Here at Dateline, we're used to spending months or even years pursuing a story.

We've learned a lot along the way.

So we thought we'd share and let you in on a few things.

A friend of mine who's a homicide detective says all murders can be chalked up to either love, money, or pride.

And this mystery would be no exception.

Was it love?

I think we were head over heels for one another.

Money.

Over the years, he had accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in his account.

He didn't miss an angle, did he?

No, sir. There was a pattern or pride.

It's just a man's pride being walked all over by a tiny woman.

That was his ego that she stepped all over.

This is a tale so twisted.

It would take not just one murder, but two for the killer's motive to come to light.

Mostly we'll never know anybody that's been murdered.

It's one thing of two people are murdered at one point.

And then it's another that like one person is murdered and then ten months later somebody else is murdered.

Then to be like stuck right in the middle of that.

I'm Josh Manquets.

I've been reporting here on Dateline for more than 25 years.

And this, this is Motive for Murder, a new podcast from Dateline.

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