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Dateline NBC

Before Dawn

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, newlyweds Seth and Lisa Techel are expecting their first child, but a shotgun blast shatters their dreams on Memorial Day weekend, 2011. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 26, 2014.

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0:00.0

I finally get a hold of dad.

0:01.6

And I said, what's going on?

0:03.0

And he's like, Lisa's been shot.

0:06.5

I held her hand and I just said, my Lisa, my Lisa.

0:13.0

Everyone's like, do you want justice?

0:14.3

Do you want revenge?

0:16.0

I just want the truth.

0:20.3

Lisa Teckel, newly married, pregnant,

0:23.7

starting the career of her dreams.

0:26.4

She always put everybody before she put herself.

0:29.4

Then one morning, a single gun shot

0:31.9

blasts rocked the newlyweds home.

0:34.6

She's a child.

0:35.9

A young husband, out of his mind with grief.

0:41.0

It was a tragedy.

0:42.4

But for Lisa's dad, a sheriff's deputy, it was no mystery.

0:46.9

He was sure he knew who the killer was.

0:49.5

Go get him.

0:50.5

Go get him.

0:51.5

Now.

0:52.2

A neighbor with a gun and a grudge.

0:55.0

I thought they'd better get to him before I do.

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