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Deadly Mirage

Death in the High Desert

Deadly Mirage

NBC News

True Crime, Dateline, Deadly Mirage

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Rob Limon’s close-knit group of friends is shattered when he is shot to death at work. Did the killing have something to do with his job, or something closer to home?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The body lay on the shop floor, the man's shaven head leaning against the front left tire of a service truck.

0:10.0

There was a dime-sized hole in his chin and a pool of blood, slowly congealing on the concrete floor.

0:18.0

Scarlett stained the front of his shirt, which was stiffening in the dry

0:23.5

desert air. A few feet away lay a bullet and a line of broken fluorescent glass, white and powdery,

0:32.6

like a line of drugs. For more than an hour, silence hung over this scene of death and disorder,

0:41.2

a quiet broken only by the occasional sound of a big diesel rig out on the highway.

0:48.4

Then shortly before 7 p.m., a man scheduled to work second shift walked in, and that silence was replaced by screams.

0:59.5

How exactly what happened?

1:01.4

I opened the garage door, and there's a light bulb busted out.

1:05.2

Uh-huh.

1:05.6

The kid in the office tore up, and he's on the ground bleeding out of his head.

1:09.5

Okay.

1:11.9

Oh, my God.

1:14.0

This is the story of what happened that afternoon in 2014 and why.

1:20.6

But it's also about much more.

1:23.8

It's about long shadows cast by old sins.

1:27.5

It starts as a Playboy Channel fantasy, but It's about long shadows cast by old sins.

1:34.5

It starts as a Playboy Channel fantasy, but this is real life, and they're real complications.

1:43.2

It's about the pairings of flawed souls, unholy alliances that spiraled out of control.

1:44.5

It had everything.

1:52.8

It had sex, religion, the seemingly perfect, beautiful family that had all these secrets.

2:00.0

It's about faith and faithlessness, murder, and the thrill of moral escapism.

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