When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their

property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide.

Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker,

the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy.

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To most Wisconsinites, Green Bay is a magical place. It's where the Packers play.

It's a fun town and everybody knows everybody.

Drinking is part of the Wisconsin tradition. Green Bay is a great downtown pulse, and I feel it's relatively safe.

Nobody would ever think that something like this would happen in our community.

Continuing coverage tonight of a death investigation in the village of Bellevue when I had gotten the news I

just shook I just shook there is police activity in a field I was a good friend of

Nicole van der Heiden's she was my neighbor we watched each other kids. She just was a ball of fire.

Nicole Vanderheiden was 31 years old. She was living with her boyfriend, Doug Dietrich, and they had just had a baby together.

It was Friday, May 20th of 2016. Doug and Nicole decided to go out that night.

This was an opportunity for them to go out and have a great time.

The night didn't end in a great time. It ended in a nightmare.

Nikki walked off into the darkness that night. She just walked off. She vanished.

That was the last anyone to saw of her.

About where was she found?

Right down this embankment, when we arrived on scene on this one,

you kind of knew right away it was probably going to be different. At the scene, that was the most apparent thing is the trauma to the left side of the face.

When you came here, there was no way to identify her. You had no idea who she was?

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