The Secret

Dateline NBC

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Patricia Esparza believed she had escaped poverty and abuse, attending elite schools and becoming a respected psychology professor. But a dark secret comes back to haunt her when a determined investigator and prosecutor in Orange County work to solve a 20-year-old murder case. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 15, 2015.

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0:00.0	Drag me through that night.
0:03.0	It haunts me.
0:05.0	I didn't know that people were capable of that.
0:10.0	He destroyed the rest of my life.
0:14.0	Intelligent, educated, accomplished.
0:18.0	I am a professor.
0:20.0	I've tried to seek a meaningful life.
0:23.0	She had a prestigious career, a loving husband,
0:26.0	a young daughter, but she also had a secret.
0:29.0	I've lived with this nightmare for 18 years.
0:32.0	And it's centered on murder.
0:34.0	They'd followed him, they'd kidnapped him,
0:36.0	and then they'd dumped his body.
0:38.0	It was clearly a plan.
0:39.0	What did she know?
0:41.0	I was...
0:43.0	completely in shock.
0:45.0	They were dangerous and they were violent.
0:47.0	What did she do?
0:49.0	I didn't realize she was involved as deep as she was.
0:53.0	Scholar, professor, mother.
0:56.0	What is going to happen to my daughter?
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