Chad Entzel died from multiple shotgun blasts in January It was the house fire that revealed a murder case and possible love triangle that shocked a North Dakota city.
On January 2, , firefighters responded to a frantic call of a house fire on the outskirts of Bismarck, North Dakota. Nikki Entzel arrived home to find her house filled with smoke. On the call, she tells dispatchers she feared her husband was trapped inside, after he failed to show up to work for a few days. Firefighters discovered the body of year-old Chad Entzel in a bedroom, but investigators soon learned he had died - not from flames or smoke - but from multiple shotgun blasts.
ET and streaming on Hulu the next day, will explore the case. Investigators initially believed Chad Entzel had died by suicide, and the house fire was a mere accident caused by a propane heater.
Friends and family all described Chad Entzel as an active, adventurous man, who had plans for the future. Chad Entzel's sister Lori Kraus remembered him as someone with "a lot of hobbies.
He did golfing, and in the summertime, he did stock car racing. As investigators dug through the ash and soot, they quickly realized that the evidence wasn't adding up. Chad Entzel was shot twice, and they believed either wound would have been fatal. The gun itself was found on the bed, not near Chad Entzel on the floor. The house fire Nikki had called for was actually two fires: one in the bedroom where Chad Entzel was found and one in the basement.
