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Dateline NBC

Smoke and Mirrors

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, when a Chicago pharmaceutical representative stops returning calls, her large and loving family begin to worry. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on March 18, 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There were parts of Nail's life. I didn't know that was very chilling for me to learn that she was afraid.

0:10.0

I kept calling her thinking she's going to answer.

0:12.0

It wasn't like her to not answer the phone.

0:14.0

My spidey senses were high.

0:18.0

Six perfectly stacked cardboard boxes. Something's not right here.

0:23.0

It was right for Jason to or Lagoon.

0:25.0

I watched enough date lines to know that's probably not a good sign.

0:31.0

He lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors.

0:33.0

This guy gets around.

0:34.0

If you got a Bentley, your options are open.

0:38.0

This was a case with no eyewitnesses, no physical evidence.

0:42.0

There's a possibility that justice won't be done.

0:45.0

I had to believe he would find her alive.

0:58.0

It wasn't like this, you have to understand.

1:01.0

It wasn't grey, it wasn't cold.

1:03.0

No flex of snow did drift and catch the bitter breeze.

1:07.0

No.

1:09.0

It was hot and it was late after midnight of September 27, 2007.

1:15.0

Pretty secluded area next to a forest reserve.

1:18.0

So it was.

1:20.0

And it was clear and dark and still and vacant.

1:24.0

Here with a deep wood fought back against the decaying suburban sprawl.

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