Secrets of the Desert

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, the mystery surrounding the deaths of three women deep in the Sonoran desert takes 17 years to untangle, and is only solved when a fourth woman comes forward with the truth. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 19, 2017.

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0:00.0	It was the strangest call of my life.
0:03.0	She just said, is Linda with you?
0:06.0	She's missing we can't find her.
0:07.0	That's all she kept saying.
0:09.0	Everything changed from there on out.
0:11.0	And just got uglier and uglier.
0:16.0	A loving mother, one day, just disappears.
0:19.0	Her car was there, and she wasn't home.
0:21.0	The blood was lindous.
0:23.0	We all knew there's something very wrong here.
0:25.0	But with nobody, no evidence, and no suspects,
0:29.0	no arrest.
0:31.0	The ex-husband and the ex-boyfriend, both at alibis.
0:34.0	Then, lightning strikes again.
0:37.0	I drove into the driveway from her group.
0:41.0	How often are a mother and daughter killed at the same house?
0:45.0	Who would steal so much from one family?
0:49.0	Was she afraid of him?
0:50.0	She was afraid of him.
0:51.0	I just found out Dürren was getting me again.
0:53.0	Motive outweighed everything in this case.
0:56.0	Miles away, buried in the sand, lay one piece of the puzzle.
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