The Root of All Evil

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a young real estate investor and father is found dead in the kitchen of his Jonesboro, Arkansas home. Who could have committed such a crime? Sometimes the most dangerous people in our lives are the ones who should love us the most. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on November 14, 2014.

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0:00.0	I never dreamed somebody could do this.
0:07.0	I didn't know why anybody would want to kill him.
0:10.0	You're watching on TV. You see it all the time.
0:14.0	You just don't think it can happen to you.
0:18.0	They were a young couple in a hurry to make their fortune.
0:22.0	50s, 100s, 20s, piles of money.
0:26.0	Building a life until one life ended all too soon.
0:30.0	What happened to your husband, ma'am?
0:32.0	He was laying in the floor and I got scared.
0:38.0	I ran out of the house.
0:40.0	A young father murdered in broad daylight.
0:43.0	Didn't look like a robbery.
0:45.0	Lots of valuables left behind.
0:47.0	Lots of secrets too.
0:49.0	It just kind of sent chills up my back.
0:51.0	Something was tearing a family apart.
0:54.0	I don't even know where to start.
0:56.0	Or was it someone?
0:58.0	The most cold, blooded, evil person.
1:01.0	A family feud and an innocent man caught in the middle.
1:05.0	You know these shows you watch that people see the ghosts of their loved ones?
1:09.0	I wanted that so bad.
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