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Dateline NBC

Troubled Waters

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a romantic getaway on a boat turns tragic when a young wife & mother is lost at sea. The case goes cold for years — until a model with a checkered past goes undercover. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on November 20, 2015.

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0:00.0

I was really afraid. I said I know something and it's terrible. I couldn't live with myself. I had to do something.

0:08.0

Male kind of distraught so that his wife fell overboard.

0:15.0

He went under and when he came up he said he no longer saw his wife.

0:19.0

He was just a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.

0:25.0

He was just hysterical.

0:27.0

No one knows exactly what happened on that boat.

0:31.0

It doesn't appear to be feasible given the sea conditions because this wife was tossed off by a rogue wave.

0:37.0

But there's no way that he could have done that. It was invathenable to me.

0:41.0

I felt like the police were just trying to frame an innocent man.

0:45.0

I grabbed my partner and we went out there in the middle of the night.

0:48.0

He said we'll be willing to wear a wire and I said yes. My heartbeat was going so fast.

0:53.0

Pull my car over now. I don't trust you. I'm afraid of you.

0:58.0

She was good. She was really good.

1:00.0

He said you need to tell me the truth.

1:10.0

If you crave money or fame or if you want to meet beautiful people, maybe even become one of them,

1:17.0

you will find your way to Southern California.

1:21.0

It's where everything is possible or seems to be.

1:26.0

This is the story of two women drawn for different reasons to the sun, to the bright lights, to the blue water.

1:34.0

Both chased that promise of success.

1:37.0

Both saw what can go on.

1:43.0

It was a gorgeous summer day in Newport Beach, California, the last of 4th of July weekend.

1:50.0

Some lucky tourists aboard an eight passenger boat called the Green Machine were marveling at a school of dolphins playing in the water when they came across the unexpected.

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