Written in Blood

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🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Karen Pannell, a one-time model and flight attendant, is found murdered in her kitchen. On the wall next to her body is a message written in her own blood: the letters R O C. What does it mean? Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on August 17, 2012.

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0:00.0	What evidence doesn't lie?
0:03.0	It actually tells a story.
0:05.0	Tonight, you're there at the crime scene.
0:10.0	You can almost recreate the crime.
0:14.0	Right there on the wall, a mystery scrolled in blood.
0:18.0	Three cryptic letters.
0:20.0	What would you make of this?
0:22.0	Is that a word? Is that a person?
0:24.0	The clues pointed so many different directions
0:26.0	that it was a total mystery.
0:28.0	The case, the murder of a former model and flight attendant.
0:32.0	When she got dolled up, oh my god.
0:35.0	Gorgeous.
0:36.0	Did she write these letters?
0:38.0	She really fought for her life.
0:40.0	Was this a hint to who killed her?
0:42.0	You've got this message saying this is my killer,
0:45.0	just like you would see in a movie.
0:47.0	And the ending, that was just like a movie, too.
0:51.0	I can't believe what people did each other.
0:55.0	Written in blood.
1:01.0	If you're around sun and water is your thing,
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