'If I don't seek justice for her, who will?'
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BURIEN, Wash. -- This weekend marks a somber anniversary for the family of Nicci Pietz. Five years ago Sunday, a hiker found her body in some bushes in Burien.
"When you find out your daughter's dead and she can only be identified by her teeth, it's pretty destructive," said Nicci's mother Gael Schneider.
Schnieder still offers a $36,000 reward to catch a killer, even though her daughter's case has gone cold. She's also offered to cover legal expenses for anyone with information about her daughter’s murder.
"Somebody's conscience has got to get to them," she said.
Pietz vanished on a Saturday morning in January 2006, a day that haunts her mother like clockwork.
"I wake up every Saturday morning and so I know that's when she was murdered because for five years I've awakened at that time."
A week after Pietz disappeared from Lynnwood, a hiker discovered her body dumped in Burien; police found her car in Seattle's University District.
"We think there are people out there are people out there that may have information and we want them to come forward even if they think their info won't help we'd like to judge that," said Sgt. John Urquhart with the King County Sheriff's Department.
The case has new detectives, a new prosecutor and Schneider says one new piece of information about the last call made on her daughter's missing cell phone.
"They know where that call came from," she said.
But the lack of leads and passage of time frustrate detectives and devastate loved ones.
"Oh, it's destroying me," Schneider said. "I try to live on because I have another daughter and I have a husband that need me but the will to live left me when Nicole died."
Not a day goes by when Schneider doesn't cry or pray -- 1,833 days, still distraught, but still determined.
"If I don't seek justice for her, who will?"
"When you find out your daughter's dead and she can only be identified by her teeth, it's pretty destructive," said Nicci's mother Gael Schneider.
Schnieder still offers a $36,000 reward to catch a killer, even though her daughter's case has gone cold. She's also offered to cover legal expenses for anyone with information about her daughter’s murder.
"Somebody's conscience has got to get to them," she said.
Pietz vanished on a Saturday morning in January 2006, a day that haunts her mother like clockwork.
"I wake up every Saturday morning and so I know that's when she was murdered because for five years I've awakened at that time."
A week after Pietz disappeared from Lynnwood, a hiker discovered her body dumped in Burien; police found her car in Seattle's University District.
"We think there are people out there are people out there that may have information and we want them to come forward even if they think their info won't help we'd like to judge that," said Sgt. John Urquhart with the King County Sheriff's Department.
The case has new detectives, a new prosecutor and Schneider says one new piece of information about the last call made on her daughter's missing cell phone.
"They know where that call came from," she said.
But the lack of leads and passage of time frustrate detectives and devastate loved ones.
"Oh, it's destroying me," Schneider said. "I try to live on because I have another daughter and I have a husband that need me but the will to live left me when Nicole died."
Not a day goes by when Schneider doesn't cry or pray -- 1,833 days, still distraught, but still determined.
"If I don't seek justice for her, who will?"
