Ready actors, three, two, one, action.

It's probably safe to say there are few fantasies in this world as intoxicating as the rise of a nobody to sudden start them.

I'm Valeria, I don't know if you remember my name.

And if the vehicle for that start them, a wildly successful movie is the very first project of an Oregon blastblower and his high school-age daughter,

well, that's an even better fantasy, isn't it?

They could almost see the posters, the marquee, that evocative title from the dark, such a sweet fantasy it was.

Except maybe in the dark would have been a more appropriate title because that's what the filmmakers were in the dark.

For years now, we've followed the case of Tucker Reed, a whipsmart published author who knows how to tell a story,

and who has the looks and charisma and voice to land a lead on the feature film.

Yeah, that's what I was just saying.

Here we still on for tonight.

Of course, we're going to be loud, dumb, and crazy tonight.

So, maybe not a big surprise that Tucker's case, the shooting death of Her Uncle Shane played out like a limited run streaming series unfolding in real time.

It felt like there was a knife to my throat and I didn't have any way to run.

But I don't think I did it for me.

It's a shit, I don't think I did it for real.

In this episode, you'll hear Tucker's version of the story, as told the police.

Just hours after, she shot her uncle to death.

He was banging the door to my brother and my brother was screaming and he was screaming.

And I had to go on it.

I'm sorry.

This is Dateline NBC's newest podcast, Killer Roll.

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