The Death of Dr. Schwartz

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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When the wife of a Florida kidney doctor reports a burglary from their waterfront mansion, authorities arrive to find the doctor dead at the bottom of a set of stairs. Blayne Alexander reports. Keith Morrison and Blayne Alexander go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3Xhnu6E Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3eEDnAkm1H9cVpMRzm4v3R

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:03.2	You think you can't find your dead this?
0:05.2	I think we can yet.
0:06.9	She just said your father's been shot.
0:09.6	A massacre.
0:10.5	It was just a puddle of blood.
0:12.4	This was a horrific way that he died.
0:15.1	You're not to blame for any of this.
0:17.2	That's a horrible one that has happened to you and your family.
0:21.3	Did you have any suspects?
0:22.7	It's always nearest and dearest.
0:24.9	Ben had quite the criminal history.
0:27.1	I'm really nervous about talking to you guys.
0:30.2	There was DNA there that brought our attention to Leo.
0:34.4	I'd be afraid.
0:36.5	Somehow I'd be afraid. Somehow I'd be afraid.
0:38.8	A story broke that totally stunned me.
0:42.2	There was a very big secret that your dad had.
0:45.0	Yes.
0:45.4	You never talked to me about it.
0:47.1	As they say, follow the money.
0:49.1	Everything kind of started lining up.
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