Nick Kasotis

My name is Lori Baio.

I'm an assistant district attorney with the Atlantic Judicial Circuit.

Investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation released two sketches.

There were hundreds and hundreds of calls and leads that came in through the forensic sketches that were published from civilians calling in.

One call came from a woman 500 miles away in Virginia, Heather Thomas.

I was like, whoa, wait a minute.

Like, that looks like Mindy.

Mindy Kasotis.

Heather Thomas, turned out, is one of the people that recognized the photograph and said, this could be Mindy.

Heather recognized Mindy because Mindy was married to Heather's ex-husband, Nick Kasotis, a naval officer, a lawyer in JAG, the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps.

Nick had traveled the globe, was deployed to Iraq.

He served in Italy and the Pentagon.

He dealt with sensitive cases involving Afghanistan.

He definitely had an air about him of confidence, of

You know, reassurance, but never in an egotistical way, because you could sort of pick that out from a mile away.

Heather and Nick got married in 2009.

Back then, she was a brunette.

Was he wearing a uniform?

Yes.

Things started out well, but eventually, after six years, their marriage faded.