Mystery at Eagle Creek | Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] I want people to know that Rhonda wasn't just beautiful bye daddy people always are surprised when
they hear this like no you can't be super beautiful like her and be intelligent at the same time I'm like
actually she was wicked [Music] smart very in love we planned on getting married in the summer that was my
timetable they did look at wedding rings I think she she wanted one that was around 35,000 and uh I was thinking more
15,000 was my range and you and Ronda did you like to get Outdoors all the time we loved hiking uh we played a lot
of frisbee golf so yeah we were Outdoors most of the time we woke up early she opened the
drapes and we saw it's a beautiful day okay so we are going to go hiking one of the things she asked me on the drive
over she said uh if anything ever happens to me do you promise to watch our daughter and take care of
her and I go what are you talking about she goes I have dreams all the time that
I am dead before 25 did Rhonda ever tell you that she was sensing something bad was going to
happen to her she said that he's either going to propose to me me or kill me she wasn't happy she just fell out of
love with him and they were fighting all the time she had mentioned wanting to take the baby and and leave
Steve started pouring down rain and thunder came and so she just started bolting down like at a full Sprint
running down the trail and what unfolded before your eyes I don't know how far down it was but she went off the
trail a man hiking with Ronda Casto says that she fell off a cliff last night did
she take a step and her feet went out in front of her did she tumble forward what
did you see next question I'm Steve Nichols and in February of 2015 I was charged and arrested for the
murder of Ronda Casto my fianceé we're in Hood River Oregon it's been 6 years 1 month and 26 days since
Ronda fell off that trail to her death and for the first time Steven Nichols will enter a formal
plea accident or murder murder murder and from a mother's heart and mind you are certain of that I am 100% certain of
of that he's evil he's totally evil I think I've just left a path of Destruction I'm a till the Hun basically
going through women [Music] 48 Hours mystery at Eagle Creek continues in 90 [Music]
seconds when you have a case where someone's falsely accused you can't really separate yourself from work and
and home life for defense attorney Mike Arnold Mr Nichols is here with his lawyer representing Steven Nicholls
gives new meaning to the phrase full-time job you know while I prefer to be coming home doing farm tours and
listening to Wildlife instead I'll be thinking about my closing argument or what the next
step of the case is we are on the record in Hood River County state of Oregon versus Steven
Wagner Nicholls Nicholls was arrested for murder in February 2015 accused of pushing his girlfriend
Ronda Casto off this Trail in Oregon 6 years earlier to that charge what's your plea not
guilty baale was set at $2 million Nicholls would spend the next 14 months in jail awaiting trial I try to
just take it one day at a time I read a lot I play chess but real when it comes down to it I miss my daughter so that's
the hardest part but in April 2016 with a trial date nowhere in sight Judge John Olen reduced
Nicholls bail to $250,000 Mike Arnold set out on a frantic mission to gather the 10% needed
in cash to free his client so the farming defense attorney 10 becomes a personal banker
people have taken off work to be there to get them out so it sounds like a small price to pay to be there when my
client gets to see freedom for the first time in a year so wish us luck but Arnold would need more than luck we
can't get the client build out until tomorrow morning he'd need an extra day to arrange for the ankle monitor
required for nichels release so hold on tight to this and go get some supper the next day there a little un
expected overnight trip in Hood River I'm on recycled clothes I'm looking forward to get home to my family it's my
son's first birthday today presumption of innocence ladies and gentlemen Mike feeds the cash into
the bail machine I'm very excited to see Steve for the for the first time outside
in the fresh air two more hours and Arnold gets his wish I want to cry actually I'm so happy but it's a
Bittersweet Victory we will continue to fight until I proven my innocence but still a long fight ahead but now I've
got him out with me so we can work on this as a team so this is a big deal but how exactly did Nicholls and his
attorney end up at this moment it all started 11 years earlier when a stunning 20-year-old
woman knocked on Nicholls bedroom door at his home just outside Portland Oregon and I turn around and I look at
her and my tongue pretty much Hit the Floor up until that point she's the most beautiful woman I have ever seen and
she's like hi my name is Rhonda in 2005 Nicholls who was 10 years older than Rhonda and recently divorced
was working as a day trader I had a three-bedroom condo and the other two rooms were just empty so he decided to
get a roommate I first met Steven Nicholls through the internet I was looking for a place a room to rent who
turned out to be ronda's mother Julia Simmons he can be very charming and you know somebody that's really nice ronda's
best friend Jessica curn wasn't surprised Steven was instantly attracted to Rhonda who was an aspiring model tell
me about this that was part of her modeling portfolio I just love it because she just looks amazing in all of
those pictures everything about her was impressive and I just immediately fell in love with her and what were you
sensing from Rhonda I felt she was into me too I could tell that she valued intelligence and I've always thought
that that's one of my strongest assets I think she was attracted not so much to his looks but to his his uh what he had
his condo his money his you know his status soon Ronda joined her mother Julia in the condo not as a roommate but
as Steven's girlfriend ronda's younger sister Tessa was just 9 years old at the time when I first met Steve he was
really fun because I was a little girl he he was playful you know three years into their relationship Ronda and
Nicholls living together but not married became parents don't Daddy help you a little I me that's was pretty did you
see her face she's all no when our daughter was born it meant everything to her she became the
focus and the center of her life I loved having a niece I was always over there and she loved playing with jewelry just
like Rhonda did she's just like her mom she loves jewelry Ronda loved being a mom but hoped to restart her modeling
career she had gained quite a bit of weight from having our daughter she was the heaviest she had ever been and she
felt really disgusting so Steven says the couple came up with an adventurous plan to lose
weight we made it a pack that we would hike 20 or 25 of the top trails in Oregon we'll just start Crossing them
off the list but Jessica says Rhonda told her about only one planned hike she was so happy that he was finally
planning something and all the years they had been together he had never put any effort into planning anything for
her including those plans to get married the proposal never happened things were
tough after the baby was born he wasn't around as much I think she held on for longer for the sake of the baby daddy
going to open it for you Jessica says Ronda had grown unhappy and that the relationship had taken
a dangerous turn she told me that he had in the recent months been physically abusive to her but Nicholls claims just
the opposite was true we wouldn't argue at all we were spending a lot of time together so I would think that would be
the closest we ever were so when step is telling us that they were planning their
future together and everything was great and it was a lovey-dovey relationship is he lying to me he's absolutely lying
to you I've I've witnessed their fights i' I was on the phone a couple of times when they were in a physical fight
actually and Julia claims Ronda made a chilling statement to her just before the hike she said he's either going to
give me a ring or he's going to throw me off a [Music] cliff on March 16 2009 Ronda and Steven would set out on
that Fitness hike and Ronda would not live to see the end of the day there's a smile bye daddy
[Music] this is probably the most hiked area in the Columbia River Gorge uh for several
reasons one the the sheer beauty of the hike 3 months after Steven Nichols arrest in 2015 his attorney Mike Arnold
took his own investigative team up the Eagle Creek Trail where he believes Ronda Casto slipped
and fell to her death inclement weather hits and disaster happens between the physical evidence
and the science there won't be much dispute about this being a tragic accident on a dangerous
Trail Steven Nichols says this is how the tragedy unfolded they are heading down the trail Ronda was in a great mood
and jokingly she put a towel around her shoulders and was calling herself Supergirl she broke into a run and
according to Nicholls at this very Point she slipped on the wet path and fell more than 150 ft to her
death that was his story in 2015 I'm not going to comment on that when Nichols was forbidden by his
attorney from discussing details of Rhonda's deadly fall with 48 hours until now his only account was the one he gave
to police the day of the tragedy again something I'm not going to comment on but in 2017 Steven Nichols broke that
silence either I pushed her she jumped of her own accord or she slipped he sat down and spoke to us about the day Ronda
Casto died let's get in that time machine and go back to March 16th 2009 we woke up
early Steven says Rhonda seemed focused on the future as they drove to Eagle Creek
Trail she says I desperately need to lose weight because they want to use me as the Maria Sharapova lookalike model
and I'm like yeah you really do look like her but then Nicholls claims Ronda asked him a startling question
completely out of the blue she said uh if anything ever happens to me would you promise to watch our daughter and take
care of her I said said of course Steven says the question unnerved him especially since 3 months earlier he
claims Ronda had demanded he' buy life insurance she was adamant about it I said why do you want this life insurance
and she goes because I want to leave our daughter something in case I die so both
Steven and Ronda had each taken out a 1 million doll policy on the other he planned the whole thing was premeditated
the whole thing ronda's mother doesn't believe a word of Nichol's story saying the insurance was all his idea and that
Nicholls the day trader had an ulterior motive he had lost a bunch of money the year before he lost like a quarter of a
million dollars is the insurance and then four months later she's dead the couple got to the trail head
where Rhonda snapped this photo of Steve later found on her cell phone the weather was excellent actually but
Steven says Rhonda was acting strangely I asked her are you okay hiking on this Trail and she goes I used
to come up here with a bottle of vodka and a bag of weed she goes I'll be fine so I said okay they hiked up a few
miles uh I remember we kissed for a little bit um I remember she wanted to have sex and I said no like I'm very
prim and proper I didn't want to do that then nichel says Rhonda once again asked
him that unsettling question she asked me if anything ever happened to her which would I promis to take care of her
daughter but Rhonda may have been thinking about more than their daughter what are you saying
stepen I mean I think anyone with an ounce of intelligence can film in the blanks
um you would have to look into how many times in her past she committed suicide attempted suicide yeah of course
attempted I mean Nicholls says Rhonda was depressed and shockingly that she had tried to take her own life at least
three times before he even met her she's never attempted suicide never he's lying
I but you know what people that have to make up lies are you know you can obviously tell they're guilty
and there's more Nicholls claims that Rhonda had long struggled with a serious drug problem she's never been off drugs
since the age of 12 what kind of what kind of drugs everything everything alcohol cocaine all of them
marijuana crystal meth all of them heroin but ronda's autopsy would show that she only had traces of marijuana as
well as prescription drugs for anxiety and depression in her system just Jessica curn says Rhonda did suffer from
postpartum depression she was in therapy and that's why she was on the prescription
medications Nicholls says they didn't Linger on the trail for long and who decides hey let's head back uh it's
decided by the weather started pouring down rain and thunder came and so she just started bolting down like at a full
Sprint running down the trail now I've been on that trail it's a narrow Trail it is very narrow did you yell at her
hey what are you doing stop Walk we're walking down um I don't think I screamed anything at her Nicholls says the Steep
Trail became slick I hugged the right wall pretty much on the way down this is cascading rain like you can actually
just see the water flowing down the trail and so take me to the time of of the Fall
what do you remember that part I'm not going to take you through because she did fall
off and I can say I had absolutely nothing to do either directly or indirectly with her falling
off but what Nicholls seems to be suggesting to 48 hours is that Rhonda may have chosen to go off that Cliff did
she tumble forward what did you see next question was a large skid mark on the uh on the path where she had
slipped and went off no that's just a footprint just a footprint mhm Steve look at me what you're saying is she
jumped she was going down at almost a run un Pace there's a single footprint you're telling me at the edge of the
cliff and she goes over that's a jump I've laid everything out there people can reach whatever conclusion
they [Music] want see how prosecutors believe Rhonda fell to her death on Facebook at 48
[Music] hours while not saying it in so many words she did fall off and I can say I
had absolutely nothing to do either directly or indirectly with her falling off [Music]
Steven Nicholls mind games there's definitely a lot more to the story but I'm not going to say it so manage to
drop a bombshell well you've led me down a path to believe this was a suicide and I
don't think you can look me in the eye and say well Peter you're wrong can you no suggesting that Ronda Casto chose to
jump to her death from Eagle Creek Trail what was her point in going up there how to say this I she knew she
wasn't living past the age of 25 she knew that for a reason she just wasn't a happy person and she thought that having
our daughter would bring her happiness and it didn't she had a 9-month-old baby at home that she loved
dearly and she loved her family so that's just another one of his lies to take the heat off of himself after Ronda
went off the trail Steven says he hiked down the deep ravine what' you do when you got to her well I hold
her that's the first thing I did when I got there with no cell service to call for help Nicholls says he made his way
back to the trail head and dialed 911 the police never once asked me if it was a suicide they never even brought up
suicide I just answered the questions that they asked why didn't you tell them back in the day that suicide was
something she was contemplating would it have made a difference do you really think Nicholls may have had a million
reasons to keep suicide a secret if it's a suicide life insurance doesn't pay out so our daughter would have gotten
nothing is Steven being self-sacrificing having said nothing about suicide until now even as he
stands charged with murder you were willing to essentially take a bullet for that or is he self-serving I think Steve
is just throwing all these ideas out to throw people off the fact that he pushed
her oh well she killed herself because she wanted to make a better life for her daughter an investigation into ronda's
death was immediately launched and a memorial was held ronda's family claims that you were not grieving that you
seemed moved by Rhonda death the exact opposite I was crying nonstop when I'm really really
sad I just I close down that's just the way I deal with pain shortly afterward Steven moved
across the state with his daughter to live with family for about 3 months after Rhonda
died I completely shut down by 2013 4 years had gone by and no charges had been filed against Nicholls he decided
to start a new life in a new land so how does a kid from Oregon end up in China i' had been there before and I like
China Steven packed up I would telling my daughter this is our new life let's make it work and headed here to wooi
about 75 mil from Shanghai I decided when I got to China this is a whole fresh start and I was like America all
the past Steven got a job teaching English to Chinese businessmen my daughter was absolutely thriving a
little over 2 months and she was fluent in Mandarin she had dance lessons she was taking Taekwondo she was learning to
play the piano and Steven began to thrive too falling in love with Landy yinyan she's
beautiful of course but she's the deepest funniest person I've ever met Steven says Landy became like a mother
to his daughter and I can say this with being with so many American women Chinese women all inclusive are better
Partners sounds so insulting to American women but they just they make better Partners they make better wives and so
Steven decided to make Landy his wife after a year of dating I had actually proposed to her right before I came back
to America Steven flew back to the US with his daughter in February 2015 to get married Landy would follow a few
days later we were planning on getting married both in America and China to make it official what Steven didn't know
is that the entire time he was out of the country investigators stayed on Rhonda's case and Julia stayed on
theirs I kept calling and asking why anything nothing nothing was happening but something did happen in April 2014 a
secret grand jury heard evidence and indicted Nichols for the murder of Ronda Casto so 10 months later when Steven and
his daughter arrived in San Francisco They said something was wrong with my bags I was like it's interesting instead
of catching his connecting flight to Oregon Steven says authorities separated him from his daughter I'm like what is
going on here something's fishy and then yeah that's when they arrested me and I
could hear my daughter in the other room crying and she goes I want to be back with my dad Steven would be extradited
to Oregon and his daughter would be sent to live with ronda's family so I was shocked so one of those things where you
think you're in a dream and you're going to wake up at any time I'm like okay I'm
going to wake up in China you my daughter will be nudging me I'll be back to normal but that never happens back in
Oregon it was like a dream 40-year-old Steven Nichols was arrested last one that had come true for ronda's loved
ones and I just I was busted out crying it was amazing I couldn't believe it I was just like after all this time
finally we are on the record in state of Oregon versus Steven Nichols for months
following his February 2015 arrest for murder when you're ready Mr Arnold Steven Nichols faced pre-trial hearings
on a slew of issues from evidence to motive the state is present represented by car rasmon including whether there
should even be a trial since the defense considers Ronda casto's death an accident both sides called Witnesses was
this a mediately investigated as a murder no and when did it become a homicide investigation as opposed to an
accidental fall pretty much the next morning I can tell that uh based on the injuries that she has she she landed
predominantly on her legs and her pelvis medical examiner and forensic pathologist Dr Christopher Young says
Rhonda's injuries were mostly below the waist the pelvis was essentially shattered the defense argues the
location of her injuries indicate Ronda left the trail feet first not tumbling head over heels from
a push it's a theory that could support Nicholls new suggestion of suicide when you look at the relationship that the
defendant then had with Ronda Casto and at the same notes from a therapist Rhonda had been seen reveal
she was depressed but not suicidal from her relationship ship was Steven which she described as
Loveless um what the state has to prove in this case is the defendant did a criminal act prosecutors hope the judge
will allow them to tell jurors about some bad acts in Steven Nichols troubled past at his upcoming murder trial is
something that obviously is is U titillating and interesting the first one a shocking love triangle involving
another of ronda's younger sisters Melanie that may have provided a motive for murder do you believe that Steven was in
love with Melanie yes I do Jessica says Ronda learned that Steven was having sex
with Melanie and did Ronda ever tell you how young her sister was when she first
had sex with Steven she was 15 15 years old yes in fact just after his arrest for murder Steven was indicted on two
counts of third degree rape and three counts of thir degree sodomy for allegedly having sexual relations with
an underage Melanie back in 2005 he did rape my daughter and I didn't want to believe it in October 2016 while
awaiting his murder trial you agreed to plead guilty to two counts of sexual abuse with Melanie Casto MH and you
signed your name under this statement I had sexual intercourse with with Melanie
Casto twice Steven insists his admission was false did you have sex with her no I'm like well can I take a plea and then
just say Obviously it never happened and I was told later nope I'm in order to pass the sex offender treatment you have
to admit that even though he'd be a registered sex offender the law would allow Steven to still fight and regain
custody of his daughter who is in the care of the state I became desperate I wanted my daughter back you'll be amazed
at what you're willing to sign to stay out of prison but investigators believe there really was a relationship between
Steven and Melanie one that continued on and off for 4 years right up to that fateful last hike just a few hours
before her death Ronda who had learned of the affair sent this text to her sister I don't know what to say besides
he's a piece of he used you to hurt me I won't let him screw us up again when you
need me I am waiting this Rhonda sounds like somebody that doesn't care much at all about you she's angry with you does
sound like she's angry I have no idea why she sent those but Julia says she knows why she loved her sister and she
knew that Steve was trying to drive a wedge between them and she I guess she figured it all out and realized what he
was doing on the night of Rhonda casto's death the defendant didn't run to where
his daughter was didn't run to his parents the first person to whom he went was Melanie Melanie Casto and it's not the
only allegation Nicholls has faced involving a minor less than 6 months after ronda's death he was charged with
five counts of sex abuse for allegedly touching a 13-year-old girl on the bus he claims that didn't happen but
something else did you sent sexually suggestive texts to her and a selfie with your shirt off and you agreed to a
plea deal in this case yeah that was definitely I was in the wrong on that one um in terms of sending the
photo that was no kidding yeah that's terrible it's disgusting it is Nicholls pleaded guilty to one count of sexual
harassment I have been emotionally abusive at times to people but I've never physically hurt anyone prosecutors
don't agree and want a jury to see this picture taken by Rhonda showing red marks left from an alleged physical
encounter with Nicholls right before they went on their hike they had they had a little scuffle on the stairs and
he put some bruises on her back and she took pictures of them in the mirror and there are allegations of another
physical assault of a woman with Eerie similarities to what Nicholls stands accused of now allegations made by his
ex-wife he did try to push his wife over balcony in China in November 2003 Steven
was still married to his ex an American woman and living in China for the first time when his spouse accused him of
trying to suffocate her and throw her over the railing of their eighth floor apartment we were both holding on to
each other's clothing and we were both yell Nicholls denies the claim and was not charged with a crime in China but
Oregon court documents show a witness confirmed Nicholls ex-wife's account as Nicholls awaits trial in the
death of Ronda Casto he has some pleasant distraction my Chinese fiance Landy is arriving here in about an hour
I'm nervous I'm excited visits from his fiance hello today I had my first court appearance the case was involving my
daughter at our request Steven Nichols has kept a video diary while out on bail Blue Sky many many Big Trees including
Landy hiking to that fateful spot on Eagle Creek Trail very beautiful a little dangerous and on the eve of his trial
we're at the top of Spencer but in Eugene love the hike this is one of the happiest days of my life a defiant
Nichols is convinced there will be many more happy days ahead I had nothing to do with Ronda casto's death
[Music] I had nothing to do with Rhonda casto's death you didn't push her no what is it what is it what is it
so you you're telling us you are completely innocent of these charges [Music] yes there's a
smile in May 2017 following several hearings about what evidence could be used against Steven Nichols which would
include his plea to having sex with Melanie it looked like his true day in court was finally on the horizon and
then I got a call from Carrie rasmuson the prosecutor and she slowly told me the
news about him taking a plea to Julia's shock and horror there had been a settlement conference with the
prosecution and the defense agreeing to allow Nicholls to plead guilty to lesser
charges I started to cry I got really upset I just said I was screaming on the phone to Carrie no no you can't do this
please don't don't plead out but prosecutors knew their case against Nicholls could fail for years the
District Attorney's office has believed that Mr Nichols is responsible for the death of Rhonda Casto but this case is
not about belief it's about the facts that can be presented to a jury at trial what is your plea to the charge of
criminally negligent homicide guilty and to the charge of coercion guilty people take pleas for all sorts
of reasons most the time innocent people plead guilty in order to gain an advantage or meet a goal in this case um
uh this is Mr Nichols purchasing um Insurance there's now a 0% chance that Steve goes to president for murder that
a jury gets it wrong Nichols was given credit for time served while awaiting trial he remains on Paro for 3 years his
ankle monitor was removed and his days behind bars are over this plea deal is it justice to you
no it's not Justice I felt like it happened out of nowhere I'm still completely blown away by the the
decision that was made in this you destroyed my whole family still firmly believing Nicholls
is a murderer ronda's mother Julia was allowed to address the court I don't see how you could do that how you could take
a mother away from her child like that by killing her that's just horrible Steve I'll just buy my time and wait
until you screw up or when you die cuz I know you're going to go to hell for what
you did Nicholls claims he took the deal for just one reason time was running out
to regain custody of his daughter if I waited over a year to go to trial I probably had a 0% chance there's um some
problems with the juvenile uh court system that the longer you wait the harder it is to get a child return to
parent but having now admitted to inappropriate behavior with a 13-year-old girl pleading to having sex
with ronda's underage sister and playing a role in ronda's death Nicholls chances
of regaining custody of his daughter are in Jeopardy I think I've just left a path of Destruction MAA the Hun
basically going through women unable to leave Oregon until his parole expires in
2020 Steven broke up with his fiance who had returned to China I'm alone about 99% of the time I never go
out I have nobody then for the second time in our 48 Hours interview Nichols brings up the
topic of suicide but this time he's not speaking about Rhonda if I don't have my daughter then
it's pretty much game over for me I'm I'm checking out so you're saying you'll take your own life um I hate all the
suicide questions um I'm not going to answer that but like I said I if I don't get my daughter back
I'm done I'll just say that yeah right I doubt that he's too narcissistic egotistical
sociopath there's no way he would take his own life he's just said that to get sympathy and if your granddaughter were
to be placed back into his custody what do you think would happen she would not be a normal child she would be
emotionally and mentally abused and possibly physical and then just when we thought
this story had come to an end our interview with Nichols took could turn into The
Surreal I'm trying to think of a way to think of this for the first time he talks about what may have happened in
Rhonda's last moments of life that day in 2009 comparing her to a wounded soldier let's say you're in a war
situation and you're with your buddy and I don't know he he takes a land mine or
a grenade or something you're 100% certain this guy's going to die remember Nicholls climbed down 150 ft to where
ronda's broken body lay was she alive when you got to her now and that's the part I'm not going
into is Steven Nichols about to admit something did you put Ronda out of misery that day let me ask
you if you shoot your War bud because you see how much pain he's in is that murder what do you say I say no of
course not so to me that's a Justified I don't want to say homicide but I mean technically it is homicide but it's
Justified as of that point you are putting someone out of their misery that essentially has zero chance
of survival and is that what you did that's of course that's not what I'm saying I'm just saying
well you brought this up you brought up this whole it seems a dangerous word game
Nicholls stood on the Cliff's Edge then took a step back a final twist in a tragedy where only Nicholls knows the
real [Music] ending it's all hypothetical cuz I'm telling people you know think think
outside the box like there's always other options there [Music] they killed Fabio fab here for another
Fab style Friday faia was fabulous I love it we call them the knock knock burglar it was like a Twist in a
nightmare I'm like you sure CBS News original reporting [Music]

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Brief Summary

Ronda Casto's tragic death leads to her fiancé Steven Nichols' murder charge and a complex legal battle over their tumultuous relationship.

Key points

The Tragic Death of Rhonda Casto. Rhonda Casto fell off a cliff during a hike, leading to a murder charge against her fiancé.
The Arrest of Steven Nicholls. Steven Nicholls was arrested for the murder of Rhonda Casto, raising questions about their relationship.
The Investigation Unfolds. Investigators continued to pursue Rhonda's case while Steven started a new life in China.
Steven Nichols' Arrest. 40-year-old Steven Nichols was arrested, shocking those close to Ronda.
Nichols' Claims of Innocence. Nichols insists he is innocent, despite his guilty plea.
Plea Deal Controversy. Nichols pleads guilty to lesser charges, raising questions about justice.

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