The Devil Was Watching

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

4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

When Tina Sandoval disappears, her parents and loved ones spend years searching for any signs of her. Law enforcement is convinced she is the victim of foul play, but the prosecution has a problem. How can they convince a jury that she was murdered if there is no body, no crime scene and no physical evidence? Meanwhile, Tina was keeping a dark secret, one that might lead to clues about what happened to her. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on December 13, 2019.

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0:00.0	I'm Lester Holt. Tonight on Dateline, the puzzling case of a young nurse who vanished.
0:06.2	No witness, no weapon, no body, and no rest for her family till this mystery was solved.
0:14.1	Me and my sister were really scared.
0:17.0	We felt a little broke. Why wouldn't she come back? She loved us.
0:21.1	It gripped the community. Where is she? What happened to her? Who's responsible?
0:26.3	We went into full investigation immediately.
0:30.9	Quite honestly, as if possible, she is alive.
0:33.7	He was watching her and following her.
0:36.5	Deeply creepy stuff, criminal acts that he'd recorded.
0:40.0	Yes, that's his favorite thing. Collecting women.
0:44.0	My heart is sunk. How many other times has he done this?
0:47.8	How many other women has he done this, too?
0:50.3	He brought us to the back and we all look down.
0:54.8	We just gassed.
1:06.8	Here's Dennis Murphy with The Devil was watching.
1:14.8	The front range of Colorado, the vast grasslands east of the Rocky Mountains,
1:19.8	offers plenty of places to conceal the body of a 97-pound woman.
1:24.8	This woman, Tina Saddle.
1:29.8	The question gets set for the next two decades.
1:31.8	Where are you, Tina?
1:32.8	And then the searches begin.
1:34.8	Where are you?
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