text: Late August 2023 Hello, I'm Nancy Boltz. My husband of 40 years Eric Boltz died in Musicland Nebraska medical center from cancer. He was 64 years old. The funeral was held at the Musicland Lutheran Church where both of us were life long members. Three children (two girls and one boy) and 10 grandchildren we had. The will had been read and everyone had basically gone back to their own lives. Although my kids and grandchildren lived in Nebraska, they didn't live in Musicland. All but 2 lived in Omaha. The other two lived in Lincoln. Enough of that, let me get to the point of my story. Eric had left a diary that he wrote during the period of 1981-1982. This was the period where we had broken up and had dated others. It started over some stupid argument that I don't remember. Eric probably would remember but he didn't mention the argument in the diaries. We broke up two weeks after he graduated from college in June of 1981. Eric worked in Lincoln that summer and I stayed in Musicland (which is about 30 miles from Lincoln) at a Music Camp for kids. While in Lincoln, Eric met a woman named Heidi Holden. She had broken up with Mark Month who was a football player for the Cornhuskers. Over the course of the summer, they fell in love with each other but in September Heidi went back to Mark. She continued to see Eric on the side. Thankfully for Eric, Mark never found out. In April of 1982, Heidi Holden was found deceased at the Lincoln State Park after being struck by a car. The person who did it was never arrested or charged. &#x200B; April 9, 1982 - Late afternoon "I hid in the bushes and heard and heard the terrible argument. There was nothing that I could do as I saw Mark clip Heidi with his car and then drive off. I quickly ran to the pay phone and called for emergency. I told them who did this to Heidi. I then ran over to Heidi who was drifting in and out of consciousness. Before she died, she told me that she wasn't pregnant. I knew that she had died. I wept for about a minute. I then heard the sirens of the police and ambulance and decided I better get the heck out of there." April 12, 1982 - Funeral of Heidi Holden The funeral was held at the St. Peters Catholic Church in Lincoln. I didn't dare go to the funeral. I watched for a distance. I was careful that I wasn't seen or observed. I knew that police would probably would be looking for the second mystery man. Apparently Heidi was also involved with a man named Jim. I decided that I was going to get even and make the life of Mark Month miserable. And this I did. May 13, 1982 The night before the man named Jim and Mark Month got into a fight at a local bar in Lincoln. I had been watching both men and noticed during the fight that a gun Mark had fell out of his jacket. No one noticed as I took the gun. Mark was arrested and Jim went to the emergency room for treatment. I found out when Mark was released which was a couple of hours later. I went over to Jim apartment and vandalized his car and then shot out the window. I threw the gun away and then fled. Jim of course blamed Mark. Jim filled charges against Mark but it went nowhere. This really angered me. He ended up suing Mark and lost in court. So much for getting back at Mark Month. For the next several months Eric plotted revenge against mark who got arrested for things Eric did, mostly vandalism of vehicles. He found out when Mark and his girlfriends or ex-partners were fighting or had broken up. One ex-partner he actually called weeping and saying that he didn't want to harm her brother but Mark had ordered him to do so. Wasn't long where Mark couldn't get a girlfriend as no woman wanted to be near him. Eric made sure of it. Also Eric would make calls to places where Mark was saying "Why do you allow the murderer in your bar? " August, 1982 I finally got my revenge. I keyed Mark Month's vehicle and with a knife flatten all of his tires. I also spray painted murderer, murderer by his car. I then set the car on fire. Everyone was in the bar drunk and high on drugs. No one noticed as I left. Shortly after I left, rival football players came into the bar and they were blamed. Police were called before it got totally out of hand. Mark got arrested for assaulting a rival player. Again the charges went nowhere. Mark ended up with the Seattle Seahawks which was too far away for Eric to continue his revenge. I still can't believe that Eric sent a letter to the team. I have a copy of the letter dated September 1982. Dear NFL Team: Mark Month is a murderer and killer. He murdered Heidi Holden by hitting her with his car. She didn't die from being clipped by his car but died after heading her head on the pavement. I was there when she died and I called police. Every woman he has ever been involved with he has used, abused and he gets away with it. I still am grieving over her death. Heidi cheated on him because he accused her of doing so, so she did. Heidi deserved better, something that I would have given her. Too bad she met Mark. As for Jim, I found out that he was just a friend. She never cheated with him which I'm most grateful. Signed the second man and forever mystery man which will remain so. Shortly after Eric wrote this letter, our relationship was rekindled. We got married in June of 1983. Six months before Eric died, I was sitting in Bed with him. He was in remission and we were watching the New Unsolved Mystery Program. One of the segments was about Mystery Man who had made Mark Month's life miserable for over a year. Then it stopped. Eric made some comments about it but now when I think about it, it sounded like he knew a lot about the vandalism and letter writer. Eric told me that I could do whatever I wanted. If I reported it to the police, he wouldn't be angry with me. Well, I decided that to protect my kids, grandkids and my family, I didn't turn him into the police. I still was in shock days later that he had done these things. This was a man whom I rarely seen lose his temper much less get angry at someone. We rarely if ever argued. I thought I knew him totally but apparently not. I never believed that you could live with a person for decades and not totally know them. Well, that's true. I can't damage my family's reputation, so I will burn the diaries and the letter.