The Investigation

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Lester Holt reports on how the investigation into the murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn revealed decades of misconduct across Philadelphia’s criminal justice system.

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0:00.0	Did Red Flag ever pop up that maybe there was some evidence that was being hidden?
0:05.0	Certainly, certainly.
0:06.0	You smell the rat?
0:07.0	Yes.
0:08.0	Secrets, lives, corruption.
0:12.1	The biggest part of this problem is the abuse of power.
0:14.6	They've destroyed lives.
0:16.7	It shocks the conscience.
0:18.3	Tonight, inside the scandal, let's show the city of Philadelphia a stunning pattern of
0:24.4	misconduct exposed in a 30-year-old case.
0:29.1	That little girl's body was found in this TV bottle.
0:31.7	The killer is still at large tonight.
0:33.1	This is a little girl taken off her neighborhood block.
0:36.3	The hunting mystery of Barbara Jean Horn.
0:39.8	There is no justice.
0:41.3	We need to find out who did this.
0:44.3	Did you feel like you were lifting the lid on something much bigger?
0:48.6	Yeah, it was even worse than I thought it was what they were hiding and what they knew.
1:03.1	The investigation.
1:08.4	Welcome to Dateline, everyone.
1:10.0	I'm Lester Holt.
1:11.6	Murder was just the beginning.
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