When Nicole “Nikki” VanderHeyden didn’t return home after a night out in Green Bay, suspicion quickly fell on her boyfriend. Blood at the house, disturbing evidence in the yard, and his past all seemed to point in one direction. But investigators soon uncovered a very different story.

From surveillance footage to Fitbit step data, digital evidence revealed the truth behind one of Wisconsin’s most chilling murder cases—and it wasn’t what anyone expected.

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