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Dateline NBC

Into the Night

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Following a night at her friend’s bachelorette party, 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer disappears. Soon after, an intense multi-state manhunt leads investigators to the killer. Friday’s broadcast features new interviews with Kaylee’s mom and the family’s lawyer after they reached a settlement with the killer’s employer, as well as never-before-released deposition tapes with the killer’s co-workers. Keith Morrison reports.

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0:00.0

A young woman alone. Who was waiting in the dark?

0:04.4

I'm Lester Hall, and this is Dateline.

0:08.0

She would come into her room. The room would just brighten up.

0:11.6

People instantly thought I'm Kaylee's best friend.

0:14.6

The very first message that I looked at was, have you seen Kaylee?

0:19.2

Is that truck that I helped you? My daughter is in the scene.

0:22.0

I had this sickening feeling.

0:23.6

And I'm looking at a desperate man, anything can happen.

0:26.4

I would have never been able to tell my daughter.

0:29.4

Your monster, your boogie man, will pull up alongside you.

0:33.8

And instead of him coming to help you, he has come to harm you.

0:39.8

Inside the shed, there was a green purse.

0:42.6

There's also a large rock saturated in dried blood.

0:46.2

This is not a good sign at all.

0:48.2

It is not.

0:49.2

Hey, we've been hitting the chest with a sledgehammer.

0:51.4

That's about what it feels like.

0:53.4

She began coming to and tried to fight.

0:55.8

She was trying to turn emergency lights on,

0:57.8

and trying to grab the radio, trying to hunk the horn,

0:59.7

anything that she could do.

1:01.8

Because she knew.

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