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Dateline NBC

The Mystery on Bridle Path

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Carol Kennedy returns from an evening jog in Prescott, Arizona and calls her mother Ruth. Their nightly phone ends abruptly. So begins the Mystery on Bridle Path. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on March 28, 2014.

Transcript

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0:00.0

She was family.

0:04.0

A giant hole ripped in our hearts.

0:07.0

The first thing you want is, well, the police are going to go get the bad guys, right?

0:12.0

I was not prepared for what happened.

0:17.0

Professor, artist,

0:20.0

mom murdered.

0:29.0

A primal scream came out of me.

0:32.0

She just didn't really grow up down.

0:36.0

Started crying.

0:37.0

Pretty hard.

0:38.0

Police were quick to question the ex.

0:40.0

Maybe too quick.

0:43.0

They focused on the right from the very beginning.

0:46.0

Husband always does it, right?

0:47.0

But what if the husband didn't?

0:50.0

You don't find any DNA fingerprints blood, anything at his in the house.

0:56.0

Could someone else be the real killer?

0:58.0

I'm wondering what was this man capable of?

1:01.0

So much tragedy, so much heartbreak.

1:04.0

It was very emotional for me.

1:06.0

We just kept waiting for them to figure out that they had it wrong.

1:20.0

It was the second of July 2008, early evening in a fine old town called Prescott, Arizona.

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