Hey it's Dennis Murphy here and I'm your host for this edition of Talking Dateline and I'm delighted to say that my colleague Andrea Canning is standing by here too.

Hi Andrew, how you? Hey Dennis, I am good. I'm ready to talk

Dateline with you. I've got to disclose right up front. I am a very soft touch for a

well-constructed, well-told, keep me baffled, who-done it. And boy, this is one of them. You did, you

guys did a great job with this. So if you haven't seen this episode called Justice for

Nicki, go find it right now on streaming. It's on the podcast list right below this one

take a look have a listen and then come back here for dessert because we're going to do a

deep dive with Andrea. So let's talk Dateline. Andrea who is Nicky and what happened to her?

So Dennis, just to recap for anyone who hasn't listened to the show or seen it,

Nicky Vanderhiden, she was 31 31 years old and back in May of 2016 she was reported missing after a night out in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Her body was found the next day in a field.

Detectives quickly turned their attention to her boyfriend,

Doug Dietry, until forensic evidence, GPS tracking and of all things a Fitbit, pointed detectives

to her real killer. So this is a case where technology

played a massive role in solving this murder. Andrea, tell me what a fit bit is.

I think I know it's a tracking device you wear in your wrist.

Yeah.

Tell you how many steps you've taken in the day kind of thing.

We really called it the silent witness because it's a, you know, it's not a human being it's a piece of technology but it showed that

Doug the only place he went during the time of that Nicki was murdered was steps

within his own house to check on the baby, just so many steps.

I mean from one room, his room to another and back.

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