Mystery at Eagle Creek
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I want people to know that Rhonda wasn't just beautiful. "Bye, Daddy." People always are surprised when they hear this, like, "No, you can't be super beautiful, like her and be intelligent at the same time," I'm like, "Actually, she was wicked smart." Very in love, we planned on getting married in the summer. That was my timetable. They did look at wedding rings. I think she she wanted one that was around 35,000 and I was thinking more 15,000 was my range. And you and Rhonda, did you like to get outdoors? All the time. We loved hiking. We played a lot of Frisbee golf. So yeah, we were outdoors most of the time. We woke up early. She opened the drapes and we saw that, it's a beautiful day, okay? So we are going to go hiking. One of the things she asked me on the driveover, she said, "If anything ever happens to me, do you promise to watch our daughter and take care of her?" And I go, "What are you talking about?" She goes, "I have dreams all the time that I am dead before 25." Rhonda ever tell you that she was sensing something bad was going to happen to her? She said that he's either going to propose to me or kill me. She wasn't happy. She just fell out of love with him and they were fighting all the time. She had mentioned wanting to take the baby and leave Steve. And pouring down rain and thunder came and so she just started bolting down, like at a full sprint, running down the trail. And what unfolded before your eyes? I don't know how far down it was, but she went off the trail. A man hiking with Rhonda Kastow so that she fell off a cliff last night. Did she take a step and her feet went out in front of her? Did she tumble forward? How did you see? Next question. I'm Steve Nichols, and in February of 2015, I was charged and arrested for the murder of Rhonda Kastow, my fiancé. We're in Hood River, Oregon. It's been six years, one month, and 26 days since Rhonda fell off that trail to her death. And for the first time, Stephen Nichols will enter a formal plea. Accident or murder? Murder. Murder. And from a mother's heart and mind, you are certain of that. I am 100% certain of that. He's evil. He's totally evil. I think I've just left a path of destruction on my till of the hunt, basically, going through women. This is Jill Schlesinger from Jill on Money.
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Did a young model jump off a mountain cliff or was she pushed? Her fiancé, accused of killing her, reveals the shocking final moments of her life in an interview with "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant.