Talking Dateline: The Trouble with Sarah
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4.4 • 38K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's still relatively rare that we see women as perpetrators in cases like this. |
| 0:06.2 | You've covered a few. |
| 0:07.2 | Is this your specialty? |
| 0:09.0 | Is this something you're able to look? |
| 0:12.9 | It seems like it's becoming one. |
| 0:14.3 | It seems a little blunt. |
| 0:19.3 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Lester Holt, and this is Talking Dateline. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm joined today by Keith Morrison and Keith. |
| 0:25.4 | This is a case I know you have been covering for years, and it brings us back to Baytown, Texas, |
| 0:30.3 | where the death of Sarah Hartsfield's husband, Joe, ultimately exposed a much darker story. |
| 0:37.3 | Multiple marriages, volatile relationships, |
| 0:40.0 | and allegations of violence that stretch back for decades. The episode is called The Trouble |
| 0:45.4 | with Sarah, and folks, if you haven't listened to the episode, you can find it in the |
| 0:51.2 | Dateline podcast feed or stream it on Peacock. |
| 0:55.1 | So go there and listen to that. |
| 0:56.9 | When you come back, Keith has some extra sound for us from private investigator Lynn Marie |
| 1:02.3 | Garcy, who describes a surprising request, she says, that Sarah made after her conviction. |
| 1:09.0 | And later, Keith will answer your question some social media. So, okay, let's |
| 1:13.2 | start talking Dateline. Keith, just give us the overview, your view of this story. Well, this was a case |
| 1:23.5 | that might not ever have seen the light of day, if a member of the medical staff in the |
| 1:31.3 | emergency department of the hospital in Baytown, Texas, saw something that didn't look right |
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