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Dateline NBC

Secrets of the Sliding Door

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After a beloved teacher is found murdered in her home on New York’s Staten Island, investigators uncover cracks in her seemingly idyllic life and unearth her killer. Keith Morrison reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on Dateline.

0:02.7

I turn on the news and it says high school teacher are murdered.

0:07.2

I was just distraught. Just distraught.

0:11.2

You see them bringing her body out.

0:15.4

Oh my God, I'm sorry.

0:18.4

She was laying on the floor, multiple stab wounds, lots of blood.

0:24.0

Mattresses were turned upside down, drawers were taken out and turned upside down.

0:29.0

If it was a burglary, that person took an awfully long time looking for something.

0:34.9

There was a strange number on her cell phone.

0:38.1

Yes.

0:39.4

Who was it?

0:40.2

Her tag name was Miss Pumpkin.

0:42.8

We told her we needed to talk to her in regards to an investigation.

0:47.2

Man, I would like to have been a fly on the wall in that conversation.

0:51.2

Inside that bag was the laptop.

0:54.2

There are thousands and thousands of searches to sift through, and my God, Keith, I did it for days.

1:00.4

There's a pattern of lies that I'm uncovering.

1:04.1

We were in shock.

1:05.6

This really can't all be happening.

1:09.5

Now we were in Bizarro, Land.

1:11.7

A teacher murdered

1:12.9

and a case that was a study

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