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Dateline NBC

12 Minutes on Elm Street

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, the families of Nicholas Brady and Haile Kifer start to fear the worst when the teenage cousins don’t show up for Thanksgiving dinner in their hometown of Little Falls, Minnesota. Originally aired on NBC on May 16, 2014.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I refuse to have a level of fear.

0:04.0

My head...

0:08.0

You dare.

0:12.0

Ever since I heard that I'd spend replaying in my head over and over.

0:18.0

It was all very unbelievable.

0:24.0

It happened on Thanksgiving. Two teenagers missing.

0:28.0

I just buried my head into my hands and I started to cry.

0:32.0

Where they were and what they did would launch a terrifying case.

0:36.0

Why did this have to happen here?

0:38.0

With a deadly end.

0:40.0

Nobody's leading until we figure out what happened.

0:44.0

A man at home, alone and afraid.

0:48.0

They were really attacking his home.

0:50.0

You have a right to protect your home and to protect yourself.

0:53.0

He planned, he prepared and he was determined to kill.

0:57.0

The most chilling detail of all, what you'll hear on tape.

1:01.0

I'm still shaking.

1:03.0

No one would be the same.

1:07.0

I think that's probably one of the hardest parts about all of it.

1:11.0

I'm Lester Holt and this is Dateline.

1:13.0

Here's Kate Snow with 12 minutes on Elm Street.

1:19.0

12 minutes, not a long time.

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