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Dateline NBC

Fallen

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, when a pastor loses two wives in suspicious accidents, authorities begin to wonder if it was terrible luck or something else. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on February 8, 2013.

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0:00.0

He is so good at understanding how to comfort other people.

0:16.0

He was counseling women who were very vulnerable.

0:19.0

She needed somebody to talk to.

0:22.0

A popular pastor hiding something wicked.

0:26.0

I found text messages. I love you. I can't wait to see you.

0:31.0

It was like someone just put a hole right through your heart.

0:34.0

Lust, lies, adultery. Was there more?

0:38.0

There was just blood everywhere. There's something fishy.

0:41.0

You have a pattern of behavior.

0:43.0

Yes.

0:44.0

Wives who turn up suspiciously dead.

0:46.0

Yes.

0:47.0

Just how far had he fallen?

0:50.0

He did a lot of things that weren't appropriate.

0:52.0

It doesn't make him murder.

0:53.0

You have a wolf and sheep's clothing.

0:55.0

The sinister minister.

1:10.0

The man of the cloth, inspiring from the pulpit.

1:13.0

You went away feeling that you've learned something.

1:16.0

Marrying the faithful.

1:18.0

He officiated over my son and my daughter-in-law's wedding.

1:21.0

Counseling, the troubled.

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