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Dateline NBC

The Mystery of the Murdered Major

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Army Major David Shannon is executed while asleep in bed. His wife Joan escapes unscathed but doesn’t see the shooter. The crime scene offers few leads until detectives make a bizarre discovery. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on August 12, 2011

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0:00.0

Here is the person I love. He's dying.

0:03.2

Her husband, a decorated military officer, shot in the dark of night.

0:08.4

It was an execution.

0:12.5

Was this some sort of hit?

0:14.2

He was in special forces. There must have been something at work.

0:17.8

That's what police thought too, until they learned about the secret life of this husband and wife.

0:24.4

They would meet couples on the internet.

0:26.5

Was there a forbidden affair?

0:28.7

They were probably meeting for sex about four times a week.

0:31.8

And did it lead to murder?

0:34.1

She is absolutely cold blooded.

0:36.5

Soon, there'd be questions for a mother and daughter.

0:40.3

It was another shock.

0:41.8

I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dave Lye.

0:46.4

Here's Keith Morrison.

0:48.2

The wind in the northern prairie sweeps across a vast flat land.

1:00.6

Sings through sparse woodlots.

1:03.6

Howls a dirge around the grave markers in a military cemetery a few miles south of the Canadian border.

1:10.0

The final resting spot for a few dozen veterans, many of whom died in combat.

1:16.6

Including Major David Shannon, who lost his life in 2002.

1:22.0

His mother surely goes there to visit and remember.

1:24.8

His sister Brenda too when she's in town.

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