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Dateline NBC

Strangers on a Train

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, when a young woman disappears following a chance encounter with a stranger on a train, her desperate family hires a dream team of detectives to follow the mysterious trail she left behind. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 7, 2011.

Transcript

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0:00.0

She was the love of my life.

0:06.0

Katie and I had a very special bond, always.

0:12.0

We called police station.

0:14.0

We called some of our friends, and nobody had heard from it.

0:18.0

A daughter in danger.

0:20.0

We were absolutely convinced that we were going to be a woman.

0:24.0

We were going to be a woman.

0:26.0

We were going to be a woman.

0:28.0

We were absolutely convinced that foul play was involved.

0:32.0

And no one could find her.

0:34.0

I was concerned.

0:35.0

We got to get going.

0:36.0

We got to get moving on this.

0:38.0

On the train coming home, she had met this woman.

0:42.0

Could a brief encounter hold the answer?

0:44.0

She's talking about how someone has tried to assume her identity.

0:49.0

There's more to this story, and you need to tell it right now.

0:54.0

Somebody was after her.

0:56.0

I can really see it.

0:58.0

I said, hey, hey, y'all, come here. I think I found it.

1:12.0

It began on a bright morning in May.

1:16.0

The Palmetto.

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