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A Girl Named Egypt

Dateline NBC

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Michigan State Police detectives speak out for the first time to Andrea Canning and reveal clues they uncovered in the case of 27-year-old Egypt Covington, who was found murdered in her home in 2017.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on Dateline.

0:06.0

What did you think when she said I'm gonna go try out for the voice.

0:09.0

Thought you're gonna win.

0:10.0

Dramatic new details in the story of a young woman who audition for the voice before

0:16.2

her voice was silenced forever.

0:20.6

I took it like a step or two in and I seen her.

0:23.8

She was tied up hands behind her back.

0:28.0

Egypt was bound with Christmas lights.

0:31.0

Who does that? There could have been women that were jealous of Egypt.

0:36.0

Could have been somebody that was infatuated with her at the bar.

0:40.0

He said you look guilty and I was like I'm not guilty.

0:44.0

It was a tunnel vision with the police.

0:47.0

Absolutely.

0:48.0

That's what brought my involvement into our own investigation.

0:52.0

That phone was actually in her house. to our own investigation.

0:53.1

That phone was actually in her house

0:54.9

at the time that we believe that she was killed.

0:56.9

For the first time, investigators reveal the clue

1:00.3

that helps solve the murder.

1:02.3

That piece of evidence really broke the case wide open.

1:05.0

You're on the edge of your seat as to who the killer was.

1:08.0

Yes.

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