The Secret Life of the Homecoming Queen

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a football player and homecoming queen fall in love, but when the husband is found stabbed to death, authorities begin to investigate a trail of evidence. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 21, 2010.

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0:00.0	A lot of people called us Ken and Barbie just felt, you know, head over heels for him.
0:17.0	Sweethearts in high school.
0:20.0	Cheaters in marriage.
0:21.0	One had cheated, the other one had cheated.
0:23.0	It's my yes, you know me, I teach it.
0:25.0	I wanted what I wanted.
0:26.0	Which was Michelle.
0:27.0	Then early one morning.
0:30.0	A lot of staff went, it was a bad crime scene.
0:33.0	I just fell on the floor crying.
0:35.0	She wasn't shedding the tear.
0:37.0	Was she a devastated widow?
0:40.0	Or was she in on it?
0:42.0	She's been referred to as a puppet master.
0:44.0	Her lover said one thing,
0:46.0	I see no guilt on her part.
0:48.0	I really don't.
0:49.0	The fact that she had a brand new dress ready for a funeral, said something else.
0:54.0	Every woman needs a black dress.
1:04.0	He was number 15, a boy named Thad.
1:27.0	Fate maybe, because number 15 was her lucky number.
1:30.0	The girl from the cross town rival watching the game up in the stand.
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