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True Crime Vault: The Perfect Lie

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

A family discusses their seemingly perfect husband and father's deadly secret. Originally broadcast: April 16, 2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to the 2020 True Crime Vault.

0:12.5

It's such a bizarre story. Sometimes I don't even believe that it happened to me.

0:18.5

I had everything right there. Donna, a beautiful baby.

0:22.6

What would you say to the dark?

0:32.6

These could be your neighbors.

0:33.6

Maybe you had them over for a barbecue.

0:36.6

Okay, we've got an ambulance in route, and we've got police officers in route.

0:41.3

Where is the gun?

0:42.3

I've collected on the tables, on the table.

0:45.3

Donna had been a victim of some strange phone calls.

0:49.3

The police found a note.

0:51.3

It was a bank deposit slip, and on the back was the time of 4.30 p.m.

0:57.0

Keep doing it. And in comes Rebecca. This young, beautiful nanny who has a heart of gold, wants to help out this poor man.

1:09.0

You still had signs of life and a pulse

1:11.6

with two gunshot wounds to the head.

1:16.0

I've written over 30 crime novels,

1:19.0

but here's a real life case

1:20.6

that is more twisted than anything

1:22.6

I could have dreamt up.

1:24.2

Their lives were shattered,

1:26.1

and it was my purpose to make this family whole again.

1:32.9

This is the first time I've sat down to tell my story.

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