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The Woman at the Bar

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A nationwide manhunt is launched after a woman dubbed the “killer grandma” goes on the run through the Gulf Coast. Dennis Murphy has chosen this episode as one of his most memorable episodes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Dennis Murphy.

0:02.3

Her face and story all over national TV, a wanted poster splashed on billboards throughout

0:07.9

the south.

0:08.9

Lois, the killer grand law on the run.

0:12.1

She proved she could kill Atwill after co-zying up to a female stranger at a bar, and that

0:17.5

wasn't her first rodeo with murder.

0:20.0

Where she was going next was as hard to figure out as understanding what made her tick.

0:25.0

And there was another stranger at another Margarita bar in the Texas Gulf Coast who would later

0:29.9

wonder if she had narrowly avoided the crosshairs.

0:33.5

Hit the road with us for the story and pull up a seat for the woman at the bar.

0:41.2

Out on the beach it was a day made for flip-flops, bright sun on white sand, sparkling water

0:46.6

as far as the eye could see.

0:52.5

But a few blocks away, darkness of the worst kind had descended on a high-rise timeshare.

0:59.4

Judith 404 had become a crime scene.

1:02.4

A woman had been murdered, a visitor.

1:05.6

It just like why?

1:09.6

What drove this person to do this?

1:11.9

Everyone kind of looked to their left and looked to their right and said, how could this happen

1:17.0

right here?

1:22.4

Fort Myers Beach on Florida's Gulf Coast is supposed to be a laid-back destination for

1:26.8

retirees and snowbirds.

1:28.8

A place where spring breakers kick it into a higher gear every March and April.

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