Far from Spider Lake

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In the small town of Brewster, Minnesota, 40-year-old Jan Kruse is shot to death in her bed while her husband and teenage daughter are home. When investigators rule out robbery as a motive, it leaves them asking – who would want to kill Jan? Keith Morrison reports.

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0:00.0	I'm Lester Holt and this is Dateline. There were two shots in the dark then a
0:06.4	thousand and one questions in the light of day.
0:09.9	911 emergency.
0:12.9	I'm coming to shot my wife.
0:15.5	Why would anybody want to shoot Jan?
0:18.0	Makes no sense to me.
0:19.5	He was there in the room with Jan when this happened.
0:22.0	I'm sure he did.
0:23.5	Do this.
0:24.5	The word divorce being thrown around.
0:27.5	The 7th is tells a story. It doesn't support what you're telling us.
0:31.9	There's another person here that could have done this and it's Jeremy.
0:35.6	I got questions for you about the reality you might be seeing.
0:39.3	Bailey?
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:41.3	Do I know what dad did about me and date him?
0:43.1	That would be a motive for murder.
0:44.9	He was a concern.
0:45.9	I don't know how we ever will get closer to this.
0:49.4	I guess you just don't think bad things will happen in a small town to good people.
0:54.7	But it didn't.
1:06.5	Here's Keith Morrison with Far from Spider Lake.
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