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Dateline NBC

The Hometown Hero & The Homecoming Queen

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, an Olympic athlete and a homecoming queen share a life in the charming suburb of Oxnard, California until gunshots are fired in their backyard on a late summer night in 2009. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 1, 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's never good news.

0:02.0

When the phone rings at 5 o'clock in the morning,

0:05.0

I knew something wasn't right.

0:08.0

He just began sobbing and saying,

0:11.0

no, no, something horrible must have happened.

0:16.0

It was just before midnight when the shooting started.

0:20.0

He had been shot multiple times.

0:22.0

He was on the ground, face down.

0:25.0

A man was dead, but not just any man.

0:29.0

How do you kill Superman?

0:31.0

How Superman dead?

0:33.0

He was an Olympian and a father,

0:35.0

killed his wife, says, by an intruder in his own backyard.

0:48.0

But if her husband was dead outside,

0:50.0

why was the gun found hidden inside?

0:53.0

And what other secrets were hidden away?

0:56.0

Sometimes she would say things like,

0:58.0

I'd be better off if Dave wasn't around.

1:00.0

Was her husband defending his family?

1:02.0

Or was she?

1:04.0

She rose that night.

1:06.0

The mystery may not be who did it, but why?

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