The Inside Man

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

4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Jimmy Keene, a popular, superstar high school athlete, seemed to have it all growing up in the river city of Kankakee, Illinois. But then, he began selling drugs and moved to Chicago, where his business boomed but a danger lurked 150 miles south that would change his life forever. Lester Holt reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 14, 2012.

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0:00.0	I go, what are these things?
0:03.0	Anyway, he says, they're these little falcons.
0:06.0	And he goes, they watch over the dead,
0:08.0	to me, because they do.
0:12.0	What if someone asked you to risk your life?
0:15.0	What if I get shanked? What if I get killed?
0:17.0	To go undercover.
0:19.0	Into one of the country's most dangerous prisons.
0:23.0	Once they stepped out the door, I was on my own.
0:26.0	To help catch a killer.
0:28.0	She had such a zest for life.
0:30.0	Young girls were being murdered.
0:32.0	I can't imagine sending my daughter off to school
0:35.0	and never seeing her again.
0:37.0	An investigator's needed help to get a confession.
0:41.0	If anybody could pull it off, you'd probably be able to pull it off.
0:44.0	If it worked, he could win his freedom.
0:46.0	If it didn't, he could lose his life.
0:49.0	They had your back. They had my back.
0:51.0	At least you thought. That's what I thought.
0:53.0	The Inside Man.
1:00.0	Two enemies who didn't trust each other
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