The Beauty and the Beast Mystery

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Lisa and Scott Pattison marry on a fairy tale day and build a life together in central Indiana. But one day in July 2009, their marriage comes to a horrifying end as Scott races his gravely injured wife to the hospital, calling 911. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on February 25, 2011.

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0:00.0	They danced on their wedding day as beauty in the beast.
0:07.0	To stay beautiful, she worked out a healthy habit that one day turned deadly.
0:15.0	He found her at home.
0:17.0	The barbell was across her throat.
0:19.0	A simple, tragic accident.
0:21.0	This will fall down like a guillotine.
0:23.0	Or was it?
0:24.0	Getting that information at that moment.
0:26.0	At the case change-free.
0:27.0	Absolutely.
0:28.0	What would the weight of evidence show?
0:30.0	I got goose bumps.
0:31.0	I'm Lester Hold.
0:32.0	And this is Dateline.
0:35.0	Here's Dennis Murphy.
0:39.0	The images are fuzzy on that old home video of the wedding reception.
0:44.0	But anyone who was there remembers the event vividly.
0:47.0	The bride, all in white and the groom.
0:50.0	He's the dance partner in the goofy beast costume.
0:53.0	Kind of a strange way to begin a marriage, some guest murmur.
0:56.0	Beauty in the beast.
0:58.0	But then it was a union that would end strangely.
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