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Dateline NBC

The Premonition

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A Pennsylvania father has a premonition that he’ll be murdered and the case will go unsolved. Weeks later, he is found stabbed to death. But would the case go unsolved? Andrea Canning reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on Dateline.

0:02.0

He had a premonition.

0:04.0

He believed someone was plotting his murder.

0:07.0

I wonder what it must have been like when he saw the face of the person who was about to end his life.

0:13.0

I saw John Lang right there. His clothing was drenched in blood.

0:17.0

You can see the bloody footprints that went through the hallway and out the back door.

0:21.1

This was clearly a killing of passion.

0:23.6

You're talking about someone who was a very strong, powerful, aggressive killer.

0:27.6

You're in charge of the investigation.

0:29.6

You really cast a wide net.

0:31.1

I did.

0:31.6

Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months.

0:34.1

No arrest came.

0:35.1

Something's not right.

0:36.1

This had the whole town just uneasy.

0:39.0

The debt is to predict it his own death and the loved ones who would not stop until the case

0:44.9

was solved.

0:46.2

What are you thinking? I mean, he could be our prime suspect and I'm being told not to interview him.

0:51.8

I just had to keep going.

0:54.8

He probably was one step ahead of me every time.

0:57.4

I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dayline.

1:05.0

Here's Andrea Canning with The Premonition.

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