meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Dateline NBC

Down the Basement Stairs

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

When young mother and paramedic Annamarie Cochrane Rintala is found dead at the bottom of her basement stairs, it takes four trials and 13 years before justice is served. Dennis Murphy reports.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Tonight on Dateline.

0:02.0

The Ann's dad called me in, told me Ann was dead.

0:05.0

Look down the basement, could clearly see somebody's legs.

0:08.0

Kara says, I don't know, maybe she fell down the stairs.

0:11.0

I had nightmares for months.

0:14.0

There was paint all over the place.

0:16.0

One of the most odd scenarios I could have ever dreamed of.

0:19.0

What do you make of the paint to cover up?

0:21.0

As simple as that.

0:22.0

Things were moved before we got here.

0:24.1

This isn't what it's made out to be.

0:27.1

I know they had their problems.

0:28.6

I think every relationship struggles.

0:30.1

Anna Marie was a big spender.

0:31.5

She owed other people money. It was a big spender. She owed other people money.

0:32.8

It was a relationship of extremes, hot, cold, wild, calm.

0:37.6

There was a guy named Mark.

0:38.9

He was a married man.

0:40.0

Clearly there was an emotional affair between Mark and

0:43.2

at a minimum.

0:44.7

When buttons are pushed, people get angry, people get upset.

0:48.2

A history-making case, and now after four trials,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBC News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NBC News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.