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Dateline NBC

The Wire

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a young nurse in southern California is taking in the sun and surf, tackling a new job and making new friends. Everything seems to be going great for Lynne Knight until her screams shatter a summer night. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 3, 2014.

Transcript

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0:00.0

She just was the last person who should have ever died like that.

0:18.5

One summer night, a life comes to a sudden end.

0:23.8

She had been targeted. The suspect knew the victim.

0:32.1

I remember one detective saying to me, we just have to wait until he kills again.

0:37.0

It was decades before someone took another look.

0:41.1

The whole goal in these cases is just trying to see the thing that's hiding in plain sight.

0:44.4

The clues, a weapon, a wedding invitation, a midnight sale to know where.

0:50.3

You stalked her.

0:51.4

My sister was afraid.

0:53.1

I was 100% confident that he was our guy.

0:59.0

A determined prosecutor faces off against O.J. Simpson's attorney.

1:03.0

Did I give you a pause?

1:04.4

I'm on the right side.

1:06.1

Would a jury agree?

1:08.0

It's been a long journey.

1:21.8

He was alone and his makeshift workshop.

1:25.1

Had to be for what he intended.

1:27.7

Carefully he cut the lengths of a broom handle.

1:30.9

Two of them.

1:32.3

Just a few inches each, sanded them down, drilled a hole in each one, found a piece of wire

1:38.7

to stream between them, too thin.

1:41.4

He doubled it for strength.

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