What to Watch Friday: 20/20 has latest on Heidi Firkus murder case & trial verdict

Brooke Cain
Updated ·2 min read

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Here’s what’s on TV tonight.

Dateline: Who Killed Courtney Coco? (9 p.m., NBC)

Andrea Canning reports from Texas and Louisiana on the case of Courtney Coco, a 19-year-old woman found strangled to death inside an abandoned building in rural Texas in October 2004. On Coco’s body, detectives found a name engraved inside a ring she was wearing. That name sparked a multi-state investigation that lasted nearly two decades and “pushes one family to pursue their own search for justice.”

The episode includes interviews with Stephanie Belgard, former Detective David Rabalais, retired Texas Ranger Skylor Hearn, Podcast Host Woody Overton, and others.

20/20: Stranger in the House (9 p.m., ABC)

In this week’s “20/20” episode, a look at the 2010 murder of Heidi Firkus in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2010.

Heidi and her husband Nick Firkus had been getting ready for church when a series of 911 calls went out, first from Heidi and then from Nick, saying that someone was breaking into their home. When police arrive, they found Heidi shot dead and Nick with a gunshot wound to his leg. Upon investigation, detectives learned that the couple had been deeply in debt and were about to be evicted from their home.

But the case went cold, and Nick moved on and remarried. Years later, his second wife, Rachel, found something in Nick’s sock drawer that made her doubt her husband’s innocence.

A verdict in the case was reached just this week.

Tonight’s episode has an exclusive interview by anchor Deborah Roberts with Rachel Firkus as well as interviews with the lead detectives on the case, attorneys connected to the case, and others.

This is available to stream tomorrow on Hulu.

Florida Man (Netflix)

This filmed-in-North Carolina series dropped on Netflix Thursday. It was filmed in Wilmington and stars Edgar Ramírez as an ex-cop who goes back to his home state of Florida looking for a mobster’s runaway girlfriend. Hijinks ensue. Other NC connections can be found among its co-stars: TV veterans Clark Gregg (pictured below) who grew up in NC and went to high school in Chapel Hill, and whose father taught at Duke; and Paul Schneider, an Asheville native.

All of the episodes are available to stream now.

Jane (Apple TV+)

This new live action family series is about a nine-year-old budding environmentalist on a quest to save endangered animals. Her adventures are inspired by her idol, Dr. Jane Goodall, and her sidekicks are a best friend named David and a chimpanzee named Greybeard. The first episode lands today.

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