Queen of the County

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, the matriarch of a prominent pecan growing family in San Saba, Texas goes missing and her caretaker is murdered. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 23, 2015.

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0:00.0	The plot was hatched.
0:03.0	This dreadful plot.
0:06.0	It's like a movie script.
0:08.0	It's family rivalries of betrayal and murder.
0:12.0	It was so horrific.
0:15.0	What were the last hours on Earth like for her?
0:21.0	It lurks here on this storied family estate.
0:25.0	A mystery as tangled and gnarled as the trees
0:28.0	that reach for the sky.
0:31.0	I think she's dead.
0:33.0	It eats at me.
0:34.0	I can't sleep most of the time.
0:36.0	A crime like a storm.
0:38.0	Everyone could see it coming.
0:40.0	Everybody in the town has their suspicions.
0:42.0	She was missing the matriarch with a grip
0:45.0	on her powerful family's fortune.
0:47.0	Did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm?
0:51.0	I saw bruises on Bonnie's arms.
0:54.0	Like somebody had grabbed her.
0:56.0	She looked at him and said he tried to kill me.
0:59.0	Who was behind this?
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