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Dateline NBC

The House in the Woods

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a former hockey player discovers his wife murdered in their own home. His young daughter says she saw a robber, but the killer's true identity turns out to be far more complicated. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on March 24, 2017.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Lester Holt and this is Dateline.

0:03.5

All you see are state trooper cars, sheriff cars.

0:08.5

Where's my sister?

0:11.5

I says, where's your wife?

0:13.5

And he pointed to the kitchen area.

0:15.5

Victim had blood pooling around her head.

0:18.5

All they told us was there was an intruder.

0:21.5

Her first thought was to protect her children.

0:24.0

And she put up a very good fight.

0:26.0

She observed mommy fighting with what she termed as the robber.

0:29.5

This is a real who done it.

0:30.5

Pretty much so.

0:31.5

I remember Kelly not wanting to be home alone.

0:34.5

I've never encountered a case this complicated or complex.

0:40.0

Something is not right here.

0:42.0

It's the type of case that movies are made out of.

0:46.5

Everything you thought you knew was all a lie.

1:01.0

Here's Andrea Canning with the house in the woods.

1:08.0

He wasn't exactly sure where the house was or what had happened there.

1:12.5

But he knew it was bad.

1:14.5

Yeah, these ones are not fun to do.

1:18.5

Finally, he found it down a secluded driveway.

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