own sketch by working with an independent |
1:50.7 | artist, but it would take them a few weeks to do so. |
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