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Secrets on the Emerald Coast

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NBC News

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

4.440.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Detectives uncover a web of secrets and lies in their search for a young mother who disappeared after leaving her baby in the care of a local pastor and his wife. Keith Morrison reports. Keith Morrison and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’: Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/49BkKXs Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mNHTGXiTKa1fT75sbjp8P

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0:00.0

I'm Lester Holt, tonight on Date Line, a mystery in paradise.

0:05.0

A mother of two vanishes on Florida's Emerald Coast.

0:11.0

This case was an investigator's worst nightmare.

0:16.0

What happened to this woman?

0:18.0

I wanted to solve it.

0:22.0

She said she left to do something that she always wanted to do.

0:25.0

She didn't want us to try to stop her.

0:27.0

I know I probably watch a lot of law in order, but I have this really gut feeling because I wasn't mom.

0:34.0

I just knew that she didn't leave on her own.

0:36.0

There was no way she left that baby.

0:39.0

I would see her at church. They had taken her in. They were helping her out.

0:43.0

We granted people. That's what I thought.

0:46.0

They were living the three of them in a strange situation.

0:49.0

Absolutely.

0:50.0

But very amorous, romantic, wow relationship.

0:54.0

It was lustful. Oh my goodness.

0:57.0

It hit me hard. I might have known.

0:59.0

Come to Jesus' moment.

1:01.0

It was. Yeah.

1:03.0

I was scared to death.

1:04.0

Here's Keith Morrison with Secrets on the Emerald Coast.

1:16.0

How do you catch a dancing sprite?

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