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He was a dashing videographer with a reputation for making miracles. She was one of the "beautiful people," a successful advertising manager and animal lover. Together they were the perfect Denver couple. Now, she is dead and he is charged with murder.
The tragic story of Kurt and Nancy Sonnenfeld
 Nancy and Kurt Sonnenfeld posed at a fund-raising gala at the Denver Marriott Downtown for the Max Fund, an animal adoption agency.
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BY SUE LINDSAY
NEWS STAFF WRITER
Nancy Sonnenfeld was beautiful, successful and married to the man of her dreams.
Now she is dead and the man she loved is behind bars, charged with her murder.
Described by a friend as "quintessential Denver yuppies," Nancy and Kurt Sonnenfeld fell in love at first sight and married on a beach in California's Big Sur in 1993. They were "madly in love" and "the perfect couple" for nine years, friends and family say.
But Kurt Sonnenfeld, 39, developed a drug and drinking problem that undermined the marriage during its final year, some friends and relatives of Nancy's said.
Nancy Sonnenfeld, 36, filed for legal separation in November, after returning from a trip she and her husband had taken to Thailand.
After she said he bought and smoked heroin during the trip, she moved into a separate hotel and planned to return home, said Denver police Detective Kenneth Gurule. Sonnenfeld had his wife's passport, so she obtained a duplicate from the U.S. embassy and left him behind.
Still, the Sonnenfelds spent New Year's Eve together in an effort, friends and family speculated, to save their marriage.
But the reconciliation attempt ended in tragedy when the couple returned to their Congress Park home about 1 a.m. Sonnenfeld would say he was checking his e-mail when he heard a gunshot. His wife, he said, committed suicide.
Denver police did not buy it. And a week ago Thursday, Kurt Sonnenfeld was ordered in Denver District Court to stand trial for the murder of his wife.
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