Deborah Roberts

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to 2020 The After Show.

I'm Debra Roberts, and as always, I am so delighted that you're spending some time with us as we pull back the curtain on the stories that we're doing here at 2020 and let you get an idea of how we put these things together.

Now, today we're going to take a look at one of our most talked about episodes.

It was called Stranger in the House, and I reported on this story.

I went to Minnesota to talk about it, and the details have just stuck with me.

This one centers on the really sad and tragic death of Heidi Furcus, a 25-year-old woman from St.

Paul, Minnesota.

Her friends described her as bubbly and caring and outgoing, and she was deeply dedicated to her faith.

Heidi and her husband, Nick, both,

pretty religious people, were married in 2005, but they met as youth group leaders in their church.

They were young.

And then a few years later, they got married and bought a house together and began what looked like it was going to be a bright future.

But that future was cut short on the morning of April 25th, 2010, after Heidi frantically makes a 911 call to authorities to report someone she said was an intruder in her home.

Well, police get to the scene and Heidi is lying dead on the floor in a doorway at the back of the house.

Nick is also suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg.

He survives.

And of course, you can only imagine the community is stunned.

And it would take 10 years before police would finally make an arrest in the case.

And in the process,