Nick Kasotis

What they did find was a new driver's license in a new name, Nicholas Killian James Stark.

They tracked him to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was now living with a third wife, a tech worker and fiction writer, Samantha Koleysnik.

He had told her he was a widower.

In May 2023, detectives brought Kasotis back to Georgia for questioning.

He told them a detailed story, similar to what Mindy's family and friends had heard, about being pursued and harassed by unknown individuals connected to government work he had done.

The once button-down, straight-laced attorney and former naval JAG officer now looked scruffy.

Kasotis claimed that he reported the conspiracy to the FBI.

And that's when, he says, a federal agent came to their home, offering to protect them.

His name?

Jim McIntyre.

According to Nick, for four years, Jim McIntyre took control of everything in the couple's lives, telling them when to move and where.

Nick Kasotis had spun such an elaborate story for detectives, they had a hard time believing anything he said.

They began to suspect that he made up everything, that he was the author of the email sent to Mindy's parents announcing his death, complete with a company he didn't work for.

Detectives began asking him about Mindy's last days.

Right around Thanksgiving of 2022, while Kasotis was out of town, he said, Mindy texted him saying she had taken a fall and had checked herself into a clinic.

He was vague on details.

When Nick arrived, he told investigators, the doctor gave him bad news.

I was extremely upset.

I thought I was coming there just to pick her up and bring her back.

Kasotis couldn't tell investigators where the facility was or the names of anyone he spoke to.