The Silhouette

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🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a husband shoots his wife, saying he mistook her for an intruder one early morning in San Antonio, Texas. Was this a terrible accident or a case of deliberate murder? Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 16, 2017.

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0:00.0	She was crying and crying.
0:02.0	I said, what's wrong?
0:03.0	And she says, Debbie's dead.
0:06.0	We all wanted to believe that it was an accident.
0:10.0	There's no possible way he could do this on purpose.
0:16.0	A dark house, a husband with a gun, a wife, dead on the floor.
0:22.0	Make sure that she is still breathing.
0:24.0	I don't think she is, dammit.
0:26.0	There was no question who killed her.
0:29.0	The mystery was why?
0:31.0	I hear the door squeaking, and I hear the ground playing.
0:35.0	I hear the dark growling.
0:37.0	How could you not tell that you're wife?
0:39.0	Who's the door?
0:40.0	He just kept saying he was an accident.
0:42.0	He said he didn't do anything wrong.
0:44.0	Others disagreed.
0:46.0	We never for a second believe that he didn't know who that was standing in front of him.
0:50.0	Was it a tragic mistake?
0:52.0	He was broken.
0:53.0	Or cold-blooded murder.
0:56.0	These bits of emotion are only done in front of the detective.
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