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Before the Storm

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A mother of two who vanishes during a storm turns out to be a victim of something sinister. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on July 15, 2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I knew she would never leave her kids in the middle of a hurricane.

0:03.6

So I always knew it wasn't going to be good.

0:06.0

Crystal was gone, and there were lots of reasons to worry.

0:10.4

She had numerous lovers, men and women.

0:14.0

You had both the husband and the boyfriend failing to police.

0:17.0

All the same day, yes sir.

0:18.0

I'm like, what the hell is going on?

0:20.0

But the answer would have to wait.

0:22.0

Hurricane Harvey is moving in this direction.

0:24.0

Early on, high water rescues.

0:26.0

We're stuck in the house.

0:27.0

Immediately, we went to social media.

0:29.0

What kinds of things you put up on it?

0:30.0

Pictures of her, her license plate.

0:32.0

Someone knew where she was.

0:34.0

Someone who liked to play games.

0:36.0

He thought he was smarter than we were.

0:38.0

Willing to trade one night of freedom.

0:40.0

He said I'm ready to talk.

0:41.0

Let me go home, and tomorrow morning I will tell you everything.

0:45.0

In exchange for the terrible truth.

0:49.0

He couldn't have her nobody could.

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