Secrets in a Small Town

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Teresa Mayfield’s death on a dirt road was a mystery for more than a year until a strange sequence of events led investigators to an unlikely suspect. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 8, 2012

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0:00.0	I get my strength from my mother.
0:05.0	She was my very best friend.
0:07.0	I'd call my mom and she didn't answer.
0:11.0	I pretty much knew in my heart that something was wrong.
0:14.0	A mother vanished.
0:16.0	I cried myself to sleep.
0:18.0	It was just awful realizing that your worst nightmare had come true.
0:22.0	A family anguished.
0:24.0	She's gone.
0:25.0	Do you have any idea?
0:28.0	How hard that was.
0:30.0	Now the questions begin in a Southern Gothic mystery.
0:35.0	The case is puzzling.
0:39.0	We didn't really know what had happened.
0:42.0	Whoever had ever imagined you'd have a marker in your family.
0:45.0	Soon, there'd be secrets.
0:48.0	What would Dylan win a person that was leading a double life?
0:52.0	And one of them would prove deadly.
0:55.0	Have you ever said I know that you did this?
0:59.0	It hurts too much for me to say it out loud.
1:02.0	Keith Morrison, with secrets in a small town.
1:09.0	Suppose for a minute you were sitting in your car.
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