The Woman Who Died Twice | Full Episode | Forensic Files

♪♪ ♪♪ -Down here is where the hunters had discovered the torso of a female in the ditch.
-Jack, had you ever run into anything like this? -No, ma'am. -What day were you out here
and what do you remember from that day? -This was December the 2nd of 2022, I believe.
We was hunting that block of woods that particular day. Well, kind of thought it was a mannequin to start with.
It didn't look real. And this area right here and all around, this is where all the trash, the bags of clothes,
the tote, the knife. That's where all that was found right here. -And your big priority was to find the rest of this woman
and find out who she is. -That's correct. It was getting about dusk and started walking and got to a point
where I'm looking up and the sun's going down. It's shining in my eyes and there's an oak tree.
And I kind of look behind it, and I see a little disturbed area, like a mound. All the remains were found fairly close
to the edge of the road. And at that point, as far as what we knew there was -- The female had dark brown hair.
-You put out a sketch. -GBI had had a forensic artist put out a sketch. -According to deputies,
hunters found the body in the area of Barrington Ferry Road. This sketch from the GBI
serving as one of the only glimpses of who the woman could be. -I was like, "Whoa, wait a minute."
Like, "That looks like Mindy. That looks like Mindy." And I just froze. I said, "I have reason to believe
that this person is Mindy Kassotis." Looks very much like her. I was like, "I want to be wrong."
I have never wanted to be wrong like this in my whole entire life. -A drive through the area shows how dense the wooded area
where the woman was found can be. -It was on the local news, but I had zero reason to connect it to Mindy.
-So you get this call from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, and he says you're not going to believe
what I'm about to tell you. -Yeah, he absolutely said that. I think the first thing through my mind was disbelief.
I had been told back in December that she had died in the hospital. -That's what all of the immediate friends and family
of Mindy's had been told. -Nobody was looking for a murder victim. They thought she had died of natural causes.
-What did they think had happened to her? -She died at the hospital on December 1st.
She's not in the woods. She was cremated. -What do you do? What do you do when you're in a situation
and you feel like something is wrong? But also, the entire story is so crazy. Who's going to believe you?
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Investigator Jack Frost, now with the Liberty County Georgia DA's office,
was one of the first detectives called to the scene on December 2nd, 2022. -The hunters had seen a knife and a tote
and some wipes back there. -Detectives recovered a razor- sharp Milwaukee brand knife,
a plastic storage tub with what looked like traces of blood and wipes. Do you think whoever brought her out here had to know this area?
-That would be a safe assumption because it's so desolate. -It would take five days
until Investigator Frost found the rest of her body. Authorities said it appeared the woman had defensive wounds.
-There's no one that winds up dismembered in the woods. That's not a victim of homicide.
My name is Laurie Baio. I'm an assistant district attorney with the Atlantic Judicial Circuit.
-Investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation released two sketches. -There were hundreds and hundreds of calls and leads
that came in through the forensic sketches that were published from civilians calling in.
-One call came from a woman 500 miles away in Virginia, Heather Thomas. -I was like, "Whoa, wait a minute.
Like that looks like Mindy." -Mindy Kassotis. -Heather Thomas turned out as one of the people
that recognized the photograph and said, this could be Mindy. -Heather recognized Mindy
because Mindy was married to Heather's ex-husband, Nick Kassotis, a naval officer, a lawyer in JAG,
the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. Nick had traveled the globe, was deployed to Iraq.
He served in Italy and the Pentagon. He dealt with sensitive cases involving Afghanistan.
-He definitely had an air about him of confidence, of, you know, reassurance, but never in an egotistical way.
Because you could sort of pick that out from a mile away. -Heather and Nick got married in 2009.
Back then, she was a brunette. Was he wearing a uniform? -Yes, he was in his uniform.
I was in -- I had two different dresses. It was a very big deal. It was a -- it was a happy day.
He had a lot of friends, and he just knew everyone. And he had a very outgoing personality,
and just was a talker, and loved to read, and just was -- It was very different than kind of how I was.
-Things started out well, but eventually, after six years, their marriage faded.
-I felt like we had grown apart. I felt like he was my best friend, but at the same time, like, didn't have the romance.
-And in 2015, they divorced. Nick Kassotis bounced back quickly. That same year, he started dating Mindy.
She was working as a legal secretary in Washington, D.C. -Mindy was the consummate romantic
for a while there, right? -[ Chuckles ] -Angela Wynn and Morgan Paddock were long-time friends of Mindy.
Angela says Mindy met Nick on a dating app. -When she finally did meet him. That was just her fairy-tale ending coming to fruition.
-Even Heather was happy. -He told me all about it. He was so excited that they met, and I was excited for him.
-Nick and Mindy married in 2016. Her friends say the couple soon started looking for a home,
and planning a family. -It's one of the things that she wanted. She wanted to have kids.
-And Mindy became a podcaster. -We both were on her podcast. -Hello, and welcome to another episode
of the Compelling Women podcast. -She just wanted to find the stories of women, and elevate them. -I'm Mindy, your host,
and I'm really excited to share with you another thought-provoking interview with a different
compelling woman. -Mindy and Nick's life seemed good. After leaving active duty, he was still practicing law.
-I was so happy that she was so in love, and just so enamored, and ready to move on to that next phase of her life.
-But her friends say Mindy's life began taking some strange turns. -She once told me, "Morgan,
if you knew everything that was going on, like, this is something that would be a best-selling novel
or a best-selling movie." -Mindy and Nick started moving around a lot, living in three different states.
She rarely saw her friends, they say, and was so worried about security, she started communicating
through the encrypted Signal app. -We only ever talked on Signal if we called. It was through the Signal app,
and if we texted, it was through the Signal app. -And whose idea was it to use the Signal app?
-Oh, Nick. -And Mindy said at one point she was being spied upon. -I remember her saying, "I may have had a tail."
-Someone following her. -Yeah, it ramped up after that. -Mindy's life ramped up into a series of stranger
and stranger events. -She told me they had been hacked by a hacker group. Their bank accounts had been completely frozen.
-They didn't have any money at all. -And she told friends that Nick said they were being surveilled,
and that he told her... -We have a security issue now. And now we're, you know, we're in danger.
-She thought her life was in danger. -Mm-hmm. -It was, according to Mindy, all connected to Nick and some classified work
that he had been involved in during his time in the Navy. -There had to be video surveillance in a van
down the street to just keep watch, to make sure the comings and goings of their home were safe.
-Nick warned Mindy that an undercover team disguised as tree surgeons were planting surveillance cameras around their house.
-It sounded crazy. It did sound crazy because that does sound like something you see in a movie or read in a novel.
But again, you're talking to Mindy, whose husband is a JAG who has all of this military clearance.
-By June 2022, Nick and Mindy were living in Savannah. Friends say she was afraid to leave the house.
Did she sound scared? -Oh, she was. She was scared. ♪♪ -As Mindy's friends worried about the strange events
in her life in Savannah. 500 miles away in Virginia, Heather Thomas had been trying to track down her ex-husband,
Nick Kassotis, for nearly two years. -I tracked him going to South Carolina. He had said something about Georgia,
and that was always in the back of my mind. -He owed her money from their divorce.
A million and a half dollars. A court had ordered him to pay and issued a warrant for his arrest.
His law career was now in jeopardy. -If he was willing to throw away his license
to practice ever. And he was just going to throw all caution to the wind. You're now dealing with a scenario
where you can't assume anything. So you have to be prepared. I had to be prepared for anything.
-Heather had a friend who was training to be a P.I. Through him, she would discover that Nick had been on the move.
She would later find out that he had gone from state to state, living in Airbnbs, motels. Heather didn't know it,
but Nick and Mindy were now hiding out in Savannah, Georgia. That summer, Mindy had told a friend, Angela,
that she was pregnant. -She was very excited and very happy. -But months later, just after Thanksgiving 2022,
Angela got an unexpected call from Nick and couldn't believe what he told her. -He called me. He told me that Mindy was gone.
-Mindy, Nick said, had died from a sudden medical problem, but his details were sketchy.
He told her she had been cremated. There was no funeral, no memorial. -I'm not hearing anything from anybody.
And I need to know what the hell is going on, because, in my mind, you know, Mindy's not gone until I see that she is gone.
And I told him that several times. Like, I need to see it. I need to see her. I need to see her.
-She tried to reach Nick again and again. -He just dropped off the face of the earth.
It was a very hard and confusing time. -At around the same time, Nick's ex-wife Heather had also gotten a message telling her
that Mindy had died in the hospital. -I was contacted saying, "Hey," you know, "Mindy's dead."
-What was your reaction? -Horror. I was just like, "Oh, my God." I felt terrible because no matter what our beef was,
Nick and mine -- like, to hear that a woman around my age is now dead. I was sad.
-And just weeks after that, sad news was still sinking in, Heather received more surprising news in a text
from an acquaintance. -This person says Nick is dead. -Nick Kassotis had died in a car crash.
-And I said, "Hmm." -So you didn't believe that then? -I immediately didn't believe it.
I'm like, "Well, something's fishy here." -But Heather wasn't the only one who heard
that Nick had died. Mindy's parents received an email from the security department at the tech company,
where Nick told them he was working. It read, I'm very sorry to inform you that Nicholas passed away late Wednesday evening.
As Heather tried to get more details, googling news sites online, she came across that police sketch,
the one that looked so much like Mindy, and called authorities in Georgia, that helped police make a positive identification.
And once they got a DNA and genetic genealogy confirmation, they finally had proof that the woman found in the swamp
was indeed Mindy Kassotis. -Once they figured out who she is, all of these things that they've been learning
about the evidence found at the scene all ties in. -Investigators could find no evidence
of Kassotis dying in a car crash. What they did find was a new driver's license in a new name --
Nicholas Kilian James Stark. They tracked him to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was now living with a third wife,
a tech worker and fiction writer, Samantha Kolesnik. He had told her he was a widower.
-Right there to your right. Hey, Nick. -Hey, sir. -Have a seat right here for me.
-In May 2023, detectives brought Kassotis back to Georgia for questioning. He told them a detailed story similar
to what Mindy's family and friends had heard about being pursued and harassed by unknown individuals connected to
government work he had done. -It was different, a couple different stories. And was that there was, um, some fallout from some stuff.
That Nick had done at the Pentagon. He was a potential target for a terrorist group.
It was real top-secret stuff, and that it was really super sensitive, almost like a
you know, "secret agent" type of life. Where they just hid in plain sight, but had to kind of be careful. -The once buttoned-down,
straight-laced attorney and former naval JAG officer now looked scruffy. Kassotis claimed
that he reported the conspiracy to the FBI. And that's when he says a federal agent came
to their home, offering to protect them. His name? Jim McIntyre. -According to Nick, for four years,
Jim McIntyre took control of everything in the couple's lives, telling them when to move and where.
-Tonight's 48 Hours will continue. -Nick Kassotis had spun such an elaborate story for detectives.
They had a hard time believing anything he said. They began to suspect that he made up everything,
that he was the author of the email sent to Mindy's parents, announcing his death,
complete with a company he didn't work for. -It's kind of like, yeah, we can see through all the lies now.
-Detectives began asking him about Mindy's last days. Right around Thanksgiving of 2022,
while Kassotis was out of town, he said, Mindy texted him saying she had taken a fall
and had checked herself into a clinic. He was vague on details. -When Nick arrived,
he told investigators the doctor gave him bad news. -Kassotis couldn't tell investigators
where the facility was, or the names of anyone he spoke to. -But if Mindy had died at a Savannah clinic,
how did her remains end up in a swamp? Nick told detectives he had no idea, but insisted he didn't do it.
What Nick didn't know at the time was that detectives were already building a case against him.
-I think it's easy for people to think about doing something, but I think the act of doing it,
and then trying to cover up all the loose ends, after you've started, it's almost impossible.
-For starters, when detectives ran a background check on Nick, they discovered he owned a green Ford Explorer,
a green Ford Explorer that looked just like the vehicle investigators had spotted on a surveillance video
from a remote pumping station near the crime scene. And why was that camera so significant in this case?
-Because it captured Nicholas Kassotis' Explorer driving past it, going in and out of that area.
-And that wasn't all. On a hunch days after Frost had processed the crime scene,
he checked with Home Depot stores, which sold that Milwaukee brand of knife. -Agent Frost had contacted Home Depot
because he had worked another case, and was familiar with the brand. -One of those knives had been purchased from a store
just 50 minutes from the hunting club, with a debit card belonging to Nick Kassotis.
Here's a surveillance photo of Nicholas Kassotis, right after he paid for that knife.
There he is. And you can see the knife right under his arm. And there were more knives.
When Frost had checked out a Bass Pro shop in Savannah, he discovered that Kassotis had also used his debit card there,
and bought a knife kit designed for hunters. -This is a seven-piece pursuit field-dressing kit for animals.
This is like the same kit that was purchased by Kassotis, and there is an assortment of knives.
-Oh, my God. I'm not touching this. These are very sharp. -Very sharp. And then there is also a bone saw.
-Now, with Kassotis apparently tied to the knives, and the Ford Explorer, they subpoenaed records from his phone and the Ford's GPS system.
-The car records showing his vehicle and phone traveling down to exactly where her body is.
He has no reason whatsoever to be there, other than that his dismembered wife happens to be found there,
when he told everyone else she was cremated. -Back in the interrogation room, detectives confronted Kassotis with their discoveries.
-But Kassotis insisted he was innocent, and pointed the finger at the man he says had been controlling their lives,
Jim McIntyre. -In February 2024, a little over a year after Mindy's death, Nick Kassotis was indicted for the murder of Mindy Kassotis.
-It's very difficult for me to believe that Nick Kassotis could murder anyone. -Tonight's 48 Hours will continue.
-Phillip McCallar had walked these grounds of the Portal Hunting Club for years.
-Just laying in the ditch. -Before the December day in 2022, when he made that gruesome discovery...
-Kind of thought it was a mannequin to start with. It didn't look real. -...strewn along the swamp,
the remains of the once-vibrant 40-year-old Mindy Kassotis. More than two and a half years later,
her husband, Nick Kassotis, charged with her murder, was in a Hinesville, Georgia, courtroom.
-We'll begin the trial at this time, with the opening statements. -This trial would prove to be
unlike any other from the get-go. -My name is Doug Weinstein, and I am representing Mr. Kassotis.
-In an unusual move, the prosecution forced defense attorney Weinstein to open his case first.
-I honestly think it was purely a tactic to try to get into my head a little bit,
and, uh, make me off balance. Mr. and Mrs. Kassotis were told that they were targets.
-Weinstein immediately set the scene for the defense. The alleged killer, he says, was actually another victim...
-Nick Kassotis is a man who lived in fear, relentless, all-consuming fear. -...running for his life.
-It's hard for me to ever believe that Nick killed Mindy. -Instead, Weinstein told the jury Kassotis had been duped,
and deluded by the mysterious figure, Jim McIntyre. -You'll hear testimony that a man calling himself Jim McIntyre,
claiming to be with the FBI, told them that their lives were in danger. -Kassotis is not a killer, he says.
More like a frightened, desperate hero. -A decorated military veteran, he served in Iraq.
He was in the Pentagon. -But prosecutor Laurie Baio says the real Nick Kassotis is revealed
by the gruesome evidence left behind. -And unfortunately, you're going to hear about the dismemberment.
-Baio showed the weapon found near Mindy's mangled body. -A Milwaukee, orange-handled, black-sheathed knife.
-Because Kassotis' DNA was not found at the crime scene, that knife is the same brand investigators say,
as the one seen under his arm... -That's him on surveillance from Home Depot. -...on the same day
that authorities say Mindy may have been murdered. -The state calls Samantha Kolesnik to the stand.
-Along with the facts and forensics, the jury heard tales of betrayal. -Do you swear...
-Including one by his third wife, Samantha Kolesnik. She believed she had married a loving widower,
but later learned that Mindy was still alive when Nick first started messaging her.
-She had no idea that he was leading this double life. -I don't think words will ever capture how I felt,
but I felt if I had to choose some words, I'd say -- Horrified. Shocked. Traumatized. Violated.
Deceived. -Samantha also told jurors Nick wanted to quickly start a family. -I went to a pre-conception appointment
right around the date of our marriage. Yep. -Nick and I met at Naval Justice School in 2008...
-Retired Commander Cameron Nelson described the Nick that she and others had once believed was an honorable, proud patriot.
-And I was scheduled to deploy aboard the USNS Comfort. -When she received a serious cancer diagnosis,
-Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go on that deployment. -Kassotis, she told the jury, stepped up and stepped in.
-Nick immediately volunteered to take that deployment, so that I could focus on treatment.
-But that same Nick Kassotis, she says, also betrayed her trust when he told her
that his financial accounts had been hacked. She lent him money, and even gave him a credit card.
-How much did the defendant charge to that credit card? -Approximately $198,000.
-Has he ever paid a penny towards that debt? -Not a penny. -The man Cameron thought
was a patriot now seemed like a calculating con man. -And we decided that it was just not sustainable
to continue to allow him to borrow money. -Please raise your right hand and take the oath.
-First wife, Heather Thomas, testified about her own betrayal, with its court order for Kassotis
to pay up on their divorce agreement. -Did the defendant cooperate with the divorce obligations?
-No. -Did that cause any kind of hardship to you? -Of course. It put me through a lot of emotional stress.
-Did he ever comply with that court order for the $1.5 million, the interest, and the attorney fees?
-No. -The jury watched that video of Kassotis' green Ford Explorer, less than a mile from where Mindy's remains were found.
-And that camera captured that vehicle. Is that correct? -The water pumping station camera.
-Thank you. -Special Agent Tracy Sand said he wasn't just sifting through physical evidence.
He had been on a hunt for a star witness. -Did you ever make an effort to locate Jim McIntyre?
-Yes, ma'am, I did. There was only one in this area, in the Savannah area. -And this McIntyre was definitely not an FBI agent.
-An older gentleman, he managed a company that sold dental implants. -Could you identify any connection
between that Jim McIntyre and this case? -I could not. -It's a powerful circumstantial case
against Nick Kassotis that only one man can rebut. -The defense calls Nicholas Kassotis to the stand.
-Please raise your right hand and take the oath. -For more than three hours, Kassotis repeated to the jury his story about the mystery man
who he insists controlled every detail of Mindy's life and his. -I gave Jim McIntyre access to literally everything.
He had access to our home. He had all of our bank accounts. -Why would an accomplished attorney listen to some guy
who just shows up and do whatever he says? -Well, that's the million-dollar question, right?
Why would he do that? Um, all I can think is panic. -The defense offered no pictures
of McIntyre, no records. Just Kassotis' testimony. -I had no reason to doubt that he was who he said he was.
-And Kassotis claimed he was only in the area where his wife's remains were found,
because the manipulative McIntyre had told him to go there. -Did you kill your wife, Mindy?
-I absolutely did not. I would never have hurt Mindy. -Did you dismember her body?
-No. Absolutely not. -Then what about that knife cradled under his arm? Kassotis said it wasn't about murder.
It was for home improvement. A broken screen. -I was having a very hard time keeping the netting on it
and keeping it secured up there. So I was looking for something that was kind of long and thin.
-What is Nick's strongest defense? -His strongest defense is it's entirely circumstantial.
There was zero evidence presented at trial of how Mindy was killed and, frankly,
where Mindy was killed. They don't know. -Attorney Weinstein closed his defense with this reminder to the jurors.
-The state has an incredibly high burden to meet because they have got to show guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
And they haven't done that. They just -- they just haven't done that. -As the trial wrapped up, the mystery man, Jim McIntyre,
-Can't find a person that doesn't exist. -Never appeared in this Georgia courtroom.
-I submit to you there is no Jim. He killed her. He took her from everyone. A bright light. Kind. Good-natured.
I submit to you, Mindy. She deserves your attention. This case is about her. Look at the evidence
and come back with what is the only appropriate outcome -- Guilty of all charges.
♪♪ -Nick Kassotis and his attorney had hoped to convince a jury that he wasn't capable of killing his wife, Mindy.
But somebody else was. -It is not my job to figure out who killed Mindy Kassotis.
That is the state's job. It's a huge job. It's an important job, and it's a high burden.
-What's the motive for someone else to kill her? -Well, again, we go back to Jim McIntyre.
That's the only person that could possibly -- That's the only person. -The mysterious Jim McIntyre.
Prosecutors say there is no Jim McIntyre. That he doesn't exist. Do you have any evidence
he does? -I have no evidence that Jim McIntyre exists. -Do you have a picture of him?
-I have no picture. -Any kind of documentation that showed that he worked for a federal agency?
-All that we have on Jim McIntyre is what Nick has told Mindy. If I had any way to prove that Jim McIntyre existed,
you would have seen it at the trial. -Why should anyone believe Nick Kassotis' story
when he's a liar? -He lies a lot. He told some big lies, but nothing like murdering your wife.
I just refused to take the leap of, because you lie about certain things, you're a murderer. It's just too far for me to go.
-Even prosecutor Laurie Baio admitted that despite Kassotis' his inconsistencies,
jurors might have doubts about his guilt. -If you look at him on paper, he looks like Prince Charming.
My mom and dad would have said, "Oh, my gosh, he's a wonderful catch. He looks fantastic." So why wouldn't you believe him?
-But Baio says Kassotis has been fooling people for years. -He gaslighted everybody. Not stupid people.
Not people that are unaware. And they all bought it. -Including Mindy. -She believed him.
I mean, no one disputes that Mindy never left the house, that she was terrified and that she stayed home every moment of her life,
afraid that if she left, she'd be killed. -The real story, says Baio, was much more mundane.
Kassotis was hiding, she says, because he didn't want to pay his ex-wife. Was Nick Kassotis, gaslighting his wife
and making her believe that their lives were in danger, when in fact, he was just running from a debt.
-You know, that's possible. -I mean, he's a prosecutor. He's a lawyer. He might be able to convince her of that.
-He also knows how to handle the legal system. So there's a million-and-a-half dollar judgment against him.
There's all kinds of ways to get rid of this debt. You don't need to live a miserable life for five years
because of a judgment that you can't pay. -But why kill Mindy? Why do you believe Nick killed his wife?
What -- What's the motive for it? -That was the hardest question to answer, but juries want to know.
It was my argument to the jury that everybody said Nick wanted a family. He wanted kids. He really wanted to have kids.
-But, so why kill her? -I think he found out she wasn't pregnant. -In fact, Mindy's death certificate said she was not pregnant.
♪♪ -Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. -Jurors took just a little over an hour to reach a verdict.
-It's my understanding that the jury has reached a verdict. -Count one. Malice murder. Guilty.
Count two. Felony murder. Guilty. -Guilty on all charges. -I don't believe for a minute
Nick ever expected a guilty verdict to come back. -Before sentencing, Mindy's friend Morgan Paddock
spoke directly to Kassotis. -She loved you and trusted you to tell her the truth,
to protect her, to live out your marriage vows. And yet you were the one that she needed protection from.
-He is remanded to custody. -The judge sentenced him to life without parole. Why did so many people believe Nick Kassotis?
-You know, all I have are questions from this case, right? Just -- I don't have answers.
So many people, college grads, professionals, career Navy officers believed everything that Nick and Mindy
told them about why they were living the life. And I think it's because when Nick would tell them something,
they believed him. -The people in his life are still struggling with a betrayal.
Is that hard for you, then, to think that you were married to this man? Who then killed his wife?
-The thing that I struggle with, I think, even now, is the fact that survivor's guilt is very real.
Out of the two of us, I probably had -- he probably had more reasons to perhaps maybe come after me.
I trusted him with my literal life, and I believed him. -Mindy's friends now accept
that they were all betrayed by Nick, but they hope Mindy will be remembered not as a victim,
but a woman who saw the light in other women and tried to capture that in a podcast.
-And it was beautiful and it was special. And it was talking to a friend and knowing that she had a platform
and she wanted to use it for good. -The Compelling Women podcast is written and hosted by me, Mindy Kassotis.
Thank you so much for listening to the first season, and I promise to be back with another season as soon as I can.

A woman's body is found in a swamp, murdered. Impossible, say friends, who learned she'd died in a hospital five months earlier. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. This episode aired on Feb. 28, 2026. Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.

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Brief Summary

Mindy Kassotis was murdered by her husband Nick, who was later convicted after a complex investigation revealed his lies.

Key points

Discovery of Remains. Hunters discover a dismembered body in the woods, leading to a shocking investigation.
Sketch Recognition. A forensic sketch leads to a chilling realization about the victim's identity.
Mindy's Mysterious Death. Nick claims Mindy died suddenly, but details remain sketchy and suspicious.
Nick's Arrest. Nick Kassotis is indicted for the murder of his wife Mindy after a complex investigation.
Trial Begins. The trial of Nick Kassotis opens with unusual tactics from the prosecution.
The Mystery of Jim McIntyre. Prosecutors argue that the mysterious Jim McIntyre does not exist, raising doubts about Kassotis' defense.

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I have never wanted to be wrong like this in my whole entire life.

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