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Dateline NBC

Deadly House of Cards

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, when Johnny Altinger sent strange emails to friends saying he skipped off to Costa Rica with a new girlfriend and doesn’t respond to phone calls, a missing person investigation begins that leads detectives into a hall of mirrors where fact and fantasy merge. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 16, 2011.

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0:00.0

We had talked about how would you kill somebody and get away with it.

0:16.5

I have dark thoughts and I shared them with a serial killer.

0:22.3

It was supposed to be a movie.

0:25.0

A frightening film about a serial killer.

0:27.8

He'd say, okay, when you're turning the blade, grit your teeth and really, really

0:31.4

show that you're enjoying it.

0:32.7

But was it really just pretend?

0:37.2

He yells, get down on the ground, they took out duct tape, life flash before my eyes.

0:42.5

I have never in my life felt, feel like that.

0:45.8

A rising young director, filming a murder or actually committing one.

0:51.2

He told me, well, you do it like Dexter.

0:53.0

You've seen Dexter and Dexter and this is all modeled after Dexter.

0:56.4

When you take a step back, realize this is a real man who's been murdered.

1:01.9

The script was darker than in one room.

1:04.6

I go holy mackerel.

1:05.6

Who are you really?

1:06.6

Everyone was on the edge of their seat.

1:20.4

An underground parking garage.

1:24.0

A violent attack caught on tape.

1:28.0

Who is it?

1:29.0

What's happening?

1:32.6

Or did it happen at all?

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