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Dateline NBC

A Little Patch of Perfect

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

After Gary “Big Daddy” Farris mysteriously disappears, his family discovers his remains on their sprawling 10-acre estate. An investigation reveals a family deeply divided by jealousy and greed, but did one of them kill Big Daddy? Keith Morrison reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on Dateline.

0:02.6

My father was larger than life.

0:06.7

He was the rock of the family.

0:09.4

My sister called him, said, Daddy's missing.

0:13.1

We started searching for him.

0:15.5

It clicked in my mind that he was going to burn that burn pile.

0:19.9

He said he fell in a fire and burned up.

0:23.8

I said, there is no way.

0:25.8

Melody said that he has what she called spells

0:27.9

where he would feel faint.

0:30.3

They found a bullet lodge in my dad's ribbone.

0:33.3

Obviously, the direction of the case changed very quickly.

0:36.9

Gary had close ties with all the family members related to money.

0:41.0

Chris has taken money.

0:43.3

He came in and took checks.

0:45.1

Gary was a workaholic, and she liked to spend the money.

0:49.3

Scott's been making the rights against her, saying that he's taking over the estate.

0:53.9

It's almost like an Agatha Christie story.

0:56.3

You've got a confined space, and all those people are warring amongst themselves.

1:00.9

That's exactly right.

1:02.8

I have waited for years to make this statement.

1:06.4

I want the world to know who did this.

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