The Note

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When an Illinois high schooler vanishes, her mother finds a note saying she ran away. But a grisly discovery made years later changes the course of the investigation. Andrea Canning reports.

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline Thursday.
0:02.8	What's that like as a mom not knowing where your daughter is?
0:06.5	It's hell.
0:07.5	You don't see the nightmares I see every night.
0:10.0	Where do I go from here? How do I exist in the world without my daughter?
0:14.0	A note was found that she was leaving.
0:17.0	Are you thinking that Megan ran away?
0:20.0	Yes, that was the number one option.
0:21.0	It wasn't like Megan to just up and disappear.
0:25.1	She was hiding things.
0:26.3	She was more secretive.
0:27.5	This love triangle.
0:28.9	This is where things kind of blow up.
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:31.0	Very intense high school drama. The text messages that I read. It really was some sort of control game.
0:39.3	There's certainly seems something horrible had happened.
0:42.7	We just need someone to tell us it true.
0:44.7	The FBI approached me.
0:46.4	They asked me if I would be comfortable wearing a wire.
0:49.3	Like what happened that night?
0:51.2	Why is her blood in your car?
0:52.8	The color just drained out of my face.
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