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Secrets & Lies

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.440.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Early one frigid morning, in a small rural New York town, a house burns to the ground, and a woman is found dead in the debris. It's called an accident, but is it? Andrea Canning reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You had the good cop, you had the bad cop, and the polygraph.

0:04.0

It felt like law and order.

0:08.0

The fire broke out before dawn.

0:10.0

In the daylight, they found this mother of two young children dead.

0:15.0

She lived a very courageous life.

0:17.0

She was very bold in the things she did.

0:19.0

But after the smoke cleared, a mystery lingered.

0:22.9

We knew she did not die in that fire. She died before the fire. Who do you look to as the suspect?

0:29.0

Obviously, the spouse is the first person you look to. But her husband had a clear alibi, and he passed a lie

0:36.0

detector test. Eventually, the case grew cold, until this witness came

0:41.7

forward with a tale of love and lust gone wrong. He finally took a sweatshirt, we're all right

0:47.9

wrapped around her neck. But could she be believed? I was sleeping around. I think I slept with half the town.

0:55.0

Was she out for justice or revenge?

0:58.0

Is it a perfect world?

0:59.0

No.

1:00.0

Will she get hers?

1:01.0

Yes.

1:02.0

When she dies.

1:03.0

What was the lie?

1:04.0

And what was the truth?

1:06.0

How can you miss it?

1:07.0

He wasn't there.

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