Authorities say each victims died from “a number of sharp pressure accidents.” Nick has not entered a plea, and the case is ongoing. As investigators piece collectively the occasions main as much as the deaths, consideration has turned to his lengthy historical past of dependancy, psychological sickness, and remedy, together with a controversial wilderness program in Utah he entered as a teen.
Associates and former sufferers of this system say it’s unattainable to disregard Nick’s personal account of how his time there intersected together with his later heroin use. Talking on the Dopey podcast in 2016, Nick described being despatched at 16 to a Utah wilderness camp referred to as Second Nature after refusing to attend highschool and experimenting with medication.
“I went to a wilderness program in Utah. It was referred to as Second Nature, and I met a child there from L.A. and, on the time, he was type of a hardcore Venice child,” he mentioned. Nick went on to clarify how that encounter adopted him years later.
“I met him once I was 16 after which, (when) I used to be 18, I used to be in a sober dwelling, and I name him up as a result of I knew he was actually into heroin on the time,” he confessed.