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The Footprint at the Lake

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

After a teacher vanishes from her home and police make a gruesome discovery at a lake, investigators in a small Texas town are left with more questions than answers. Andrea Canning reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on Daveline, the last thing I said to her, uh, I'll see you later and it just

0:07.5

tears me up because I didn't tell her goodnight, I didn't tell her I love her.

0:16.0

This is a sinister scene.

0:17.8

It is.

0:18.8

We see footprint and blood on the floor, we see handprints.

0:22.9

It was pretty evident that there was some type of struggle.

0:25.5

She's a beloved teacher and now she's been murdered.

0:33.6

We had had no idea what was happening.

0:35.7

Three people in this family were within the household while this murder was going on.

0:40.2

Somebody would have heard something.

0:41.6

Nobody did.

0:42.6

How could you not hear screaming if she's being attacked?

0:45.2

Asked what everybody thought.

0:46.5

They fingerprinted us, did you have anything to do with your mom?

0:50.3

Did you kill your mom?

0:51.3

They asked my siblings that obviously asked my dad that.

0:55.0

I did not heard about why.

0:57.0

I was waiting for the cuffs to come out.

0:58.7

Somebody came in and knew what they were after.

1:01.2

For somebody out of control in a rage, never seen anything like it or never heard of anything like it.

1:06.4

A mother and teacher murdered in a crime no one heard, no one saw.

1:11.4

With a twist, no one could predict.

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