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Nicholas Firkus couldn\\u2019t believe what he was hearing. It sounded like someone was downstairs, trying to break into his home. So he woke his wife, Heidi, asked her to call 911, and grabbed his shotgun. The couple moved quickly, hoping to get downstairs and out the back door before the person broke in. But they didn\\u2019t make it. To hear Nick tell it, the intruder broke in and wrestled him for control of the gun. The gun went off twice \\u2014 hitting Nick and Heidi in the process. Heidi didn\\u2019t survive the shooting, so that left Nick to tell police what happened that morning.
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For this episode, Kristin read a bunch of articles, then spat them back out in her very limited vocabulary. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\n\\u201cA Stranger in the house\\u201d episode of 20/20
\\n\\u201cSecond wife\\u2019s suspicions confirmed with ex-husband\\u2019s arrest for murder,\\u201d by Blue Browning, Brooke Strangeland, Meghan Mariani, Lexi Leib, Greta Morris, Ivan Pereira for ABC News
\\n\\u201cNicholas Firkus gets life sentence for wife Heidi\\u2019s murder he blamed on intruder,\\u201d by Mara H. Gottfried for the Pioneer Press
\\n\\u201cHusband locked up for life after blowing away first wife with shotgun, blaming murder on nonexistent Black man, remarrying,\\u201d by Matt Naham for Law and Crime
\\n\\u201cState of Minnesota vs. Nicholas James Firkus\\u201d court document
\\n\\u201cHusband sentenced to life in prison in wife\\u2019s 13-year cold case murder,\\u201d by Brooke Strangeland for ABC7NY
\\n\\u201cHow was the Heidi Firkus case closed after so long? Meet the trio who did it.\\u201d by Mara H. Gottfried for the Pioneer Press
\\n\\u201cNicholas Firkus found guilty of murdering wife Heidi Firkus,\\u201d by Nick Ferraro for the Pioneer Press
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