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Deadly Betrayal

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When loving mother Lisa Knoefel is stabbed to death in her home outside Cleveland, her family is shattered. Josh Mankiewicz reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All I can see was the dark hallway with the light coming out of the door.

0:04.0

How bad is this going to be?

0:06.0

Worst case scenario was going to do my head.

0:09.0

I have never seen a crime scene like that.

0:17.0

The blade was actually bent.

0:20.0

It takes a lot of the bend in the knife blade.

0:22.0

It was one of the cases in which you had to wonder who was responsible.

0:26.0

That's correct.

0:27.0

The new right away was foster daughter.

0:29.0

When I heard who did it, it's like you're kidding me.

0:33.0

Something else had to have been a play here.

0:36.0

She starts telling her story, starts sobbing.

0:40.0

Tears are coming down her face.

0:42.0

I couldn't have done something like this if I didn't have an outer influence.

0:45.0

You had sense for a long time that there was something going on that Sabrina wasn't talking about.

0:50.0

Did you think this was it?

0:51.0

I didn't think it was this involved.

0:53.0

It just started getting more concrete, more of this is what we could have if we do this.

0:58.0

This is really just betrayal on top of betrayal, on top of betrayal, isn't it?

1:05.0

It's a perfect circle.

1:06.0

It was absolutely crazy.

1:07.0

There is no way he would even begin to do anything like that.

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