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48 Hours

Live to Tell: River's Edge

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 3/19/2011, tells the story of college students Danielle Keener and Dan Zapp, who were on a date, walking along a river’s edge outside when they were kidnapped at gunpoint by a man in a pick-up truck. Both shot in the face, these teens outsmarted their would-be killer. Watch all-new episodes of 48 Hours on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.

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0:00.0

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0:09.5

I'm Candace DeLong, and on my new podcast, Killer Psychie Daily, I share a quick 10-minute

0:14.8

rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the cold-butter killers you

0:20.1

read about in the news.

0:22.1

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0:27.4

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0:28.4

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0:49.2

In January of 2000, I was a college freshman at Cezquahanna University.

0:56.9

I was 18 years old.

0:59.1

I was on a second date with Dan Zap, who was a college freshman at Carnegie Mellon University.

1:06.2

My mom had a suggestion for us to just maybe walk around my town, go down to the marina.

1:14.4

Dan and I, we just stopped and were talking.

1:17.4

We started picking up some stones and trying to skip some stones.

1:22.0

As we were there, there was a red pickup truck came up and stopped by us and out comes

1:31.1

this guy and he pulls a dog out, right, wilder.

1:35.9

He was asking us if we needed a ride and we, of course, you know, politely declined.

1:40.1

He seemed normal.

1:41.6

He got back in his truck and as we continued walking, the truck, this guy must have turned

1:48.8

his truck around behind us and he comes up next to us off to our right and blocks our

1:54.1

path.

1:57.8

He immediately comes out of the truck with a gun pointed at us.

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