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Dateline NBC

The Ultimate Betrayal

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After Tahereh Ghassemi disappears from the Louisiana home she shares with her adult son, detectives discover an astonishing plot with international implications. Andrea Canning reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight on the date line. I go inside and I see the rice burning on the stove. I went through the house and she wasn't home. I called her phone. It was off.

0:11.0

My mind goes to the worst place possible.

0:14.0

They said, we found your mom's car burnt when I said, what?

0:21.0

That's a heavy, heavy phone call.

0:24.0

Very, very heavy.

0:26.2

You are discovering this tense relationship.

0:28.6

Correct, yes, based on text messages.

0:31.0

Messages like, leave me the F alone.

0:33.7

Yes.

0:35.0

She called to tell me that I feel like someone is following me.

0:39.4

Our minds are churning.

0:41.4

These Google coordinates led you pretty far out of town.

0:45.0

They actually led a super remote area.

0:47.0

This was a game changer, what you discovered here.

0:50.0

100%.

0:51.0

They're wearing masks.

0:53.0

They grabbed her, and they wrestled her.

0:55.0

At that moment, all the world came crashing down.

1:01.0

This was an evil act heartbreaking.

1:05.0

A buried secret, a savage attack and a sinister saga stretching halfway across the world.

1:12.0

I'm Lester Holt and this is Date Live.

1:17.0

Here's Andrea Canning with the ultimate betrayal.

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