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Dateline NBC

Manner of Death

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, the family of 31-year-old Matthew Podolack searches for answers after a mysterious illness sends the healthy, happy amateur hockey player and family man to the emergency room. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 27, 2013.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How could this happen? A very healthy 31-year-old just winds up dead.

0:21.0

A young father's death. So sudden, so strange.

0:26.0

We want an answer.

0:28.0

The word poising just kept coming up.

0:31.0

I was aniferees poisoning.

0:34.0

You can't smell it. You can't see it.

0:38.0

Someone wanted him dead. Someone who was hiding something.

0:43.0

The details of the case are very salacious.

0:46.0

There's sex. There's the allegation of poisoning.

0:51.0

Cleaned out the bank account.

0:53.0

Are you trying to excuse me after me touching them?

0:58.0

A brother determined to find a killer.

1:01.0

How dare anybody do that to my little brother?

1:04.0

It wasn't supposed to happen like this.

1:07.0

A toxic mystery. An emotional trial.

1:11.0

Is the jury being out long? A bad thing or a good thing?

1:27.0

It was a mystery from day one.

1:29.0

From that time right around the end of the hockey season

1:32.0

didn't make sense what was happening to Matt Pottleack.

1:35.0

Matt, the happy hockey amateur.

1:38.0

Matt, the outdoorsman, the hunter, the fisherman, athlete.

1:42.0

Didn't make sense from the very first day.

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