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Dateline NBC

After the Storm

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, when a beautiful woman is strangled to death in her Texas home, police look at the men in the victim’s life, while also considering that a stranger may have killed her. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 23, 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I think back and I go, this was such a senseless murder.

0:05.0

And why Diane?

0:07.0

Why when she was ready to start a brand new life?

0:11.0

I'll never know that answer.

0:14.0

Someone had killed her.

0:17.0

We had her body, we had the scene.

0:19.0

That was all.

0:21.0

She was single, pretty, and popular.

0:24.0

There was always men around whenever Diane was there, always.

0:28.0

Most of the time you're going to be killed by someone you know.

0:31.0

Sometimes it's someone you know very well.

0:34.0

Then chilling stories from other women.

0:38.0

He wanted to get me in there, and I didn't budge, and all the bells were going off.

0:42.0

I jumped in my car and took off.

0:45.0

I felt I dodged a bullet.

0:49.0

His fantasy, their nightmare.

0:52.0

In my wildest dreams, I never imagined that a web site like this could even exist.

0:56.0

That was extremely frightening.

0:59.0

Oh boy, it gets into pretty dark territory, doesn't it?

1:02.0

Yes.

1:08.0

It was the afternoon of November 15th, Austin, Texas, 4 p.m.

1:13.0

There was something on us in the air, suddenly, the smell of it.

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