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The House on the Lake

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Keith Morrison reports on one man's extraordinary journey through the courts in upstate New York and his children who stood by him to the end.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He's just a good dad. He loves us so much.

0:04.0

He was pretty traumatic because no one wants to have both their parents taken away from them.

0:09.0

And you just hear the awful things they say, try and rip your whole family apart.

0:13.0

Never really know who to trust.

0:17.0

Everyone said what a fabulous mother she was.

0:20.0

She's really pretty. She's always smiling. People see me in her.

0:25.0

Michelle would never leave her children.

0:27.0

I noticed blood stains on the floor, on the inside walls.

0:33.0

I knew they were focusing on me.

0:35.0

He said, I want this to be solved. I want to know what happened.

0:38.0

There's now one doubt in my mind that you're guilty.

0:44.0

My mom was already gone and they're trying to take our dad away from us.

0:47.0

Are they for my dad or against him?

0:49.0

My life is on the line and my kids' lives are on the line.

0:52.0

I'm not guilty. I didn't do this. I didn't commit this crime.

1:01.0

It's a long-winding ride, this tale.

1:04.0

Studied with surprises.

1:07.0

I just felt like I was being kidnapped and broad daylight and no one could help me.

1:12.0

It's the story of his life and theirs.

1:16.0

We cannot sit here in silence and watch another tragedy of justice take place.

1:22.0

It's about their world, the one that fell apart in a time they can't recall.

1:27.0

Do you remember very much about your mom anymore?

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