On January 29th, 33 year old Nicole Pietz left home to visit a friend for dinner. She never successfully completed her 7 mile trip. On Monday, Mrs. Pietz's body was found and identified by King County Washington Detectives hidden just off of a busy intersection. Her car is still missing.

The family immediately put up a website when Nicole Pieta went missing. On February 2nd a detective with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office posted a compassionate and informative message. I have posted it below to offer it as a template to those with less compassion regarding the missing. Remember this woman had no witnesses to her armed abduction, Michelle Bullard had three witnesses to her armed abduction and a convicted cold blooded murderer shot himself less than 7 miles from Michelle's home as he was approached by a deputy the same day Michelle was taken.

Again who says Michelle ran away?

Detective Statement
Written by Brad Pince   
Thursday, 02 February 2006

My name is Brad Pince and I am the detective from the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office assigned to this case.  First off I want to pass on my sincere thanks to all of Nicole’s family and friends who have been providing me with information about Nicole.  I also know and appreciate the many that have been passing out the missing person’s flyers.  I can assure you the more information I have and the more people who are exposed to the fact that Nicole is missing, the better chance we have of finding her. I also want to thank the media for getting the information and photographs of Nicole out to the public.  Again the more exposure we get in this case the better. 

We are doing everything we can to find Nicole and I pray that when we do find her she will be OK.
There is a tremendous amount of information circulating about Nicole and our investigation.  Some of it is factual and some of it is not.  I ask that you all try to be careful about passing on rumors and misinformation.   If you do come across a tip I ask that you get that information to me as soon as possible and to limit sharing the information with others.  I am not trying to keep things from Nicole’s friends however it’s getting to the point where I am running down leads that just end up being variations of information cleared two days ago.

If anyone wants or needs to talk to me directly please just call me at 425 388-3827.  My partner is Detective Tom Dittoe and his telephone number is 425 388-3849. We will both try to answer any questions you may have.  The best way to pass on in formation to either of us is by email.   I can be reached at Brad.Pince@co.snohomish.wa.us This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it and Detective Dittoe can be reached at thomas.dittoe@co.snohomish.wa.us This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  

Thank you again for all the assistance in this case.

Brad Pince
SCSO Major Crimes