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Dateline NBC

Deception

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a young sister and brother are torn apart when their mother disappears, and an elaborate sting operation traps a most unlikely villain. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 14, 2013.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It was like being in a nightmare.

0:03.0

His mom was never late.

0:05.0

I'm not misappointments.

0:07.0

She just disappeared.

0:13.0

A mother of two disappears.

0:15.0

She waved a quick goodbye, walked down the stairs and out the door.

0:18.0

But she wasn't the first to vanish.

0:21.0

This was a town that appeared to be haunted by a serial killer.

0:25.0

It became sickening to hear that another girl had gone missing.

0:28.0

Was Wendy another victim?

0:30.0

Or could she have been targeted by neighbor she tangled with?

0:34.0

She made an enemy.

0:35.0

She made an enemy for sure.

0:36.0

Or maybe the enemy lured within.

0:39.0

Some said Wendy had a history of emotional troubles.

0:42.0

She began screaming up-centities and shouting.

0:46.0

Could this beloved teacher have had multiple personalities?

0:50.0

He said that's not Wendy.

0:52.0

When she does that she's shana.

0:54.0

Was this a woman broken or a woman taken?

0:58.0

To find out what really happened,

1:00.0

an elite group of detectives would launch an elaborate undercover mission.

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