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Dateline NBC

In the Middle of the Night in Albuquerque

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Albuquerque police are quick to set out for answers after 41-year old Scott Pierce is killed in his home just six days after his wedding. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on December 7, 2012.

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0:00.0

I mean, I could be dead right now.

0:05.0

It doesn't make any sense that he left me alive.

0:08.0

She was a new bride, Mary just six days, then came that horrible night.

0:14.0

I see kind of a dark shadow.

0:16.0

All I remember was the bright flash of the gun.

0:20.0

A mysterious man she told police burst into their new home and killed her husband.

0:26.0

I put my hands on his face and I told my left.

0:28.0

It's a heartbreaking story, but it was puzzling too.

0:33.0

Who was this strange man?

0:35.0

Or was there a strange man at all?

0:37.0

A brand new bride tells a story of some mystery man that's got us at a whole armbell.

0:42.0

She was something we had to look at.

0:44.0

Suddenly, she's the one under scrutiny.

0:47.0

The detective asked me if I killed my husband.

0:51.0

I knew something was coming.

0:53.0

I'm lester hold and this is Dateline.

0:56.0

What really happened in the middle of the night?

0:59.0

Here's Josh Mankoets.

1:02.0

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1:06.0

A mile high city, famous for its annual balloon festival.

1:11.0

And the city where a match made in heaven came in 2005.

1:15.0

When a friend of Catherine Bailey set her up with a man named Scott.

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