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Dateline NBC

Burning Suspicion

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.440.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, investigators question what went wrong when a young wife and mother is found dead after a house fire in a small Kansas town. Was it an act of murder? Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 11, 2013.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Lester Holt, tonight on Dateline.

0:03.0

I wonder why I didn't do more.

0:08.0

I should have done something different.

0:12.0

I'll live with that, forever.

0:15.0

Forever and ever it will haunt me.

0:18.0

There's a fire and my wife is... His wife was inside.

0:22.6

She was lying on her left side, like she was under the covers, asleep.

0:26.6

I was a little shocked.

0:28.6

There was no soot in her airway or in her lungs.

0:30.6

The neighbor, she believed she heard what was a gunshot.

0:33.6

In the front driver's seat was what appeared to be a note. I don't care what you think

0:40.2

you're saying. You're dealing with a murder. Did you order her? No. Did you pull the trigger?

0:46.6

No. Did you kill her? No. It was like a script. He had answers for everything. I left that courtroom

0:53.4

100% convinced that he didn't do it.

0:57.0

No one wants to send an innocent person to prison.

0:59.0

You want the truth.

1:02.0

You're going to hell for what you've done in this case.

1:05.0

... Here's Keith Morrison with burning suspicion.

1:22.5

It was dark past 3 a.m.

1:25.5

A weak hint of crescent moon struggled to penetrate the night here in the middle of America.

1:30.3

Kingman, Kansas, population 3,000, was asleep.

1:35.3

Except, on a quiet residential street, a woman unable to sleep watched a crime show on TV.

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