The Farmer's Wife

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In the aftermath of Ryan Cooper's murder, rumors sweep through his small Iowa town, but investigators must uncover whether the talk is gossip or a crucial clue. Andrea Canning reports. Josh Mankiewicz and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3Ywz6TY Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Kl0wqKQltCE0HaCZZVFfZ

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	Oh my God!
0:04.0	Karina. Sit up.
0:06.0	She said I just drove by the Coopers and something's wrong.
0:10.0	There's police and ambulance is there.
0:13.0	My mom said, I just got a phone call that Ryan is dead.
0:18.0	I approach Ryan and I observe a bullet hole.
0:22.0	He was shot twice.
0:23.3	Somebody came into my house and killed my husband.
0:26.7	When you get a case like this, you consider all possible suspects.
0:30.5	Houston's known as a ladies' man who had a particular affinity for older women.
0:35.2	He was into the cougars.
0:36.8	I would say so.
0:38.8	Sometimes Karen could drift into bad Karen.
0:41.5	Yeah, when she had way too much to drink.
0:45.5	Law enforcement and recover Snapchat messages.
0:48.3	Snapchat messages don't actually go away.
0:51.3	It was horrible language.
0:53.3	Disgust. It's horrible language. Disgust?
0:56.4	It's pretty clear evidence of what their plan was.
0:58.2	The truth was coming out
0:59.7	for everyone to know.
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