The Bizarre Case of Nicole Vanderheyden

[Music] heyyou unwelcome my name is mike and in this whole video we're gonna talk about a fitbit yeah this thing it's not mine and i think it's broken I don't wanna stab it I'm probably not a you know terribly healthy but you know what neither is this story but what's truly interesting is how a Fitbit can save your life rather rather save you from getting life so let's look at the story of Nikki Vander Heiden shall we after you roll [Music] this video stories case takes us all the way to Manitowoc probably what should that Wisconsin population about 33,000 I'm not making that up sitting on Lake Michigan so that's all already is to say about a Manitowoc oh they do have a Sputnik fest hey seems rot it's held in September when they celebrate the fact that a piece of the Russian space ship Sputnik 4 upon re-entry a piece of it landed in downtown Manitowoc in 1962 and this is where ol Nicole Mickey van der Heyden was born and she was born in 1985 she graduated high school in 2003 and went on to study at the University of wisconsin-green Bay and got herself a Bachelors of Science degree with a double major in science and education she then went on to dedicate six years of her life as a substitute teacher for the Green Bay Area public school system however Nikki was a mother first that's what was importante to her she would go and have three kids and by all accounts was uh one of those mothers who was real good she also loved the adores and being fit and all though she wouldn't be the one to have the Fitbit I mean on this story at least I mean she may have had a Fitbit let's move on Nikki Vander Heiden met Douglas the tree in January 2015 and they hit it off pretty quick a few weeks after they started dating Nikki got prego and in March 2015 she filed a paternity suit naming doug d tree as the baby daddy Nikki had two children from a previous relationship and shared custody with her ex-husband and so Nikki and Doug and all the kids lived together just outside of Green Bay in ledge view now one night a friend of Nicky and dog fellow named Greg he convinced some hey guys yeah we should we should get out there who have a few sub just have a good time you know their their baby at Dylan he was six months old and Nicky hadn't really got ever have so much so she'd uh you know let the goose loose and so they all decided to go out on May 28 2016 they managed to get Nicky's mother to look after baby Dylan Nicky's two older children were with their dad so Nicky's mother would babysit her fears until a friend of Nicky's named of Dallas Kennedy finished her shift at work and then agreed to take over the babysitting by the way her parents obviously had a kooky sense of humor and so Nikki dog and friends went out into Green Bay and headed over to a bar called the watering hole at about 8:00 p.m. we're get this Steel Panther we're playing I know these guys are like kinda like a joke ox but uh really well by all accounts it seems like Nikki and Doug had a grand old time somehow and took his selfie even look smiling though that could be a grimace now those who are Whitney key said she was just slam him down while others were still on their first beer she was chugging down her second she needs to get you to let loose there's another joke there I could make it Steel Panther whose expense but I'm sure they're fun so the gig ended at about 11 p.m. and this is when Tings take a turn some old friends of Doug I'm Greg scooty highschool friends ended up popping by the waterhole and Doug and Greg were like hey buddies that's how a few drinks while the other members of their group and Nikki decided to go on to another bar called the sardine can Doug and Greg were like yep pull you over Nikki wasn't too pleased about this shortly after 11:00 p.m. you know when the group had separated Nikki started sending some angry texts to Doug not pleasant remember though she was pissed at the time piston boat ways you know angry and oh glug glug so what [ __ ] you wish [ __ ] you abusive [ __ ] well what [ __ ] are you with because none of your friends know Doug was like a heart scan down just with the boys love stop be good I'll see you at the sardine can now Doug wouldn't end up going across to the sardine can for quite a long time and him and the boys ended up snorting some adderall and said they lost track of time Nikki in the sardine can with the others was having a grand old time drink and dancing but was getting more and more pissed off as time went by and Doug was not showing up then when one of the other girls in the group called Doug and he answered her Nicki blew a gasket because he wasn't answering her calls yikes so Nicki in place now Nicky and Doug weren't all chocolate and cuddles their relationship had soured a bit Doug was having trouble adjusting to the family life having his own kid pretty suddenly with Nicky who he hadn't been dating that long and then she had two kids of her own it was kind of like one of those here's what I prepared earlier type of families and Doug wasn't too keen on that he wasn't sure family life was for him Nikki also had her suspicions and what accused of wanting to be with other women accusations too had some truth to them Doug missed the battery life and she was feeling neglected so this had turbulence kind of blew up when they were having a few drinks that night no house it was you know you sure you know yourself so Nikki ran out of the sardine can away from the group but one of the members of the group a friend of dogs named Aaron kolinsky ran after her basically trying to calm her down it was the middle of the night she was drunk he was like hey listen can and will get you home Nikki was just pushing him away screaming on the ground roar and her head off Aaron you know people started looking so Aaron was like I know and he'll he'd left him last he saw she was walking away at this time about 20 past 12:00 a.m. Doug and Greg were finally getting ready to leave the Waring hole and head to the sardine can they popped out and Doug called Nikki while wandering over she was hammered barely intelligible making no sense on her phone eventually died he'd a text from her though saying she met a friend and he was like I sure she's grand I'm sure she's sobering up somewhere Doge ended up leaving the sardine can just after 2:00 buddy Greg drove him back home to relieve Dallas Kennedy Dallas Kennedy the babysitter by the way she didn't really like Doug very much she knew you know Nikki and Doug were on the rocks and she also knew that Doug had contemplated kicking Nikki and the babies out which is shitty so Dallas was gonna leave now that one of the parents was home but she was worried about Nikki even at one point asking if Nikki was in the trunk of Greg's car wow what a thing to ask she eventually left Doug went to bed at about 3:00 a.m. got up at 6 a.m. to give a bottle to baby Dylan and went back to sleep getting up about 11:00 a.m. Nikki was still a no-show now at this point he still thought she was sleeping it off at a friend's place and would show up at some point but he started texting Dallas Greg Nikki's sister Heather asking if they had seen her at one point he even sent her a snapshot to check if she'd open it she didn't so they all started to worry a little bit like Nikki even though she was pissed at Doug she was still you know very caring mother she would be back for the baby Dylan so yeah they all started being like where the hell is she they started calling around hospitals asking her if anybody had seen her and then eventually on May 21st you know Doug called 9-1-1 at 4:20 p.m. to report her missing was missing it's my girlfriend and she does live with me and she's never done this before what's her name nicole Vanderheiden so she was on foot yes no idea where she might go no idea I called did she have a cell phone with her or anything yeah and it's been off since last night at about 1:50 4 p.m. about two and a half hours earlier another 911 call was made we just found the human body Laden ugly okay oh my god is the person beyond help or do I need to give you options for CPR about three miles away two teenagers found the body of a naked woman who was Nikki police didn't know it was her until dogs reports or guess it was at least she had been brutally beaten they had to check her dental records she had suffered 241 injuries and had been strangled possibly with an electrical cord that was found with blood on it she had facial injuries a fractured jaw injuries to the genital area suggesting sexual assault ligature strangulation marks blunt force trauma with bruises to her hands and broken fingernails it was clear Nikki had fought hard before being overpowered when she was found she only had socks on as well as the concert bracelet from the night before of course Doug and Nikki's family had no idea and when the police Rock up two dogs at about 5:00 p.m. they already think they might have solve this missing-persons case but they don't mention it to Doug obviously an officer secretly recorded dog with a key fob camera Doug was described as pale and hungover obviously he showed no signs of any injury to his face arms or legs and was generally cooperative with the officers questions he volunteered his phone for them to check his messages and whatnot however after they left Heather Nikki's sister who was there got a text saying a body had been found and they started to become anxious as the who it was later that day towards midnight the police asked Doug to go with them to the sheriff's office the first people we talked to were the people that are closest to whoever's missing or her team or cstrike the okay so it's totally normal for us to be talking to you I heard the soups ahead and Craig and Erin and everybody else that was there mm-hmm your older friends are the last people that she was with for the most part he'll okay I do not suspect any of that I come home at all last night after you got it or not it wasn't a flipper word for she never stepped foot into the house after nope not that I go into event nobody did I mean I was I was cute I came in went to bed and I woke up to Dylan crying so and you know where she is or what happened not to you did you do anything the calls are going missing no not at all besides we could be in a cliff phone yeah well I think what we're looking at is this body that was found today down the street I don't think it's been 100% identified as her but there's a lot of similarities what happened well I don't know that's what we're trying to figure out as a real mole there anything else you can think of that would be helpful to us in this need the time I'm going to talk to everybody on that frickin Street think of that neighborhood I need to do it well that's that's part of what we're going to do too you know obviously we can't go doing it or in 2:30 in the morning okay is there anything in your house that they're going to find that's gonna that's going to save you anything and absolutely lots of much whatever nothing to do with this I mean he denied any involvement in his partner's disappearance and gave the police permission to search his house and was told what the police had found a few hours later his parents picked him up and dogs started to realize the cops had him as suspect numero uno Doug then spoke to the family lawyer and refused to give a DNA sample and waited for a warrant before he let them search the place however the police did find blood near the couple's home clumps of blonde hair bobby pins and came to the conclusion that Nikki had been murdered near their home and had been transported to where she was found police soon took Doug into custody and he was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder right now I'm gonna be taking into custody DNA swabs were taken from Nicky's body and sent for analysis continuing their search to police found more bloody clothing her purse and other bits and bobs just off a highway Doug's house was searched his car Nicky's car regs car everything shoe prints were found on Niki's body which matched shoes van and Doug's home those found in Doug's home had blood spots and blood was also found in the garage ledge view man is charged with murdering his girlfriend 34 year old Douglas D tree now facing first-degree intentional homicide for the death of Nicole Vander Heiden you remember Nicole's body was found in a ditch Saturday investigators later found blood in the home the couple shared an ledge view the district attorney not releasing a criminal complaint today winning in court d trees defense attorney arguing that apparent blood stains found near D tree in vanderheiden's home that appeared to be wiped up dirt and more stains found in a car and a pattern found on vanderheiden's body matching a pair of tennis shoes d tree owned wasn't enough evidence to hold him in jail the district attorney arguing otherwise and in court statements that vanderheiden's body was found strangled and bludgeoned to death eventually persuaded the judge to hold D tree in jail things were not looking good for Doug until more analysis came back in August 2016 the blood found on the shoe that wasn't blood the blood found in the garage was turkey blood and the DNA found on Nikki matched not Doug it matched a man named George birch who was he a real piece of [ __ ] that's who George birch was born in 1978 in Virginia at an early age he was named big country because he was told still an odd nickname but big country would end up six foot seven 270 pounds in 1998 he was tried for the murder of Joey White a gang leader in Denby Virginia Joey led the hoods Mob gang and reportedly hated George Joey and his friends twice speed up George it seems there was some kind of gun fight and after George was arrested he would be found not guilty when it came to trial George had have been sentenced also in 1998 for burglary and had to be kept in custody for his own safety lest the hoods Mob gang get him and he also faced a felony charge for carrying a firearm and so to get away he moved to New York with his wife and they had two kids after the marriage fell apart he moved to Green Bay for a fresh start after contacting your friend who lived there named Edie Jackson he lived with them everything seemed grand he even got himself a girlfriend 18 years his junior so the police checked his background not long after they got his DNA which was found on Niki sock and found recently after the murder he'd been involved in a hit and run and also torched his own car police also got his cell phone data and found some interesting information as to what he was up to the night of Mickey's murder his phone had pinged in all the places involved in the murder of Nikki Vander Heiden and he was also very interested in researching the case his phone pinged to [ __ ] all around where she was found and her items were found so when the police come knocking up knocking on his door he needs to think of something like fast Damien is into reference to a homicide investigation into Nicole van der Heide okay so this is something that you want to talk to me mo sir and so he has a fantastic tale to tell the police from all his googling you know he knew dog was a suspect and had been arrested on suspicion so he was like you know what it was Doug George's story to the police right was like okay I was in all those places he got me fair and square with the techno doodlee but big country was only in those places because Doug G tree made him me in those places big country said that he met Nicky that night at a nutter bar richard craniums which is a pretty good name and they started hooking up they then got into his car stopped by his place her a condom and then went to her place to get it on however when they arrived they apparently started doing the deed in the car because the home was ocupado then Big Country says Doug came storming out of the house and beat the piss out of them and when he woke up Nicky was dead dog then forced a big country a good point no less till I get her body put it in the car we're gonna drive three miles down the road and dump the body at gunpoint - the entire time George said then that you know they dumped the body in a field and he pushed Doug down a ravine and drove off and in a panic he true all of Nicky's [ __ ] like edit a car that was the story and big country was stickin to it probably shouldn't have as it was deemed unbelievable and he was arrested in September 2016 elements tonight in the murder investigation of alleged a woman a suspect now faces charges for the murder of 31 year-old Nicole Vander Heiden 38 year old George Virg appeared in court today on one cat charge of first-degree intentional homicide a trial though that's what the defense were all about big country was forced to by Doug Doug was the real killer at the end of this trial we will give you all of the pieces you will be able to solve the puzzle you will know the whole story and you will know that this was not some random act as the state just described you will know that Douglas D tree Nicole's boyfriend murdered Nicole this is George birch George birch is a human being just like me and you he's a United States citizen and he's protected by the United States Constitution the Wisconsin Constitution Constitution and other laws that are designed to restrain the government's authorities this table there are humans here but this table is occupied by the government of the state of Wisconsin they don't represent any particular individual they represent the government interests as they see fit in this matter as you've already heard George is presumed innocent as he sits here right now he is considered innocent of this crime he will remain innocent unless they can convince you beyond a reasonable doubt that he murdered Nicole Doug was also smaller than big country and although he had a conceal and carry permit he didn't own a gun though of course the defense pointed to his unhappiness with the relationship and the possible existence of an unregistered weapon at that point everything was going smoothly yes sir you were having intercourse with her yes sir what ended up happening the next thing that I remember apart from us having intercourse was literally waking up on the ground outside the truck laying in the grass curb area remember waking up knowing what in the hell the first thing I heard was don't even [ __ ] think about it there was a lot of blood on her face come up her mouth the first thing I was preparing to me that I could hear them say was look what the [ __ ] you made me do do you know who that individual is now now I do who was it was that be true so at the start I mentioned a fat [ __ ] and this is where it comes into it during the secret recording of dobe the police did when they went to him when he was reported missing Doug was wearing a Fitbit that ended up in court as evidence prosecutors say the downloaded data from Doug's Fitbit shows he barely moved in the errors they believe Nikki was killed and left in the field three miles away maybe sleep David was ruled inadmissible in court but the data measuring dee trees footsteps was admissible and Doug didn't take enough steps to run out of his house and commit a murder nor after being driven to a field and getting knocked down by George did Doug register enough steps to hike back home but what if he wasn't wearing in the Fitbit it's possible right that when he got home he took it off and then did everything George said he did but the Fitbit also picked him up doing like 20 to 30 steps out of it for I am going to use the bachelors take a piss so it seems like he was wearing it that night the day after the murder George went off on a fishing trip would add Jackson he went on with his life like nothing happened well nothing will happen to him now when in March 2018 a jury found George guilty of first-degree intentional homicide after a two-week trial he murdered Nicole he murdered Nicole he murdered Nicole his attempt to trow Doug under the bus was unsuccessful big country was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole [Music] now Doug is no saint in February 2017 the sister of Nicky Heather and Doug went to a birthday party and were driving together when Doug touched her leg in a sexual manner the criminal complaint says Heather told him please don't until got angry he drove at high speeds and refused her pleading to stop and let her out at one point he ran a stop light and he only stopped and let her out when she started kicking his windshield a judge decided to withhold judgment on two felonies until October 21st 2019 if Doug adheres to the conditions of his bond mainly staying at a verse and trouble the felonies will be dismissed and so they were now this isn't the only time a Fitbit or something like a Fitbit solved a case in 2018 90 year old Anthony ILO told police that he last saw his stepdaughter Karyn navara five days before her body was discovered by a co-worker and that he had been at her house for a brief visit and to drop off homemade pizza and biscotti what he didn't realize was that Nevarez Fitbit recorded her heart rates spiking significantly around 3:20 p.m. on September 8th when he was at her house and stopping completely shortly after he was charged with her murder in April 20 18 a Polly the window of time to a seven-minute period during which the heart rate of Myrna and Nilsson who was murdered in Australia in 2016 increased while she was being attacked when it's slowed when she lost consciousness and then stopped when she died this contradicted the story her daughter-in-law Caroline Nilsson told police about Myrna arguing with a group of men for 20 minutes after a road rage incident Caroline was charged with her mother-in-law's murder the trial is still ongoing in 2015 richard debates wife Connie died he told police that he was at home when a masked intruder broke in and tied him to a chair and then shook honey as she entered the house through the garage on her way home from a workout she was wearing a Fitbit investigators used the home alarm system both of the debate cellphones and Connie's Fitbit to contradict Richards account of the crime the two most damning data points were that her phone was connected to their home Wi-Fi uploading photos to Facebook shortly before she was killed or rather when she was supposedly being confronted by a masked gunman and also her Fitbit showed she walked a distance of 1217 feet in the approximately 40 minutes before movement stops if she'd only walked from her car to the basement where she died the device would only have recorded 125 feet during that time he's currently on trial for her murder so there you have it thanks to you no modern technology no more big country for big country thank you so much for watching I really really appreciate it I will see you as always real soon in the next video take care of yourselves Mike [Music]

Channel: That Chapter

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Length: 26min 52sec (1612 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 30 2020

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Shirt report: the blue shirt over the burgundy one combo is back.

Also, the original video got deleted so this is the new one.