Death at the Front Door: Who Shot Heidi Firkus? | Full Episode 

I don’t have any extra work hun I can do that too much time to get it out lol I

Put up some new episodes. No one cares about old cases. Or, keep posting them and continue to watch your ad revenue fall. Already seen this on Dateline over a year ago.

The neighbour's testimony reminds me of a scene from Austin Powers. "You've shot me ! Ouch " Ok not funny, surely unbelievable.

This is what happens sometimes when you have faith in god.

​@@amirmuradi9570😅😅😅

Exactly! Especially when it’s in the arm or the leg 🧐

Exactly

For sure!!!

I agree. Plus not a real man, Honey i think someone breaking in you go down the stairs first

Spot on

Totally. That was the first red flag.

You are ABSOLUTELY right!! Someone was attempting to break into our house years ago. I heard the noise of the doorknob and I woke up my husband. He grabbed the gun, told me to stay upstairs and he flew downstairs.

@@lisasangria1086so sorry that happened to you and I hope you and your family are all okay.

​@@lisasangria1086absolutely 💯 that's what a husband is supposed to do.

Thats a dead giveaway

She at to be really lonely

The circumstances were not unexplained or suspicious. It was only suspicious to the cops, because to a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Dude was not handsome, not just poor but deeply in debt...and his 1st wife mysteriously died with HIS shotgun? That lady was batshit crazy man...

Desperation and thinking you are too special....she was going to be next

yeah, well the nail was guilty

Immaturity, because that needs simple communication

Maybe she did not want that.

Lol you must not have rented in a long time. I’m recently divorced. My rent is 33% higher than my mortgage was for a place 3 times smaller. Rent is disgustingly high nowadays.

Exactly

Yeah, me and my husband had that conversation once. Downsized and bought our current home 4 years later.

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Exactly!

Exactly!

Yeah, There is literally zero doubt in this. The real mystery is how can one manage to look at his face each day, i would be suicidal. Damn hit 3 minutes in the video someones says no history of violence, and no reasons. Shows reasons to the people, what is reason? is reason even real? stupid people will remain stupid or just outright liers is possible, some people simply dont care about the other.

so someone's braking into your house you wont really think everything through 100 percent.. Also he wouldnt have had her on the 911 call if he was gonna shoot her.. Too risky, she might've said something to incriminate him like 'what are you doing, dont shoot me'' etc

OMG RIGHT!!! Those fools. I was thinking to myself Damn he’s got you two snowed pretty good doesn’t he? Lol.

It's the mindset of your church family. When I was in the church, the members were like family and would support one another no matter what. What would that say about them if their Brother in Christ was a murderer? I did love that aspect of my church family, at least until I left because I no longer believed what they were preaching. @@Justice-ef9sk

The bald chick didn't even look like she believed the story he gave as she was retelling it lol

Fact's

Yes! My thoughts exactly. I'll bet they're also his church friends and they'll believe anything just because. The biggest phonies and posers I've met in my life were born again Christians and that's what Calvary Church's non profit incorporation status claims. Calvary is a chain no different than McDonalds.

That's not a universal, though.

And then they would say that 'you're inserting yourself into the investigation', 'trying to shift focus away from yourself' or 'fishing for information they have on you' or any other number of things police says when they have decided to pick you as the killer. You can never win in these situations. That being said- I think he did it.

💯 His pattern of behavior should have been allowed in. He did the same with his 2nd as far as finances. There is no way if a woman knows she is being evicted does not have everything packed up, let alone wait until the eviction date. Why don't we hear her husband's voice on the 911 in the background call if they were both in the same area? I believe he woke her up with the break in story and had her go first down the stairs and the minute they got downstairs she called 911 with her back turned to him and he shot her.

Exactly what I was thinking. They said he spent $180,000. On what? Prostitutes, maybe drugs, gambling, (all of the above) etc. This of course would be the exact reason you wouldn't tell your wife (if you were that much of a low life derelict).

@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO I had a friend whose husband went behind her back and 2nd-mortgaged their house for $300,000. They got so behind in property taxes, they couldn't even get tags and drive their cars. I don't think he ever killed her, but he was a POS.

@@keepitsimple4629 - Yup. My story (one of many): My last 4 remaining family members were murdered. My 86 year old father died on July 4th, after his new Filipina wife of 7 months (33 years his junior) poisoned him over that time. He was patriotic and a Navy Veteran. Then she had his body cremated against my wishes/ demands and paid for a viewing of the cremation, I wasn't invited to. Quite literally destruction of evidence. There is no law (in my home state of California), or in 44 states which protects Nuclear Family Members from a total stranger murdering their family member and then having total control (Power of Attorney) over the body. The law protects the Murderer and Victimizes the Nuclear Family. While she was with my Dad, she quickly alienated me from my Father, tried to turn him against me, and get him to cut me off financially, and moved into the Master Bedroom of my family home, after their First Date. She immediately moved in her dog (which she never walked and never bathed or took care of). She immediately put up security cameras and a Ring Doorbell, I believe to know when I (or anyone else) was coming to visit. She is a Stanford educated, Medical Social Worker who literally told me: I/ We have done this before, less than a month before my Dad died. I have now found other victims related to her and her associates. But the Police will not even investigate this Homicide. It seems clear she researched the laws, and methods/ tactics meticulously (long term) to be able to control every single aspect. She is a narcisscistic egotistical control freak, and literal evil psychopath. Sometime around the time they got married, she convinced my Dad to give her our family home ($2.25 Million) and about $250K in other assets. Previously I had been the beneficiary of our entire estate. Now she has attached herself to my Father's IBM Pension, as well as his Social Security. In 2015 despite being a Medical Social Worker for 25 years, she got a "California Insurance Salespersons License". My assumption (though I haven't proven it yet) is that she took out Life Insurance Policies on the other victims, and my Father as well (unbeknownst to them). She also gets IBM Death Benefits (which I would have received) of several Hundred Thousand. I have calculated that if she lives to age 92, she will receive about $6 Million total. My Dad was the literal verifiable salt of the earth. Anyone who knew him would testify to that fact. Yet after my Mother died in 2020 he didn't want to live his final years alone. So he started dating. All he wanted was to be loved be cared for, and to give love and care for someone else. This lady sought him out on Match.Com and then made him a victim of Elder Abuse, psychological manipulation, and then she poisoned him to death. I watched his eyes turn yellow (jaundice) and roll back/ half open. He died a slow painful death over many many months. My entire life has literally been destroyed. And it's not as if life was good and I had no problems already.

@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO I'm so, so sorry at the ordeal you've had to endure at the hands of a psychopath. I can somewhat relate, as my stepfather and his son pulled some tricks when my mother got Alzheimers. But what they did was pale in comparison to your story. That is horrible, and one reason I won't date or try to find a mate. I'm not handing over all I've worked a lifetime for to a newcomer, and have my sons cut out. You have my sincere sympathy and understanding. What goes around comes around; it might take awhile, but she'll get what's coming to her. Justice delayed isn''t justice denied. Draw closer to God. He's what got me through my trials when I hit bottom. God bless you.

that is what I don’t understand. Sounds like some serious incompetence in the prosector’s office until these women took over.

And had 3 poor kids who will grow up knowing they have a murderer father.

You don't know if he did it or didn't...nor are you the one to judge what he deserves. Get over yourself. Maybe inquire into the concept of justice.

@@ceej5705word salad.

@@ceej5705 He was convicted and it could have happened sooner. What is your point?

I feel for the children ☹

GIRL!!!

True! Thank you. That's called "wisdom and mature judgement."

The thing you’ve gotta remember, though, is this guy was an extremely manipulative sociopath. I think he probably recognized second wife’s weakness and preyed on her.

​@@sayedero ☺️🤭

This made me lol 😆.

@@Cheirosa81 Me too lol...because I thought the same exact thing. He was just blindly naming facial features and came up with that drawing! SMH...he is exactly where he needs to be, in prison!

😂😂😂😂😂

Ironically, that drawing is identical to the "kidnapper" that supposedly took Susan Smith's two young sons.

You know what, I often talk to my cat too about these crime docs😂

they rather believe he's the victim not the person he murdered. Scary!

Well, taking that stance did get them on a TV show.

Cognitive dissonance I guess

okay he's probably a pathological liar but i bet he's telling the truth about this!! hes a good man! 😮 mind blowing

The crucial fact that stood out - was the timing - just how many burglars break into a property at 6.30am on a Sunday morning when householders are beginning to wake up !

Especially when they are supposedly Christian in their beliefs.

@@mortalclown3812 👍

It is very telling that his now ex-wife became so suspicious that she recorded their conversation in case there was a confession. That is so incredibly important in getting insight into who he REALLY was. The ex-wife knew.

This is how most families are, all the time. It isn't puzzling nor wrong, per se. We all want to think the best of the people we love, and it often tales something very serious/horrifying for us to wake up. I think the family is being unexplainably ignorant, and while I don't agree, I can understand it. They, like so many involved, are also victims of this evil man. I have no mercy for this killer, but I have no problem extending a but of grace for those who don't want to believe he's guilty.

Denial is a hell of a thing

It was a high profile case. The Attorney was probably pro bono. And more than likely the attorney paid for the sketch artist..?

@@Justice-ef9skIf you watch this program they explain that his parents hired/paid for the attorneys.

His parents organised the lawyers, they had money as they had the carpet laying business.

@cathybassett6432 what a state of affairs though. Happy to take their handouts when it comes to defending him but not so willing to ask for their help in the first place to save from killing his wife. As you say, so sad that he put a higher value on his reputation than he put on Heidi's life

Attorney was NOT pro bono and his attorney did NOT pay for the sketch.

Yes you usually find that they are usually the most evil people of all

He isn't evil. He's just very selfish and extremely cowardly.

Bingo!

He killed his wife. What more do you want to call someone evil? @@llbb110

Nick "Osteen" Firkus...

It's takes a very long time to physically evict someone from a foreclosure; just wait until Spring/early Summer of next year when all of the people who were on foreclosure forbearance because of CoViD lose their homes; they also just extended the VA foreclosures until May 2024. They're on the books for up to 2 years before they can be physically removed by force.

Nonsense. We don't know what terror she put him through. Maybe she spent all the money. Remember his friends sit there saying the same thing about him, that he was such a great person he wouldn't do it. I don't believe completely he did it, but I think its a slight possibility. So just the same you cant just say she was a nice person. These shows, the dead is always somehow shown as great as ever.

Nice people are naive....men are evil

Stupid lie 😮

Not unless he wanted her killed!!!

Amen 🙏🏼 to that

To make this point, when the wife was on the phone, you could not hear a struggle between the husband and the "intruder."

The statement, "No 'MAN' is putting his wife before himself" if there is an intruder is a very true statement. There is no way any MAN is shoving his wife in front of himself if there is danger. It started to go sideways for me when I heard that

Ahh, she's a piece of work too.

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​@@JStock1032What?

Too bad she didn’t wise up BEFORE having THREE!!!! kids with him 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄😝

Feel bad for her too. Got out of a terrible 1st marriage then married a murderer. How lucky can she be.

Right? Desperate

Has to be said, that’s a credit to the producers. So many old friends won’t participate for exactly this reason. Family is different, it’s a kind of Stockholm syndrome, especially in a case like this were the guy is considered innocent for most of a decade (until proven otherwise)

@@BoKotianLundReminds me of how people can easily follow a cult.

Dems

If he was not paying the bills, where did all the money go?

​@@miladyfeliciano1976the second wife

@@miladyfeliciano1976 Good question. Even the investigators were at a loss. He was living a lie apparently.

@@miladyfeliciano1976 Bingo! THAT'S why he killed his first wife. Heidi found out Nick's guilty pleasure and was going to out him.

​@@mollymelena6104 You don't know that, of course.

that makes sense

Link me that video please

Now that is smart. You closed the case.

Good one Sherlock

Boom. You got it !!!!

Cause he wanted to check if she could testify.

Police shouldn't have told the truth that Wife had died...

I imagine there are legal constraints on what different police in different jurisdictions are allowed to bluff on. If I was in their shoes, I would want to bluff at times to see the suspects reaction or even a possible confession. Perhaps a confession obtained under this scenario could be deemed inadmissible in court ? @@LaiNee_Foo

​@@LaiNee_Footrue that Thoughtless cops!

I bet he would have changed his story the second they told him the doctors said she'd make a full recovery. It wouldn't have gone this long for her family to finally get justice.

The initial investigation was an inept one. The woman who came in free several years made up for the previous ineptitude

I don’t know if that is fair to say about her. He has never been charged with anything when they got together and in her mind he probably wasn’t even a suspect. She probably knew his version of events and nothing else. It’s not like police kept interviewing him or confronted her with their suspicions. The only thing that would have been strange to me is that he seemed to cope very well, wanted to get married again so quickly and put in no effort to find the supposed killer of his wife.

@@Froggele Human nature isn't as black and white. We all have instincts and when your wife is killed in a strange way, and this new wife is going through a traumatic divorce, she wanted someone to ease her pain and Nick was a handy excuse. I think she is a bullshitter too, and ignored things because she was upset. She even tried to portray her kids as victims when she slept with a guy who had a serious historical death around him and he showed no interest in getting the kiiller. That's because he knew there was no other killer except himself. She played the media who don't care because it got its man in the end. RIP Heidi.

​@@Froggelestill . She seemed very flaky.

❤ And these type of people, are „people of faith“.

@@IRELAND_MY_LOVE I‘m not saying it is black and white. On the contrary, I think flippantly putting blame on her or trying to guess what she did and didn’t know is too simplistic. We don’t know what was or is going on in her head and „wanting someone to ease your pain“ as you put it isn’t a character flaw, it’s human. Even willingly overlooking red flags when you are in love is human. I just wish people would judge less and stop this habit of trying to find blame in others than the perpetrator. I see that constantly under true crime videos. Of course there are cases where multiple people bear responsibility (I‘m not saying it’s ALWAYS one person) but I‘ve just noticed this weird need of people to find someone (very frequently a woman) to blame in the social surroundings of perpetrators. Probably because it’s so frightening to think that you could be completely misled by someone so close to you. It’s easier to say she must have known something and that if it was you, your “instincts“ would have told you.

Did he shout "Ready or not, here I come!" before entering as well? 😂

@@Marlainadamn! I was about to go to sleep because I’ve just finished watching when I came across your statement. I cackled like a madwoman on the witching hours 🤣

@@chizusakuraa Same exact thing happened to me just now! Such a funny comment on a terribly sad tragedy.

​@@Marlaina😂❤

It's easier to fool someone than to convince someone they're being fooled.

They think because he went to church with them, he's innocent. Lunatics.

s scorn ex

Maybe they're his accomplices

​@@patedwards8844you said it all. Millions of people are like that. Exactly the same.

Women

other options: big donations to the church; a love child no one knows about; a secret marriage; his job was fake, so there never was enough money to actually pay for stuff

Yup, there is more to this. They had 70k/year income. Close to 6k/month. Not payed mortgage or tax in 22 months. Detective says they werent able to determine where the money went. Imguessing they were able to determine what went to groceries. So he made cash withdrawels and spent that. Can be addiction; drugs, gambling, women Either way, not something that looks good in the community. Any community. Wife didnt know and she was going to find out the next day, as they would be evicted. Seems plenty of motive to me.

Maybe on his friends? Their loyalty in the face of all the evidence is mind blowing.

@@msromo i agree

They are sooo sick,I guess birds of the same feather

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maybe he was talking to his other personality?

thanks for the spoiler

@@stephaniem8700 Why are you reading the comment before watching the video 😂

​@stephaniem8700 you already knew the husband did it

Coz he's a coward

@@sharimeline3077 Why not putting a spoiler warning in? Takes a few seconds.

Maybe finish the video. They all knew he did it and said that at the end.

@@rhondadavis1483those two friends still believe he is innocent. They said so. They said the State did not contradict his story. I don’t get why they can’t see you can’t have a struggle and Nothing is disturbed

​​@@rhondadavis1483you must be related to thing 1 and 2 😂

And when she said, “…WE can’t get there” making it CLEAR he’s whipped and spineless. Horrible, overbearing woman

It's sadly typical of the friends and family of these killer to act like this. He had a clear motive, he didn't want his secrets to come out. People have been killed for far than that.

They are doing their job and everyone has the right to an attorney. When will people stop judging defense lawyers who are an integral part of a state under the rule law for just doing their job ? On the friends a totally agree tho.

As long as we have morals we will judge defense lawyers.....

@@kayakazi7765 So you don’t want to live in a country where everyone gets a fair trial and is presumed innocent until proven guilty? Great morals indeed👏🏻

This the comment I was looking for. I was confused because clearly the husband murdered Heidi, but then I went back and listened to her phone call. But it all make sense now. She called from the room but probs the hubby lied to her about someone trying to break in hence the 911 call.

@@narajj1 Yes exactly. I think he first wanted to shoot her while she was asleep, but then she woke up and asked him why he's holding a gun then he lied to her that there's an intruder and then shot her while he was behind her while she was calling 911. You don't hear her on the phone saying omg the intruder is fighting with my husband or anything, then suddenly gets shot? It pisses me off they gave him 11 years of freedom until they brought a case against him. very sad

That is exactly right anyone can do anything until they get caught pssshhh! Alot of them commit several offenses before being caught and some....well... we'll never know because they've never been caught lol!!

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Exactly. People are like I know this person very well makes me so angry 😡. You are not inside their damn head to know what’s going on in their.

Aptly put.

Especially a religious man. Most of them just act.

I find that whole thing really unclear. Even the news articles have different versions - did he shoot her unintenrionally, or did the intruder? Weird they skipped right past that.

I wondered the same but I think it's maybe the captions that aren't accurate. The way I heard it was Nick said in the police interview 'he' but the caption said 'I'. I might be wrong though

Yeah, I'm surprised that the cops/detectives didn't bother to examine the physical evidence with the gunshot holes in the entry way, or get a clearer picture of how Heidi was shot from nicks position etc.

Lol 😂 me too

I was so close to doing something productive today.🤣

@@Elena-tq9vs reeled you right in huh? Lol

@@ahmadridley I'm just like the "Distracted Boyfriend" Meme, turning away from my responsibilities for another dose of true crime. 😏

@Elena-tq9vs Lol! I've seen this story on another channel, but 48 hours doing it made me watch as if I had never seen it before.

Exactly and if you have a gun, what better vantage point than the top of the stairs. Apart from the fact the police proved he couldn't have heard the doorknob rattling from the bedroom, why choose to try and 'escape' right past the potential threat!

He told to Heidi someone in the house, ask her to call 911, this is a manipulation, he think this way he could proof his innosent, the other things he soot her in the back, he could not see her eyes, what a shame

No real man would let his wife go first. A man would have locked his wife in the bedroom and defended her with his life!

Same here. He would have told me to arm myself and stay put! No way is he letting me out of the room let alone in front of him.

Was it day light too ?? Ppl gonna Jimmy a lock in the morning sun. Gimme a break. Dude killed his wife. This one's obvious. The money and daylight never was brought up

​@@mariamaria2751I know it's hard to believe but people do break in houses in the daylight. But this guy is guilty. I knew it when I heard the 911 call.

Remind me of the zombie like folks blocking traffic in a LSO protest.

They look like they know somethin or somethin insane. Somethings off

Cult type, they will follow anything

Liberals

They sure are, big time.

@@jeshkam They are willfully ignorant. My mouth dropped both times she said he had no reason to harm her. WHAT?! Money is one of the top motives in these cases.

​@@jenelizabeth7822Plus throughout the whole interrogation he couldn't wait to ask that one question. He seems so relieved when he learns of her death. Bad acting.

The spouse shot her not the intruder?

Why would you tell your wife to go down the stairs towards the intruder ?

Right...get too long to catch him

​@@batmangsxr300what intruder?

@@hegemonycricket2182😂😂

Exactly! My husband would've made me stay upstairs...in case a confrontation ensued. He wouldn't have had me walking in of him if we thought someone was breaking in.

He's such a good person they gave him a pass for murdering Heidi and lying to her for so long.

That’s a fact ❤

he was pushing her towards the car / garage

@RicheeBee-nn8mn If there was a real threat, that would be the opposite of what you would do. The guy with the gun goes first. Just a ridiculously stupid lie. If you believe that, then I have some nfts to sell you.

Didn’t think of that but makes sense. A dying person could and probably would miss dial. And who screams at the intruder “You shot me. You shot my wife!” very loudly so the neighbors could hear it. Kinda odd and such a bad liar.

Makes you wonder what kind of people they are

Yes, first thing is to get police and ambulance on location as quickly as possible instead of wasting time.

Seems to happen every time.

Agreed. If someone was wrestling with my doorknob, I would stand there pointing and yelling that I have a gun and go away. I wouldn’t be running to the garage smh

He was chuckling! Who chuckles after a violent, deadly home invasion that kills your spouse?

You must not be a 2nd amendment supporter.

@@gregpettis1113does the second amendment include walking BEHIND your unarmed wife with a shotgun when someone is supposedly breaking into your home? Then the wife gets shot in the back with that shotgun? How does that support the second amendment? 🙄

I wonder if they visit him in prison.

They have no critical thinking. Probably liberals

I'm from St. Paul, there were a few reasons it took that long. They were worried that a lack of physical evidence tying Nick to the crime would be an issue. It was different prosecutors that pushed for further investigation which meant funding for getting the FBI involved. St. Paul was underfunded, and understaffed, well before George Floyd, it just got much worse after that.

Sofa ninja has entered the chat.

​@@mortalclown3812 What does "Sofa Ninja" mean?

Sweet liar!!!

The second wifey is lucky she found out about his lies before they grew larger and more murderous.

And she was the sister of one of Heidi’s best friend. What a weird and too close for comfort type relationship .

yeah, and if the husband was so wonderful, why is she the ex?

Ja they always go for the naive ones ...

The lock jiggling sound causes cancer just like windmill sounds do, and Hedi was killed by a blast of door jiggling sound cancer to the back, so hard it looked like wound from the shotgun her husband shot her with.

Wonder how her sister feels about all of this. She was described as one of Heidi’s best friends.

He is a master of deceit. Remember she confronted him at the risk of being killed herself.

@@marivipalomino6975 she also married him despite the fact he was a person of interest in his late wife’s death and then she had 3 kids with him. I don’t have much empathy for her. She wasn’t clueless about what happened.

She’s a horrible person for dating him less than 6 months after his wife died. She was never a good friend of Heidi.

It was never said she was a good friend to Heidi. She was the sister of one of Heidi's friends.

Libs

That’s what I thought too! But what the ups did he do with all that money???

​@@caro748I was married to someone similar to Nick. I footed most of the bills. He never had money, even though he made way more than me. Anytime I would try to ask about finances, I would regret it. I speculate that he bought gold, guns and ammo, prepper type stuff, or maybe he buried money in a can. But I don't know, and now I don't care.

​@lisahoche4017 woah people like this should never be in a relationship of any kind scarey stuff 😮😢

well, thats usually the biggest indication.

They've been getting it right a lot lately... but not often enough to warrant the death penalty.

She was beautiful, it's always the most innocent women that get murdered. It's so sad

They target the nice ones, they know they are naive

I think you have the correct scenario.

First he has her call 911

I think he woke her up and she was confused and that's how he planned it, I think he woke her up in a panic and told her to hurry up so they could get out the house because someone was breaking in, I think she was totally caught off guard and confused.

@@teresacollins9218 I agree ☝️

@@rsplatt100 yep, 👍🏻