Money's a motive, pride is a motive, love is a motive.

It's a tale of love, turn lethal, featuring an adoring wife, a pageant queen.

She was a whole lot of gorgeous woman.

And at center stage, a charismatic guitar hero.

It's just charming.

You know, everybody loved him.

He was playing a sport for quite some time.

Two women, one man, a love triangle,

with sharp edges.

Kim at one point in told me that he wanted to know what it felt like to kill somebody.

In this twisted game of hearts, how many would have to pay the price?

She called and let me know that Russ was dead.

How far would things go?

I looked at her eyes and I said,

I mean, she's even.

She is even.

A manhunt would stretch from the northwest down to Mexico

and run smack into mother nature.

Your suspect is quite literally in the wind.

He's gone.

I'm Lester Holt and this is Dateline.

Here's Josh Mankowitz.

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