Mystery at Payson Canyon

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Kay Mortensen, a brilliant retired professor, a man who was prepared for just about anything finds himself in the most unimaginable situation. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 28, 2013.

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0:00.0	It happens on TV.
0:04.0	It doesn't happen to your family, to your brother.
0:07.0	But it does.
0:09.0	No one thought it could happen to him.
0:12.0	He was a tough guy, prepared for anything.
0:14.0	He always would say, if anyone tries to break in here, I'll kill him.
0:19.0	Instead, he was killed.
0:21.0	Step in his own home.
0:23.0	You sure your dad's cold in the touch?
0:25.0	His son and daughter are lost,
0:27.0	stumbled into a terrifying scene.
0:30.0	That's when I saw the gun.
0:31.0	They said we're going to have to kill you now.
0:33.0	A strange story that only got stranger.
0:36.0	They had purple gloves on.
0:38.0	And they had blue fuzzy gloves.
0:40.0	Something isn't right here.
0:41.0	Could he have killed his own father?
0:44.0	What really happened in that house?
0:46.0	I did not do this.
0:47.0	That, a witness came forward and changed everything.
0:51.0	In this bizarre story, the strangest thing of all, was the truth.
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