Under the Desert Sky

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.4 • 40.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, the murder of a Nevada teenager shakes the community to its core when the two most unlikely people make a shocking confession. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 4, 2013.

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0:00.0	When my mom came in, she said, Nicky's not here.
0:07.0	Where is she? Because this isn't funny.
0:10.0	In the bottom of my heart, I knew something was really, really wrong.
0:14.0	He looked underneath this age-reshing solid. He thought it appeared to be blood.
0:19.0	A high school beauty found to be a place where you can see the sun.
0:23.0	He looked underneath this age-reshing solid. He thought it appeared to be blood.
0:28.0	A high school beauty found dead in the desert, bound and buried.
0:32.0	What's that idea?
0:34.0	A great deal of rage by someone.
0:38.0	He looked like your average high school student, tall, clean cut, polite.
0:43.0	A teenager with two signs.
0:45.0	He would yell at her. He would be pushing her around.
0:48.0	A puzzle seemingly solved, then blown apart.
0:53.0	We recorded a conversation, then it was dynamite.
0:57.0	Make your way around the ground.
0:59.0	And keep going.
1:01.0	We'll leave. We'll leave.
1:03.0	To unravel the mystery, investigators would follow a trail
1:06.0	through high school hallways teeming with secrets and schemes.
1:10.0	The hatred grew more and more and more.
1:12.0	Bad idea that became a horrible idea.
1:15.0	Bad idea that went very, very bad.
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