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Dateline Originals

Deadly Mirage - Ep. 3: Tickling the Wire

Dateline Originals

NBC News

True Crime

4.6773 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Secrets about Rob and Sabrina’s lifestyle emerge and police get a warrant for wiretaps. This episode originally published on December 10, 2024.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Their eyes met in a busy grocery aisle at Costco.

0:07.0

She was handing out tasty samples, maybe some crackers with a new savory spread.

0:13.0

She did not know when he approached that this stranger wearing a firefighter's t-shirt

0:19.0

was also walking into her private life. And he? Well, he never

0:24.6

suspected the oversized role she would soon be playing in his. It was a routine encounter like

0:32.5

thousands of others, unremarkable in every way, except for this.

0:38.5

That fleeting moment in the grocery aisle and the events that followed

0:42.5

had lifelong ramifications for both of them and for everyone who knew them.

0:49.6

It was devastating.

0:52.2

Absolutely devastating.

0:57.1

I don't know. I couldn't, couldn't believe it.

1:06.6

So was this fixed or fated, ordered, and ordained? If she'd been off that day, if he'd turned down a different aisle, would any of this have happened? That is unknowable. What is known

1:14.2

is that the lives they led leading up to that moment gave no hint of what would come after it.

1:21.8

I'm fascinated in relationships that end in the ultimate worst possible way. And I'm also fascinated by the secrets

1:31.1

that lurk underneath. In this episode, you'll hear about the lives of that misaligned

1:38.9

pair in the Costco aisle from those who knew them best and loved them most.

1:45.0

Brena is such a positive, amazing person.

1:50.0

Jonathan was always so thoughtful.

1:54.0

We were best friends.

1:55.0

You'll hear the bedroom secrets of a bedroom community on the high desert.

2:00.0

You know, if that's what a couple agrees with in their marriage, then that's their business.

2:06.4

He'd shown pictures, naked pictures of the women out in Silver Lakes on his phone.

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