Secrets in the Smoky Mountains

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In this Dateline classic, the death of a beloved Tennessee man is believed to be a suicide. But when a son questions his mother, he uncovers a dark family conspiracy. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 21, 2016.

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0:00.0	The meanest, cruelest, most heinous crime.
0:05.0	I don't know that I'll ever get over it.
0:09.0	They seemed like the ultimate power couple.
0:11.5	She told me she would be traveling on secret missions.
0:15.2	He had all the medals.
0:17.0	Silver star, purple heart.
0:18.7	Glamorous military careers.
0:20.8	But was it all camouflage?
0:24.1	The BS alarms are going off in my head like you wouldn't believe.
0:27.6	Did they have something to hide?
0:29.2	We start doing surveillance.
0:31.2	Maybe you got a crime here.
0:34.0	Yes.
0:35.0	I'm thinking of myself.
0:36.0	This can't be true.
0:37.0	We're just like in disbelief.
0:38.6	What had happened to her last husband?
0:42.3	Whoever bid this was very evil.
0:44.7	The hurt, the anger.
0:47.2	It makes you question everybody.
1:00.6	It seems alive somehow, here in the foothills of Tennessee's Appalachians.
1:10.9	The creeping tendrils of mountain mist that snake and squirrel.
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